
COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANTS
As part of United Way of Martin County's total impact in the community, we provided 36 Community Impact Grants to 24 local nonprofit agencies this year.
Click here or see below to view our funded programs.
Thank You to our Impact Sponsors!
2024-2025 Funded Programs
Impact Areas: Education, Health, Financial Stability
*New Agency Program
- 211 of the Palm Beach & Treasure Coast
- Crisis & Community Hotline: $34,000
- Telephone counseling, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and comprehensive information and referral services, 24 hours a day 7 days per week to individuals in need of support.
- Crisis & Community Hotline: $34,000
- Alzheimer’s Community Care
- Family Navigator: $40,000
- Services and resources for families living with Alzheimer's disease to enable them to care for their loved one at home with dignity and safety throughout the disease progression.
- Specialized Day Care Center: $16,000
- Therapeutic care for patients and much-needed respite for family caregivers.
- Family Navigator: $40,000
- ARC of the Treasure Coast
- Alternative Behavioral Learning Environment (ABLE): $45,000
- Education and training on employable skills including behavioral, communication, computer and other related vocational skills to persons with disabilities who have no other funding source for services.
- Project Search*: $20,000
- Empowers adults with developmental disabilities to build skills, explore interests, and access meaningful employment in an inclusive, supportive environment.
- Youth After School Camp: $17,000
- After-school and camp opportunities for youth ages 3 to 22 years of age with developmental disabilities.
- Alternative Behavioral Learning Environment (ABLE): $45,000
- Banner Lake Club
- Beyond Summer Slide: $15,000
- Combats the summer slide and sharpens rusty skills and forgotten knowledge that often challenges both teachers and students every school year.
- Butterflies VPK: $15,000
- Prepares children for school by enhancing their pre-reading, pre-math, language and social skills and is 100% tuition-free for all enrolled students.
- Beyond Summer Slide: $15,000
- Caring Children Clothing Children (4C’s)
- Clothing Program: $22,500
- Provides at no cost, gently used clothing, new underwear and socks, and a voucher towards the cost of new school shoes.
- Clothing Program: $22,500
- Children’s Emergency Resources
- Medical Services: $32,500
- Pays for healthcare-related services for children from families at or below the poverty level who have no health insurance and/or are underinsured.
- Medical Services: $32,500
- Council on Aging of Martin County
- Adult Day Club: $25,000
- Enables seniors in Martin County to maintain independence by delaying institutional placement and providing respite services to their caregivers' families.
- Meals on Wheels: $35,000
- Prevents hunger by providing home-delivered meals to seniors identified as being homebound with limited access to nutritionally sound meals.
- Senior Services Navigator: $25,000
- Helps the most vulnerable seniors in our community navigate issues and discover available resources to them.
- Adult Day Club: $25,000
- Drug Abuse Treatment Association (DATA)
- Youth Substance Abuse Residential Treatment: $20,300
- Residential substance abuse treatment program that is dedicated to serving males and females ages 13 through 18 with their addiction.
- Youth Substance Abuse Residential Treatment: $20,300
- Early Learning Coalition IRMO*
- Literacy Coach: $40,000
- Supports Indiantown Pre-K classrooms by strengthening early language skills and teacher practices to boost kindergarten readiness.
- Literacy Coach: $40,000
- Florida Community Health Centers*
- Adult Behavioral Services Program: $50,000
- Accessible, cost-effective, and high-quality mental health care for residents in need.
- Adult Behavioral Services Program: $50,000
- Helping People Succeed
- Baby Steps: $32,500
- Individualized home-based and group parenting education, developmental play instruction, behavioral support, infant massage instruction, baby calming techniques, and early brain development education.
- Successful Futures: $35,000
- Provides adults with significant disabilities learning experiences in community environments by providing work and volunteer opportunities, educational classes, leisure, recreational and cultural activities.
- Baby Steps: $32,500
- Hibiscus Children’s Center
- Shelter Literacy Program: $12,500
- A comprehensive approach to improving academic proficiency for abused and neglected children in Martin County that reside at the Hibiscus Children's Shelter in Jensen Beach.
- Shelter Literacy Program: $12,500
- Hobe Sound Early Learning Center
- Small Group Instruction: $25,000
- Enhances curriculums to ensure students enter Kindergarten ready to succeed in school and life. The program also focuses on expanding all other aspects of the child’s development beyond just academics.
- Small Group Instruction: $25,000
- Hope Center for Autism
- Surviving Social Situations: $17,500
- Provides scholarships and peer support for summer camp students and targets the development of social & executive function skills for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and related disabilities using a thematic approach.
- Surviving Social Situations: $17,500
- Hope Rural School
- Parent Outreach: $20,000
- Parenting classes, garden projects and children’s wellness programs for parents and students in the Indiantown community.
- Parent Outreach: $20,000
- House of Hope
- Client Choice Pantry: $40,000
- Nutritious food options for food-insecure residents in Hobe Sound, Stuart, Jensen Beach, & Indiantown
- Enrichment Centers: $32,000
- Provides empowering life skills trainings, vocational workshops and certifications all provided at no cost to the participants.
- Project HOPE: $47,250
- Assists qualified Martin County residents with rent/mortgage, utilities, prescriptions, medical co-pays, and other household or transportation expenses.
- Client Choice Pantry: $40,000
- LifeBuilders of the Treasure Coast
- Building Lives, Protecting Communities: $7,500
- Seeks to reduce crime, recidivism, and assist low-income individuals who come in contact with the Treasure Coast courts as a consequence of criminal behavior or a dependency action.
- Building Lives, Protecting Communities: $7,500
- Little Lights Dentistry
- Children’s Dental Clinic: $15,000
- Dental services for children aged 12 months to 18 yrs, including comprehensive treatment plans, fillings and cleanings, as well as educational and nutritional information for both child and caregivers.
- Children’s Dental Clinic: $15,000
- Martin Chamber Foundation
- Career Connect Martin: $40,000
- Helps unemployed and underemployed residents gain new skills, overcome employment barriers, and connect to local businesses struggling to hire, train and retain employees.
- Career Connect Martin: $40,000
- Martin County Healthy Start Coalition
- Maternal Care Services: $36,000
- Provides prenatal care, labor/delivery management and wrap-around services to Martin County's uninsured pregnant women and their newborns.
- Father & Child Resource Center: $5,000
- Encourages men to become more involved and committed fathers by offering parenting classes, legal assistance for fathers who are separated from their children, and parenting workshops to other agencies.
- Maternal Care Services: $36,000
- SafeSpace
- Domestic Violence Shelter: $55,000
- Comprehensive programming for victims of domestic violence and their children to break the intergenerational cycle of abuse and ensure victims' safety while encouraging maximum self-sufficiency.
- Domestic Violence Shelter: $55,000
- Salvation Army
- Basic Needs: $30,000
- Provides crucial services needed to keep families healthy and in their homes such as assistance with rent, utility and prescriptions for families/individuals in crisis.
- Compassion House: $45,000
- Provides shelter, food, clothing and other necessities to homeless women and women with children while they work to transition to stable housing.
- Basic Needs: $30,000
- The Inner Truth Project
- Survivor Health Impact Pathways (SHIP): $15,000
- Wrap-around mental health support for youth and adults in Martin County who have experienced sexual trauma.
- Survivor Health Impact Pathways (SHIP): $15,000
- Tykes & Teens
- Targeted Case Management: $10,000
- Wrap-around services for students at Willoughby Learning Center, addressing complex behavioral health and ensuring material needs such as stable housing, childcare and other basic needs are met.
- Therapeutic Services: $72,450
- Helps children and families cope with and heal from a full spectrum of issues such as depression, anxiety, family conflict, grief, trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, bullying, school suspension, substance use, suicide and more.
- Targeted Case Management: $10,000
- United Way of Martin County
- AmeriCorps Seniors
- Connects adults 55 and older with opportunities to serve their communities through meaningful volunteer work.
- Emergency/Disaster Assistance
- Provides financial, emergency, and disaster assistance to help individuals and families recover, rebuild, and regain stability during times of crisis.
- Holiday Project/Toys For Tots
- Brings holiday joy to local children by providing gifts to families in need across Martin County.
- Leaders United
- A group of passionate young professionals dedicated to creating positive change in Martin County through volunteerism, networking, and philanthropy.
- Ride United
- Provides free transportation for individuals and families in need, helping them access essential services like medical appointments, employment, and food resources in Martin County.
- Students United
- Empowers local high school students to develop leadership skills and make a difference in Martin County through volunteerism and community service.
- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
- Offers free, IRS-certified tax preparation to help low- to moderate-income individuals and families maximize their refunds and achieve financial stability.
- AmeriCorps Seniors
- ARC of the Treasure Coast
- Youth After School Camp: $17,000
- After-school and camp opportunities for youth ages 3 to 22 years of age with developmental disabilities.
- Youth After School Camp: $17,000
- Banner Lake Club
- Beyond Summer Slide: $15,000
- Combats the summer slide and sharpens rusty skills and forgotten knowledge that often challenges both teachers and students every school year.
- Butterflies VPK: $15,000
- Prepares children for school by enhancing their pre-reading, pre-math, language and social skills and is 100% tuition-free for all enrolled students.
- Beyond Summer Slide: $15,000
- Early Learning Coalition IRMO*
- Literacy Coach: $40,000
- Supports Indiantown Pre-K classrooms by strengthening early language skills and teacher practices to boost kindergarten readiness.
- Literacy Coach: $40,000
- Helping People Succeed
- Baby Steps: $32,500
- Individualized home-based and group parenting education, developmental play instruction, behavioral support, infant massage instruction, baby calming techniques, and early brain development education.
- Baby Steps: $32,500
- Hibiscus Children’s Center
- Shelter Literacy Program: $12,500
- A comprehensive approach to improving academic proficiency for abused and neglected children in Martin County that reside at the Hibiscus Children's Shelter in Jensen Beach.
- Shelter Literacy Program: $12,500
- Hobe Sound Early Learning Center
- Small Group Instruction: $25,000
- Enhances curriculums to ensure students enter Kindergarten ready to succeed in school and life. The program also focuses on expanding all other aspects of the child’s development beyond just academics.
- Small Group Instruction: $25,000
- Hope Center for Autism
- Surviving Social Situations: $17,500
- Provides scholarships and peer support for summer camp students and targets the development of social & executive function skills for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and related disabilities using a thematic approach.
- Surviving Social Situations: $17,500
- Hope Rural School
- Parent Outreach: $20,000
- Parenting classes, garden projects and children’s wellness programs for parents and students in the Indiantown community.
- Parent Outreach: $20,000
- United Way of Martin County
- Leaders United
- A group of passionate young professionals dedicated to creating positive change in Martin County through volunteerism, networking, and philanthropy.
- Students United
- Empowers local high school students to develop leadership skills and make a difference in Martin County through volunteerism and community service.
- Leaders United
- 211 of the Palm Beach & Treasure Coast
- Crisis & Community Hotline: $34,000
- Telephone counseling, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and comprehensive information and referral services, 24 hours a day 7 days per week to individuals in need of support.
- Crisis & Community Hotline: $34,000
- ARC of the Treasure Coast
- Alternative Behavioral Learning Environment (ABLE): $45,000
- Education and training on employable skills including behavioral, communication, computer and other related vocational skills to persons with disabilities who have no other funding source for services.
- Project Search*: $20,000
- Empowers adults with developmental disabilities to build skills, explore interests, and access meaningful employment in an inclusive, supportive environment.
- Alternative Behavioral Learning Environment (ABLE): $45,000
- Caring Children Clothing Children (4C’s)
- Clothing Program: $22,500
- Provides at no cost, gently used clothing, new underwear and socks, and a voucher towards the cost of new school shoes.
- Clothing Program: $22,500
- Council on Aging of Martin County
- Senior Services Navigator: $25,000
- Helps the most vulnerable seniors in our community navigate issues and discover available resources to them.
- Senior Services Navigator: $25,000
- Helping People Succeed
- Successful Futures: $35,000
- Provides adults with significant disabilities learning experiences in community environments by providing work and volunteer opportunities, educational classes, leisure, recreational and cultural activities.
- Successful Futures: $35,000
- House of Hope
- Enrichment Centers: $32,000
- Provides empowering life skills trainings, vocational workshops and certifications all provided at no cost to the participants.
- Project HOPE: $47,250
- Assists qualified Martin County residents with rent/mortgage, utilities, prescriptions, medical co-pays, and other household or transportation expenses.
- Enrichment Centers: $32,000
- LifeBuilders of the Treasure Coast
- Building Lives, Protecting Communities: $7,500
- Seeks to reduce crime, recidivism, and assist low-income individuals who come in contact with the Treasure Coast courts as a consequence of criminal behavior or a dependency action.
- Building Lives, Protecting Communities: $7,500
- Martin Chamber Foundation
- Career Connect Martin: $40,000
- Helps unemployed and underemployed residents gain new skills, overcome employment barriers, and connect to local businesses struggling to hire, train and retain employees.
- Career Connect Martin: $40,000
- SafeSpace
- Domestic Violence Shelter: $55,000
- Comprehensive programming for victims of domestic violence and their children to break the intergenerational cycle of abuse and ensure victims' safety while encouraging maximum self-sufficiency.
- Domestic Violence Shelter: $55,000
- Salvation Army
- Basic Needs: $30,000
- Provides crucial services needed to keep families healthy and in their homes such as assistance with rent, utility and prescriptions for families/individuals in crisis.
- Compassion House: $45,000
- Provides shelter, food, clothing and other necessities to homeless women and women with children while they work to transition to stable housing.
- Basic Needs: $30,000
- United Way of Martin County
- Emergency/Disaster Assistance
- Provides financial, emergency, and disaster assistance to help individuals and families recover, rebuild, and regain stability during times of crisis.
- Holiday Project/Toys For Tots
- Brings holiday joy to local children by providing gifts to families in need across Martin County.
- Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
- Offers free, IRS-certified tax preparation to help low- to moderate-income individuals and families maximize their refunds and achieve financial stability.
- Emergency/Disaster Assistance
- Alzheimer’s Community Care
- Family Navigator: $40,000
- Services and resources for families living with Alzheimer's disease to enable them to care for their loved one at home with dignity and safety throughout the disease progression.
- Specialized Day Care Center: $16,000
- Therapeutic care for patients and much-needed respite for family caregivers.
- Family Navigator: $40,000
- Children’s Emergency Resources
- Medical Services: $32,500
- Pays for healthcare-related services for children from families at or below the poverty level who have no health insurance and/or are underinsured.
- Medical Services: $32,500
- Council on Aging of Martin County
- Adult Day Club: $25,000
- Enables seniors in Martin County to maintain independence by delaying institutional placement and providing respite services to their caregivers' families.
- Meals on Wheels: $35,000
- Prevents hunger by providing home-delivered meals to seniors identified as being homebound with limited access to nutritionally sound meals.
- Adult Day Club: $25,000
- Drug Abuse Treatment Association (DATA)
- Youth Substance Abuse Residential Treatment: $20,300
- Residential substance abuse treatment program that is dedicated to serving males and females ages 13 through 18 with their addiction.
- Youth Substance Abuse Residential Treatment: $20,300
- Florida Community Health Centers*
- Adult Behavioral Services Program: $50,000
- Accessible, cost-effective, and high-quality mental health care for residents in need.
- Adult Behavioral Services Program: $50,000
- House of Hope
- Client Choice Pantry: $40,000
- Nutritious food options for food-insecure residents in Hobe Sound, Stuart, Jensen Beach, & Indiantown
- Client Choice Pantry: $40,000
- Little Lights Dentistry
- Children’s Dental Clinic: $15,000
- Dental services for children aged 12 months to 18 yrs, including comprehensive treatment plans, fillings and cleanings, as well as educational and nutritional information for both child and caregivers.
- Children’s Dental Clinic: $15,000
- Martin County Healthy Start Coalition
- Maternal Care Services: $36,000
- Provides prenatal care, labor/delivery management and wrap-around services to Martin County's uninsured pregnant women and their newborns.
- Father & Child Resource Center: $5,000
- Encourages men to become more involved and committed fathers by offering parenting classes, legal assistance for fathers who are separated from their children, and parenting workshops to other agencies.
- Maternal Care Services: $36,000
- The Inner Truth Project
- Survivor Health Impact Pathways (SHIP): $15,000
- Wrap-around mental health support for youth and adults in Martin County who have experienced sexual trauma.
- Survivor Health Impact Pathways (SHIP): $15,000
- Tykes & Teens
- Targeted Case Management: $10,000
- Wrap-around services for students at Willoughby Learning Center, addressing complex behavioral health and ensuring material needs such as stable housing, childcare and other basic needs are met.
- Therapeutic Services: $72,450
- Helps children and families cope with and heal from a full spectrum of issues such as depression, anxiety, family conflict, grief, trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, bullying, school suspension, substance use, suicide and more.
- Targeted Case Management: $10,000
- United Way of Martin County
- AmeriCorps Seniors
- Connects adults 55 and older with opportunities to serve their communities through meaningful volunteer work.
- Ride United
- Provides free transportation for individuals and families in need, helping them access essential services like medical appointments, employment, and food resources in Martin County.
- AmeriCorps Seniors