Serving Our Community
What isLa Crosse Community Foundation?
A grantmaking organization that manages endowed charitable funds established by individuals, families and nonprofits to support causes they care about both now and in perpetuity.
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Explore our 200+ funds supporting a wide array of La Crosse area needs.
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You can give now or later, start your own fund or contribute to an existing fund.
Ways to GiveGrant Story: One Homeless Outreach Team, Impacting Hundreds
The Homeless Outreach Team at Independent Living Resources offers a low barrier connection between unsheltered individuals and supports necessary to find housing and community resources. Independent Living Resources (ILR) is a nonprofit [...]
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Forever Society Spotlight: Remembering Ron Burman, and his beloved wife Valerie
Friends from all over the world gathered in late January for Ron Burman’s funeral. He passed peacefully on January 5 at the age of 89, leaving behind a charitable legacy that will have an incredible impact in the greater La Crosse area and [...]
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2023 Winter Grant Award Announcement
Our first competitive grant round of the year closed January 15; bringing in requests from over 20 local nonprofit organizations. Our grant committee and board worked together to award over $187,750 of winter grant awards that will benefit the [...]
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Featured Donor Stories
Our donors are catalysts for good today, and for generations to come.
Grant Spotlights
Lists of Quarterly Grant Recipients
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Featured Grant Stories
See All StoriesGrant Story: Global Awareness Classroom Grants
Spreading global awareness in La Crosse area classrooms La Crosse Community Foundation is host to over 300 different funds of a variety of different fund types. The funds we use to award grants through our competitive grant program are either unrestricted funds or field of interest funds. These funds are established by donors to support […]
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