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.

Browse Our Funds

Explore our 200+ funds supporting a wide array of La Crosse area needs.

See our Funds

Ways to Give

You can give now or later, start your own fund or contribute to an existing fund.

Ways to Give

La Crosse Center 2.0: Hear the Latest Plan for Expanding the La Crosse Center

The La Crosse Center expansion plan is revised and circulating in La Crosse’s City Hall. It details the direct economic benefit of this massive project from the contractors it will employ in the project to the tourists it will attract to fill [...]
Read Full Story

Friends of LCF Honored at La Crosse Public Education Foundation Banquet

Sue Christopherson (representing Fowler & Hammer) and Carol Taebel each received awards for their contributions and service to La Crosse Public Education Foundation last Friday, January 18th. LCF staff was there to watch proudly as these women [...]
Read Full Story

Veterans Memorial Pool Preview Event

The City of La Crosse Parks, Recreation, and Forestry Department in partnership with the Veterans Memorial Pool Campaign (VMPC), proudly presents:  The Veterans Memorial Pool Preview.  On Tuesday, January 29th from 5-6:30pm at the La Crosse [...]
Read Full Story
More News
Getting to Know Robert and Eleanor Franke Read Full Story Kaitlin Elizabeth Mahr Memorial Scholarship Read Full Story Coulee Council On Addictions Agency Fund Read Full Story Featured Donor Stories Our donors are catalysts for good today, and for generations to come. Read More Maureen and Robert Freedland Community Fund for Studies of the Shoah (Holocaust) Read Full Story

Grant Spotlights

Featured Grant Story

See All Stories

Halting the Opioid Crisis with Alliance to HEAL

La Crosse Community Foundation, Mayo Clinic Health System, Gundersen Health System, and La Crosse County Health Department have joined resources to move the needle on the opioid crisis. The four organizations have committed over $400,000 over the next three years to support the Alliance to HEAL (Halting the Effects of Addiction Locally), which launched in […]

Read Full Story

Recent Grant Recipients

See More Recipients

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the 7 Rivers Region

$35,000 | General Fund | Health & Human Services

Children with a Big Brother or Big Sister are 52 percent less likely to skip school and are shown to be more confident in their personal and academic lives. That’s why LCF granted $35,000 to Boys and Girls Club of the Seven Rivers Region to help in reducing the youth wait list as well as to support expenses related to enhancing their space for programming!

La Crosse Symphony Orchestra – Play it Forward

$2,800 | General Fund | Arts & Humanities

The Play it Forward program of La Crosse Symphony Orchestra received a $2,800 award to repair and refurbish used string instruments to use with music students participating in the program at the Boys & Girls Club locations in La Crosse.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation – Western Wisconsin

$4,500 | Dahl Fund | Health & Human Services

JDRF of Western Wisconsin received a $4,500 award from the Howard Dahl fund to support cutting edge juvenile diabetes research.