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Miami County Foundation Awards $275,000 in Grants
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TROY – The new UVMC/Premier Health Branch of the Miami County YMCA in Piqua served as a welcoming
venue for Miami County Foundation’s 2024 Fall Grant Celebration. On Friday, November 8, 2024, the foundation
awarded 75 grants in the amount of $275,000 to local non-profit organizations, schools and municipalities. Grant
recipients, community members and Miami County Foundation representatives all gathered in the bright and airy,
first-floor gymnasium to not only celebrate the grant awards, but also to experience the newly built and Miami
County Foundation supported YMCA facility.


   Executive Director, Lisa Sargent, and Board of Director’s President, Angela Lewis, hosted the event, which was a
culmination of the organization’s semi-annual grant awarding process. Grant committees spent several weeks
reviewing applications totaling over $700,000 in requests to recommend support for various programs and projects throughout the county. As intended by its original funder, Richard E. Hunt, Miami County Foundation awarded grants with the mission to reach all residents of Miami County in mind. The 2024 fall grant recipients represented all of the county’s larger cities, smaller villages and rural townships.


   Congratulations to Miami County Foundation’s 2024 fall grant recipients, who each had an opportunity at the
celebration to introduce themselves and the project their grant award would support. They include:

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Miami Valley

  • Bradford Exempted Village Schools

  • Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum

  • Breast Wishes Foundation

  • Brukner Nature Center

  • Clothes That Work

  • Covington Exempted Village School District

  • Crayons to Classrooms

  • Downtown Tipp City Partnership

  • Elizabeth Township Historical Society

  • First United Church of Christ, Troy

  • FISH Inc of Troy OH

  • Girls on the Run Dayton

  • Health Partners Free Clinic

  • Isaiah's Place Inc.

  • Lehman Catholic High School

  • LifeCare Alliance

  • Lockington Volunteer Fire Association, Inc.

  • Miami County Dental Clinic

  • Miami County Public Health

  • Miami East Local Schools

  • Milton-Union Exempted Village School District

  • Needy Basket of Southern Miami County, Inc.

  • Newberry Township, Miami County

  • Newton Food Pantry

  • Ohio's Hospice of Miami County

  • Overfield Early Childhood Program, Inc.

  • Overfield Tavern Museum

  • Pink Ribbon Good

  • Piqua Association of Churches

  • Piqua Catholic School

  • Piqua Music Boosters, Inc.

  • Reading For Change

  • Rehabilitation Center for Neurological Development

  • Richard’s Chapel United Methodist Church

  • SafeHaven, Inc.

  • Samaritan Works

  • St. James Episcopal Church

  • St. Patrick Catholic School

  • The Edison Foundation

  • The Milton-Union Senior Citizens & Community Club, Inc.

  • The Piqua Civic Band

  • Tipp City Area Arts Council

  • Tipp City Exempted Village Schools

  • Troy Christian Schools

  • Troy City Schools

  • Troy Senior Citizens Center

  • Troy-Miami County Public Library

  • Upper Valley Career Center

  • Vandalia Youth Theatre

  • Wilma's Place
     

Miami County Foundation also awarded Ongoing Humanitarian grants, addressing the basic needs of food, shelter, transportation and medical care for the residents of Miami County to:

  • Bethany Center

  • Community Rides

  • Covington Outreach Association, Inc.

  • Family Abuse Shelter of Miami County

  • FISH Union Township

  • GIVE

  • Health Partners Free Clinic

  • Isaiah’s Place

  • Miami County Dental Clinic

  • New Creation Counseling Center

  • Partners In Hope, Inc.

  • St Patrick Soup Kitchen

  • The New Path, Inc.

  • The Salvation Army

  • Troy Lions Charities


   Since its inception, Miami County Foundation has awarded more than $10.5 million in grant funds to the Miami
County community. In the spring of 2025, the foundation will offer another cycle of grants, as well as various
scholarships available to students of all ages. Visit www.miamicountyfoundation.org to learn more.


   Miami County Foundation was founded in 1985 by Richard E. Hunt to honor his wife, mother and children. A Troy native, Mr. Hunt incorporated the Miami County Broadcasting Co. in 1946 and founded the county’s first radio station, WPTW, in Piqua. It had long been his dream to establish a local foundation to serve the entire county. Miami County Foundation effectively assists, encourages and promotes the health, education and welfare of the citizens of Miami County by soliciting, receiving and administrating assets exclusively for their charitable needs.

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