Starke County Community Foundation

What is the Starke County
Community Foundation?

What The Community
Foundation Can Do For You

Types of Endowment Funds to
Which You Can Contribute

How The U.S. Tax Code
Encourages Charitable Giving

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Foundation Funds

Agency Endowment Funds
Designated Funds
Donor Advised Funds
Field of Interest Funds
Non-Permanent Funds
Scholarship Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Complete list

Starke County Grants

2004 Grant Guidelines
2004 Grant Application
Scholarships 2005
Lilly Scholars 2005
Fall Grants 2004
List from 1996 - 2004

More Information

2005 Summer/Fall Newsletter
Memorial Giving Sheet
Parents As Teachers


'Starke Community' by Mitchell A. Markovitz

Starke Community, by Mitchell A. Markovitz, commissioned by the Starke County Community Foundation. Unveiled at the annual Fall Grants banquet on November 21, 2002, the poster is based on the Ludlow home in the historic 'Quality Hill' neighborhood in North Judson. For a closer look, and information on purchasing a copy, click here.


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Grant Recipients

Special Project Grants 1996 - 1997 -- $50,000

Unrestricted Grants 1999

Coalition Against Domestic Ause (CADA) - $2,000

The Caring Place, Inc. - $1,000

Junior Achievement - $561

Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum - $2,000

Friends of the Library - $2,000

Starke County Humane Society - $2,000

Knox Community Elementary School - $1,800

Unrestricted Grants 2000

Coalition Against Domestic Ause (CADA) - $1,000

Healthy Families - $1,000

Koontz Lake Lions Club - $1,000

Starke Conty Fine Arts Commission - $1,000

The Caring Place, Inc. - $1,000

Unrestricted Grants 2001

Coalition Against Domestic Ause (CADA) - $1,000

Junior Achievement - $1,000

Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum - $1,000

North Judson Park Beautifucation - $700

The Caring Place, Inc. - $530.47

Unrestricted Grants 2002

Coalition Against Domestic Ause (CADA) - $1,000

Council on Aging - $2,500

Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum - $1,250

Starke County Fair Board - $1,250

Koontz Lake Lions Club - $500

Starke County Fine Arts Commission - $1,500

The Caring Place, Inc.- $500

Unrestricted Grants 2003

Starke County Humane Society - $2,000

Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum - $2,000

Coalition Against Domestic Abuse (CADA) - $1,000

The Caring Place, Inc.- $876

Unrestricted Grants 2004

Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum - $4,100

Coalition Against Domestic Abuse (CADA) - $7,500

The Caring Place, Inc.- $500

North Judson Main Street Committee - $2,000

Starke County Fine Arts - $900

Unrestricted Grants 2005

The Art Circle Institute, Inc. - $4,060.00

The Caring Place, Inc. - $1,321

Center for Rural Outreach and Public Services, Inc. (CROPS)- $2,200

The Friends of the Erie JK Line - $4,450

Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum - $6,190

St. Vincent De Paul Society - $1,700

Projects Funded by the Starke County Community Foundation and its partner Lilly Endowment Inc. in the GIFT initiative phases.

Phase III

NJ-SP Agri-Science Academy - $200,000

Starke County Resource Initiative Project - $137,000

Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum - $149,000

Young Adult Library Project - $64,000

SCILL Initiative for Lifelong Learning - $250,000

Phase IV

NJ-SP Agri-Science Academy - $421,258

Starke County Historical Society, Inc. - $51,400

Coalition Against Domestic Ause (CADA) - $68,342

Starke County Development Foundation - $76,000

Koontz Lake Lions Club - $83,000