BETTENDORF, IOWA (February 7, 2024) — The Hubbell-Waterman Foundation, a private foundation administered in partnership with the Quad Cities Community Foundation, has granted $1,918,616 to 72 area non-profits to advance its vision of a growing, thriving, inclusive community through investments in innovation and accessibility.
“The Hubbell-Waterman Foundation has been impacting lives in the Quad Cities community since 1967,” said Jennifer Waterman, one of the Foundation’s trustees and 2023 grants committee chair. “We’re proud to partner with another long-standing organization in the Quad Cities Community Foundation as we work to strengthen the non-profits working in our region.” Since its founding, the Hubbell-Waterman Foundation has granted more than $35 million to a wide range of local organizations, including large, small, established, and new entities.
Hubbell-Waterman Foundation grants include multi-year awards for many organizations.
“The Community Foundation’s partnership with Hubbell-Waterman is making big things possible for non-profit organizations across the region,” said Sue Hafkemeyer, the Community Foundation’s president and CEO. “Their commitment and investment in the non-profit sector is leading to real change right here in our community.”
This year’s grants have been awarded to a wide range of organizations, including non-profits focused on alleviating food insecurity, supporting arts and culture, improving child education opportunities, and much more.
The following non-profits received grants from the Hubbell-Waterman Foundation (* indicates the current installment of a multi-year commitment):
Operational Support
- Boys and Girls Clubs of the Mississippi Valley — $20,000
- Café on Vine — $8,000
- Children's Therapy Center of the Quad Cities, NFP — $20,000
- Christ United Methodist Church of the Illinois Quad Cities Inc — $2,500*
- Christian Care — $10,000*
- Clock Inc — $30,000*
- EveryChild — $20,000
- Family Resources Inc — $37,500
- Hand in Hand — $20,000
- Heart of Hope Community Outreach Ministries — $20,000*
- Hope at the Brick House Inc — $10,000
- Humility Homes and Services Inc — $60,000*
- Junior Achievement of the Heartland — $20,000
- Marriage and Family Counseling Service — $10,000*
- Midwest Writing Center — $10,000*
- Milan Christian Food Pantry — $5,500
- NEST Café (Nourish Everyone Sustainably Together) — $5,000*
- Opera Quad Cities — $10,000*
- Project Renewal of Davenport — $8.500*
- Quad Cities Community Broadcasting Group Inc — $10,000*
- Quad Cities Cultural and Educational Supporting Charitable Trust — $100,000*
- Quad City Symphony Orchestra — $25,000
- River Bend Foodbank — $75,000
- Safe Families for Children Alliance — $5,000
- Safer Foundation — $25,000*
- School Health Link — $10,000*
- Tapestry Farms — $10,000
- The Deanery School of Music — $25,000
- The Literacy Connection — $5,000*
- The Martin Luther King Center — $30,000
- The Project of the Quad Cities — $5,000*
- The Salvation Army — $15,000
- Together Making a Better Community (TMBC) — $50,000
- Transitions Mental Health Services — $6,000
- World Relief Quad Cities — $50,000
- WQPT Quad Cities PBS — WIU Foundation — $50,000
- YMCA of the Iowa Mississippi Valley — $25,000
Capital Construction
- Ballet Quad Cities — $20,000*
- Community Health Care Inc — $15,000
- East Moline Public Library — $20,000*
- LeClaire Community Library — $5,000
- Nahant Marsh Education Center — $20,000*
- One Eighty — $5,000*
- Putnam Museum and Science Center — $140,000*
- River Bend Foodbank — $20,000*
- STEAM ON WHEELS — $17,616
- The Center — $25,000
- Two Rivers YMCA Inc — $75,000*
- Vera French Foundation — $75,000*
- YWCA of the Quad Cities — $65,000*
Program and Initiatives
- AKWAABA QC — $20,000
- Argrow's House — $20,000
- Azubuike African American Council for the Arts — $10,000
- Common Chord — $20,000*
- Figge Art Museum — $50,000
- Fresh Films — $11,000
- FRIENDS of the Davenport Public Library — $37,500*
- Genesius Theatre Foundation — $7,000*
- Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois — $20,000
- Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates (iJAG) — $37,500
- Iowa Legal Aid — $60,000
- Mississippi Valley Blues Society — $10,000
- Narratives QC — $15,000
- Quad Cities Open Network — $20,000*
- Quad City Arts — $80,000
- Spring Forward Learning Center — $25,000*
- United Way Quad — $25,000*
- Youth Service Bureau of Rock Island — $20,000
The Quad Cities Community Foundation champions generosity. It is the place where generous people in the bi-state region make both lifetime and estate gifts of all sizes to support the long-term needs and opportunities of their community, and the specific organizations and causes most meaningful to them.
