IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area announced the 15 grant finalists selected for 2023. Eleven of the fifteen nonprofit finalists will each receive a grant of $108,364 at the IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area Annual Meeting on Sunday, Oct. 22.
This is the 20th year that IMPACT 100 will award grants to local nonprofit organizations. Since its inception, IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area has awarded 142 impactful grants totaling $15,092,020 to nonprofit organizations serving Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties.
The fifteen finalists selected by IMPACT 100’s Focus Area Committees are as follows:
ARTS, CULTURE & HISTORY
General Daniel Chappie James Jr. Memorial Foundation, Inc.
General Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr. Memorial Plaza
Pensacola Children’s Chorus, Inc. dba Pensacola Children’s Chorus
STEP BOLDLY: Building Confidence with a Reliable Performance Stage
The Santa Rosa Band of the Lower Muscogee, Inc. dba Santa Rosa Creek Band
Traditional Council Roundhouse
EDUCATION
Santa Rosa County 4-H Association dba Santa Rosa County 4-H
To Make the Best Better: Finish the 4-H Field Education Facility
The Pensacola State College Foundation, Inc.
Supporting Excellence and Capacity through Pensacola State College’s Nonprofit Center
Umbrella Learning Academy Corp. dba Umbrella Learning Academy
ULA Gives Kids a Life
ENVIRONMENT & RECREATION
Dixon School of Arts & Sciences, Inc. dba Dixon School of Arts and Science
IMPACT 100 Natural Wonders Park
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge, Inc. dba Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge
Near to Nature: Environment Education “Wild Pursuits” Nature Clubhouse
Ocean Hour, Inc. dba Ocean Hour
Improving Sustainability in Our Pensacola Parks
FAMILY
Children in Crisis, Inc.
Wheels of Impact
My Father’s Arrows, Inc.
Rolling On to a Bigger Vision
Valerie’s House, Inc. dba Valerie’s House Pensacola
Build for Valerie’s House Pensacola Permanent Location:
The Kitchen Is The Heart of a Home
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Center for Independent Living of Northwest Florida, Inc.
dba CIL of Northwest Florida
MILES Project (Mobile Independent Living Education and
Services-Health and Wellness)
Health and Hope Clinic, Inc. dba Health and Hope Clinic
Building Health and Wellness for our Community
Santa Rosa Kids’ House, Inc. dba Santa Rosa Kids’ House
Healing: The Experience
About IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, Inc.
IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, Inc. is an organization of philanthropic-minded women committed to improving their community by providing substantial grants to nonprofit organizations in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. Grants are distributed in five focus areas:
Arts, Culture & History; Education; Environment & Recreation; Family; Health & Wellness. Membership is open to any woman, age 18 or over, who makes an annual tax-deductible donation (membership fee) of $1,000 by March 1 of any calendar year. The entire contribution is used to fund grants.