IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, is pleased to announce the fifteen grant finalists selected for 2024. Twelve of the fifteen nonprofit finalists will each receive a grant of $100,670 at the IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area Annual Meeting on October 13, 2024.
This is the 21st year that IMPACT 100 will award grants to local nonprofit organizations. Since its inception, IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area has awarded 153 impactful grants totaling $16,284,000 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
Parent Booster USA, Inc., dba Navarre Band Parent Association, Inc.
Bands are Instrumental
Pensacola Lighthouse Association, Inc., dba Pensacola Lighthouse & Maritime Museum
Reconstruction of Our Historic Boathouse
West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc., dba UWF Historic Trust
Pensacola Children’s Museum: Our Town: A Space for All
EDUCATION
Capstone Adaptive Learning and Therapy Centers, Inc.
Destination Independence
Girl Scouts of Gateway Council, Inc.
Girl Scouts Community Development Troops
Pyramid, Inc.
Driving Innovative Opportunities for People with Disabilities
ENVIRONMENT & RECREATION
Dixon School of Arts and Sciences, Inc.
IMPACT 100 Natural Wonders Park at Dixon School of Arts and Sciences
Friends of Pensacola State Parks, Inc.
Inclusive Playground in Big Lagoon Park
Santa Rosa County Master Gardeners Association
Tractor and Audio/Visual Upgrades for SRC Master Gardeners
FAMILY
My Father’s Arrows, Inc.
Rolling On to a Bigger Vision
Northwest Florida Guardian ad Litem Foundation, Inc.
Cases for Kids
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Council of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Inc.
From Paris to Pensacola “Let us go to the Poor”
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Escambia County Healthy Start Coalition, Inc.
Healthy Start Mobile Stork Stock
Ministry Village at Olive, Inc.
Tender Hearts Caring Hands Building
Vision of Hope, Inc.
Journeying to Independence
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.
To-date, IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area members have contributed $29.8 million to Escambia and Santa Rosa economies over the past 20 years. This report comes from the Haas Center at the University of West Florida. Currently, IMPACT 100 members contribute over $1million annually in direct grants to nonprofits serving the two counties. Additionally, the organizations purchase goods and services from local businesses and make contributions through taxes and other indirect and induced spending.
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.
