Contact:
Kathryn Yarzebinski, President & CEO
(434) 845-6500
(Lynchburg, VA – June 17, 2025) - The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation (“GLCF” or “Foundation”) announced today the recipients of its Spring 2025 competitive grants.
The GLCF Distribution Committee carefully reviewed each application received, resulting in over $554,000 awarded in competitive grants, plus over $36,000 in recommendations from our donor-advised funds to 73 organizations.
Competitive grants ranged from $900 to $25,000. The GLCF provides grants for a wide range of needs, including food/hunger, housing, education, individuals with disabilities, animal welfare, historic preservation, our environment, and the arts. Nonprofit organizations serving the City of Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, and Campbell are eligible to apply.
“This grant directly impacts the lives of older adults and individuals with disabilities by enabling us to provide safe, reliable transportation to critical medical appointments,” said Linda Brake, Program Manager at Bedford Ride/Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living, which received $6,000 this spring. “The GLCF is helping us remove barriers to care and promote health and independence for some of our most vulnerable neighbors.”
The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation was founded in 1972 and works to solve our community’s greatest challenges by providing grants and scholarships, and by helping individuals, families, and organizations create their charitable legacy.
In order to receive a grant, nonprofit organizations must submit an application describing a current project in need of funding, as well as a project budget and current financial statements. A Distribution Committee composed of members of the GLCF Board of Directors determines which projects receive funding after carefully reviewing the applications.
“These grant applications show the incredible work our nonprofits are doing in our community,” said Kathryn C. Yarzebinski, President & CEO of the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation. “GLCF donors make these grants possible. We now have 328 endowed funds created and supported by donors, and these funds generate millions in annual charitable support for our community.”
Examples of some of this year’s funded projects include: construction of affordable housing, training for the prevention of human trafficking, increased access to healthcare for older adults and individuals with disabilities, and summer enrichment to combat summer learning loss for disadvantaged youth.
Since 1972, the GLCF has granted over $35 million to a wide variety of local nonprofit organizations, including human services, animal welfare, arts, education, and historical preservation organizations.
The GLCF offers two grant cycles annually: fall and spring. The next grant deadline is September 15, 2025. In 2024, the GLCF awarded over $2.3 million to 251 charitable organizations.
Spring 2025 grant recipients from the competitive cycle and donor advised funds include the following organizations:
Academy Center of the Arts
Agape Center Lynchburg
Amherst County Habitat for Humanity
BARCC
Bedford Community Orchestra
Bedford Humane Society, Inc.
Bedford Museum & Genealogical Library
Bedford Public Library Foundation
Bedford Urban Garden, Inc.
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
Bower Center for the Arts
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg
Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Nature Center
Cantate Children's and Youth Choir
Centra Foundation
Central Virginia Academy for Nonprofit Excellence
Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living
CVCC Educational Foundation, Inc
Central Virginia Regional Rescue
Charlottesville Ballet
Children's Assistive Technology Service
Community Access Network
Cross Road Community
Senior Wellness Alliance
Group Cycling Without Age Lynchburg
DePaul Community Resources
E.C. Glass Topper Touchdown Club
Fight Like a Grrrl Club
Forest Youth Athletic Association
Free Clinic of Central Virginia
FREE Foundation for Rehab. Equipment & Endowment
Freedom 4/24
Future Focus Foundation
Gleaning for the World
Greater Lynchburg Habitat for Humanity
Heart Havens
HumanKind
Interfaith Outreach Association
James River Day School
Jones Memorial Library
Jubilee Family Development Center
Kids' Haven: A Center for Grieving Children
Live Move Be Center
Living On Incorporated
Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation
Lynchburg Community Action Group, Inc
Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship, Inc.
Lynchburg Daily Bread
Lynchburg Grows
Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra
Make-A-Wish - VA Greater Virginia
Miriam's House
National D-Day Memorial Foundation
Natural Bridge Appalachian Trail Club
New Vistas School
One Community One Voice Lynchburg
Opera On the James
Park View Community Mission
Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation
Reach Out and Read
Rush Homes
Seven Hills Chamber Music
St. John's Day School
Sweet Briar College
