Since its establishment in 2003, The Cornwall Foundation has made more than $307,000 in grants, and its annual grant budget has risen to $40,000 per year. In the past five years, The Cornwall Foundation has awarded the following grants:

2024 (through September)

  • The Food and Fuel Fund, to supply medicine to people who have recently lost financial assistance

  • The Cornwall Consolidated School, for a Smartboard in the library

  • The Cornwall Consolidated School, for magnetic door locks to facilitate emergency door closures

  • The Cornwall Historical Society, for a computer system to manage communications with visitors and donors

  • Jen Markow, Michelle Shipp, and the Cornwall Association for a meals for seniors program

  • The United Church of Christ, for new computers

  • The Chore Service, for informational videos for clients, potential caregivers, and donors

The Cornwall Library

2023

  • The Chore Service, to replace its accounting software

  • The Housatonic Youth Services Bureau, for pop-up services throughout Cornwall

  • The Cornwall Library, for improvements to the hybrid meeting room that is used by a variety of Cornwall organizations

  • The Little Guild, to purchase an online reservation system to help manage events and fundraisers

  • The Food and Fuel Fund, for a new, larger refrigerator

  • The Cornwall Child Center, for a generator

  • The Cornwall Food and Fuel Fund, for fuel

  • The Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department, to install smoke detectors in homes

  • The United Church of Christ, for a new stove

2022

  • The Cornwall Association, for its Cornwall Bears project

  • Greenwoods Counselling, to provide mental health services

  • Camp Mohawk, for scholarships for Cornwall girls

  • Cornwall Consolidated School, for a warming cabinet to permit participation in a federally funded hot lunch program

  • The Little Guild, to fund one-on-one dog training for people adopting pets and other members of the community

  • The Cornwall Association, for its Winter Lights Project

  • The United Church of Christ, for the Minister’s Discretionary Fund

  • The West Cornwall Library Association, to create a space for wellness classes above the Local

2021

  • The Cornwall Association, for its Barnyard Animals project

  • The Housatonic Youth Services Bureau

  • The United Church of Christ, as additional funding for its purchase of a generator to serve hot meals during power outages

  • The Cornwall Food & Fuel Fund

  • The Little Guild, for the tent at the Great Country Mutt Show

  • The United Church of Christ, to replace the windows in the day room used by many Cornwall community organizations

2020

  • The Cornwall Food and Fuel Bank, to meet increased demand resulting from the Covid-19 outbreak

  • The Cornwall Historical Society, to update its exhibit storage facilities

  • The Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children’s Theater, for a laptop needed to conduct drama workshops and performances for children virtually, as required by the Covid-19 outbreak

  • Housatonic Youth Service Bureau, for equipment for mental health telemedicine services and telemedicine group support services that it had initiated in response to the Covid-19 outbreak

  • United Church of Christ’s Deacon’s Fund/Minister’s Discretionary Fund, to cover increased assistance needed as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak

  • YMCA Camp Mohawk, for scholarships for Cornwall children attending the co-ed day camp initiated in response to the Covid-19 outbreak

  • The Cornwall Historical Society, to create a new website

  • The United Church of Christ’s Storm Meal Program, for a generator for the parish house kitchen to permit distribution of cooked meals during power outages

  • The West Cornwall Library Association, for a refrigerator and improvements for an indoor, year-round farmers’ market in West Cornwall

  • The Cornwall Association, to update the CornwallCT.org website

If you have questions about the Cornwall Foundation, please contact the Foundation’s President, Rob Lacy, via the contact form below.