Lacrosse Community Foundation

Community-focused activities: growing a source of permanent, unrestricted community capital from philanthropic gifts to award competitive grants to qualified charitable organizations in la crosse county who are meeting identified community needs. Lcf has 32 funds that award competitive grants reviewed and approved by the board of directors each quarter. Lcf awarded $1,535,012.

Leadership activities and fiscal sponsorships: service to convene community partners around current community needs and helping area charitable groups and nonprofits build capacity to increase their impact.

Agency-fund activities: lcf manages agency funds established by nonprofit organizations. The lcf has fiduciary responsibility over the funds, and each year the organization can choose to take the spending rate distribution, or continue to grow the fund with its annual earnings.