Kids Fund funded programs for 2025
Child and Family Development Committee
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: $4,000 for its childhood hunger initiative.
Bayview Foundation: $2,500 for its elementary after-school programs.
Bikes for Kids: $3,000 toward its bike give-away program.
Canopy Center: $4,000 for treatment for children experiencing sexual abuse.
Elver Park Neighborhood Center: $2,500 for summer activities for 50 elementary school-aged students.
Eyes of Hope Stoughton: $4,000 toward summer programs for children from low-income families.
Girls on the Run: $2,000 to provide free programs on confidence building for young people.
Just Dane: $5,000 to support children whose have a parent who is incarcerated.
Kennedy Heights Community Center: $5,000 to ensure youth access to healthy food.
Little Picassos: $3,000 toward arts enrichment for underserved children.
Neighborhood House Community Center: $2,500 in support of its pro-gramming for younger children.
Rooted: $5,000 toward the Troy Kids’ Garden to acquaint up to 750 youth with the joys of growing food.
The River Food Pantry: $3,600 toward its munch mobile wheels initiative.
The Road Home Dane County: $3,900 to underwrite recreational opportunities for 75 homeless kids.
Theresa Terrace Community Center: $2,500 to provide backpacks for students returning to school.
Today Not Tomorrow: $5,000 to provide baby showers for 60 expectant low-income mothers.
Vera Court Neighborhood Center: $2,500 for its cooking education for elementary-aged youth.
Developmental Disabilities Committee
ARTS for ALL Wisconsin: $5,000 to support its programs involving artwork and poetry for up to 475 participants.
Monroe Street Arts Center: $5,000 for its sensory friendly art studio.
Easter Seals Wisconsin: $5,000 to support camperships for low income children with disabilities.
Foundation for Dane County Parks: $5,000 to add two adaptive bikes to its accessibile equipment.
Jewish Federation of Madison: $5,000 for Camp Shalom to support children with disabilities.
Madison Ice: $3,500 for programs offering skating and hockey programs for 225 disabled youth.
Madison Parks Foundation: $5,000 for programs aimed at beach and water availability for children with disabilities.
Sun Prairie Parks: $3,025 toward Parker’s Pals program facilitating social interactions.
United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Dane County: $5,000 for its inclusive care after school program.
Imagine Academy Corp: $1,000 to support summer motor skill programs for children with disabilities.
Living Our Vision: $1,000 to help with its Latino family navigator project.
Down Syndrome Assn of Wisconsin: $4,000 for its adaptive bike riding program.
Cottage Grove Schools Family Organization: $5,000 to help install accessible playground equipment.
Thee Gaits: $4,650 to support program of therapeutic horseback riding for children with disabilities.
Dogs in Vests: $2,825 to provide 6 months of private training for an indi-vidual’s service dog.
Youth Development Committee
Big Brothers and Sisters: $3,000 towards it high school leadership program.
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County: $3,000 for its participation in school district’s AVID/TOPS program.
Briarpatch: $5,000 toward its pro-grams providing shelter for runaway and homeless children.
Centro Hispano: $2,500 toward its 8-week summer bilingual involving 25-40 middle school youth.
Children’s Theater: $2,500 to mentor young people interested in playwriting.
Commonwealth Development: $3,000 to provide paid experimental learning internships.
East Madison Community Center: $3,000 toward children’s academic improvement summer program.
Elver Park Neighborhood Center: $2,000 to underwrite summer pro-grams for middle school children.
Family Services Madison: $2,000 for programs to promote children’s mental health.
Gay/Straight Alliance for Safe Schools: $3,000 for 40 students to attend 4-day leadership camp.
Goodman Community Center: $4,000 for first jobs program for high schoolers.
Horizon High School: $3,000 toward programs aimed at disadvantaged teens in addiction recovery.
Imagine Academy: $1,000 toward its programs promoting healthy living.
Junior Achievement of Wisconsin: $1,000 to teach young people job readiness.
Kennedy Heights Neighborhood Assn: $1,500 toward middle school nutrition education.
Madison Children’s Museum: $2,000 for its program aimed at providing first-time job experience.
Madison Public Library Foundation: $5,000 for its initiative aimed at court-involved teens.
Madison Symphony Orchestra: $1,000 in support of a young people’s concert.
Madison Youth Choirs: $1,000 to provide tuition assistance for summer choir program.
McFarland Youth Center: $2,000 toward its after-school and summer healthy snack and nutrition program.
Neighborhood House Community Center: $3,500 for its leadership and team-building summer experiences.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin: $3,500 to provide young people medically accurate reproductive information.
Root to Rise: $2,000 to support mentors for classroom summer leadership program.
Simpson Street Free Press: $3,000 for its science of reading initiatives.
Sustain Dane: $1,000 toward summer youth employment program for northside kids.
Theresa Terrace Neighborhood Center: $2,500 for back to school back-packs for middle and high schoolers.
Vera Court Neighborhood Center: $4,000 toward its cultural bites cook-ing club for older children.
YWCA Madison: $2,000 toward the Y’s restorative justice programming.
Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra: $3,000 in support of Music Makers ensembles.