The Community Foundation of Ohio's Electric Cooperatives supports charities, programs, organizations, and cooperative industry initiatives that meet the guidelines below:
- Electric cooperative-affiliated 501(c)(3) organizations
- 501(c)(3) organizations in which electric cooperative employees are actively engaged
- Charitable activities that are:
- Associated with international rural electrification efforts.
- Provide financial assistance to families of electric cooperative employees that are injured or killed in the line of duty.
The Community Foundation does not typically grant requests for:
- Extracurricular school activities, sports clubs, or booster groups, unless a specific need is demonstrated
- General donations to United Way, only specific funds or causes
- More than one request from a co-op employee in a cycle
- More than one request in a fiscal year to the same entity
Nominate an organization to be considered for a grant.
(Ohio electric cooperative & OEC employees only)
Donate to The Community Foundation of Ohio's Electric Cooperatives:
- OEC employee can enroll in payroll deduction here
- All other organizations and individuals can donate here OR can mail a check to:
The Community Foundation of Ohio's Electric Cooperatives
c/o Jaime Kilbarger
6677 Busch Boulevard
Columbus, OH 43229
Grant recipients include:
- AHA! A Hands-On Adventure
- American Red Cross
- Association of Louisiana Electric Cooperatives - disaster relief efforts
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network
- BrAva
- Capital Area Humane Society
- Children's Hunger Alliance
- Clear Creek Farm
- Colony Cats
- Common Ground Free Store
- Cooperative Development Foundation
- Cooperative Family Fund
- Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL) of Ohio, plus local DPIL grants to:
- Carrol County
- Coshocton County
- Darke County
- Hocking County
- Holmes County
- Marion County
- Pike County
- Putnam County
- Scioto County
- Vinton County
- Wayne County
- Florida Electric Cooperatives Association - disaster relief efforts
- Gracehaven, Inc.
- Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue
- Huckleberry House
- Human Connections Fund
- JR Memorial Cruise for a Cure
- Kentucky Rural Disaster Relief Fund and local relief efforts
- LifeCare Alliance’s “Meals on Wheels” program
- Mighty Children's Museum
- National Alliance for Mental Illness
- Niche Seekers
- NRECA International
- Ohio Governor's Imagination Library
- Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Ohio
- Project Ohio
- RESCUEDohio
- Ronald McDonald House Charities
- Saving Grace Cat Rescue
- Scioto County Career Technical Center to benefit the Blake Rodgers Memorial Scholarship
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Star House
- Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer
- Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association - disaster relief efforts
- The Trevor Project
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Union County 4-H
- United Way of Morrow County - school supplies
- Worthington Resource Pantry
