The mission of the Community Foundation of Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives is to improve and advance quality of life in areas supported by Ohio’s electric cooperatives and their employees.
To that end, the foundation 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.
Support what you're passionate about.
Nominate an organization to possibly receive a grant.
(Ohio 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 Jared Caskie
6677 Busch Boulevard
Columbus, OH 43229
Grant recipients to-date 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.
- 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
- 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
