Nixa Community Foundation
Contact Information:
566 W. Mt. Vernon
Nixa, MO 65714
Board of Directors:
Sharon Whitehill Gray, President • Leigh Hall, Secretary/Treasurer • Hattie Carter • Kelly Hasner • Debby Lawson • Lance Ogden • Jimmy Sebree • Chris Thomas
Advisory Board:
Ryan Bowling • Dr. Kristina Burton • Mitch Callicott • Kevin Cheffey • Paul Johns • Dr. Michael Kolstad • Janice White • Linda Whiting • Kathy Whitworth
For additional information please contact Sharon Whitehill Gray, President, at (417) 725-1545.
Total Assets (as of 12/31/11): $1,868,862
News and Updates
Nixa CF Completes Ozarks Million Dollar Hunger Challenge II
Nixa’s Least of These food pantry received much-needed new funding in November 2011, thanks to more than $18,600 raised by the Nixa Community Foundation. You can read more about the FRCF’s success at the Christian County Headliner News website.
Robust Grantmaking Makes a Difference for Nixa Community
Beneficiaries of the Nixa Community Foundation’s 2011 grants presented at the annual dinner in March. The NCF made more than $46,000 in community grants in FY11.
Every year, the Nixa Community Foundation awards 30 to 33 grants to organizations throughout the community. The total funds from the largest grant round totaled nearly $46,600, and individual grants ranged from $6,750 for the local food pantry to $366.12 to an elementary school for webcams and tables.
“Of all the things we do, the grants probably have the biggest impact on our community,” Sharon Whitehill Gray. “The list of grants is wide and varied.”
At the annual banquet where the grants were presented in March, the NCF also honored its late board member, Betty Ann Rogers, as the Citizen of the Year. Her longtime partner Mitch Callicott gave a moving tribute to the energy and passion she brought to everything she did.
Also at the banquet, Nixa Education Foundation Board Member Holly Beadles was honored as the school district’s
“Volunteer of the Year” for her efforts on a number of projects, including the ambitious “Buck Up for NEF” campaign the Education Foundation conducted during the spring.
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Funds and Grantmaking
Existing Funds:
Bricks & Mortar Fund
Callicott Family and Friends Fund
Care to Learn – Nixa Fund
CW Carter Family Fund
Century of Learning Alumni Scholarship Fund
Bob and Mea Childers Scholarship Fund
Children’s Smile Center Fund: Nixa
Christian County Domestic Violence Fund
Christian County Optimists Club Charitable Fund
Christian County Optimists Club Skate Park Fund
*Dorinda’s Dream Fund
Tracy Anderson Memorial Fund
Glenn and Irene Ball Fund (unrestricted)
# Austin and Leona Dunham Fund (designated-Nixa Public Schools)
Frank Harding Memorial Fund
Claude E. and Etta Grace Hilton Fund
#* Jess J. Graham Fund (unrestricted)
Least of These Capacity Fund
Least of These Endowment Fund
Least of These Building Fund
Least of These Hunger Challenge Fund
Kevin “Cub” Martin Memorial Scholarship Fund
Mack Road Memorial Fund (scholarship)
McCroskey Family Fund (unrestricted)
Denzil Morris Family Athletic Scholarship Fund
Doug Nimmo Scholarship Fund
Nixa Area Arts Council Capacity Fund
Nixa Area Arts Council Fund
Nixa Azalea Festival Fund
The Nixa City Employees Fund (unrestricted)
Nixa Community Foundation Administrative Endowment Fund
Nixa Education Foundation Legacy Fund
Nixa Fire District/Local 3904 Nixa Shop Fund
Nixa Fire District/Local 3904 Nixa Shop Unrestricted Fund
The Nixa Fund (unrestricted)
Nixa Education Foundation Fund
Nixa Education Foundation Endowment Fund
Nixa Hunger Challenge Fund
Nixa Police Officers Association Fund
Nixa Rotary Park Fund
Nixa School District Teachers & Employees Fund (unrestricted)
Nixa Sucker Days/Rex Harp Scholarship Fund
Nixa Veterans’ Memorial Fund
Nixa Youth Empowerment Program Capacity Building Fund
Linda Noble Memorial Fund
Ozark Bank Fund
Betty Ann Rogers Family and Community Fund
Shaffer & Hines Corporate Unrestricted Fund
Edna B. Wasson Family Fund (unrestricted)
Pansy Wasson Memorial Fund (field of interest-elementary education)
Shane Whitehill Family Memorial Fund
*Established as an at-large fund of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks.
# Denotes that this is a Legacy Fund, established by bequest.
Legacy Society Members
Mitch Callicott
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Graham*
Sharon Whitehill Gray
Jane Kennon*
Betty Ann Rogers*
Mark Sellenriek
Women In Need, for women in financial crisis, $966
Champion Athletes of the Ozarks, Christian County programs, $1,000
Heart 4 Women, for the Purity, Passion, Pearls program, $1,000
Nixa Junior High School, MO Truman Reading program, $1,009
James River Basin Partnership, Watershed festivals, $1,000
Nixa Parks and Recreation, Mannequins, $865
High Pointe Elementary, Literacy Library, K-4, $1,800
Nixa Schools, Care Team suicide prevention, $1,000
Nixa Junior High School, Telescope and 3 binoculars, $899
The Child Advocacy Center, Interviews for six Christian County children, $2,700
Thomas Elementary School, Smart Board system, $3,047
Shapes Mentoring, Connors Assessment program, $2,030
Children’s Smile Center, Dental services for Christian County children, $1,500
Developmental Center of the Ozarks, Protocols and tools for First Steps therapy, $1,200
Least of These, Gas generator for pantry, $6,750
Nixa Amateur Radio Club, Additional receiver site, $1,850
Boy Scout Troop 200, tents, $3,850
Nixa Fire Protection District, Smart Board system, $2,973
Nixa Parks and Recreation, Fly Fishing program, $1,500
Nixa Early Childhood Center, Integrated listening program, $1,920
Espy Elementary School, Literacy Library, K-4, $1,800
High Pointe Elementary, Six webcams and extension cables, $366
Mathews Elementary School, Big Book easels and whiteboards, $1,534
Thomas Elementary School, Two listening centers, $430
Bricks & Mortar Fund, $3,993
Betty Ann Rogers Family and Community Fund, in honor of Betty Ann, $250