Ozark County Community Foundation
Contact Information:
P.O. Box 400/110 North Main
Gainesville, MO 65655
Established January 23, 2003
Board of Governors:
Steve Rackley, President • Jessica Blackburn • Karen Brantingham • Sue Ann Jones • Steve Morrison • Paul Wade • Kerrie Zubrod
For additional information contact Steve Rackley, President, at (417) 679-3331.
Ozark County Community Foundation Grant Application, download here (PDF format).
Total Assets (as of 12/31/11): $630,147
News and Updates
Coover Participation Helps Fight Poverty, Hunger in Ozark County
Commerce Trust Vice President Jill Reynolds (left) presents a $14,000 Coover grant to Edwina Cummings and Betty Stanley, representing an Ozark County coalition working on the school district’s backpack program.
When opportunity knocks, it pays to answer the door. They know this lesson in Ozark County, and two county schools, a food pantry and the Community Foundation took advantage of not one but two of CFO’s Coover grant opportunities during 2010-11 to the tune of $34,000.
CFO, in partnership with Commerce Trust, awarded a $14,000 Coover Regional Grant to the Ozark County Community Foundation, Gainesville R-V Schools, and the Ozark County Ministerial Alliance to combat children’s hunger. The grant was one of 12 awarded across southern Missouri through the Louis L. and Julia Dorothy Coover Regional Grantmaking Program aimed at fighting rural poverty.
Ozark County’s program serves about 45-48 elementary school kids each week with weekend backpacks that include canned meat, canned and dried fruit, juice, shelf milk and other staples. The Gainesville Youth Empowerment Project packs the food each week and fuel costs are donated. The project started as a vacation bible school initiative last year and has received $1,500 grants from the YEP chapter and White River Valley Electric Company, along with other donations from local businesses and churches.
Then, in May, Dora students were awarded $20,000 Coover grant awarded by the Rural Schools Partnership for a digital storytelling project to learn more about the history of the area as well as how to produce video documentaries.
The students, with English teacher Zak Hamby, are using traditional research methods to learn about a variety of subjects, such as the historical mills in the area, the Civil War heritage, local Native American tribes, cultural traditions, and personal histories. The students are producing digital stories based on their research to present at a school film festival.
Click here to read more about the Ozark County Community Foundation.
Funds and Grantmaking
Existing Funds:
Matt Abraham Memorial Scholarship Fund
Benton and Genelle Breeding Scholarship Fund
Benton and Genelle Breeding Family Fund
Brixey and Rockbridge Fire Department Fund
Verne and Verla Cubbage Scholarship Fund
First Christian Church of Gainesville Capacity Building Fund
Dora R-III School Foundation Academic Endowment Fund
Dora R-III School Foundation Endowment Fund
Dora R-III School Foundation Fund
Gainesville Academic Grant Fund
Gainesville Industrial Development Donor Advised Fund
Gainesville R-5 School Foundation Fund
Gainesville R-5 School Foundation Endowment Fund
GHS Alumni Scholarship Fund
Grant A. Finley Memorial Scholarship Fund
Harlin Family Memorial Fund for First Christian Church of Gainesville
Rodger Neil Hickerson, Jr. Golf Endowment Fund
Rodger Neil Hickerson, Jr. Golf Fund
Kaleb Tanner High Memorial Scholarship
Hootin’ and Hollerin’ Days Scholarship Fund
Dave Jones Youth Outdoor Fund
Mearle and Stella Luna Scholarship Fund
McGinnis Family Fund
Murray Scholarship Fund
Ozark County Community Foundation Administrative Endowment Fund
Ozark County Community Foundation Capacity Building Fund
Ozark County Community Foundation Endowment Fund
Ozark County Historium, Inc. Building Fund
Ozark County Hunger Challenge Fund
Ozark County Ice Relief Fund
Pointer Law Office Community Support Fund
Pontiac Fireworks Fund
Gainesville Industrial Development Donor Advised Fund
Ozark County YEP Fund
Ozark County YEP Temporary Fund
Ruby Robins Trust for Preservation of Local History Donor Advised Fund
Rosa Leah Spencer Memorial Scholarship Fund
Roxena Stith Endowment Fund
Legacy Society Members:
Margo Murray
David and Michelle Pointer
Community Grants for Fiscal Year 2011
Gainesville R-5 School District, Gainesville YEP grant, $254
Gainesville R-5 School District, $300
Disabled American Veterans, Gainesville YEP grant, $25
American Lung Association of Missouri, Gainesville YEP grant, $40
Ozark County Food Pantry, Gainesville YEP grant, $25
Anew Church, Gainesville, Gainesville YEP grant, $65
American Cancer Society, Gainesville YEP grant, $65
Ozark County Toy Drive, Gainesville YEP grant, $110
Ozark County Food Pantry, Gainesville YEP grant, $100
Gainesville R-5 School District, Gainesville YEP grant, $1,125
Ozark County Historium, Inc. Building Fund, $2,500
Ava Parks & Recreation, swimming lessons for children, $375
Needmore Church of God, swimming lessons for children $160