Stockton Community Foundation
Contact Information:
P.O. Box 410
Stockton, MO 65785
Established May 2, 2002
Board of Governors:
Ginger Hendrickson, President • Kathie Rieder, Vice President • Shannon Snow, Secretary • Larry Shellhorn, Treasurer • Rod Hendricks • Peter Lee • Vicki Sandberg • Charles Skaggs • Dave Steinmuller
For additional information, please contact Ginger Hendrickson, President, at (417) 276-6883.
Total Assets (as of 12/31/11): $689,836
The Stockton Community Foundation grant application is available (PDF) here.
Grant recipients must complete a grant progress report within 3 months of receiving the grant. Download the report here.
News and Updates
Stockton Embraces the Challenge of Feeding the Community
Volunteers help distribute items from the mobile food pantries that visited Stockton as part of the Ozarks Million Dollar Hunger Challenge.
The Stockton Community Foundation and residents embraced both of the Ozarks Million Dollar Hunger Challenge opportunities offered by the Walmart State Giving Foundation and Ozarks Food Harvest to CFO affiliates and food pantries over the past two years.
The first Hunger Challenge provided for four mobile pantry deliveries to Stockton, which served about 1,200 people. The many adult volunteers, as well as students at the Agape Boys Ranch, had a good time on each distribution day working to organize the shipment of food onto tables and develop a system that was as efficient as possible for those receiving, as well as those working to distribute the food. It proved to be a very positive community effort with Dr. Vicki Sandberg as the chair of the committee that organized this project.
All the money raised in the first challenge was not used in those four distribution days, and because the local food pantry has now joined the Ozarks Food Harvest network, the board voted to turn the surplus funds over to that account.
The fundraising for Hunger Challenge II, which began in spring 2011, will give additional funds for the local food pantry sponsored by the Stockton Area Ministerial Alliance. Because of the increased demand on the pantry from families struggling to make ends meet, these funds will enable the Ministerial Alliance to continue other needed assistance to the needy. The Stockton Community Foundation wants to thank everyone who contributed to this fundraiser.
Many of the community grant applications in 2011 were from groups also serving the hungry in Stockton. Grants were approved for several specific projects, including Tiger Tasters, a backpack program for children eligible for the free school meals program. Each Friday, these children receive a backpack with items such as cereal, fruit bars, or juice boxes to help with food needs over the weekend.
Another grant went to the Korth Senior Center to pay for coolers used in the Meals on Wheels program. The volunteers were in desperate need of equipment that would keep the prepared meals at the appropriate temperature while deliveries were being made. The “Christmas Baskets” program also received a grant to help purchase supplies for a Christmas dinner as well as staples to help the families for several weeks afterward.
Other grants were made for education and cultural events, but the focus in 2011 was in helping everyone have enough food in the pantry at home.
“It has been satisfying work to know we were able to help fill this very real need in the community,” Stockton President Ginger Hendrickson said.
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Funds and Grantmaking
Existing Funds:
Cane Hill Family and Community Fund
Cedar County Historical Society Endowment Fund
Cedar County Library District Stockton Building Fund
Friends of the Library, Inc., Stockton, Missouri Fund
Hammons Products Company Benevolence Fund
Hammons Products Company Fund
Rieder Family Fund
SAC Arts Council Endowment Fund
Skaggs/Exxon Mobil Administrative Endowment Fund
Stockton Angel House Fund
Stockton Community Center Capacity Building Fund
Stockton Community Foundation Grantmaking Fund
Stockton Community Leadership Development Fund
Stockton Hunger Challenge Fund
Stockton Lake Conservation Fund
Stockton Lions Community Fund
Stockton Nursing Home Fund
Stockton Rebuilding Fund
Stockton Revolving Loan Fund
Stockton Senior Center Capacity Building Fund *
Stockton United Methodist Church Endowment Fund
Stockton Teen Empowerment Program Grant Fund
Stockton Teen Empowerment Program Endowment Fund
Stockton Public Schools Foundation
>Stockton Public Schools Foundation Abbott Scholarship Fund
>Stockton Public Schools Foundation General Scholarship Fund
>Stockton Public Schools Foundation Korth Scholarship Fund
>Stockton Public Schools Foundation Miller Scholarship Fund
>Stockton Public Schools Foundation Special Projects Fund
>Ted and Cleva Sell Memorial Fund
Stockton Trails Initiative Coalition Fund
* A subfund of Care Connection for Aging Services
Legacy Society
Gary & Jana Funk
Brian & Kim Hammons
Community Grants Fiscal Year 2010
Stockton Angel House, $1,600
Korth Senior Center, $400
Stockton High School, Communication Department, $488
Benevolence Fund Distributions, $200
Stockton R-I Public Schools, Tree planting at schools, $3,000
Stockton United Methodist Church, Tiger Tasters backpack program, $1,732
Korth Senior Center, Meals on Wheels, $298
Stockton High School, books, $500