57 Grants - $1,268,150
Animal Services
City of Arlington Community Services
Providing funding to regularly operate a mobile adoption unit with the objective to increase the City's rate of successful adoptions.
$5,000
Arts & Culture
Arlington Fourth of July Parade
Underwrite costs associated with hosting the 45th annual parade.
$2,000
Arlington Arts League
Grant to create and produce educational materials which art docents use to teach 5th and 6th Arlington ISD students about European and American art.
$4,000
Arlington Community Band
Donation used to purchase sheet music and off-set costs associated with rehearsal venues.
$2,000
Dance Theatre Arlington
Supporting the company's marketing efforts, including website upgrades and design and distribution of enhanced outreach and promotional materials.
$15,000
Salvation Army Arlington
Providing the financial resources to offer high-quality, low-cost, after school and summer arts programs for youth from low-income families.
$9,000
Theatre Arlington
Underwriting costs associated with upgrading the organization's website and enhancing the season's advertising and promotional activities.
$20,000
Timeless Concerts
Supporting two chamber music productions held in Arlington.
$3,000
Beautification
Parkview Addition Community
Provided the financial support to build wrought iron fencing along the neighborhood perimeter as a way to provide security and revive the neighborhood's appearance.
$15,000
Randol Mill Park West Citizens on Patrol
Grant to re-design and renovate neighborhood entry signs.
$15,000
Children, Youth & Family
The Child Study Center
Grant provides support for programs to provide diagnosis and treatment services for children with developmental disabilities.
$18,000
Dental Health Arlington
Underwriting to cover costs associated with preventive oral health procedures benefiting more than 1,200 low-income children residing in Arlington.
$10,000
Knights of Columbus Council 6269
Provided the financial resources needed to redesign and rebuild playground facilities located on the Council's grounds.
$17,000
Leadership Arlington
Support for the organization's Youth Leadership Program.
$1,500
Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas
Making one wish possible for a severely ill child living in Arlington.
$7,000
Mayfield Road Baptist Church
Gift helps support the church's ESL and literacy classes.
$1,500
Mission Arlington/Mission Metroplex - Transportation Program
Funding to help provide low income residents with transportation to healthcare appointments, job-training services and after-school programming.
$30,000
Police Foundation - Arlington
Sole underwriter of the Police Athletic League's four-week summer camp programs benefiting 200 low-income youth. Through the camps, police officers offer a broad range of events, including cultural, educational and physical activities. Camps are designed to develop positive relationships between public servants, camps attendees and among youth peers.
$20,000
River Legacy Foundation
Supporting the educational activities offered by River Legacy's Living Science Center and its mission to encourage children and families to explore nature.
$10,000
SafeHaven of Tarrant County
Underwriting activities involved in the organization's Children Can Succeed Program which provides recreational and educational services offered to the young victims of domestic violence.
$18,000
Salvation Army of Arlington
Funding dedicated to ensuring the Army's Family Life Center PROJECT Empowerment has the resources necessary to offer transitional self-sufficiency programs to local homeless families.
$20,000
Senior Citizens Services of Greater Tarrant County
Contributed to efforts to open a second senior center in the North Arlington area with an objective to serve an additional 100 senior residents.
$12,000
Tarrant County Housing Partnership, Inc.
Grant to support costs associated with the Women's Homeownership Initiative designed to provide low-income women and female-headed households with access to and preparation for home ownership.
$10,000
The WARM Place
Providing funding to support costs associated with the Sons & Daughters Grief Support Group which offers specialized programming for children 5-18 who are mourning the death of a parent.
$15,000
YMCA of Arlington
Support for outreach activities offered to residents living at Rush Creek and Artisan at Rush Creek apartment complexes. Programs are designed to reduce area crime rates, improve community spirit, enhance student performance and provide a positive environment for children and family living in these complexes.
$20,000
Environment And Energy Conservation
City of Arlington Community Development & Planning Department
Funding to maintain the City's commuter bus service which provides service from Arlington to Fort Worth each weekday as a way to help improve the community's air quality and reduce highway traffic.
$65,500
City of Arlington Community Development & Planning Department
Grant provides financial resources to install an irrigation system to support landscaping planted in a newly built sidewalk system around the schools and throughout the neighborhoods in the city's Town North community.
$29,000
City of Arlington Community Services Department
Donation to support efforts to protect the city's River Legacy Park from the invasion and destruction of feral hogs.
$6,000
Trinity Habitat for Humanity
Supporting the organization's efforts to expand its ReStore operations locally and throughout the metroplex.
$45,000
Historic Preservation
Arlington Historical Society
Providing the financial resources to commission a study to identify and prioritize rehabilitation and revitalization efforts benefiting the Fielder House Museum.
$10,000
City of Arlington Financial & Management Resources Department
Contributing to efforts to protect and secure documents which record the City's earliest history, including papers dating to the early 1800's.
$9,650
City of Arlington Library Services Department
Grant will underwrite activities associated with cataloging and digitizing Arlington Police Department's Harold K. Elliott Police Museum collection.
$18,000
Libraries & Books
Arlington Historical Society
Donation created a historical library and reference room at the Fielder House Museum.
$15,000
City of Arlington Public Library
Underwriting for the Lake Arlington Branch library building renovations and capital campaign.
$25,000
City of Arlington Public Library
Support for the City's community library program, LibraryLINK Bouncing Babies, which offers early childhood development interactive sessions to local families.
$5,000
Gateway School
Underwriting to provide READ RIGHT training for the school's faculty as a way to address the unique teaching methods necessary to deliver literacy education to children with learning disorders.
$25,000
Parks & Recreation
Adaptive Easter Egg Hunt - City Parks & Recreation
Provided the financial resources to purchase specially designed audible eggs which can be used in activities involving visually impaired children.
$5,000
The Build-a-Dream Program - City Parks & Recreation Department
Underwrote expenses associated with enrolling 360 economically-disadvantaged children in summer/fall camps and recreational activities.
$30,000
Centralized Irrigation System - City Parks & Recreation
Purchased equipment to upgrade irrigation systems citywide and provided a means to monitor water usage patterns and remotely check leaks and problems in the field.
$50,000
Lightning Predication System - City Park & Recreation Department
Covered costs associated with installing advanced technology systems at Randol Mill and Stovall swimming pools to monitor, predict and warn park staff and visitors of potentially dangerous weather activity.
$20,000
Harold Patterson and Randol Mill Park Facilities - City Parks & Recreation Department Friends of the Levitt Pavilion
Contributed to costs associated with installation of shade structures as the park's softball venues. The structures will provide sun-protection to more than 15,000 sport spectators a year.
$50,000
Entertainment District Art Icon - City Parks & Recreation Department
Designed to be the focal point of the City's Entertainment District, the icon will be a soaring, 50-foot spire of gleaming metal set on a stone base. The Foundation's gift is one of two gifts underwriting the project.
$75,000
Light Up Arlington Fire Works - City Parks & Recreation Department
The major underwriter of the event, the Foundation's grant provides the financial resources to host the city's annual festivities.
$30,000
Safe Neighborhoods
City of Arlington Parks & Recreation Department
Funding to cover costs associated with quarterly cleanups along Lake Arlington shorelines and support for programs which deter illegal garbage dumping across the city.
$40,000
City of Arlington Public Works Department
Covering costs of replacing outmoded underground fuel storage tanks with environmentally-sound alternatives.
$30,000
First United Methodist Church
Funding to help underwrite upgrades to landscaping and sidewalks along Division, Mesquite, Center and North streets in the Central Arlington Neighborhood Revitalization Area.
$20,000
Junior League of Arlington
Provide financial resources to make building improvements to the Center for Community Service.
$40,000
Randol Mill Park West Citizens on Patrol
Grant to build ADA compliant ramps and safe access sidewalks at Randol Mill and Oakwood Lane.
$20,000
SafeHaven of Tarrant County
Supported the organization's Safety First programming designed to increase safety for domestic violence victims and their families from the onset of abuse to the successful re-assimilation into their homes and communities.
$40,000
United Way - Arlington
Supporting the Our Kids Our Community initiative which focuses on providing Arlington's at-risk youth with alternatives to gang affiliation, violence and criminal behavior.
$40,000
Trinity Habitat for Humanity
Contributing to the Preserve a Home program dedicated to helping revitalize Arlington's older neighborhoods through exterior rehabilitation of homes owned by low-to-very-low income residents.
$50,000
Strong Neighborhoods
Arlington Rotary Foundation
Underwriting for the Club's Central Arlington Neighborhood Literacy Center designed to provide low income residents living in the East North Street area with courses to develop reading, computer, job search and financial management skills.
$25,000
Arlington Urban Ministries
Supporting the Occupied Neighborhoods Thrive program which provides financial assistance to residents who are unable to make rent and/or utility payments.
$30,000
City of Arlington Community Development & Planning Department
Grant to support the City's Urban Design Center and its mission to promote the City's revitalization efforts through environmentally friendly and sustainable architectural, landscape and urban design methods.
$45,000
First United Methodist Church
Funding to help underwrite upgrades to landscaping and sidewalks along Division, Mesquite, Center and North streets in the Central Arlington Neighborhood Revitalization Area.
$35,000
Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County
Donation to cover costs associated with delivering more than 5,000 meals to the organization's Arlington clients.
$25,000
Theatre Arlington
Offering financial assistance to support the Theatre's outreach program which provides character development and life skills training for more than 1,500 at-risk youth through performing arts skills training.
$20,000