ENDRES MFG. COMPANY FOUNDATION Gives May 2025 Grants

This May 2025 the Endres Foundation received 67 grant applications with a total amount requested of about $900,000, with the top focus areas being education, arts and health and human services. This year we are giving a total of $303,750 to 22 different agencies plus $500 to Chippewa Valley Tech College for a scholarship of $500 and completion of additional four pledges to the Playing Field for $18,000, WYSO for $15,000, The River Food Pantry for $50,000 and the Salvation Army for $34,000. In addition, annual gifts of $20,000 to Dane Arts, $2,500 to Big Brothers and Big Sisters, $1,200 for “Art on the Main” in Waunakee and endowed scholarships at Waunakee High School. 

Hope everyone has a wonderful summer from the EMC Foundation Team! 

The grant applications awarded are: 

Babies and Beyond — pregnancy support: $8,000

Coaches v Cancer: $5,000 

Community Immigration Law Center — legal documentation services: $15,000

Down Syndrome Association — adaptive bike program: $5,000

Extended Hands Pantry — focus on immigrant families: $5,000

Focused Interruption — violence counseling: $15,000

Just Dane — job training and support for formerly incarcerated: $15,000

Just Mindfulness — bear programs for traumatic violence of women: $5,000

Latino Academy of Workforce Development — bilingual construction training: $15,000

Literacy Network — teaching English literacy merging with Omega School: $5,000

Madison College Foundation — support for welding and fabrication classes: $7,000

Madison Street Medicine: $5,000

New Bridge Madison — home chore service for elderly: $5,000

Nuestro Mundo — adult English classes: $4,000

Pathway Home — digital internet program for homeless services: $10,000 

Porchlight — furnish apartments: $10,000 

Rooted — food service from growing to cooking and serving: $10,000 

Sleep in Heavenly Peace — build, deliver and install twin beds for kids: $5,000

Unidos — focus on Latino juveniles: $8,000

Wisconsin Council of Visually Impaired — 30 white canes: $1,050

Wisconsin Women’s Network — Women’s Policy Institute class: $5,000

The demand and critical need for food pantry services is apparent, and a second focus priority is trauma intervention services, domestic abuse recovery and violence/suicide counseling. 

These two topics motivate us to share a quote from Mother Teresa: 

“The true hunger in the world isn’t for food. It’s for love.” We need to feed the body and the soul.