Hinton Area Foundation: Community Impact Fund Grant

The Hinton Area Foundation's Community Impact Fund Grant supports local charitable organizations in Hinton and Summers County. This grant focuses on enhancing education, arts, beautification, health, human services, and public recreation. By utilizing income from perpetual endowment funds, the foundation aims to create lasting benefits for the community, ensuring that the corpus remains intact for future generations.

Background
The Hinton Area Foundation is a non-profit, community foundation organized to encourage philanthropic giving and to provide a common source for contributions to benefit the local community. In short, the foundation’s purpose is to build a better community.
To accomplish this purpose, your community foundation accepts gifts which are deposited in perpetual endowment funds. The income from the endowed funds is dispensed each year to benefit the Hinton and Summers County community and are in support of educational, health, human services, artistic, public recreation, beautification, and other charitable projects. Only the income from these funds is used to provide grants. The corpus of the funds will stay intact to benefit the community forever.
The Hinton Area Foundation is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, but it really belongs to the entire community. It is your community foundation.
Community Impact Grant
The Hinton Area Foundation makes discretionary and field-of-interest grants to charitable organizations in the areas of Education, the Arts, Beautification for the Hinton/Summers County area, Health and Human Services, Public Recreation, and Other eligible needs.