Core Charities
Overview
Learn more about some of the organizations which receive grants from the ESCO Technologies Foundation. Click to reveal the organizations by state.
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California
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County
The vision of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County is that all youth achieve their full potential. They create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
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Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley
Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley strives to improve each child’s life by instilling self-esteem, courage, and positive values through educational programs including tutoring, homework assistance, computer training, sports, social recreation, mentoring, arts & crafts and much more.
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Carousel Ranch
Carousel Ranch provides equestrian therapy to children and young adults with special needs, utilizing an individualized therapy plan to meet each child’s specific needs and goals. It’s a place where children can and do succeed, regardless of the severity of their disability, and where therapy is disguised as FUN.
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Free Clinic of Simi Valley
The Free Clinic of Simi Valley is a non-profit organization that provides medical care, counseling, dental services, legal guidance, and ophthalmology services to individuals and families in need. They do not receive payments from private or federally funded insurances and are funded entirely by grants and donations.
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Liu Fang Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Liu Fang Memorial Scholarship was established to provide scholarships to women pursuing college or university degrees in physics, engineering or mathematics in honor of the memory of Liu Fang. A foundation was created to celebrate Liu Fang’s desire to learn, her curiosity about the world, her heritage, and her love of family.
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Pacoima Beautiful
Pacoima Beautiful (PB) was founded in 1996 by five relentless mothers who became distraught by the unpleasant sight of trash and toxic smells they endured while walking their young children to school. Today Pacoima Beautiful is the only environmental justice organization in the Northeast San Fernando Valley striving for community improvement. They are a dedicated team of leaders, planners, organizers, health promoters and advocates for a healthier and safer Northeast San Fernando Valley.
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Special Olympics of Ventura County
Special Olympics of Ventura County transforms lives through the joy of sport. Their athletes find joy, confidence and fulfillment on the playing field and in life and inspire people in their communities and elsewhere to open their hearts to a wider world of human talents and potential.
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The Food Initiative of Greater Stanislaus
The Food Initiative helps those in need of food, clothing, and other humanitarian services in the greater Modesto area. They provide services through their Healthy Food Pantry, Free Mobile Farmers Market, Homebound Delivery program, and Interfaith Clothes Closet.
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The Painted Turtle
The Painted Turtle provides a year-round life-changing environment and authentic camp experience for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses. They support children’s medical needs, inspire them to reach beyond their illnesses, and provide care, education, and respite for their families.
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Ventura County Search and Rescue Team
The Ventura County Search and Rescue, East Valley Team (VCSAR3) operates under the authority of the Sheriff and is comprised of highly dedicated and skilled volunteers who respond to public safety and wilderness emergencies throughout Ventura County and the State of California. They are on call 24 hours a day and provide their services free of charge to anyone needing help.
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Illinois
Habitat for Humanity Lake County
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit housing organization working in local communities across all 50 states and in more than 70 countries around the world. Habitat’s vision is of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat works toward this vision by building and improving homes in partnership with individuals and families in need of a decent and affordable place to live.
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Massachusetts
Anna’s Pals
Anna’s Pals donates funds to childhood cancer research, as well as programs to improve the quality of life for hospitalized children and their families.
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Children’s Miracle Network
To provide the best care for kids, children’s hospitals rely on donations and community support, as Medicaid and insurance programs do not fully cover the cost of care. Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network has helped fill those funding gaps by raising more than $7 billion to support more than 170 children’s hospitals. These donations fund research and training, purchase equipment and pay for uncompensated care. Our donation supports Boston Children’s Hospital.
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Cradles to Crayons
Without adequate and appropriate clothing, children face unfair barriers and participate in life on an unequal playing field. Cradles to Crayons provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items they need to thrive – at home, at school and at play. We supply these items free of charge by engaging and connecting communities.
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Family and Community Resources
Family and Community Resources (FCR) provides a welcoming, inclusive, and safe environment for all survivors of trauma, including those impacted by domestic and sexual violence, substance abuse, bereavement, and other causes. FCR offers services consistent with their values of choice, acceptance, hope, and dignity with the goal of helping children and adults along their path to safety, health, and well-being.
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Marlborough Community Cupboard
Marlborough Community Cupboard is a direct service program of the United Way of Tri-County. They provide groceries and produce, gently used clothing, and utility assistance to Marlborough residents. Seasonal programs including “Tools for School” (backpacks filled with school supplies), “Feed-A-Family” (complete turkey dinner for Thanksgiving), and “Hope for the Holidays” (toys for children).
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Missouri
Circle of Concern
Circle of Concern is first and foremost a food pantry, but also offers financial support, scholarships, job mentoring, children’s programs and holiday events. Their goal is to provide resources that empower individuals to become self-sufficient.
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Dan Devereaux Memorial Trust
Dan Devereaux Memorial Trust benefits minority and “at risk” kids in the metro St. Louis area by providing education and life skills opportunities that will give these children a chance to receive a good basic education, making it possible for them to enter post-secondary education or secure employment offering more than a minimum wage.
Forest Park Forever
Forest Park Forever works in partnership with the City of St. Louis and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry to restore, maintain and sustain Forest Park, as one of America’s great urban parks for a diverse community of visitors to enjoy. They help manage restoration projects, deliver experiential educational opportunities, and provide information and guides for the Park’s 13 million annual visitors.
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Friends of Kids with Cancer
Friends of Kids with Cancer is devoted to enriching the daily lives of children undergoing treatment for, and survivors of, cancer and blood-related diseases by providing these special kids and their families with the educational, emotional and recreational support needed during the long hours of chemotherapy, illness and isolation.
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Habitat for Humanity St Louis
Habitat for Humanity St Louis brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. It is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and works toward that goal with a comprehensive program in which hard-working families invest their time into building and owning a home.
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Marian Middle School
Marian Middle School provides an educationally challenging environment for adolescent girls of all religious, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, and is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by fostering their spiritual, academic, social, moral, emotional, and physical development in preparation for and successful completion of college preparatory high schools.
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Our Little Haven
Our Little Haven provides early intervention services for children and families. Their professional caregivers create a safe, secure and healing environment for those impacted by abuse, neglect, and mental or behavioral health needs. They make the hurting stop, the healing begin, and the love last, one family at a time.
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Ready Readers
Ready Readers is a St. Louis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring preschool age children from low-income communities to LOVE books and to have the emergent literacy skills necessary to become readers when they enter kindergarten.
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Revitalization 2000
Revitalization 2000 partners with the residents and other organizations in the Ville neighborhood of north St. Louis. They oversee programs that combine community building, learning, mentoring, and income earning for neighborhood youth.
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Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald House provides a “home-away- from-home” for families of seriously ill or injured children, offering them a way to stay together, in close proximity to the treatment hospital, and be comfortable and cared for during their stay.
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St. Louis City League
City League’s provides youth from low income families with access to high quality sports and extracurricular opportunities. Their program is based on the belief that participation in school sports increases academic motivation, improves behavior in school, deepens peer relationships, and improves confidence and self-esteem.
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St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra
St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra seeks to develop the whole musician and aims to prepare young musicians for a life on and off the concert hall stage.
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Unleashing Potential
Unleashing Potential (UP) focuses on three core services, all designed to strengthen children and families, helping them to reach their own magnificent potential. These programs include state-licensed and accredited early childhood care and education, quality before and after-school care, and a teen moms support group.
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Texas
Denton Freedom House
Denton Freedom House provides a residential treatment program for alcohol/substance abuse and operates a food pantry. At their food pantry, no one is turned away and they do not put restrictions on the frequency in which a family can receive food.
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Mobile Loaves & Fishes
Mobile Loaves & Fishes serves the homeless by delivering food, clothing, hygiene products, and other life-sustaining items where needed most. In addition, their Community First! Village project is a master-planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for the chronically homeless in Central Texas.
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Recognize Good
RecognizeGood’s mission is to elevate the world’s spirit of community by creating a public forum to recognize, reward, and promote acts of kindness and unselfish charity – to share daily inspiration by shining a light on the caring and compassion that, although often overlooked, exists in our communities. RecognizeGood has collected over 750,000 acts of gratitude and granted over $250,000 to area charities in the names of those who go above and beyond for others.
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Vermont
The Vermont Community Foundation
The Vermont Community Foundation is a family of hundreds of funds and foundations created by Vermonters to serve their charitable goals. They provide the advice, investment vehicles, and back-office expertise to make giving easy and inspiring. Their funds and programs put more than $60 million a year to work in Vermont and beyond, through grants and investments.
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Vermont Foodbank
The mission of the Vermont Foodbank is to gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in Vermont will go hungry. They are the state’s largest hunger-relief organization, providing nutritious food through a network of more than 300 community partners – food shelves, meal sites, senior centers, after-school programs, schools and hospitals.
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