Sioux City’s Saturday in the Park is a beloved outdoor festival that has been rocking the area since 1991. The free music festival is back, thanks to its loyal sponsors like the Gilchrist Foundation.

Those seeking a place for prayer and reflection have found it at Trinity Heights under the shadow of some of its most famous sculptures.

Advocates have been working to preserve our country’s natural wilderness since the 1900s. Locally, part of that tremendous task falls on the shoulders of the Woodbury County Conservation Board.

In response to the decline in Iowa’s native landscape, conservation and wildlife management practices for the state were first developed in the 1930s. Supporting the conservation of what’s left of our state’s wildlife and natural resources has been part of the Gilchrist Foundation’s mission since the beginning.

2020 started off just like nearly every other year, then three months later the world was upended by the Coronavirus pandemic. While this disaster certainly affected how the Gilchrist Foundation doled out funding, it didn’t negate the existing needs of Siouxland communities.

Those in the Sioux City-area can experience some free art this summer at the Le Mars Arts Center. The Arts Center is hosting the American Watercolor Society’s “The Best of International Watercolor” exhibit.

As COVID-19 impacts the Sioux City area, the Gilchrist Foundation awards money to the local Salvation Army and Iowa Public Television to support and educate the community.

Every year the Gilchrist Foundation awards thousands of dollars to dozens of deserving nonprofit organizations with missions that align with ours. In 2019, we gave nearly $2 million to support projects in the areas of wildlife and conservation, arts and public broadcasting and disaster relief. Some of those projects are ongoing and grants from the Gilchrist Foundation help jumpstart the needed funding.

Aircraft coming to the Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation will have a much easier time getting on the taxiway thanks to a grant from the Gilchrist Foundation.

At the Gilchrist Foundation, our mission is to carry out the philanthropy established by our founder, Jocelyn Gilchrist and the Gilchrist family. Each year we award deserving nonprofit organizations, whose missions lay in the areas of wildlife and conservation, arts and public broadcasting and disaster relief, nearly $2 million in grant funds. The 2020 grant cycle process is now open. It just takes a couple of steps to apply and it begins with a Request For Invitation.

The foundation awarded New Stage Players a $22,000 project grant for The Penguin Project, a new area program that gives those with special needs the opportunity to develop creative and social skills as they partner and network with others, while participating in a fully-realized musical production.

For years anyone in Siouxland interested in playing tennis year-round would have to travel to tennis facilities in Sioux Falls, Omaha or other large Midwest communities. Now, thanks in part to the Gilchrist Foundation, Siouxland tennis enthusiasts have a local place to play.