Vision

A Stateline region where every life is enriched by the transformative power of philanthropy.

The Stateline Community Foundation is proud to stand as the region’s leading resource for information about charitable giving and community needs.

Our Foundation gives everyone the opportunity to make significant and lasting gifts to their community.

We manage 200 funds that enhance the Stateline Area. Together with our generous donors, we create a strong culture of philanthropy that positively impacts our community.

We are a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) public charity founded in 1986 to provide grants and scholarships to organizations and projects that improve the quality of life in the Wisconsin-Illinois Stateline Area.

Mission

Stateline Community Foundation is dedicated to identifying and responding to community needs through strategic partnerships, informed grantmaking, and inspired philanthropy.

The Foundation fulfills its mission by:

  • Attracting charitable funds, chiefly in the form of permanent endowments, which are committed to meeting the needs of the people living in the Stateline Area.
  • Using those precious resources wisely and efficiently in addressing key concerns of the community, responding to its emerging and changing needs and sustaining its agencies and institutions. In doing so, the foundation serves as steward for the individuals, families, foundations, and organizations which, over the years, have entrusted assets to its care.
  • Providing leadership to the community, serving as a convener and catalyst in identifying problems, needs, and opportunities, and shaping effective responses to them.

Staff

Tara Tinder

Tara Tinder

Executive Director
Christine Green

Christine Green

Accountant
Associate Director
Tammy Kerch

Tammy Kerch

Grant and Scholarship Coordinator
Jamie L. Gurholt

Jamie L. Gurholt

Program & Communications Coordinator
Destiny Howell

Destiny Howell

Accounting Clerk
Jessica Austin

Jessica Austin

Director of Early Brain Development

IMPACTING LIVES

The scholarships and grants that individuals, organizations and businesses make available through the Stateline Community Foundation are for the purpose of fostering change for the better. It’s about impacting lives.

To that end, we always appreciate hearing back from those who have experienced directly or can speak to the impact resulting from our donors participation. We receive too many thank you’s and updates to post more than a few. All the same we do like to hear back from scholarship and grant recipients. Please share with us your story.