Linn County Awards $50,000 in Legacy & Community Attraction Grants

Four local nonprofits will receive grant funding from Linn County's Legacy & Community Attraction Fund. The Board of Supervisors this week awarded $50,000 in grants to the following organizations:

• Cedar Rapids Museum of Art: $5,000
• Central City Historical Society: $7,000
• Indian Creek Nature Center: $5,000
• The History Center: $33,000

The Board of Supervisors established the Linn County Legacy & Community Attraction Fund to foster and support long-standing, new, and diverse community events and organizations in Linn County that substantially promote Linn County history or culture and/or work to draw in residents and visitors. A goal of the grant program is to provide a small number of larger awards thereby making a more substantial impact to the recipient organizations. Recipients are selected through an annual competitive grant process.

This year, the Board of Supervisors received grant requests totaling more than $300,000 with only $50,000 in available funds. The Board of Supervisors reduced funding for the grant program from $150,000 to $50,000 following budget cuts in fiscal year 2024 and fiscal year 2025.