About Coshocton Foundation
Coshocton Foundation’s recent grantmaking is anchored by a $4,000,000 award to Gentlebrook Inc in 2024, showing how a local community foundation can work at both neighborhood and institutional scale. The foundation supports Coshocton County through grants, scholarships, and donor-advised, designated, and unrestricted funds, with activity that reaches community improvement, education, arts and culture, youth programming, emergency services, and economic development. Recent grants also include support for Our Town Coshocton, the Coshocton Port Authority, and local public-facing projects tied to civic life and community development.
Scholarship funding is a major thread in the foundation’s work. In 2024, it gave $142,809 to The College of Wooster, and its scholarship programs include awards for graduating high school seniors and adult, non-traditional students. The foundation also maintains more than 160 restricted funds, many of them named or donor-directed, which points to a grantmaking structure shaped by both community priorities and donor intent. Alongside project support, it funds organizations that serve residents directly, including schools, cultural groups, and local service providers across Coshocton County.
What Coshocton Foundation Funds
Community improvement is a core theme. The foundation gave $301,200 to Clary Garden Foundation in 2024 and $228,765 to the Coshocton Port Authority in the same year, both under community-improvement funding. It also backed Coshocton County Commissioners with $139,143 in 2023, reinforcing its role in civic and local-infrastructure support.
Education runs through both institutional and individual support. In 2025, it awarded $35,750 to Muskingum University for scholarships, and its scholarship programs include annual awards for graduating seniors and adult learners. Arts and culture appear as well: Pomerene Center for the Arts received $46,750 in 2023. Youth-oriented programming shows up in grants such as $106,537 to Kids America Inc in 2025, reflecting support for local programs that serve children and families.
How Coshocton Foundation Gives
Typical grant size sits at $10,000 at the 25th percentile, $15,989 at the median, and $31,500 at the 75th percentile, although the foundation also makes much larger awards, including a $4,000,000 grant. The pattern blends recurring institutional support with one-off awards; several recipients appear in multiple years, including Trinity Episcopal Church, Kids America Inc, Coshocton Port Authority, Our Town Coshocton, and Coshocton County Commissioners. The foundation operates through a mix of unrestricted grants, restricted funds, and scholarship programs, and it accepts unsolicited applications for several of those programs, including unrestricted grants and scholarships.
