Help Our Foundation Give Away $100,000

The Ion Bank Foundation continues to make a difference in the communities we serve through our support of a variety of causes by contributing millions of dollars to various non-profit organizations that need our help.

The Annual Community Awards Program can help your favorite non-profit earn grant money. The Community Awards Program allows each Ion Bank customer to vote for their favorite non-profit organization to help the Ion Bank Foundation give away $100,000.

The Community Awards Program gives each Ion Bank customer the opportunity to vote for their favorite non-profit organization to help the Ion Bank Foundation give away $100,000. Enrolled non-profits will receive a donation of $25 from the Ion Bank Foundation for every vote for their organization.

It’s simple – vote for the charity of your choice. Voting will begin in February. You must be an Ion Bank customer to vote. One vote per customer, however, for accounts with multiple owners, each owner may vote. Customers with multiple accounts may only vote once. Each customer can vote for only one organization. Please vote for your favorite non-profit organization from the choices listed below.

We are very excited about this giving program and hope you will partner with the Ion Bank Foundation to help us, help local non-profit organizations in our community.

Click a heading to see the participating organizations.

All Organizations

  • A Girl Thing
  • A Kinder Ground, Inc. Nonprofit
  • Abilities Without Boundaries
  • ACES Education Foundation
  • Acts 4 Ministry, Inc.
  • Adam's House - Adam Wysota Foundation
  • All the Kings Horses Equine Rescue Inc
  • Alliance Francaise of Northwestern CT
  • American Legion Post 17
  • Animals for Life
  • Annie C. Courtney Foundation
  • ARC of Greater New Haven, Inc.
  • Are You Dense, Inc.
  • Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES)
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut
  • ASD Solutions Inc.
  • Ball & Socket Arts
  • Barnum Foundation for Life
  • Beacon Falls Congregational Church
  • Beacon Falls Youth Theater Company
  • Beacon Valley Grange No. 103, Inc
  • Bent of the River Audubon Center
  • Bethany Historical Society
  • Bethany Lions Charities INC
  • Better Days Rescue Fund
  • BHcare
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Waterbury
  • Boys & Girls Club of Meriden
  • Brass City Ballet
  • Brass City Harvest Inc.
  • Brass City Rescue Alliance
  • Brian Gibbons Homeless Outreach
  • CancerCare's Connecticut Office
  • CAST Inc.
  • Cheshire Community Food Pantry, Inc.
  • Cheshire Community YMCA
  • Cheshire Food Drive, Inc.
  • Cheshire High School Band Parents' Association
  • Cheshire Soccer Club
  • Cheshire Strawberry Festival - First Congregational Church
  • Children's Community School
  • Christ Episcopal Chirch
  • City Youth Theater Inc.
  • Clifford Beers Community Care Center
  • Coalition for a Sustainable Cheshire
  • Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut
  • Community Theater at Woodbury
  • Connecticut Community Empowerment Foundation, Inc.
  • Connecticut Foodshare
  • Connecticut Partnership for Children, Inc.
  • Crosby Sports Hall of Fame
  • Derby Historical Society
  • Dominique Dalessio Memorial Fund
  • Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington
  • East Haven Arts Commission
  • Easter Seals Greater Waterbury
  • Ecumenical Food Bank
  • Elim Park
  • Elm City Wolverines
  • Family Intervention Center, Inc.
  • Family Promise of Morris County
  • Farmington Land Trust
  • FFXs Fitness Foundation
  • First Congregational Church of Cheshire
  • Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust
  • For All Ages, Inc.
  • Foster and Forever Pet Rescue, Inc.
  • Franciscan Family Care Center
  • Franciscan Life Center Network Inc.
  • Fraternal Order of Eagles 640
  • Friends of Boulder Knoll (Boulder Knoll Community Farm)
  • Friends of CPFA/Artsplace, Inc.
  • Friends of Meriden Public Library
  • Friends of Riverside Cemetery
  • Friends of the Beacon Falls Library
  • Friends of the Oxford Library
  • Friends of Woodbury Senior Community Center, Inc.
  • Gallery 53/Arts & Crafts Association of Meriden, Inc.
  • Gentle Love Diaper Pantry
  • GIL Foundation, Inc.
  • Greater Middletown Military Museum
  • Greater Waterbury Campership Fund
  • Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries Inc.
  • Greater Waterbury YMCA
  • Griffin Hospital
  • Guardian Ad Litem Services
  • H.O.P.E Partners of Farmington
  • Habitat for Humanity Sleeping Giant Build
  • Hamden Rotary Club
  • Hands On Hartford
  • Hartford's Camp Courant
  • Heads Up! Hartford
  • Hidden Acres Therapeutic Riding Center
  • Hilltop Hose Company #5
  • Holy Saviour PNCC
  • Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
  • Hoops4Life, Inc.
  • Hope Pregnancy Center
  • Housatonic Council Inc., Boy Scouts of America
  • House of Heroes Connecticut
  • Howard Whittemore Memorial Library
  • I AM The Voice Of Legacy Co
  • Immanuel Lutheran Church
  • Iwo Jima Memorial Historical Foundation Inc
  • Jane Doe No More, Inc.
  • John C. Mead School PTO, Inc.
  • Julia Day Nursery
  • Kate's Way, Inc.
  • Kellys Kids Inc.
  • Kitty Kat Rescue
  • Kiwanis Foundation of Meriden
  • Klingberg Family Centers
  • Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians
  • Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
  • Lincoln Park First Aid Squad, Inc.
  • Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven
  • Literacy Volunteers of Greater Waterbury
  • Little Britches
  • Madre Latina Organization Inc.
  • Main Street Ballet Company
  • Malta House of Care-Waterbury, Inc.
  • MARC, Inc. of Manchester
  • Marrakech, Inc.
  • Master's Table Community Meals
  • Mattatuck Museum
  • Meriden Historical Society, Inc.
  • Meriden Lions Club
  • Meriden Wallingford Chrysalis, Inc.
  • Meriden YMCA
  • Middlebury Congregational Church
  • Middlebury Historical Society, Inc.
  • Middlebury Senior Center
  • Midstate Arc, Inc.
  • MidState Medical Center
  • Montville Kiwanis Food Pantry
  • Montville Township 4th of July, Inc.
  • MVFD Ladies Auxiliary
  • NAMI Waterbury
  • National Honor Society of Naugatuck High School, Joan Dillon Wertzinger Chapter
  • Naugatuck Ambulance, Inc.
  • Naugatuck Campership Fund
  • Naugatuck Community Choir
  • Naugatuck Daycare Inc
  • Naugatuck Exchange Foundation
  • Naugatuck Garden Club
  • Naugatuck Greyhounds Cheerleading
  • Naugatuck High School Swimming and Diving
  • Naugatuck High School Track and Cross Country Teams
  • Naugatuck Historical Society
  • Naugatuck Outreach Partnership
  • Naugatuck Pop Warner
  • Naugatuck Premier Football and Cheer
  • Naugatuck Rotary
  • Naugatuck Senior Center
  • Naugatuck United Methodist Church
  • Naugatuck Valley Community College Foundation
  • Naugatuck Valley Soup Kitchen
  • Naugatuck YMCA
  • Naugatuck Youth Services
  • NEST
  • New Britain Youth Museum & Hungerford Nature Center
  • New Horizons Village
  • New Jersey Angels
  • Norwescap
  • OHS Booster Club
  • Our Lady Queen of Angels
  • Oxford Historical Society, Inc.
  • Oxford Land Trust, Inc.
  • Oxford Special Olympics
  • Oxford United Church of Christ Congregational
  • Palace Theater
  • Park Central
  • Peter J. Foley Little League Inc.
  • Phoenix Stage Company
  • Pinebrook City Assembly of God
  • Police Activity League of Waterbury, Inc. (PAL)
  • Police Athletic League of Parsippany Troy Hills
  • Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition (PRWC)
  • Pomperaug Valley Garden Club
  • Project Purple
  • Prospect Congregational Church
  • Quinnipiac River Linear Trail Advisory Committee of Wallingford Corp.
  • Raices Latinas Inc.
  • Random Hacks of Kindness Junior
  • Restore With The Arts, Inc.
  • Rotary Club of Ansonia Seymour and Oxford, CT Inc.
  • Rotary Club of Farmington
  • Ruth's House
  • Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury
  • Saint Mary's Hospital Foundation
  • Saint Vincent Ferrer Church
  • Seeds of Hope for Haiti Inc.
  • Seven Angels Theatre
  • Seymour C.A.R.E.S
  • Seymour Lions Club, Inc.
  • Seymour Oxford Food Bank, Inc
  • Seymour Pink
  • Seymour-Oxford Nursery and Child Care Association
  • Silver City Junior Motorsports
  • Social Sabby Sponsorships Inc.
  • Soul Friends Inc.
  • South Britain Congregational Church
  • South Meriden Festivals Inc.
  • Southbury Ambulance Association
  • Southford Falls Quilters, Inc.
  • Southington Southern Little League
  • Spanish Community of Wallingford aka Comunidad Hispana de Wallingford
  • St. Anthony Church
  • St. Bridget School
  • St. Francis of Assisi Church
  • St. George's Episcopal Church
  • St. Paul's Lutheran Church LC-MS
  • St. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church
  • St. Peter's Episcopal Church - Cheshire
  • St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank
  • St. Vincent De Paul Mission of Waterbury, Inc
  • Stanley-Whitman House
  • StayWell Health Care, Inc.
  • SUN Scholars Inc.
  • Sustainable Southbury
  • Tapping Out Cancer
  • Team Beta - Nonnewaug High School
  • TEAM Homeschool Club Inc
  • TEAM, Inc.
  • The Bradley Home for the Aged
  • The Children's Center of Hamden, Inc.
  • The Congregational Church of Naugatuck
  • The Cove Center for Grieving Children
  • The Friends of the Hamden Library
  • The Hometown Foundation, Inc.
  • The Karli Mae Foundation
  • The Panther Project - FRC Robotics Team 2064
  • The Recreation Camp
  • The River Foursquare Church
  • The Susie Foundation
  • Theresa's Battleship Foundation, Inc.
  • Three Saints Orthodox Church
  • Tri Valley Cheer
  • TriCircle Corporation
  • Trout Unlimited Naugatuck Pomperaug Chapter 281
  • UCC Southbury
  • United Way of Greater Waterbury
  • United Way of Meriden and Wallingford
  • United Way of Naugatuck & Beacon Falls
  • Volunteer Fire Department of Prospect
  • Wallingford Emergency Shelter - Columbus House
  • Wallingford Family YMCA
  • Walter A. Derynoski Elementary School PTO
  • Waterbury Arc
  • Waterbury Bridge To Success Community Partnership (BTS)
  • Waterbury Exchange Club Charitable Foundation
  • Waterbury Symphony Orchestra
  • Watertown Lions
  • Whiskers Pet Rescue
  • Woodbury Cemetery Association
  • Woodbury Friends Family and Alumni
  • Woodbury Lions Club Foundation, Inc.
  • Woodbury Scholarship Fund Dollars for Scholars
  • Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation, Inc.
  • Woodland Church of Christ
  • Yeshiva Ktana of Waterbury

Animals

  • All the Kings Horses Equine Rescue Inc
  • Animals for Life
  • Better Days Rescue Fund
  • Brass City Rescue Alliance
  • Foster and Forever Pet Rescue, Inc.
  • Kitty Kat Rescue
  • Seymour C.A.R.E.S
  • Whiskers Pet Rescue

Arts & Culture

  • Ball & Socket Arts
  • Beacon Falls Youth Theater Company
  • Bethany Historical Society
  • Brass City Ballet
  • CAST Inc.
  • City Youth Theater Inc.
  • Community Theater at Woodbury
  • Derby Historical Society
  • East Haven Arts Commission
  • Friends of CPFA/Artsplace, Inc.
  • Friends of Riverside Cemetery
  • Gallery 53/Arts & Crafts Association of Meriden, Inc.
  • Greater Middletown Military Museum
  • Main Street Ballet Company
  • Mattatuck Museum
  • Meriden Historical Society, Inc.
  • Middlebury Historical Society, Inc.
  • Montville Township 4th of July, Inc.
  • Naugatuck Community Choir
  • Naugatuck Historical Society
  • Oxford Historical Society, Inc.
  • Palace Theater
  • Phoenix Stage Company
  • Restore With The Arts, Inc.
  • Seven Angels Theatre
  • Southford Falls Quilters, Inc.
  • Stanley-Whitman House
  • Waterbury Symphony Orchestra
  • Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation, Inc.

Charitable Foundation

  • A Girl Thing
  • Barnum Foundation for Life
  • Cheshire High School Band Parents' Association
  • Dominique Dalessio Memorial Fund
  • Fraternal Order of Eagles 640
  • H.O.P.E Partners of Farmington
  • John C. Mead School PTO, Inc.
  • Meriden Lions Club
  • Quinnipiac River Linear Trail Advisory Committee of Wallingford Corp.
  • The Hometown Foundation, Inc.
  • Waterbury Exchange Club Charitable Foundation
  • Watertown Lions
  • Woodbury Scholarship Fund Dollars for Scholars

Children & Youth

  • Arts for Learning Connecticut
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Waterbury
  • Boys & Girls Club of Meriden
  • Cheshire Soccer Club
  • Connecticut Partnership for Children, Inc.
  • Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington
  • Greater Waterbury Campership Fund
  • Hartford's Camp Courant
  • Housatonic Council Inc., Boy Scouts of America
  • I AM The Voice Of Legacy Co
  • Julia Day Nursery
  • Kellys Kids Inc.
  • Klingberg Family Centers
  • Naugatuck Campership Fund
  • Naugatuck Daycare Inc
  • Naugatuck Youth Services
  • New Britain Youth Museum & Hungerford Nature Center
  • New Jersey Angels
  • Park Central
  • Police Activity League of Waterbury, Inc. (PAL)
  • Police Athletic League of Parsippany Troy Hills
  • Random Hacks of Kindness Junior
  • Seymour-Oxford Nursery and Child Care Association
  • The Children's Center of Hamden, Inc.
  • The Cove Center for Grieving Children
  • The Karli Mae Foundation
  • The Recreation Camp
  • Waterbury Bridge To Success Community Partnership (BTS)

Community Services

  • Alliance Francaise of Northwestern CT
  • American Legion Post 17
  • Beacon Valley Grange No. 103, Inc
  • Bethany Lions Charities INC
  • For All Ages, Inc.
  • Friends of Meriden Public Library
  • Hamden Rotary Club
  • Hilltop Hose Company #5
  • House of Heroes Connecticut
  • Kate's Way, Inc.
  • Kiwanis Foundation of Meriden
  • MVFD Ladies Auxiliary
  • Naugatuck Ambulance, Inc.
  • Naugatuck Outreach Partnership
  • Naugatuck Rotary
  • Naugatuck Valley Soup Kitchen
  • NEST
  • Rotary Club of Ansonia Seymour and Oxford, CT Inc.
  • Rotary Club of Farmington
  • Seymour Lions Club, Inc.
  • South Meriden Festivals Inc.
  • Southbury Ambulance Association
  • Spanish Community of Wallingford aka Comunidad Hispana de Wallingford
  • TriCircle Corporation
  • United Way of Meriden and Wallingford
  • Volunteer Fire Department of Prospect
  • Woodbury Cemetery Association
  • Woodbury Lions Club Foundation, Inc.

Education & Literacy

  • ACES Education Foundation
  • Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES)
  • Children's Community School
  • Crosby Sports Hall of Fame
  • Friends of the Beacon Falls Library
  • Friends of the Oxford Library
  • Howard Whittemore Memorial Library
  • Iwo Jima Memorial Historical Foundation Inc
  • Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven
  • Literacy Volunteers of Greater Waterbury
  • Madre Latina Organization Inc.
  • National Honor Society of Naugatuck High School, Joan Dillon Wertzinger Chapter
  • Naugatuck Exchange Foundation
  • Naugatuck Valley Community College Foundation
  • OHS Booster Club
  • St. Bridget School
  • Team Beta - Nonnewaug High School
  • TEAM Homeschool Club Inc
  • The Friends of the Hamden Library
  • The Panther Project - FRC Robotics Team 2064
  • Walter A. Derynoski Elementary School PTO
  • Woodbury Friends Family and Alumni
  • Yeshiva Ktana of Waterbury

Elder Services

  • Elim Park
  • Friends of Woodbury Senior Community Center, Inc.
  • Middlebury Senior Center
  • Naugatuck Senior Center

Enrichment

  • Heads Up! Hartford
  • Seeds of Hope for Haiti Inc.

Environment

  • Bent of the River Audubon Center
  • Farmington Land Trust
  • Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust
  • Friends of Boulder Knoll (Boulder Knoll Community Farm)
  • Naugatuck Garden Club
  • Oxford Land Trust, Inc.
  • Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition (PRWC)
  • Pomperaug Valley Garden Club
  • Sustainable Southbury

Health (Physical & Mental)

  • Adam's House - Adam Wysota Foundation
  • Are You Dense, Inc.
  • BHcare
  • CancerCare's Connecticut Office
  • Cheshire Community YMCA
  • Clifford Beers Community Care Center
  • Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut
  • FFXs Fitness Foundation
  • Franciscan Family Care Center
  • Greater Waterbury YMCA
  • Griffin Hospital
  • Jane Doe No More, Inc.
  • Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
  • Lincoln Park First Aid Squad, Inc.
  • Little Britches
  • Malta House of Care-Waterbury, Inc.
  • Meriden YMCA
  • MidState Medical Center
  • NAMI Waterbury
  • Naugatuck YMCA
  • Project Purple
  • Saint Mary's Hospital Foundation
  • Seymour Pink
  • Soul Friends Inc.
  • StayWell Health Care, Inc.
  • Tapping Out Cancer
  • The Bradley Home for the Aged
  • The Susie Foundation
  • Theresa's Battleship Foundation, Inc.
  • Wallingford Family YMCA

Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

  • A Kinder Ground, Inc. Nonprofit
  • Abilities Without Boundaries
  • ARC of Greater New Haven, Inc.
  • ASD Solutions Inc.
  • Connecticut Community Empowerment Foundation, Inc.
  • Easter Seals Greater Waterbury
  • GIL Foundation, Inc.
  • Hidden Acres Therapeutic Riding Center
  • MARC, Inc. of Manchester
  • Marrakech, Inc.
  • Midstate Arc, Inc.
  • Social Sabby Sponsorships Inc.
  • Waterbury Arc

Religion

  • Beacon Falls Congregational Church
  • Cheshire Strawberry Festival - First Congregational Church
  • Christ Episcopal Chirch
  • First Congregational Church of Cheshire
  • Franciscan Life Center Network Inc.
  • Holy Saviour PNCC
  • Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
  • Hope Pregnancy Center
  • Immanuel Lutheran Church
  • Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians
  • Middlebury Congregational Church
  • Naugatuck United Methodist Church
  • Our Lady Queen of Angels
  • Oxford United Church of Christ Congregational
  • Pinebrook City Assembly of God
  • Prospect Congregational Church
  • Saint Vincent Ferrer Church
  • South Britain Congregational Church
  • St. Anthony Church
  • St. Francis of Assisi Church
  • St. George's Episcopal Church
  • St. Paul's Lutheran Church LC-MS
  • St. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church
  • St. Peter's Episcopal Church - Cheshire
  • The Congregational Church of Naugatuck
  • The River Foursquare Church
  • Three Saints Orthodox Church
  • UCC Southbury
  • Woodland Church of Christ

Social Services & Basic Needs

  • Acts 4 Ministry, Inc.
  • Annie C. Courtney Foundation
  • Brass City Harvest Inc.
  • Brian Gibbons Homeless Outreach
  • Cheshire Community Food Pantry, Inc.
  • Cheshire Food Drive, Inc.
  • Coalition for a Sustainable Cheshire
  • Connecticut Foodshare
  • Ecumenical Food Bank
  • Family Intervention Center, Inc.
  • Family Promise of Morris County
  • Gentle Love Diaper Pantry
  • Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries Inc.
  • Guardian Ad Litem Services
  • Habitat for Humanity Sleeping Giant Build
  • Hands On Hartford
  • Master's Table Community Meals
  • Meriden Wallingford Chrysalis, Inc.
  • Montville Kiwanis Food Pantry
  • New Horizons Village
  • Norwescap
  • Raices Latinas Inc.
  • Ruth's House
  • Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury
  • Seymour Oxford Food Bank, Inc
  • St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank
  • St. Vincent De Paul Mission of Waterbury, Inc
  • SUN Scholars Inc.
  • TEAM, Inc.
  • United Way of Greater Waterbury
  • United Way of Naugatuck & Beacon Falls
  • Wallingford Emergency Shelter - Columbus House

Sports

  • Elm City Wolverines
  • Hoops4Life, Inc.
  • Naugatuck Greyhounds Cheerleading
  • Naugatuck High School Swimming and Diving
  • Naugatuck High School Track and Cross Country Teams
  • Naugatuck Pop Warner
  • Naugatuck Premier Football and Cheer
  • Oxford Special Olympics
  • Peter J. Foley Little League Inc.
  • Silver City Junior Motorsports
  • Southington Southern Little League
  • Tri Valley Cheer
  • Trout Unlimited Naugatuck Pomperaug Chapter 281