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 Kinder Ground, Inc. Nonprofit
  • ACES Education Foundation
  • Acts 4 Ministry, Inc.
  • Adam's House - Adam Wysota Foundation
  • Advocacy for the Animals Inc
  • All the Kings Horses Equine Rescue Inc
  • Alliance Francaise of Northwestern CT
  • American Legion Post 17
  • Animals for Life
  • Annie C. Courtney Foundation
  • AnSeOx Rotary
  • ARC of Greater New Haven, Inc.
  • Are You Dense, Inc.
  • ASD Solutions Inc.
  • Ball & Socket Arts
  • Beacon Falls Historical Society
  • Beacon Falls Youth Theater Company
  • Beacon Valley Grange No. 103, Inc
  • Bent of the River Audubon Center
  • Bethany Historical Society
  • Bethany Lions Charities INC
  • Bethany Volunteer Fireman's Assoc
  • Better Days Rescue Fund
  • BHcare
  • Blood Cancer United
  • Boy Scouts of America, Connecticut Rivers Council
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Waterbury
  • Boys & Girls Club of Meriden
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest New Jersey
  • Brass City Harvest Inc.
  • Brass City Rescue Alliance
  • Bread for Life
  • Brian Gibbons Homeless Outreach
  • CancerCare's Connecticut Office
  • CAST Inc.
  • Castle Craig Players
  • Catholic Academy of Waterbury
  • Central Connecticut Coast YMCA
  • Cheshire Community Food Pantry, Inc.
  • Cheshire Community YMCA
  • Cheshire Food Drive, Inc.
  • Cheshire High School Band Parents' Association
  • Cheshire Pollinator Pathway Inc
  • Cheshire Soccer Club
  • Children's Community School
  • City Youth Theater Inc.
  • Clifford Beers Community Care Center
  • Coalition for a Sustainable Cheshire
  • Coco's Animal Rescue Efforts of Seymour (C.A.R.E.S)
  • Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut
  • Community Theater at Woodbury
  • Connecticut Community Empowerment Foundation, Inc.
  • Connecticut Foodshare
  • Connecticut Hurricanes Drum and Bugle corps
  • Connecticut Partnership for Children, Inc.
  • Crosby Sports Hall of Fame
  • Dominique Dalessio Memorial Fund
  • Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington
  • East Hartford Little League
  • East Haven Arts Commission
  • Easter Seals Greater Waterbury
  • Ecumenical Food Bank
  • Elim Park
  • Family Intervention Center, Inc.
  • Family Promise of Morris County
  • Farmington Land Trust
  • FFXs Fitness Foundation
  • First Congregational Church of Meriden
  • Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust
  • For All Ages, Inc.
  • Foster and Forever Pet Rescue, Inc.
  • Franciscan Family Care Center
  • Franciscan Life Center Network Inc.
  • 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 Ansonia Nature Center, Inc.
  • Friends of the Beacon Falls Library
  • Friends of the Oxford Library
  • Friends of Woodbury Senior Community Center, Inc.
  • Futbol Friends International
  • Gallery 53/Arts & Crafts Association of Meriden, Inc.
  • Gaylord Hospital
  • Gentle Love Diaper Pantry
  • GIL Foundation, Inc.
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut
  • Greater Middletown Military Museum
  • Greater Waterbury Children's Theatre Corp
  • Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries Inc.
  • Greyhound Performing Arts Association
  • Griffin Hospital
  • Guardian Ad Litem Services
  • Guided By Goats
  • 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
  • Hillside Covenant Church
  • Holy Disciples Catholic School
  • Holy Saviour PNCC
  • Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
  • Hoops4Life, Inc.
  • Hope for Our Neighbors
  • 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.
  • Janie's Journey FBO Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
  • 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
  • LGYU INC
  • Lincoln Park First Aid Squad, Inc.
  • Literacy Volunteers of Greater Waterbury
  • Little Britches
  • LivFree
  • Love Mom XOXO Foundation Inc
  • Madre Latina Organization Inc.
  • Main Street Ballet Company
  • Malta House of Care-Waterbury, Inc.
  • MARC, Inc. of Manchester
  • Marrakech, Inc.
  • Master's Manna, Inc.
  • Master's Table Community Meals
  • Mattatuck Museum
  • Meriden Historical Society, Inc.
  • Meriden Little League
  • 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.
  • Montville Township First Aid Squad
  • Mustard Seed Communities
  • National Honor Society of Naugatuck High School, Joan Dillon Wertzinger Chapter
  • Naugatuck Ambulance, Inc.
  • Naugatuck Campership Fund
  • Naugatuck Community Musicians
  • Naugatuck Exchange Foundation
  • Naugatuck Garden Club
  • Naugatuck Greyhounds Cheerleading
  • Naugatuck High School Track and Cross Country Teams
  • Naugatuck Historical Society
  • Naugatuck Outreach Partnership
  • Naugatuck Premier Football and Cheer
  • Naugatuck Rotary Club
  • Naugatuck Senior Center
  • Naugatuck United Methodist Church
  • Naugatuck Valley Community College Foundation
  • Naugatuck Valley Soup Kitchen
  • Naugatuck YMCA
  • Naugatuck Youth Services
  • Naugatuck/Waterbury Disabled American Veterans Chapter #11
  • NEST
  • New Britain Youth Museum & Hungerford Nature Center
  • New Horizons Village
  • New Jersey Angels
  • Norwescap
  • OHS Booster Club
  • Operation: Hold Your Horses
  • 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.
  • Police Activity League of Waterbury, Inc. (PAL)
  • Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition (PRWC)
  • Project Purple
  • Prospect Congregational Church
  • Quinnipiac River Linear Trail Advisory Committee of Wallingford Corp.
  • Raices Latinas Inc.
  • Random Hacks of Kindness Junior
  • Rocky Hill Lacrosse Club Inc.
  • Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut
  • 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 Food 2 Kids
  • 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.
  • South Meriden Festivals Inc.
  • Southford Falls Quilters, Inc.
  • Southington Southern Little League
  • Spanish Community of Wallingford aka Comunidad Hispana de Wallingford
  • Special Olympics Connecticut
  • 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
  • Sustainable Southbury
  • Tapping Out Cancer
  • Team Beta - Nonnewaug High School
  • TEAM Homeschool Club, Inc.
  • TEAM, Inc.
  • The Arc of Southington
  • The Bradley Home for the Aged
  • The Congregational Church of Naugatuck
  • The Cove Center for Grieving Children
  • The Friends of the Hamden Library
  • The Karli Mae Foundation
  • The Panther Project - FRC Robotics Team 2064
  • The Recreation Camp
  • The River Foursquare Church
  • The Susie Foundation
  • The Voice of Art Inc.
  • Theresa's Battleship Foundation, Inc.
  • Three Saints Orthodox Church
  • Tri Valley Cheer
  • United Way of Greater Waterbury
  • United Way of Naugatuck & Beacon Falls
  • Valley Paw Partners Inc
  • Volunteer Fire Department of Prospect
  • Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust
  • Walter A. Derynoski Elementary School PTO
  • Waterbury Arc
  • Waterbury Bridge To Success Community Partnership (BTS)
  • Waterbury Chorale
  • Waterbury Symphony Orchestra
  • Where the Love Is, Inc.
  • Whiskers Pet Rescue
  • Wolcott Girls Softball
  • Woodbury Cemetery Association
  • Woodbury Friends Family and Alumni
  • Woodbury Lions Club Foundation, Inc.
  • Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation, Inc.
  • Yeshiva Ktana of Waterbury

Animals

  • Advocacy for the Animals Inc
  • All the Kings Horses Equine Rescue Inc
  • Animals for Life
  • Better Days Rescue Fund
  • Brass City Rescue Alliance
  • Coco's Animal Rescue Efforts of Seymour (C.A.R.E.S)
  • Foster and Forever Pet Rescue, Inc.
  • Kitty Kat Rescue
  • Operation: Hold Your Horses
  • Valley Paw Partners Inc
  • Where the Love Is, Inc.
  • Whiskers Pet Rescue

Arts & Culture

  • Ball & Socket Arts
  • Beacon Falls Historical Society
  • Beacon Falls Youth Theater Company
  • Bethany Historical Society
  • CAST Inc.
  • Castle Craig Players
  • City Youth Theater Inc.
  • Community Theater at Woodbury
  • Connecticut Hurricanes Drum and Bugle corps
  • 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
  • Greyhound Performing Arts Association
  • Main Street Ballet Company
  • Mattatuck Museum
  • Meriden Historical Society, Inc.
  • Middlebury Historical Society, Inc.
  • Montville Township 4th of July, Inc.
  • Naugatuck Community Musicians
  • Naugatuck Historical Society
  • Oxford Historical Society, Inc.
  • Palace Theater
  • Seven Angels Theatre
  • South Meriden Festivals Inc.
  • Southford Falls Quilters, Inc.
  • The Voice of Art Inc.
  • Waterbury Chorale
  • Waterbury Symphony Orchestra
  • Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation, Inc.

Charitable Foundation

  • Cheshire High School Band Parents' Association
  • Dominique Dalessio Memorial Fund
  • H.O.P.E Partners of Farmington
  • John C. Mead School PTO, Inc.
  • LivFree

Children & Youth

  • Boy Scouts of America, Connecticut Rivers Council
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Waterbury
  • Boys & Girls Club of Meriden
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest New Jersey
  • Cheshire Soccer Club
  • Connecticut Partnership for Children, Inc.
  • Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut
  • Greater Waterbury Children's Theatre Corp
  • Guided By Goats
  • 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
  • LGYU INC
  • Love Mom XOXO Foundation Inc
  • Mustard Seed Communities
  • Naugatuck Campership Fund
  • Naugatuck Youth Services
  • New Britain Youth Museum & Hungerford Nature Center
  • New Jersey Angels
  • Park Central
  • Police Activity League of Waterbury, Inc. (PAL)
  • Random Hacks of Kindness Junior
  • Rocky Hill Lacrosse Club Inc.
  • Seymour Food 2 Kids
  • Seymour-Oxford Nursery and Child Care Association
  • 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
  • AnSeOx Rotary
  • Beacon Valley Grange No. 103, Inc
  • Bethany Lions Charities INC
  • Bethany Volunteer Fireman's Assoc
  • Bread for Life
  • For All Ages, Inc.
  • Friends of Meriden Public Library
  • Hamden Rotary Club
  • House of Heroes Connecticut
  • Kate's Way, Inc.
  • Kiwanis Foundation of Meriden
  • Montville Township First Aid Squad
  • Naugatuck Ambulance, Inc.
  • Naugatuck Outreach Partnership
  • Naugatuck Rotary Club
  • Naugatuck Valley Soup Kitchen
  • Naugatuck/Waterbury Disabled American Veterans Chapter #11
  • NEST
  • Rotary Club of Farmington
  • Seymour Lions Club, Inc.
  • Spanish Community of Wallingford aka Comunidad Hispana de Wallingford
  • Volunteer Fire Department of Prospect
  • Woodbury Cemetery Association
  • Woodbury Lions Club Foundation, Inc.

Education & Literacy

  • ACES Education Foundation
  • Catholic Academy of Waterbury
  • Children's Community School
  • Crosby Sports Hall of Fame
  • Friends of the Beacon Falls Library
  • Friends of the Oxford Library
  • Holy Disciples Catholic School
  • Howard Whittemore Memorial Library
  • Iwo Jima Memorial Historical Foundation Inc
  • 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
  • The Bradley Home for the Aged

Enrichment

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

Environment

  • Bent of the River Audubon Center
  • Cheshire Pollinator Pathway Inc
  • Farmington Land Trust
  • Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust
  • Friends of Boulder Knoll (Boulder Knoll Community Farm)
  • Friends of the Ansonia Nature Center, Inc.
  • Naugatuck Garden Club
  • Oxford Land Trust, Inc.
  • Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition (PRWC)
  • Quinnipiac River Linear Trail Advisory Committee of Wallingford Corp.
  • Sustainable Southbury
  • Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust

Health (Physical & Mental)

  • Adam's House - Adam Wysota Foundation
  • Are You Dense, Inc.
  • BHcare
  • Blood Cancer United
  • CancerCare's Connecticut Office
  • Central Connecticut Coast YMCA
  • Cheshire Community YMCA
  • Clifford Beers Community Care Center
  • Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut
  • FFXs Fitness Foundation
  • Franciscan Family Care Center
  • Gaylord Hospital
  • Griffin Hospital
  • Guardian Ad Litem Services
  • Jane Doe No More, Inc.
  • Janie's Journey FBO Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
  • Lincoln Park First Aid Squad, Inc.
  • Little Britches
  • Malta House of Care-Waterbury, Inc.
  • Meriden YMCA
  • MidState Medical Center
  • Naugatuck YMCA
  • Project Purple
  • Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut
  • Saint Mary's Hospital Foundation
  • Seymour Pink
  • Tapping Out Cancer
  • The Susie Foundation
  • Theresa's Battleship Foundation, Inc.

Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

  • A Kinder Ground, Inc. Nonprofit
  • ARC of Greater New Haven, Inc.
  • ASD Solutions Inc.
  • Connecticut Community Empowerment Foundation, Inc.
  • Easter Seals Greater Waterbury
  • GIL Foundation, Inc.
  • MARC, Inc. of Manchester
  • Marrakech, Inc.
  • Midstate Arc, Inc.
  • Social Sabby Sponsorships Inc.
  • Special Olympics Connecticut
  • The Arc of Southington
  • Waterbury Arc

Religion

  • First Congregational Church of Meriden
  • Franciscan Life Center Network Inc.
  • Hillside Covenant Church
  • 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
  • Prospect Congregational Church
  • Saint Vincent Ferrer 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

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.
  • Habitat for Humanity Sleeping Giant Build
  • Hands On Hartford
  • Hope for Our Neighbors
  • Master's Manna, Inc.
  • 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
  • TEAM, Inc.
  • United Way of Greater Waterbury
  • United Way of Naugatuck & Beacon Falls

Sports

  • East Hartford Little League
  • Futbol Friends International
  • Hoops4Life, Inc.
  • Meriden Little League
  • Naugatuck Greyhounds Cheerleading
  • Naugatuck High School Track and Cross Country Teams
  • 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
  • Wolcott Girls Softball