The ballroom at Boca West Country Club roared with applause as the 2025 grant winners of Impact 100 Palm Beach County were announced.
The group’s 827 members pooled together $827,000—plus an additional $10,000 donation from the Junior League of Boca Raton—to award money to 12 southern Palm Beach County charities.
“Every dollar we award is a direct result of women coming together, pooling their resources, and putting purpose into action,” said Jeannine Morris, co-president of Impact 100 Palm Beach County. “This model of collective giving is not only efficient—it’s transformative.”
Members each commit to $1,000, allowing Impact 100 to give eight nonprofits $100,000 and four more nonprofits a smaller merit grant. During the luncheon, members and guests hear from each of the nonprofits as they present a pitch of how they would use the grant money; members then vote.
Since Impact 100’s inception 14 years ago, members have donated $7.75 million in grants to 124 nonprofits. The goal is to eventually reach 1,000 members to pool together $1 million in grants.
This year’s $100,000 grant winners:
- Baptist Health South Florida Foundation (Healing Through Music at Bethesda Hospital: Restoring Mind, Body, & Soul One Note at a Time)
- Achievement Centers for Children and Families (EmpowerED: Tutoring and Mentorship for Achievement)
- Roots and Wings (Project UpLift: Artificial Intelligence Learning Module)
- The Milagro Center Inc. (Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science (G.E.M.S.))
- Delray Beach Children’s Garden (Title 1 School Outreach Initiative: Science Field Trips)
- Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Coalition of Palm Beach County, Inc. (Basics4Babies Emergency Pantry for Infants)
- Hanley Foundation (Kids EXPLORE – Experiential Pathways for Learning, Overcoming, Resilience, and Empowerment)
- Center for Child Counseling (Expanding Access to Mental Health in SPBC: Center for Child Counseling Education and Services Mobile Unit)
This year’s merit grant recipients:
- Volta Music Foundation (Link Up music program)
- Community Greening (Free Tree Drop-Off Project)
- Power Clean Recovery Corp (DBA Move to Heal CT) (Move to Heal expanding to Boca Raton)
- Restoration Bridge International (Restoration Bridge International Mobile Distribution Program)
