In April 2021, the SHC Legacy Fund advisors’ successful fundraising and extensive research allowed us to name the first recipients for our grants. We awarded grants of $3,000 each to community non-profit organizations. Just a few months later, the Fund was able to include an additional four organizations. These second four recipients received $5000 each, and the original four were given another $2000 to match. The plan going forward is to continue fundraising and grow the number of grantees each year, using criteria established up front to fund work that is in keeping with our mission: to empower residents in underserved communities to craft their own solutions for their own challenges; support organizations and their leaders who comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable; and nurture service that is committed to improving the lives of the least of us.
See grant recipients listed below by annual grant cycle. Click on any name for more on the recipient and the work the grant supports.
2026 Grant Recipients, $5000 each
- Alliance for Appalachia
- Appalshop
- Appalachian Citizens Law Center
- Appalachian Opportunity Fund
- Appalachian Sustainable Development
- Black in Appalachia
- Conexion Americas
- Future Economic Collective
- Higher Ground Women’s Recovery Residence
- HOLA Lakeway
- Mountain Access Brigade/Abortion Care Tennessee
- Shade Tree Clinic
- STAY Project
- Tennessee Health Care Campaign
- Woodland Community Land Trust
2025 Grant Recipients, $5000 each
- Alliance for Appalachia (two grants)
- Appalachian Citizens Law Center
- Appalachian Community Fund
- Appalachian Opportunity Fund
- Appalachian Sustainable Development (two grants)
- Appalshop
- Black in Appalachia
- Conexión Américas
- Eula Hall Health Center
- Higher Ground Women’s Recovery Residence
- HOLA Lakeway (two grants)
- Mountain Access Brigade
- New River Abortion Access Fund
- Sexy Sex Ed
- Shade Tree Clinic
- Southern Connected Communities
- Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM)
- Stay Together Appalachian Youth (STAY)
2024 Grant Recipients, $5000 each
- Appalachian Community Fund
- Appalachian Opportunity Fund
- Appalachian Sustainable Development
- Black in Appalachia
- Eula Hall Health Center of Big Sandy Health Care
- Hands and Feet Ministries
- HOLA Lakeway
- New River Abortion Access Fund
- Shade Tree Clinic of Vanderbilt Medical Center
- SISTERREACH
- Southern Connected Communities through Highlander Center
- Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM)
- Tennessee Healthcare Campaign
2023 Grant Recipients, $5000 each
- Appalachian Opportunity Fund
- Appalachian Sustainable Development
- Black in Appalachia
- HOLA Lakeway
- Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition
- Mountain Access Brigade
- Shade Tree Clinic
- Tennessee Health Care Campaign
- Appalachian Citizens Law Center
- Coal Creek Miners Museum
- Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM)
- Tennessee Appalachian Community Economics (Fiscal Sponsor Woodland Community Land Trust)
2022 Grant Recipients, $5000 each
- Appalachian Sustainable Development
- Appalshop
- HOLA Lakeway
- Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition
- Shade Tree Clinic
- Sexy Sex Ed
- Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment Resource Project (SOCM)
- Tennessee Health Care Campaign
2021 Grant Recipients, $5000 each
- Appalachian Opportunity Fund
- Coal Creek Miners Museum
- Eula Hall Health Center C/O Big Sandy Healthcare, Inc.
- Future Economy Collective
- Southern Connected Communities Project
- Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment Resource Project (SOCM)
- Stay Together Appalachian Youth Project (STAY)
- St. Charles Clinic C/O Stone Mountain Health Services











