St. Mark's Grant Program
2025 Recipients Awarded November 16
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Mind Over Matter of Hillsborough/Food Packs for Kids $3,000 Megan McLemore mindovermatterinc.com
Founded in 2020, we are a resource services organization. Our vision is to create a thriving community where every young person, regardless of their background, has access to the resources, guidance, and opportunities they need to build a brighter future and contribute meaningfully to society. Our grant is going toward providing packed food bags for kids to take home when school is not in session and the nutrition programs they rely on are unavailable. Rising Scholar Society $750 Josie Young Proceeds for this project will go towards buying school supplies, classroom supplies, books, snacks, and craft supplies for two adopted kindergarten classrooms in Sulfur Springs k-8. It is estimated that there will be 40 adults involved, including faculty and parents of students and around 36 kindergarten students between both classroom and home. Bikes for Christ $2,250 Pat Simmons bikes4christ.com Bikes For Christ is the premier provider of transportation to over 100 organizations in the Tampa Bay area that work directly with clients in need. Our main focus is Veterans who are trying to re-establish themselves, underprivileged children, and anyone who is trying to overcome hardships and make a better life for themselves. With every bicycle we distribute, we also provide a Gospel of John to let that individual know that we care about them and Christ cares about them as well. We also provide faith based literature at any event we participate in at no cost to the recipient. Our gift of a bicycle is life changing; enabling a low-income parent to work many miles away, to visit a doctor, or to attend parenting classes, and enabling a low-income child to commute more safely to school, to attend tutoring sessions at their local library, to participate in extracurricular activities, or to work at his or her first job. Grant team: CherylAnn Haley, Gretchen Feldman, Jack Overton, Diana Overton, Elaine Douglas |
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History
In 2021, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church opened the St. Mark’s Thrift Store to provide low cost goods to our surrounding community. During that year, at the Rector’s request and Vestry approval 50% of all yearly gross proceeds generated by sales would be designated for local mission and outreach. The Thrift Store opened to the public in May of 2021, in the midst of the COVID pandemic. In its first partial year of operation over $6,000 was set aside into the grant program funds. Visit the Thrift Store Facebook page!
Purpose
The purpose for the grant program is to expand the missional outreach of St. Mark’s into our local community; defined as within a 20 mile radius of our Cain Road campus. Recognizing that good works are being done by other organizations, that we do not want to duplicate or compete with, we desire to come alongside those missions through financial support. We recognize that God provides gifting and talents that are unique to the mission they are called and no one organization embodies all gifting or call.
In seeking complementary missional opportunities we are especially interested in organizations whose core missions are in human trafficking, care for widows and orphans, and/or care for the created order.
2026 Time Frame
August 1, 2026 Open to receiving applications
September 15, 2026 All Requests for Grants must be submitted
October 15, 2026 Grant Award Decisions
November 15, 2026 Grants Distributed
Submit your application using the form below. Upload supporting documents in Word or PDF format.
In 2021, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church opened the St. Mark’s Thrift Store to provide low cost goods to our surrounding community. During that year, at the Rector’s request and Vestry approval 50% of all yearly gross proceeds generated by sales would be designated for local mission and outreach. The Thrift Store opened to the public in May of 2021, in the midst of the COVID pandemic. In its first partial year of operation over $6,000 was set aside into the grant program funds. Visit the Thrift Store Facebook page!
Purpose
The purpose for the grant program is to expand the missional outreach of St. Mark’s into our local community; defined as within a 20 mile radius of our Cain Road campus. Recognizing that good works are being done by other organizations, that we do not want to duplicate or compete with, we desire to come alongside those missions through financial support. We recognize that God provides gifting and talents that are unique to the mission they are called and no one organization embodies all gifting or call.
In seeking complementary missional opportunities we are especially interested in organizations whose core missions are in human trafficking, care for widows and orphans, and/or care for the created order.
2026 Time Frame
August 1, 2026 Open to receiving applications
September 15, 2026 All Requests for Grants must be submitted
October 15, 2026 Grant Award Decisions
November 15, 2026 Grants Distributed
Submit your application using the form below. Upload supporting documents in Word or PDF format.
| Additional Eligibility and Use Requirements.pdf |