Kronkosky Charitable Foundation: Welcome to the Foundation

The Precious Minds, New Connections initiative is aimed at services for early child development, primarily through parenting education. To find out more, click here.

To produce profound good that is tangible and measurable in Bandera, Bexar, Comal, and Kendall counties in Texas by implementing the Kronkosky's charitable purposes.

The focus of the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation is to support programs, projects and collaborative efforts that reach as many people as possible; involve the persons served in developing solutions; raise expectations; build self-esteem; develop personal and organizational capacity; encourage innovation; and make use of technology.

The program goals reflect the strategic direction of the Foundation in making grants. These goals are based upon the Foundation's charitable purposes which are not all encompassing but rather reflect the Kronkoskys' interests specified in the Foundational Trust Agreement.

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Welcome to our Web Site. We hope this site will provide you with the information you need about the Foundation as well as provide you access to Foundation research and other work products.


	On March 18, 2008 the Foundation’s Distribution Committee held a meeting and approved $1,036,360 of grants to 15 organizations. These grants included $500,000 to an art museum, $165,000 related to illnesses, $155,000 for arts activities, $105,000 for agencies involved in character development of youth, $84,360 related to programs for the elderly, $25,000 in the area of animal abuse prevention and $2,000 in the area of prevention of child abuse. The details on these and other grants by the Foundation may be found in the Awarded Grants section of this Website. The Foundation's next Distribution Committee meeting is scheduled for May 20, 2008. All of the proposals to be considered for this meeting have been requested. Letters of Inquiry received on or before May 9, 2008 and accepted for submission of a full proposal will be considered at the July 2008 meeting of the Distribution Committee. Agencies submitting Letters of Inquiry for the July 2008 meeting and received in the two weeks prior to the deadline date may have less time to complete a proposal if a proposal is requested by the Foundation. The Foundation’s 2007 Annual Report and audited financial statements are now available on this Website. The Foundation publishes an Evaluation Summary prepared by Foundation staff based on evaluation reports and data submitted to the Foundation by Grantees. Each summary is prepared after all of the required evaluation reports are received in connection with each grant. The summaries, which are prepared for our Distribution Committee, are circulated to our grantees for comment before being published on this Website in the Evaluation section. For many years, the Foundation has prepared Research briefs designed to provide background data and information in areas funded by the Foundation. The Research Briefs are published on this Website in the Research section. As new grant proposals are received in the areas covered by the Research Briefs, the Briefs are updated for use by our staff and Distribution Committee. We welcome comments and suggestions on the contents of the Research Briefs.