Grant Recipients

2025 Grant Recipients
(Awarded April 2025)

Each year the West returns store profits back to the community in the form of grants to qualified charitable organizations in the Tucson community. 2025 grantees include the following organizations:

CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA was formed in 1985 to support, serve, and advocate for children and adolescents with cancer and other blood disorders, their families, long-term survivors, bereaved families, and the professionals who care for them. https://candlelightersaz.org

CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA was established in 1996. The Center provides a safe, compassionate, and healing environment for children who have been victims of or witnesses to a crime. Services are available 24-hours-a-day and are free for all victims. https://www.cacsoaz.org/

EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE’s mission is to provide services to those who are victims of domestic violence. Emerge formed 50 years ago to provide the opportunity to create, sustain, and celebrate a life free from abuse. https://emergecenter.org/

ERIK HITE FOUNDATION was founded in 2011 to support Southern Arizona’s first responders and their families by providing extended hours childcare/early education, summer camp scholarships, and adult life-skills training and counseling for challenges associated with first responder high-risk occupations. https://erikhitefoundation.org/

MOBILE MEALS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA has been committed to delivering nutritious, low-cost meals to people in Southern Arizona through a network of caring individuals for over 50 years. https://mobilemealssoaz.org/

TUCSON FAMILY FOOD PROJECT estimates that 48,000 children in Tucson struggle daily with food insecurity. Each Friday, The Tucson Family Food Project provides the children in their program with a meal kit that will feed at least four people in the household. The meal kits are provided raw and give the children a weekly lesson in food preparation. https://www.thetucsonfamilyfoodproject.org/

WHEELS FOR KIDS is an all-volunteer group that collects, refurbishes, and donates bicycles and helmets to deserving kids and adults. Through partner charitable organizations, they give them to low income, distressed, or underprivileged kids, teens, and adults in greater Tucson. terfer@comcast.net affiliated with: https://vistosocyclists.org/