The Phoenix-based Arizona Community Foundation has announced third-quarter grants and scholarships totaling nearly $14.4 million.

During the third quarter of its fiscal year, which ended in December, the foundation awarded nearly $3.7 million in support of education, including $484,148 in private school scholarships to one hundred and ninety-four high-need K-12 students and $1.1 million in scholarships to students pursuing a college or university degree. Organizations receiving education grants include Support My Club, St. Thomas the Apostle School, and Earn to Learn.

In the area of health innovation, the foundation awarded a total of $3.7 million to five hundred and forty organizations and programs, including the Arizona Lions Vision Center, the HonorHealth Foundation, Hospice of the Valley, and the Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation. The community foundation also awarded $1.1 million to more than a hundred programs in the area of community improvement and development; $1.1 million to one hundred and fourteen organizations and programs in the areas of environmental education, renewable resources, conservation, and animal welfare; and $707,866 to seventy arts and culture programs.

In addition, nineteen nonprofit organizations with agency endowments managed by ACF received their annual distributions, accounting for nearly $2.7 million distributed during the quarter.

Distributions related to the New Arizona Prize: Water Innovation Challenge included an award of $250,000 to Southwest Water Campus for its prize-winning solution for effluent-to-potable reuse technology, a statewide public engagement campaign, and a local craft beer competition. And through its Community Impact Loan Fund, the foundation invested $1.4 million to complete two loans, one to First Place AZ for up to $950,000 with the participation of two external funding partners, and the other to Desert Stages Theatre for $450,000.