More than 50 local groups recently received a boost from a Sequim philanthropist more than 30 years after his passing.

Albert Haller Foundation board members awarded $350,000 to nonprofits and organizations across the county at a special ceremony on Oct. 23 at the Lincoln Center in Port Angeles.

The Albert Haller Foundation started as a nonprofit organization in 1992 to help fund charitable programs throughout the county — primarily focused on education, family and medical services. It annually gives six-figure donations to local community groups and efforts.

In the near three decades of giving, the foundation has donated about $10 million.

Born in Port Angeles in 1903 to Sequim Valley pioneers Max and Anna Haller, Albert Haller was a longtime logger who with his wife was at one time the largest independent land owner in Clallam County.

A five-member board — one that includes superintendents from Sequim and Port Angeles school districts — oversees the foundation’s funds which started with about $9.2 million from Haller’s estate.

“He helped a lot of people when he was alive,” foundation president Gary Smith said of Haller, “and he’s helped a lot of people now that he’s gone. He had a lot of foresight.”

For more about the foundation, visit alberthallerfoundation.org.

2024 Albert Haller Foundation grants

American Red Cross serving Olympics, South Puget Sound — $2,000, for financial assistance after disasters

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula — $5,000, for supplemental meals budget

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula — $5,250, for Academic Enrichment and Learning Loss Prevention initiative

Camp Beausite Northwest — $6,000, for full and partial scholarships for 20 campers

Clallam County Juvenile and Family Services — $6,200, to fund resources for children in foster care

Clallam-Jefferson Pro Bono Lawyers — $3,500, for rent, phone costs and Housing Justice Project

Clallam Mosaic — $4,500, for day programming

College Success Foundation — $5,000, for Rally for College program at Port Angeles High School, looking to inspire students to pursue education beyond high school

Concerned Citizens — $7,500, for curriculum including field trips, a kids garden and other learning opportunities

Cornerstone PEC of Clallam Bay-Sekiu/New Hope Food Bank — $10,500, for Thanksgiving and Christmas food boxes

Crescent Cooperative Preschool — $2,210, for tuition assistance

Crescent School District — $5,000, for various educational, vocational, emotional needs for students

Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Clinic — $3,750, for essential healthcare services

Feiro Marine Life Center — $2,000, for Access For All, free youth passes

First Step Family Support Center — $10,500, for food items at the newly-operational community pantry/refrigerator; and to support healthy meals and snacks inside of the organization’s Resource Center

First Congregational Church of Forks — $6,150, for snacks/meals

First United Methodist Church — $10,500, for food costs

Forks Community Food Bank — $9,974.38, for dairy products

Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County — $2,500, for exterior home modifications

Healthy Families of Clallam County — $10,500, for basic needs of housing clients and clients in general

Joyce Community Education Foundation — $5,500, for food, academic supplies, clothing and more for students

Kathleen Sutton Fund — $2,046.87, to reimburse transportation costs for women to get to cancer treatments

Lower Elwha Housing Authority — $3,500, for places for families to meet, make traditional gifts, and provide basic hygiene toiletries

Lutheran Community Services Northwest-Clallam Community Resource Center — $9,500, for storage, hygiene and infant items for weekly distributions

Makah Food Bank — $10,500, for food and essential items

MANNA (Ministry Assisting Neighbors in Need) — $2,000, for utility assistance and other expenses

Master Gardener Foundation of Clallam County — $2,500, for creation of Accessible Garden

Olympic Angels — $10,500, for expenses associated with supporting foster families

Olympic Community Action Programs (OlyCAP) — $5,500, for low-income Encore! Adult Day Center operations

Olympic Nature Experience — $4,818.75, for exploration of new sites, creation of seasonal staffing model, curriculum development, more

Olympic Peninsula YMCA — $5,000, for Youth & Family Resource Navigator with an emphasis on teens, families

Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship — $9,250, for Little Free Pantry food

Peninsula Behavioral Health — $7,300, to help clients meet transportation costs

Peninsula Pre-Three Cooperative — $3,000, for reduction of tuition costs, competitive teacher wages, family financial assistance

Port Angeles Education Foundation — $4,000, for students’ clothes, shoes, eyeglasses, graduation gowns, class fees

Port Angeles Fine Arts Center — $5,000, for Farm to School program (in partnership with WSU Clallam County Extension) to enhance outdoor garden classrooms for students

Port Angeles Food Bank — $10,500, for Friday Food Bag Program

Port Angeles Seventh-Day Adventist Church — $5,800, for miscellaneous trailer expenses

Prevention Works! — $5,250, for series of community education opportunities focusing on substance abuse/misuse disorder and mental health supports

Salvation Army-Port Angeles — $5,000, for food and needed supplies

St. Andrew’s Place — $3,500, for replacement of laundry room floor

St. Matthew Lutheran Church — $10,500, for Free Wednesday Night Dinner food, supplies

Sarge’s Veteran Support — $3,000, for offset of utility costs at five properties

Sequim Education Foundation — $10,000, for remaining balance of Teaching Grant application requests

Serenity House of Clallam County — $5,000, for purchase of a new dishwasher

Society of St. Vincent de Paul — $5,200, for helping residents pay bills

Society of St. Vincent de Paul-St. Joseph’s Conference — $9,700, for rent assistance, utilities assistance, basic needs

Soroptimist International of the Olympic Rain Forest — $6,000, for school backpack program for students and siblings in Quileute Valley School District schools

Soroptimist International of the Olympic Rain Forest — $3,000, for travel expenses for persons seeing cancer treatment

The Answer For Youth (TAFY) — $5,250, for Saturday night snack bags

The Answer For Youth (TAFY) — $4,000, for Ticket To Health, providing meals

United Way of Clallam County — $10,300, for annual campaign to distribute funds to partner agencies

Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County — $10,500, for nursing supplies to support hospice and palliative patients

Washington National Park Fund — $2,500, for Adventures in Your Big Backyard program reaching economically-challenged youths in Sequim, Port Angeles

West End Youth and Community Club — $2,500, for replacement of historic handrail, classroom windows

West Olympic Betterment Association — $10,500, for nutritious meals