
2025 Grant Recipient: Improve Your Tomorrow
We are proud to announce Improve Your Tomorrow (IYT) as the 2025 MLK Celebration Sacramento grant recipient. IYT is a transformative organization dedicated to increasing the number of young men of color who attend and graduate from colleges and universities. Through mentorship, academic support, and leadership development, IYT empowers students to break cycles of poverty and become agents of change in their communities. Their mission aligns deeply with Dr. King's vision of equity, education, and opportunity for all. We are honored to recognize and support their impactful work.
PAST MLK COMMITTEE GRANT RECIPIENTS
The grant program is designed for non-profit organizations that assist children and/or families in the areas of education, health or civil rights and foster diversity primarily in the Sacramento region.
Always Knocking, Inc. (2017)
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Celebration Arts (2019)
Center for Youth Citizenship
Closing the Gap
Dorothy and Jerry Enomoto and MLK Committee Student Scholarship Fund
FamiliesFirst
Friends Outside
Grant High School Drumline
Health for All
Hui O' Hawaii of Sacramento
Improve Your Tomorrow
iSound Music Performing Arts
Kids Computer Community
Kops-n-Kids
Linkage to Education
Matthew Shepard Foundation
National Visiting Teachers Association
Positive Force
Roberts Family Development Center
Project S.A.V.E.
Magnet Academies
More Life Christian Academy
Northern California Minority Junior Golf Scholarship Association, Inc.
Sacramento ACT
Sacramento Chapter of The Links, Incorporated
Sacramento Regional Human Right/Fair Housing Commission
Sacramento Police Foundation
Sacramento Police Department Gun Buy Back Program
Sacramento Stand Down
The Stanley Girls Learning Health Center for Children
Tongan Senior of California Community
Urban T Dance Academy (2019)
Wind Youth Center
Women’s Empowerment
Wonder, Inc.
Volunteers in Victim Assistance