Five local nonprofits will now be able to better serve their community thanks to $515,000 in grants from Impact 100 Baldwin County.

At its annual Evening of Impact on Oct. 24, Impact 100 Baldwin County named Family Promise of Baldwin County (“Family Promise Kids at Play”); Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Gulf Coast (“Baldwin County Big Futures”); North Baldwin Animal Shelter (“15 Year Shelter Renovation Project”); Exceptional Foundation Gulf Coast (“The Wheels on the Bus”); and Franklin Primary Health Center Inc. (“Healthy Mothers, Healthy Futures”) as its grant winners.

These five agencies were chosen from the focus areas of arts and culture and recreation; education; environment and preservation; family; and health and wellness. They will each receive $103,000.

The nonprofits were selected from a competitive field of applicants and vetted by a rigorous review process including site visits, financial analysis and in-depth discussions within the respective focus group. The finalists made a short presentation about their projects at the annual meeting. Members voted for who they found most compelling, and the results were announced at the end of the event.

The awards bring the total invested in the community to $5.9 million since 2008.