Previous Grant Winners
The purpose of the Experience Butler County PA grant program is to enhance the tourism experience, increase tourism visitation and overnight stays within Butler County, Pennsylvania.
Awards are given annually on the basis of merit as determined by the Experience Butler County PA grant review committee and administered by the Board of Directors and the President of Experience Butler County PA.
FOR PARTNERS ONLY.
2024 Grant Awards
May 2024
15 Butler County businesses and organizations received grants in 2024.
Projects the grants will be funding aim to further develop the area’s tourist attractions, historic landmarks, and small businesses.
Nearly $50,000 in grant money was awarded.
2024 Butler County Tourism Foundation Grant Recipients
- Butler Township/Preston Park
- Butler County Chamber of Commerce
- Clinton Township Historical Committee
- Washington's Trail 1753
- The Shops on West Diamond/Appalachian Rock Shop
- Butler Old Stone House Region AACA
- Prebula Family Ventures
- SurfSUP Adventures
- Historic Harmony
- Derailleur Bike Shop Cafe
- Glade Run
- Suite Thyme
- Eisler Farms
- Moraine State Park Regatta
- Harmony Business Association
2023 Grant Awards
May 2023
Nine Butler County travel and tourism businesses and organizations received grants in 2023.
2023 Butler County Tourism Foundation Grant Recipients
- Butler Brew Works
- Butler County Airport Authority
- The Disc Golf Doubles Championship
- Mystique Moon Antiques & Artisans
- America 250 PA: Butler County
- Wagon Wheel Antiques
- Cranberry Township Sunrise Rotary Club
- SurfSUP Adventures
- The Atrium
2022 Grant Awards
May 2022
Twenty-eight Butler County travel and tourism businesses and organizations received a total of $100,000 in grant dollars.
2022 Butler County Tourism Foundation Grant Recipients
- The Rodfathers of Butler
- Butler Suite Thyme
- Butler Downtown
- Slippery Rock Developments - Partner: Slippery Rock University
- Wagon Wheel Antiques
- Zelienople Area Business Association
- Family Bowlaway - Partner: Springhill Suites
- Curio Cool
- Git Fit Families, LLC - Partner: Bear Run Campground and Moraine Preservation Fund
- Sweetwater Farms
- Missing Links Brewery
- Big Butler Parts a Rama
- Butler Freeport Community Trail
- CranberryTownship
- Harmony Business Association - Partner: Historic Harmony/Harmony Museum
- Butler Old Stone House Region AACA
- The History Hobo - Partner: Butler County Historical Society
- Burgh Bits and Bites Food Tours
- GRT Ultra, Inc.
- Butler AM Rotary - Partner: Springhill Suites
- Moraine, McConnells Mill and Jennings Commission - Partner: Moraine State Park
- Butler Farm Show, Inc.
- Glade Run Lake Conservancy
- SurfSUP Adventures - Partner: Krol Media Associates
- Derailleur Bike Shop Cafe
- Spring Street Studios
- Pinehall at Eisler Farms
- Suite Retreat B&B - Partner: All About Reclaimed
We Care Program
December 2020
Many have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially Butler County’s restaurant and hospitality industry. In the midst of an environment of ever changing updates and modifications, our community remains constant - we support one another!
Experience Butler County PA partnered with the Butler County Commissioners and the Center for Community Resources to offer help to hospitality industry employees affected by lay-offs as a result of orders issued on December 10, 2020 by the Governor and Department of Health.
The We Care Program was run off of donations and designed to provide financial assistance to recently laid-off hospitality workers, as the holidays approached. Our website provided a webpage where hospitality business owners and managers could register recently laid off employees and the community could make donations.
The campaign ran from December 11-21, 2020. In just 10 days $140,000 was raised and 1,400 laid-off workers in the hospitality industry each received $100 gift cards. The program was very successful and helped many individuals and families in a time when they needed it the most.