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Lake Geneva Restaurant Week isn’t just about great food, it’s also about great causes. The Charity Check is a tradition created to raise awareness about non-profit organizations doing important work in our community and provide much-needed monetary donations to support their mission.

During Restaurant Week 2025 (April 19-27), you'll receive a Charity Check Ballot each time you dine in or get takeout from a participating Restaurant Week location. Use this Ballot to vote for one of the Charity Check nominees. (The more you dine, the more votes you'll get!) The organization receiving the most votes at the conclusion of Restaurant Week will win a $5,000 donation and five runners-up will each receive a $1,000 donation courtesy of our 2025 Charity Check Sponsor, Tito's Handmade Vodka.

2024 CHARITY CHECK WINNERS

$5,000 Charity Check Winner

YERKES OBSERVATORY + THE YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION

The mission of the Yerkes Future Foundation is to preserve and protect the historic Yerkes Observatory, celebrate its history, and continue to foster its goals of research, education, and astronomical observation by providing the opportunity to all interested. Learn more >

$1,000 Charity Check Winners

Dementia Friendly Community Initiative, Inc.

The stories tell our mission. It is two-fold. The first is to educate our community on how to best communicate with those individuals with Alzheimer's and dementia to avoid conflict situations. To know how to treat them with dignity and respect. To help ensure that they live the best lives that they can. Learn more >

Fellow Mortals Wildlife Hospital

Fellow Mortals provides care for approximately 2,000 injured or orphaned wild birds and mammals every year. Whether a sparrow or bald eagle, cottontail, or beaver, our goal is the same, to provide medical and rehabilitative services that will allow the animal to return to the wild after healing or maturing. 2024 is Fellow Mortals' 39th consecutive year serving over 100 communities from Wisconsin and Illinois. Learn more >

Kisses From Keegan & Friends Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Kisses from Keegan & Friends offers emotional and financial support to children undergoing cancer treatment and their families. Our organization raises charitable donations through various fundraising activities, such as dinners, sporting events, social events, grants, and offers from the public. Focused primarily in southeastern Wisconsin, Kisses from Keegan and Friends raises awareness of childhood cancer and comprises volunteers dedicated to helping these children and their families through difficult times. Learn more >

Never Say Never Playland

Never Say Never Playland is the effort to build the community's first inclusive Playland in Delavan, WI. These special playgrounds are designed to allow children with disabilities to play side-by-side with their non-disabled peers in a safe, stimulating, and fun environment. NSN will be the destination of choice for the area's children and will be a community asset for years to come. Learn more >

Tree House Child and Family Center

It is the mission of the Tree House Child and Family Center to promote safe, strong, and healthy environments for children and families through equitable access to child abuse prevention, education, and resource support. As a stand-alone nonprofit, the Tree House annually reaches 7,000+ parents and primary caregivers, children, educators, and professional service providers in Walworth County and surrounding areas with upstream information and programs to prevent, recognize, and respond appropriately to all types of abuse. Learn more >