Kwik Stop Has Announced Its Kwik Care Charity Partners for 2025

The largest, locally owned chain of convenience stores, Kwik Stop, has announced their 2024 slate of charity partners for their Kwik Care program. 

Since 2002, Kwik Stop and Dairy Queen customers have been a driving force for change in Dubuque and the Tri-States as a whole. Each month, a new organization is selected as the "Kwik Care recipient." For the entire month, customers at those respective businesses can donate to said nonprofit with ease. Cumulatively, Kwik Care has raised over $2 million.

Donations can be made easily by requesting your total purchase at any of those businesses (including at the gas pumps at Kwik Stop) be rounded up to the nearest dollar. The additional cents used to round up will be donated to the respective charity of the month.

There is a change coming to the Kwik Care brand this year. Starting in 2025, what was known as the Kwik Care canisters will now be referred to as "Kwik Care Neighborhood Change," per a press release from Kwik Stop:

Kwik Stop and Dairy Queen are locally owned, community focused, and we’re proud to be in your neighborhood. The Kwik Care program is more than just the change canisters on the counter so with the new year we decided to incorporate a new name for our non-profit partnerships as the program continues to grow and evolve in our community - Tessa Anderson, Vice President of Operations, per the aforementioned press release

Kwik Care received 39 non-profit applications to review for their roster of charities in 2025. Per usual, it's a challenge to select only 12 for a calendar year, but it's a warming feeling to know so many wonderful non-profits geared to helping people exist in the Tri-States.

The 2025 Kwik Care partners are as follows:

• January – People In Need
• February – Opening Doors
• March – Tri-State Independent Blind Society
• April – Dubuque Area Labor Harvest
• May – Mary’s Inn Maternity Home
• June – Veterans Freedom Center
• July – Area Residential Care
• August – Boys & Girls Club of Greater Dubuque
• September – Centrally Rooted
• October – Hospice of Dubuque
• November – Community Solutions of Eastern Iowa
• December – Catholic Charities/Magical Kwik Stop Christmas

Here are the list of locations where you can make a donation to Kwik Care charity partners:

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• Kwik Stop on Pennsylvania Avenue
• Kwik Stop on JFK Road
• Kwik Stop on University Avenue
• Kwik Stop on E. 16th Street
• BP Kwik Stop on E. 16^th Street
• Kwik Stop on Twin Valley Drive (Key West)
• Kwik Stop on Gateway Drive
• Family Mart by Kwik Stop on 32^nd & Central
• Kwik Stop in Peosta
• Kwik Stop in Delhi
• Kwik Stop on Kerper Boulevard

We have Heather Hamm of Rainbo Oil as well as representative from a nonprofit in studio on a monthly basis to talk about the respective Kwik Care recipient. This year, we've had representatives from Two by Two Character Development (March), Riverview Center (April), Centrally Rooted (November), just to name a few.

Kwik Care is only part of Kwik Stop's community giving. For more than four decades, Kwik Stop has been donating to local non-profits and investing in local sponsorships that make the Dubuque and Tri-States community even stronger. Learn more about their efforts on their website.