AREA–At its annual awards meeting, the Big Give, on June 11, Impact100 Garden State announced four recipients of $100,000 grants and three recipients of $10,000 Merit Awards at its annual Big Give at the Birchwood Manor in Whippany. The grants were awarded based on a vote by Impact100 Garden State members. The recipients are: Freedom House, Clinton. Program: The Family Afterward for Mothers and Their Children, Morristown Somerset Hills Learning Institute, Bedminster. Program: A Growing Need to Grow Sparta Community Food Pantry, Sparta. Program: Wheels to Waste Less: Food Collection and Distribution Program YWCA Northern New Jersey, Hackensack. Program: Operation Sisterhood: Support for Servicewomen Returning to Civilian Life The three remaining finalists each received a $10,000 Merit Grant. They are: After-School All-Stars New Jersey, Newark, Disability Rights New Jersey, Trenton amd Great Swamp Watershed Association, Morristown. The all-women, all-volunteer Impact100 Garden State organization pools member contributions to make high-impact grants. The group has donated more than $4 million to area nonprofits since it began grant-giving in 2013. This year a record membership of 426 women allowed Impact100 Garden State to give four $100,000 grants for the second year in a row.