List of Funds
Donor Advised Funds
Donor Advised Funds are charitable funds for donors seeking active involvement in grantmaking. Donors – and their successors, if desired – advise or recommend grants from their fund to support nonprofit organizations. Donors can work with foundation staff to create a lasting, impactful philanthropic legacy.
The Jessica Govea-Thorbourne Memorial Fund
The Andrew and Victoria Ausonio Family Fund
The Zekai and Carolyn Akcan Fund
The William S. and Janice R. Anderson Fund
The Ausonio Family Fund
The Kathleen and Austin Barrows Fund
The Peggy Downes Baskin Fund
The Lino and Teri Belli Family Fund
The Benjamin Fund
The Marta L. Bennett Fund
The Buffett Fund
The Andrew and Phyllis D'Arrigo Fund
The Marcia E. DeVoe Fund
The Doolittle Fund
The Stephen Eimer and Kevin Cartwright Fund
The Frances Elgan and Werner Kunkel Fund
The Howard and Karin Evans Fund
The Davis Factor, Jr. Fund
The Farrell/Allen Fund
The Doris Parker Fee Fund
The Ted Fehring Family/Carmel Host Lions Club Fund
The Lewis and Gloria Fenton Fund
The Tom and Mary Gallagher Fund
The Harlan and Barbara Hall Fund
The Elmer G. and William G. Hitchcock Fund
The Marilyn and Philo Holland Fund
The Jeanne Smith Holmquist Fund
The Cappy Martin/Vernon Hurd/Monterey Rotary Club Fund
The Kadushin Robinson Fund
The Jack and Patricia Kilmartin Fund
The Robert and Lori Kohn Theater and Arts Fund
The Kosmont Family Fund
The Phyllis Geer Krystal Fund
The Leo Lanini Fund
The James and Susan Lansbury Fund
The Jefferson and Frances Larkey Memorial Fund
The Buccafurni-Lawrence Fund
The Barbara and Joseph Lee Fund
The Phyllis and Herbert Lister Fund
The John and Nancy Love Fund
The Valera Whitford Lyles Fund
The John and Ann Mahoney Fund
The B.G. Mayer Fund
The Catherine L. and Robert O. McMahan Fund
The E.R. McCown Family Fund
The Marjorie McNeely Fund for the Blind or Illiterate
The Malcom and Joanne Millard Fund
The Mills Family Fund
The Monterey County Weekly Community Fund
The Monterey Peninsula Sunrise Rotary Club Fund
The Helmuth Morgenrath Fund for the Big Sur Community
The Anthony and Lary Lynn Muller Fund
The Murray Fund
The Gilbert M. Neill Math Fund
The Don Nucci Fund for the Salinas Valley
The Bob Nunes Fund
The Oak Hill Charitable Fund
The Mike and Mary Orradre Fund
The Caroline and Charles Page Fund
The Nepenthe/Phoenix Corporation Fund
The Salinas Rotary Clubs Fund
The Mary and Will Shaw Fund
The James M. Shade Memorial Fund
The Robert N. and Florence Slinger Foundation Fund
The Snorf Endowment Fund
The Robert and Leslie Taylor Fund
The William and Susanne Tyler Fund
The Willemsen Family Fund
The James and Cynthia Zak Fund
Supporting Organizations
Supporting organizations are separate legal entities that are affiliated with the Community Foundation. Established with their own boards of trustees, grantmaking identities, and governance structures, supporting organizations enjoy public charity status and the professional services of the foundation, including staff and administrative support.
Lori and Lou Flagg Memorial Youth Fund
Unrestricted General Endowment Funds
Donors can support changing community needs by providing unrestricted support. Donors may create a named endowed fund whereby the foundation's board of directors will use the funds to address pressing community needs.
The Cislini Fund
The Cislini Fund #2
The Elmer Mills Harris Fund
The Lauralie and J. Irvine Fund
The George P. Kendall Memorial Fund
The Lovell Langstroth Fund
The John R. Marron Fund
The Donna Roop Fund
The Scott Fund
The Trustees Fund
Field of Interest Funds
Field of Interest Funds are funds that have been established by the Community Foundation, sometimes in conjunction with donors, for granting to a broad area of interest rather than a single non-profit organization in a particular field. Field of Interest Funds are also endowed funds, meaning that they will continue to make annual grants in perpetuity. Grant decisions are made by the Community Foundation's Board of Directors, in accordance with guidelines that were created when a Fund was established.
The Field of Interest Funds listed below are open for additional gifts from donors. Unlike grants from the General Endowment, however, grants from Field of Interest Funds are unavailable through competitive grant applications. Grant seekers are welcome to check with Program staff for all grants that may be available to them.
The Fund for the 21st Century
The Ruth L. & Wilbur K. Amonette Fund
The Fund for the Arts
The Paul Block, Jr. Fund
The Patricia J. Boles Fund
The Maureen Bradford Fund
The Stephen and Madeleine Conran Fund
The Helen R. Doe Fund
The Thomas Doud, Sr. and Anita M. Doud Fund #1
The Ken and Gundy DuVall Fund
The Fund for the Environment
The Fred Farr Fund for Environmental Stewardship
The Rudolph E. Futer Fund
The Gumm Fund for the Performing Arts
Literacy Fund
The McKay Fund
The Kathleen and Howard Marks Fund
The Engracia Irene Murray Fund
The Margaret L. Musser Permanent Endowment Fund
The Andrew D. and Marjorie S. Orrick Fund
Out Reach - A Fund for LGBT Life in Monterey County
The Fund for the Salinas Valley
The Dr. Frank Pye Smith Medical Facilities Fund
The James M. and Marjorie E. Sturgeon Fund
The Dr. George and Sam-Kih Thorngate Memorial Fund
The Tri-Counties Blood Bank Fund
The Women's Fund of Monterey County
The Youth Fund
Scholarship and Award Funds
The Community Foundation has a variety of Scholarship Funds which benefit various types of students in many different parts of Monterey County. Scholarship programs are managed by selection committees formed by Fund donors and not by the Community Foundation. Grants from Scholarship Funds are made directly to a school on behalf of enrolled students, and not to students directly.
Anyone interested in donating to an existing Scholarship Fund or in starting a new one should contact the Program staff at the Community Foundation for further details.
The Carol Callister Willemsen Butterfield Bacon Fund
The Dr. William D. Barr Scolarship Fund for Excellence in Education
The Bissell Fund
The James Bliss and Annette Sward Forestry and Nursing Scholarship Fund
The California Polytechnic Agricultural Business School Scholarship Fund
THe Carmel High School Class of 1952
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