The Harry and Janet Kitselman Fund

Harry and Janet Kitselman were residents and civic leaders in the Muncie community, where they lived until the 1960s, when they moved to Minnesota. With a generational and industrial family history in East Central Indiana, Harry and Janet wanted to leave their own legacy in this community. In the 1980s, they established a trust that would benefit their hometown of Muncie and their final community of Minneapolis.

In 2001, local attorney and Community Foundation champion Jon Moll crafted an agreement with the Minneapolis trust to send annual payments to a pass-thru fund at the Community Foundation of Muncie and Delaware County to award grants in the Kitselman’s name. In 2016, motivated by the Kitselmans’ desire to have a philanthropic impact on the two communities they called home, Jon continued this work to endow the fund permanently. He negotiated the transfer of $1.5 million from the Minneapolis trust on behalf of the Delaware County community.

Today the Harry and Janet Kitselman Fund is a permanently endowed fund that supports grantmaking for fine arts, recreation, children, and the history of East Central Indiana. Harry and Janet’s legacy continues in Muncie and Delaware County. Since 2001, The Community Foundation has awarded more than $1.3 million dollars through the Harry and Janet Kitselman Fund.