Funds Providing Flexible Assets to Support Our Community

Each person or family listed below has entrusted Grand Rapids Community Foundation with their gifts to support our community’s ever-changing needs. The named funds listed were created by donors either through gifts in their lifetime or realized bequests set up through an estate gift. These funds represent and honor donors across time. These flexible funds are a primary way to grow our community’s endowment and create resources for grants to strengthen the lives of people in our community.

Funds lists in bold were created or have grown through additional gifts within the last five years. The Community Foundation honors and thanks the donors who have made this commitment to support our community in perpetuity.

UNRESTRICTED FUNDS

Marian A. Aldrich Fund

American Box Board Community Fund

Gasper J. Amodeo Fund

Employees of Autocam Fund

Janet E. Berg Fund

Thomas and Vita "Vickie" Bergers Community Fund

John W. and Margaret Bertsch Fund

Ken Betz and Pat Brewer Fund

Anna Bissell Charity Trust Fund

James and Margaret Black Estate

Edward H. Blickley Fund

Harvey and Margaret Brower Fund

Orville and Jean Bulman Estate

Allan and Claudia Carlson Family Fund

Olga H. Cassard Fund

William J. Chaille Fund

Eugene D. Conger Fund

Louis A. Cornelius Trust

Dallas and Helen Darling Fund

Cornelia De Fouw Fund

Rafael O. Diaz Fund

Max H. and Lois Doering Fund

George and Louise Egeler Fund

Robert L. and Gloria M. Ellcey Fund

Engineered Protection Systems Fund

Diane S. Farage Fund

Fishell Fund

Henry A. Fox Family Fund

Mr. and Mrs. David G. Frey Fund

Jim McKay and Twink Frey Fund

Mrs. L. C. Gardner Fund

Kenneth and Christina Gilchrist Fund

Carol E. Greene Fund for Community Good

Rená Guttrich Fund

Chester A. Hall Fund

Leon W. Hall Fund

Stanley C. Hall Fund

Bill and Claudia Hardy Fund

Haslinger Family Fund

Minnie E. Haven Fund

Janet A. Haynes Fund

Elizabeth Herkner Fund

Edward M. Herpolsheimer Fund

Karl E. Herpolsheimer Fund

Dirk and Victoria Hoffius Fund

Orianna D. Hooker Fund

Arthur J. and Sue H. Hoover Fund

Robert and Adelaide Hoover Fund

Allen I. and Helen J. Hunting Fund

Walter D. Idema Charitable Trust

Walter D. Idema Fund

Jabin Family Fund

Clare and Grace Jarecki Fund

Elizabeth J. Steed Johnson Trust

Kent Charitable Fund

William E. and Sue Kincaid Fund

Mary Jane Kirchgessner Trust

Jane and Sam Kravitz Fund for Community Good

Robert J. Kulms Trust

Tom and Sally Kyros Fund

James and Mary Jane Lamse Fund

B. Kenneth Larm Fund for Community Good

Perry M. and Hazel A. Lawr Fund

Ben H. Lee, Jr. Fund

Harvey E. Lemmen Fund

Clara T. Limbert Fund

Gertrude Lindberry Fund

Charles W. Loosemore Fund

Dr. Jack and Katy Lukens Fund

Hale J. Mackay Fund

Allen S. & Barbara P. Marcus Fund

Glen C. Mason Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. McCobb Fund

Isabel McLeod Fund

Frank H. and Virginia L. Merlotti Fund

George and Mary Metz Charitable Fund

Bonnie Miller Community Fund

Paul C. and Inez L. Miller Fund

Mary D. Morman Trust

Estate of Melanie L. Muir

Estate of Dr. Clifford T. Nelson

Francis J. O'Connor Fund

Jackman and Helen Palmatier Fund

Mary I. and Robert C. Pew Fund

Chalmers and Esther Quaintance Fund

Charlotte M. Raniville Fund

Eleanor J. Roberts Fund

Leonard and Dora Rosenzweig Fund

Theodore R. and Caroline Schoonbeck Fund

Grace L. Schouten Memorial Trust Fund

Willard and Barbara Schroeder Fund

Schuil Family Fund

The Sebastian Foundation Unrestricted Fund

Margery Seeger Fund

Diana Sieger Leadership Fund

Erin Slade Memorial Fund

Estate of Isabelle and Herman Slanger

Eileen Slootmaker Fund

Mary A. and Lenore G. Smith Fund

Marvin Stahl Fund

Paul L. Steketee Fund

Graham F. "Deck" and Ruth B. Stewart Fund

Joseph and Helen Tulos Fund

Adrian Van Daalen Fund

Selene Van Vleck Unrestricted Fund for Community Good

James R. Van Vulpen Fund

Earle Vande Poel Charitable Fund

Don VandenBos Jr. Fund

The Vander Beek Family Fund

Keith C. VanderHyde Fund

Biem H. and Irene G. Vandermass Fund

Herbert and Doris Vander Mey Fund for Community Good

Englebert J. and Lelah Sexton Vogt Trust

Estate of Ralph A. Voigt

Jeanette Shelly Warner Fund

Jane N. and James C. Welch Foundation Fund

John C. Whitcomb Fund

Marion Stuart White Fund

Mary K. White Fund

Estate of Zoe F. Whitworth Trust

Mrs. Imogene W. Wickett Fund

C. John Gill and Rita Williams Fund

Arthur D. Wolf Foundation Trust

Charles D. and Irene A. Worden Fund

Estate of Curtis M. Wylie

George L. and Esther B. Young Trust

RECOGNITION FUNDS SUPPORTING THE FUND FOR COMMUNITY GOOD

Lynne M. Black Fund

Joy A. Brown-Baker Fund

Rita Champion-Balczak Fund

Laurie and Crawford Craft Family Fund

Tom and Jan Czerney Fund

Norman and Mary De Graaf Fund

Brownie Eberhard Beckering Fund

William and Patricia Edison Fund

James and Bebe Glerum Fund

Eleanore and Robert Howieson Fund

Miner S. and Mary Ann Keeler Fund

The David B. and Susan D. Lipner Fund

Malcolm/Magolan Family Fund

Ernest & Lorraine Malkewitz Fund

Marjorie and Robert Neubig Fund

Judge W. Baldwin Ogden and Judy Ogden Fund

Martha J. Porter Fund

Roth Family Fund for Community Good

Robert and Claire Schaefer Fund

Schaub Family Fund

Elmer and Mable Slemons Fund

Doug and Alix Thompson Fund

Robert F. and Ella M. Topp Family Fund

Bill and Barbara Van't Hof Fund

Theodore J. Vogt Fund

Are you interested in starting a fund to support the needs of today and tomorrow? Our development team would love to talk to you about options to strengthen our ability to activate our North Star through unrestricted giving. Call 616.454.1751 to start the conversation with no obligation.