Agency Funds

An agency endowment is a safe and simple way for a nonprofit organization to invest in its future.

You can focus on your core mission, while we provide professional investment expertise, endowment marketing support, and complex gift acceptance to help grow your endowment, and your future.

Why Establish an Agency Endowment?

Save time and resources. We handle the legal work, tax filings, reporting, gift acknowledgement, and accounting so your organization can focus on its mission.

Funds are professionally managed and benefit from a pooled portfolio, invested to maximize returns with an emphasis on growth and stability.

Establishing an endowment fund allows you access to our professional team, which can help your donors support your endowment through a variety of current and planned gifts, including appreciated securities, agricultural assets, IRAs, and other properties.

Our nonprofit partners benefit from added visibility through our newsletters, website, and media communications.

Endowment funds with the Community Foundation are protected for your organization's purpose.

The YWCA Quincy chose to open a fund with the Community Foundation in 2007 in response to a board member's requests that in lieu of gifts or accolades, they would rather have their Board service commemorated through a donation to an endowment with the Community Foundation.

After allocating a portion of a private bequest to start the endowment, the YWCA has since celebrated the work of women in the community by building the YWCA- Quincy Fund in this manner.

From new playground equipment to classroom chairs and supplies, since 2015 Friends of Unit 4 has helped bridge the funding gap that exists between school district needs in the northwestern portion of Adams County, Illinois and available funding.

The Friends of Unit 4 Fund, established in 2017, provides an additional avenue for gifts from donors who wish to support Unity Schools. The fund will provide a permanent source of funding to ensure the district’s students are provided opportunities to learn and thrive.

Current Agency & Designated Endowments:

2nd Lt. Albert C. Warford, Jr. Fund (Benefits Quincy Family YMCA)
Adams County CEO
Adams County Red Cross Fund*
Adams United Legacy Fund*
Andrew Tenhouse Memorial Fund (Benefits 4H in Adams County)
Alzheimer's Association Endowment
Amelia E. Bauner, Frances A. Hall, and Walter J. Hall Charitable Fund (Benefits Quincy Service League)
B'nai Sholom Endowment for Horizons Social Services
BeeJay Adams Fund (Benefits Quincy Community Theatre)
Betty J. Starnes Fund (Benefits Quincy Humane Society)
Betty Logan Fund (Benefits Griggsville-Perry Unit School District #4)
Brain Trauma Awareness Organization Quality of Life Fund*
Brink/Shih Fund for the Quincy Public Schools' Friends of the Performing Arts*
Brown County Public Schools Education Fund
Bud & Mary Scranton Endowment (Benefits Payson CUSD #1)
Carl Drebes & Herbert Drebes Memorial Fund(Benefits Zion Lutheran Church)
Canton Public Library Fund
Cheerful Home Children's Fund*
Clifford H. Taylor Fund for the Quincy Humane Society
Cornerstone: Foundations for Families Fund*
Donald P. W. Voth Fund (Benefits Quincy Area Habitat for Humanity)
Dorothy J. Plank Memorial Fund
The Plank Memorial Fund (Benefits Lewis County (MO) Historical Society)
Dr. Paul & Doris Rosene Band Fund (Benefits the Pittsfield High School band program)
Dr. Richard Eells House Fund*
Edward C. Hinkamper Fund for St. Francis Solanus Church

Edward C. Hinkamper Fund for St. Francis Solanus School Students
Friends of the Castle Fund *
Friends of the Log Cabins Fund
Friends of the Trails Endowment
Friends of Unit 4 Fund*
George & Charlotte Spear Charitable Fund (Benefits St. James Evangelical Lutheran School)
George M. Irwin ARTS Fund (Benefits Arts Quincy)
H. Dennis Everly Fund (Benefits Quincy Park Band)
Habitat for Humanity Housing Ministry Fund
Hancock County CEO Program
Hannibal Area CEO Program
Henry and Betty Brooks & Omer and Doris Walton Saukenauk Scout Reservation Fund
Herbert C. & Dorothy E. Everly Memorial Fund (Benefits Adams County Chapter of the American Red Cross & The Salvation Army of Quincy)
Historical Society of Quincy & Adams County Fund*
Horizons Social Services Fund
Jack W. Boge Fund (Benefits Quincy Art Center & Quincy Society of Fine Arts)
Jackson-Lincoln Swimming Complex, Inc. Fund
James T. Riley Fund (Benefits Culver-Stockton College)
Jimmie Hiland Memorial Fund (Benefits Southeastern High School athletic department)
John Wood Community College Foundation Development Fund*
Judy and Rick Haugh Endowment Fund (Benefits Community Assistance Ministry at St. Francis Solanus Church)
Kaufmann Family Fund for Well House, Inc.
Lincoln Colored School Endowment
Lowell & Vickie Glas Designated Fund (Benefits Sunset Home and the Blessing Foundation)

Lucille Hollender Memorial Fund (Benefits St. Francis Solanus School)
Marilyn & Steven Prater Family Fund (Benefits St. Francis Solanus School)
Mary Weems Barton Foundation Fund for the Quincy Public Library*
Mary Wilson Endowment (Benefits Mary Weems Barton Foundation for the Quincy Public Library and Horizons Social Services)
Meals on Wheels Fund*
Mike Mason Fund for St. Francis School
Mohrman Family Endowment (Benefits Chaddock and Sunset Home)
Mt. Sterling Community Center Fund
Pathway Health Clinic Fund*
Patricia M. Lawber Education Endowment Fund (Benefits Quincy Public Schools)
Tom & Judy Zenge Fund (Benefits Canton, MO R-V High School)
Quincy Art Center Fund*
Quincy Children's Museum Fund*
Quincy Civic Music Association Fund*
Quincy Family YMCA Fund
Quincy Hospitality House Fund
Quincy Humane Society Fund*
Quincy Museum Fund*
Quincy Notre Dame Foundation Capital and Improvement Fund*
Quincy Public Schools Foundation Fund*
Quincy Senior Citizens' Fund*
Quincy Symphony Fund*
Quincy University Endowment Fund*
Recovery Resources Fund*
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Illinois Fund*
Scouting Forever Endowment
St. John's Anglican Music Fund
Sunset Home Fund*
The Arc Fund*
Transitions of Western Illinois Fund*
United Way of Brown County Fund*
YWCA - Quincy Fund*
Clarence Ziegler, Etoile Ziegler, and Vickie Ziegler Thompson Endowment (Benefits Appanoose Faith Presbyterian Church)
Zion Lutheran Early Childhood Endowment Fund*

*Agency fund established by the nonprofit.

Additional Resources:

Agency Endowment Overview

Readiness Worksheet

Endowment Building Worksheet

FAQs

If you’re interested in starting a Designated Agency Endowment Fund, we’ll work with you step-by-step to reach your goal. Please contact us to get started.