Lockwood Community Foundation
Contact Information:
Post Office Box 1
Lockwood, MO 65682
Established February 25, 1998
Board of Governors:
Fred Lemons, President, & LaRue Lemons • Larry & Marsha Allen • Clark & Beverly Blackwell • Orval & Donna Cooper • Sheldon Easson • Mike & Renee Galer • Roger & Ella Whaley
For additional information, please contact Fred Lemons, President, at (417) 232-4597.
Total Assets (as of 12/31/11): $1,151,575
News and Updates
Lockwood Crosses Million-Dollar Milestone
The Lockwood Community Foundation’s successes over the past year included working with Lockwood Schools to raise $10,000 in order to receive a $10,000 matching grant from the Harry Cooper Supply Company Campaign for the Ozarks Phase II to support rural education endowments. Lockwood Superintendent Bill Rogers, left, accepts the ceremonial check from the CFO’s Winter Skelton, Foundation President Fred Lemons and Board Member LaRue Lemons.
You might think Lockwood an unlikely place to find one of CFO’s most asset-strong affiliates. But that would sell Lockwood short. The tight-knit Dade County community — with the help of a large bequest received last year — has made the Lockwood Community Foundation one of the CFO’s 14 million-dollar affiliates. They celebrated that new status in July with a luncheon for board members, donors and volunteers at the Roy E. Carr American Legion Post in Lockwood.
The CFO made an unrestricted $500 President’s Grant to Lockwood for reaching the milestone.
Lockwood crossed the $1 million threshold this year after receiving a $250,000 bequest from the estate of John Tubaugh, a Golden City native who became a successful businessman in St. Louis. His total scholarship fund, shared equally between Lockwood and the DACO Community Foundations, will benefit students from all Dade County high schools when it begins making awards in 2012.
Also, in the spring, the Lockwood Community Foundation brought the Springfield Pottery Claymobile to town for students in the first through sixth grades.
“We hope to do that again this year,” said LCF President Fred Lemons.
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Funds and Grantmaking
Existing Funds:
Fred and LaRue Lemons Family Charitable Fund
Johnny E. Tubaugh Scholarship Fund (Lockwood)
Lockwood Cultural Arts Council Fund
Lockwood Community Development Fund
Lockwood Community Foundation Academic Fund
Lockwood Fund
Lockwood Community Foundation Administrative Fund
Lockwood Skate Park Fund
Lockwood Public Schools Foundation Unrestricted Endowment Fund
Lockwood Youth Empowerment Program Capacity Building Fund
OACAC – Dade County (Lockwood) Hunger Challenge Fund
Clinton and Nancy Schilling Life Estate
Community Grants for Fiscal Year 2011
City of Lockwood, Swimming pool repair, $5,000