Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri, Inc.
Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri, Inc.
The Professional Building, Suite 11, 221 W. 4th Street, Carthage, Missouri 64836
Established May 24. 1999
Board of Directors:
Lori Smith, Chair • Katie Bell • Don LaFerla • Barbara Hicklin • Bill Lee • Samuel R. Morrow, Jr. • Ann Leach • David B. Mouton • Sherry McCormack
For additional information please contact Michelle Ducre, executive director, at (417) 359-5534.
Total Assets (as of 6/30/10): $5,625,843
PHOTO: Michelle Ducre, executive director of the Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri, Inc, presents the newly esatblished Carl Junction High School Youth Empowerment Project with a start-up grant.
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Existing Funds:
# ALS Organization Fund
Arts Building Community Fund
George & Geraldine Beimdiek Memorial Fund
Beimdiek Challenge Grant Fund
Steve and Mary Jean Beimdiek Family and Community Fund
Beshore Family Foundation
Kelly Jo Brookshire One Love Fund
Browne Family Foundation
Leland Browne Life Insurance Fund
Carl Junction Educational Foundation Endowment Fund
Carl Junction Educational Foundation Fund
Carl Junction Police Department/Shop with a Cop Fund
Carl Junction High School Youth Empowerment Fund
Curtis Rex Carter Science Scholarship Fund
Carthage Arts Council Fund
The Carthage Fund (unrestricted)
Carthage Crisis Center Endowment Fund
Carthage Crisis Center Capacity Building Fund
The Carthage Crosslines Fund
# Carthage Historic Preservation Fund
Carthage Historic Preservation Capacity Building Fund
Carthage Hunger Challenge Fund
Carthage Public Library Fund
Carthage Rotary Club Charitable Fund
Carthage Rotary Scholarship
Carthage Youth Empowerment Program Fund
City of Carthage Beautification Fund
City of Carthage Carter Park Fund
City of Carthage Dog Park Fund
College Heights Christian School Endowment Fund
Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri Operating Endowment Fund
Community Support Services of Missouri Fund
Community Support Services of Missouri Endowment Fund
CFSM Capacity Building Fund
Colossians 3:17 Fund
The W. Robert Corley Fund
Community Support Services of Missouri Fund
Community Support Services of Missouri Endowment Fund
Doris & Ken Johnson Memorial Fund
Episcopal Youth Group of Carthage Endowment Fund
Freund Charitable Remainder Trust Fund
Gregg and Sheila Galbraith Donor Advised Fund
#Guthrie Gilmore Fund
Grace Episcopal Church Endowment Fund
#The Henrietta Hedge Memorial Fund
#The Hough Fund
Ike’s Family and Community Fund
Jasper County Courthouse Capacity Building Fund
Jasper County 1895 Courthouse Preservation Fund
Joplin Area Realtors’ Benevolence Fund
The Joplin Fund
Joplin Hunger Challenge Fund
Fair Acres Family YMCA, Inc. Fund
Lagniappe Fund
The Vivian León Fund for the Musical Arts created by the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition
LifeChoices Endowment Fund
Richard T. Mansfield Memorial Fund
McAuley High School Youth Empowerment Fund
# Missouri Botanical Gardens Fund
MSIPC Capacity Building Fund
The McCune-Brooks Health Care Foundation Fund
# Dorthadean Moorman Memorial Fund
Jean S. Morrow and Samuel R. Morrow, Jr. Memorial Fund
The John O. Phelps and Carolyn B. Phelps Charitable Fund
The Powers Museum Fund
Quigley Jasper County Christian Athlete Scholarship Fund
Redings Mill Volunteer Fire Protection Endowment Fund
Dr. W. Russell Smith Family Foundation Fund
# Southwest Baptist University Endowment Fund
Southwest Missouri Arts Council Endowment Fund
St. Luke’s Nursing Center Capacity Building Fund
St. Luke’s Nursing Center Endowment Fund
Stone’s Throw Theater Henry Heckert Memorial Endowment Fund
J. Ross and Maryetta E. White Memorial Fund
Mark and Stephanie Williams Family and Community Fund
Wildcat Glades Conservation and Audubon Center Fund
# Denotes that this is a Legacy Fund, established by bequest.
Legacy Society Members
Kevin & Sandi Checkett
Robert & Rebecca Copeland
Michelle Ducre
Frank S. Dunaway, III
Virginia Esterly*
Ed and Tonya Freund
Kenneth Johnson
Samuel R. Morrow, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. William C. Putnam
Ruth I. Rubison
Marty and Lori Smith
Dr. and Mrs.* W. Russell Smith
*deceased
Community Grants Fiscal Year 2009
Carthage Historic Preservation, Inc
Computer for digital historical project.…$275
“This Place Matters” events…$725
Carthage Area United Way
Community Service Video…$750
Children’s Haven of Southwest Missouri
Crisis service for fliers and phone ads…$750
Boys & Girls Club of Southwest Missouri
Summer camp scholarships…$275
Carthage Youth Empowerment Project Grants
Carthage R-9 School Foundation
Club Sabatino…$1,000
Odyssey of the Mind…$1,000
Unrestricted…$945