2025 Fund Anniversaries
The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation administers more than 1,000 charitable funds that strengthen our community year after year. Many of these funds continue to grow, even as they make grants to support the work of local nonprofits. More than 150 funds will celebrate milestone anniversaries in 2025—thank you, fundholders, for your leadership through philanthropy!
35 Years
Fund for Educational Excellence
Justin and Mildred Albright Fund
Marshall Journalism Incentive Fund
Michael R. and Marla K. Valliere Donor-Advised Fund
Sutherland C. and Frances M. Dows Fund for Awards to Authors, Artists and Musicians
30 Years
Jefferson High School Performing Arts Fund
Linn County Bar Association Endowment Fund
Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman Fund
Tokheim Family Designated Fund for Lutheran Church Initiatives for the Homeless
Tokheim Family Designated Fund for the Linn Community Food Bank
Tokheim Family Designated Funds for Inn-Circle
Tokheim Family Field of Interest Fund for the Homeless and Hungry of Cedar Rapids

25 Years
Cedar Rapids Symphony Endowed Chair Fund
Dorothea E. Garberson Wildflower Project Fund
Duane and Kay Nesetril Endowment Fund
Duane and Kay Nesetril Fund
Gregory and Debora Neumeyer Endowed Donor-Advised Fund
Linn-Mar School Foundation Endowment Fund
Steve and Joanne Carfrae Fund
Terry Trimpe – Jason Nosek Endowed Designated Fund
United Nations Association – USA of Linn County, Iowa Endowment Fund
20 Years
Alzheimer’s Association, East Central Iowa Chapter Quasi-Endowed Fund
Amana Arts Guild Friends Fund
Anderson Family Charitable Fund
Camp Courageous of Iowa Endowment Fund
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Friends Fund
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre Agency Endowment Fund
Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre Friends Fund
Cedar Rapids Symphony Endowment Fund
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Friends Fund
Cedar Rapids Symphony Quasi- Endowed Fund
Cedar Rapids Symphony School Endowment Fund
Clancey Family Endowed Fund
Clifford A. Hendricks Fund
Community Health Free Clinic Friends Fund
David and Chris Kubicek Endowed Fund
David H. and Rose Marie Burke Fund
Dean and Laura Gesme Family Fund
F. Forbes Olberg and Ann Olberg Endowment Fund
Four Oaks of Iowa, Inc. Endowment Fund
Four Oaks of Iowa, Inc. Quasi-Endowed Fund
Garner Family Donor-Advised Fund
Gary Rozek Endowed Fund
Gladys Bock Children’s Fund for the Indian Creek Nature Center
Henry and Bertha Tiemeyer Scholarship Fund
Hoffman Family Fund
Indian Creek Nature Center General Operations Friends Fund
Indian Creek Nature Center Land & Facilities Friends Fund
Jo and Larry McGrath Endowed Fund
Junior Achievement Endowment Friends Fund
Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc. Endowment Fund
Kleiman Family Endowed Scholarship Fund
Linn County Endowment Fund
Linn County Fund
Mary and David Junge Fund
Mercy Medical Center Foundation Endowment Fund
Mercy Medical Center Foundation Friends Fund
Metro Youth Football Association Agency Endowment Fund
Mohnsen Family Endowed Fund
Mount Vernon Community School District Foundation Agency Endowment Fund
Mount Vernon Community School District Foundation Friends Fund
Norm and Floy Erickson Endowed Fund
Robert and Caroline Kucharski Fund I
St. George Orthodox Church Cemetery Endowment Fund
St. George Orthodox Church General Endowment Fund
St. Luke’s Health Care Foundation Endowment Fund
Van Meter Donor-Advised Fund
Waypoint Endowment Friends Fund
Waypoint Endowment Fund
Xavier Foundation Endowment Fund
Xavier Foundation Friends Fund
Zylstra and Earl Family Fund
15 Years
A.P. Ghosh Advanced Placement Scholarship Fund
Anna O. and William G. Anderson Endowed Designated Fund
Anna Purna Ghosh Foundation Endowment Fund
Anne and David Parmley Family Endowed Fund
Betty and Charles Debban Endowed Designated Fund
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids & East Central Iowa Agency Operations Endowment Fund
Cobb Family Donor- Advised Fund
Garner Family Endowed Donor-Advised Fund
Iva C. Robb Fund for Artistic Initiative, a Liars Theater Legacy Fund
JoAnn Faribault CGA
John and Laura Locher Endowed Donor-Advised Fund
Kirkwood Community College Foundation Friends Fund
Lana F. Trousdale Hake Family Endowed Donor-Advised Fund
Linn County Historical Society Quasi-Endowed Fund
Marion Public Library Endowment Fund
Marion Public Library Foundation Fund
Matthew 25 Friends Fund
Matthew 25 Quasi-Endowed Fund
Nancy Owen CGA
Outstanding Student Leader Scholarship Fund
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Friends Fund
Rachel Baldwin York and Jerry York Endowed Donor-Advised Fund
Robert and Caroline Kucharski Fund II
William D. Severa Endowed Donor-Advised Fund
Wythe Willey Family Charitable Fund
10 Years
Arc – Leslie and Matthew Petersen Memorial Fund
Arc- David W. and Cynthia Zenk Fund
Arc of East Central Iowa Agency Fund
Baker Family Fund
Barry and Nancy Brown Family Giving Fund
Betty and Rollin Heller Memorial Fund
Brucemore John and Kay Hegarty Fourth Family Fund
Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity Endowment Fund
Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity Friends Fund
Christoffersen Family Fund
Dennis and Donna Oldorf Family Fund
Dr. Kim William Lyle Fund
Ecumenical Community Center Foundation Friends Fund
Ecumenical Community Center Foundation Fund
Ecumenical Community Center Foundation Quasi-Endowed Fund
Etzel Sugar Grove Farm Endowed Fund
Fulton-Barnes Fund
Harmony Hawks Endowment Fund
Harmony Hawks Friends Fund
Howard H Cherry Scout Reservation Camp Staff Alumni Fund
Jerry Oakland Fund
John Stephen Klima Academic Excellence Scholarship
John Stephen Klima Fund
Kenneth and Mildred Johnson Fund
Kids First Law Center Forever Fund
Kids First Law Center Friends Fund
Kids First Law Center Quasi-Endowed Fund
Kids First Law Center Quasi-Endowed Fund II
Kris and Bryan Davis Fund
LaSalle Catholic Friends Fund
Meth-Wick Friends Fund
Michael and Cindy Dunn Family Fund
MICRO Fund
Mount Vernon Volunteer Firefighters Association Friends Fund
Mount Vernon Volunteer Firefighters Association Fund
Orpha Kempf Fund
Paul Morf and Jennifer Merryman Endowed Designated Fund for the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
Roger and Thea Leslie Endowed Fund IX
Ruth M. and Clifford M. Altermatt Fund
St. Luke’s Hospital Cancer Care Friends Fund
Theatre Cedar Rapids David Mahlke Fund
Theatre Cedar Rapids Sally Novetzke Fund
United Way Brad and Kathy Colton Family Fund
United Way Carleen and Eugene Grandon Fund
United Way Chris and Suzy DeWolf Family Fund
United Way Curt and Beth Livengood Family Fund
United Way David Mahlke Fund
United Way Ivan and Mary Bess Chester Fund
United Way James and Sharon Altorfer Fund
United Way Jim and Jo Ellen Haddad Family Fund
United Way Jim and Sara Sauter Family Fund
United Way John and Kay Hegarty Fund
United Way McGrath Family Fund
United Way Roger and Angie Baker Family Fund
United Way Steve and Susan Ovel Fund
Walter Hammill Scholarship Fund
Wes and Nancy Nygren Fund for St. Paul’s UMC
William D. Nordstrom Fund
William J. and Georgene I. Robb Charitable Fund
YMCA of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Area Endowment Fund
YMCA of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Area Friends Fund