Endowment Partners have access to the Foundation’s diversified investment pool, with online access to all funds benefiting the nonprofit. Due to economies of scale, funds of the Foundation enjoy investment management fees of less than .507%. To encourage endowment growth, Endowment Partners do not pay administrative support charges on their funds until they reach the $50,000 level.

The Community Foundation’s planned giving expertise can play an important role in building your endowment. When your organization becomes an Endowment Partner of the Foundation, all of our gift-planning resources are available to you.

Complex gifts, such as real estate and closely held business interests, can be facilitated through your endowment at the Foundation. The Foundation can act as trustee for charitable remainder and lead trusts. Lastly, nonprofit organizations can offer charitable gift annuities through the Foundation’s charitable gift annuity service. The remainders of charitable gift annuities are placed in a designated endowment fund benefiting your nonprofit organization in perpetuity.

To learn how we can help you organization sustain its programs and services in perpetuity, contact Barbara Melbourne at (563) 326-2840.

Our Endowment Partners (as of Summer 2011)

-- 312 Gillespie Avenue Historical Foundation

-- Alternatives for the Older Adult

-- American Schleswig-Holstein Heritage Society

-- Bettendorf Community Betterment

-- Bettendorf Community Schools Foundation (19 named funds)

-- Bettendorf Public Library Foundation

-- Bettendorf Park & Recreation Foundation

-- Bettendorf - Pleasant Valley Business & Educational Partnership

-- Bettendorf Rotary Foundation

-- Boys & Girls Club of the Mississippi Valley

-- Bi-State Literacy Council

-- Big Brothers Big Sisters

-- Bishop Hill Heritage Association

-- Buffalo Bill Museum

-- Camp Shalom

-- CASI - Tributes for Dignity

-- Catholic Endowment of Bettendorf, Iowa, Inc.

-- Center for Belgian Culture of Western Illinois

-- Child Abuse Council

-- Children's Therapy Center of the Quad Cities

-- Churches United of the Quad City Area

-- Colonel Davenport Historical Foundation

-- Davenport Woman's Club

-- Davenport Lend A Hand

   -Reimers Fund

-- DeLaCerda Forever House

-- Edgerton Women's Health Center

-- Family Museum of Arts & Science

-- Family Resources, Inc.

   -Kay Gardner Memorial Fund

-- Figge Art Museum

-- First Presbyterian

-- Friendly House

-- Friends of the LeClaire Community Library

-- Friends of Oakdale Memorial Gardens

-- Friends of VanderVeer

-- German American Heritage Center

-- Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa Western Illinois

   -Paula Egolf Memorial Fund

-- Habitat for Humanity, Quad Cities

-- Hand In Hand

-- HELP

-- Humility of Mary Housing

-- Illowa Council, Boy Scouts of America

-- Iowa Newspaper Foundation

-- Junior Achievement Free Enterprise Foundation

-- Junior Board of Rock Island

-- Just Kids Early Care & Education

-- Kiwanis Club of Davenport

-- Marquette Academy

-- Marriage & Family Counseling Service

-- Midwest Writing Center

-- Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center

-- Pleasant Valley Schools Educational Foundation (10 named funds)

-- Putnam Museum and IMAX Theatre

-- Quad Cities Diabetes Association

-- Quad City Animal Welfare Center

-- Quad City Arts

-- Quad City Osteopathic Foundation

-- Quad City Symphony Orchestra

-- Rock Island Class of 1956 Foundation

-- Scott County Library System Foundation

-- Schuetzenpark

-- Sherrard Academic Foundation

-- Show Me Charity

-- Skip-A-Long/Rainbow Child Development Centers

-- Sterling - Rock Falls Family YMCA

-- St. Mary's Catholic Church

-- Teaching the Future of St. Mark

-- Three Rivers Conservation Foundation

-- Traditional Jazz Preservation

-- Two Rivers YMCA

-- Unitarian Church of Davenport

-- Vera French Foundation

-- Villa Montessori

-- WQPT Public Television

-- United Way of the Quad Cities Area, Inc. (3 named funds)