Youth and Families

Many funds at the Community Foundation support the needs of children and families. A current grant focus is to increase and improve after-school opportunities for vulnerable children and their families. Below is a list of eighteen funds that support youth and families.

Hubertus and Helmi Behrla Endowment Fund
A bequest established this fund to provide toys to poor children at Christmas.

Rachel Susan Beimler Campership Fund
A memorial to a woman who loved the outdoors, this fund sends underprivileged children to summer camp.

W.R. and Dorothy Brogan Fund
To provide assistance to working families faced with medical or other types of emergencies for which other resources are not available.

Children's Fund
Established with a gift from the Brighton High School Student Council, this fund supports the needs of young people.

Mary Elizabeth Conlon Fund
A generous bequest established this fund to provide food and shelter for children up to age 12.

Thomas E. Goldman Memorial Fund
Supports projects benefiting children and families in the legal system in memory of a prominent attorney and judge.

Katie Harper Youth Hope Fund
Established in memory of their daughter by Fairport parents, this fund helps meet emergency needs of children and their families.

Ben Haymes Campership Fund
A young man donated his bar mitzvah money to send deserving children to camp through Quad A for Kids.

Elizabeth Gibson Holahan Children's Fund
A prominent decorator and preservationist bequeathed her historic East Boulevard home and residual estate to the Community Foundation, with particular benefit to city children.

Thomas A. Horey Memorial Fund
This fund benefits youth, particularly teenagers.

Junior League of Rochester Endowment for Children & Youth
Established in 1982 in honor of the League's 50th anniversary, this fund addresses the changing needs of young people.

Justine M. Lynes Children's Fund
The donor wanted her bequest to assist children, particularly low-income children in the City of Rochester.

Helen Gladys Ritter Mohr Fund
A bequest of one-third of her estate created this fund to benefit children.

Winona E. Moore Fund
An estate bequest for the benefit of area children, this fund honors one of the Community Foundation's earliest volunteers, a gifted writer who taught at Monroe High School for 38 years.

Rogerson Fund for Handicapped Children
This former private foundation addresses the needs of physically, mentally, socially, and economically disadvantaged children.

Thomas P. Ryan, Jr. Youth in Action Fund
Community leaders honored Rochester's longest-serving mayor by creating this fund to help young people develop character and responsibility through volunteer service.

Tony and Dee Spirit Fund
Morning radio hosts Tony Infantino and Dee Alexander initiated this fund to help disadvantaged youth.

Woman's Education and Industrial Union
Continues the community concerns of a group established in 1893 by promoting the educational, economic, legal and social advancement of children and families.

To Support Youth and Families

For your convenience, the Community Foundation may accept contributions using various methods. You can support youth and families issues now by using the form below to make a credit card donation (MasterCard, Visa, American Express).

All contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.