Community Foundation Fun Facts

• Kansas City Royals baseball team is owned by the Kansas City Community Foundation.
• Tim McGraw and Faith Hill established an endowment fund at the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee called the Neighbor's Keeper Fund. This fund emphasizes children's initiatives.
• The founder of E-bay and his wife recently donated $50 million to the Hawaii Community Foundation.
• Dave Mathews Band does their charitable giving thru the Charlottesville Community Foundation.
• Peanuts creator Charles Schultz was very active with the Sonoma County Community Foundation.

Other Celebrities and Athletes with funds at Community Foundations include:

• Ruben Studdard Foundation for the Advancement of Children in the Music Arts, set up by the American Idol 2 winner
• Red Auerbach Youth Foundation Fund was established in 1983 by the legendary Celtics coach for athletic and recreational programs for Greater Boston youth
• Earnhardt Family Fund was established before the death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr.
• Dave Matthews Band Bama Works Fund
• Katie Couric, NBC-TV commentator, established the Emily Couric Leadership Scholarship in memory of her late sister, a former Virginia state senator
• Baseball great Johnny Bench established a scholarship fund
• Reggie Williams Fund, established by the former Cincinnati Bengal
• Hootie and the Blowfish Foundation Fund
• Archie Griffin of The Ohio State University (only two-time Heisman winner) established a fund. He also is on the foundation's board.
• The Jake Plummer Foundation (Bronco quarterback)
• Willie Horton Scholarship Fund, $5 million fund established by former Detroit Tigers left-fielder to provide annual scholarships to graduates of his alma mater, Northwestern High School
• Parsons' Pledge (donor-advised fund established by Don Parsons of Memphis RiverKings hockey team when his daughter was born deaf. He established the fund when his daughter was born deaf, and he wanted to help the Oral School for the Deaf. He has expanded to help the Lymphoma Society and Palmer Home for Children. His contributions helped to make him minor league hockey's Man of the Year in 2003.
• New York Yankee Derek Jeter established a scholarship fund through his Turn 2 Foundation
• Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Fund
• Annette Funicello Fund for Neurological Disorders
• Noah S. Wyle Foundation
• Alonzo Mourning, center for the NBA's New Jersey Nets, retired with kidney disease
• Hank Aaron Chasing the Dream Fund
• Cindy McCain Charitable Fund
• John and Cindy McCain Charitable Fund
• Sandra Day O'Connor Charitable Fund
• Olympic gold medalist and beach volleyball sensation Kerri Walsh established the Chase the Stars foundation (a donor-advised fund) to support the notion that every child should have the opportunity to follow their dream - chase the stars. The fund supports the well-being, health and quality of children's lives.
• Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
• Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries
• The Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Funds
• The Back to You Fund, established by Grammy-award winning musician, John Mayer
• Michael & Buffy Waltrip Charitable Fund, established by the NASCAR driver
• CP3 Foundation, established by NBA 2006 Rookie of the Year Chris Paul