Designated Agency Funds

Donors who have a focused commitment to an organization choose to permanently support it through a Designated Fund. The Foundation’s stewardship guarantees that the good works they value will continue, even if the original organization ceases to exist.

Designated Agency Fund Grant Beneficiaries
Eleanor B. Acker Fund
  • American Red Cross, Camden County Chapter (Supports victims of US disasters) (14.062%)
  • New Jersey Audubon Society (14.062%)
  • Elwyn, Inc. (14.062%)
  • Animal Welfare Association (14.062%)
  • Collingswood Public Library (14.062%)
  • Bible Presbyterian Church (14.062%)
  • South Jersey Hearing Society (14.062%)
  • Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society (1.566%)
Chester L. Appleton Fund
  • Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home
Elizabeth M. Bacon Fund
  • Wheaton College
Elizabeth Evans Baker of Essex Fells, New Jersey Fund
  • Offender Aid & Restoration of Essex County
Bamberger Charitable Fund
  • Award for annual Ocean City, NJ Baby Parade
Pauline E. Barry Fund
  • Our Lady of the Holy Angels RC Church (33-1/3%)
  • Knights of Columbus (33-1/3%)
  • Salvation Army, New Jersey State Headquarters (33-1/3%)
Barrington Schools Educational Foundation Fund
  • Barrington School District in Camden County
Bestfoods Education Foundation Fund for the Benefit of IMANI
  • IMANI, Inc.
Bestfoods Education Foundation Fund for the Benefit of Lake Drive Foundation
  • Duke Smith Endowment of the Lake Drive Foundation
Bestfoods Education Foundation Fund for the Benefit of Project Acorn
  • Project Acorn
Bestfoods Eductional Foundation for Bloomfield College
  • Bloomfield College
Anne C. Biehler Fund
  • New Jersey SPCA (50%)
  • Bacharach Institute for Rehabilitation (50%)
  • Colestown Cemetery
  • Moorestown Free Library
  • CFN
Birth Haven Capital Fund
  • Birth Haven
Gilbert Blanchard Fund
  • Trustees of the First Presbyterian Society of New Jersey
Fannie Virginia Bradway Fund
  • Presbyterian Church at Woodbury
Joseph Brown Family Memorial Fund
  • St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center Foundation
Lida M. Buckley Fund #1
  • New Jersey Foundation for the Blind
Lida M. Buckley Fund #2
  • American Heart Association
Lida M. and Helen Williams Buckley Fund
  • Arthritis Foundation
Anne L. Buesing Children’s Fund for the Library of the Chathams
  • Library of the Chathams
Sarah R. Chew Memorial Fund
  • Underwood Memorial Hospital
Franklin Conklin, Jr. Fund #1
  • Boy Scouts of America Northern New Jersey Council
Franklin Conklin, Jr. Fund #2
  • YM-YWCA of Newark
Dee Fleet Living Library Fund
  • Churchill School
Marjorie Dotson Fund
  • Rutgers University
Joseph C. Dudley Fund
  • First Baptist Church of Mt. Holly (60%)
  • Burlington County Children’s Home (20%)
  • Memorial Hospital of Burlington (20%)
Elizabeth Planned Parenthood Fund #1
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New Jersey
Elizabeth Planned Parenthood Fund #2
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New Jersey
Gabriel Ferranti Fund #1
  • Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home
Gabriel Ferranti Fund #2
  • Seton Hall University
Erna J. Finley Fund
  • New York University (50%)
  • Trinity School (50%)
Harold B. Finley Fund
  • New York University (38%)
  • Trinity School (8%)
  • Zeta Psi Education Foundation (54%)
Frederick W. H. Fischer Fund
  • Association for Children of New Jersey
Robert Fletcher Foundation Fund
  • Robert Fletcher Memorial Scholarship c/o Rutgers University Foundation
  • Essex County College
  • Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
  • Robert Fletcher Memorial Scholarship Fund c/o St. Barnabas Medical Center Foundation
  • Verona United Methodist Church
  • The Salvation Army of New Jersey – Camp Tecumseh
  • YMCA (Montclair)
  • United Methodist Church of Little Falls
  • Montclair State University
Ford Foundation Fund for South Jersey
  • Community Foundation of South Jersey
Marlee & Carl Frahn Fund for the Library of the Chathams
  • Library of the Chathams
Monica H. Frantz Fund
  • Moorestown Free Library
Samuel Friend Fund
  • Calvary Baptist Church (50%)
  • The Vine Church (50%)
Frost Valley Ken Estabrook Fund
  • Frost Valley YMCA
Frost Valley YMCA Fund
  • Frost Valley YMCA
Alma Gainfort Fund
  • Rutgers University, Waksman Institute of Microbiology
  • Rutgers University, Department of Biochemistry
  • Rutgers University, Political Science Department
Alice P. Gebbie Fund
  • Moorestown Board of Education (50%)
  • Burlington County Vocational School (50%)
Girl Scouts of Ocean County – Juliette Gordon Low Fund
  • Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore
Herbert P. Gleason Fund
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology
Lorraine K. M. Gorski Fund
  • Greater Plainfield Habitat for Humanity
Alfred H. Grant Fund
  • Forked River Presbyterian Church (33-1/3%)
  • Good Luck Improvement Association (33-1/3%)
  • Lacy United Methodist Church (33-1/3%)
Annie S. Greer Foundation Fund
  • Covenant House New Jersey
Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey Council Fund
  • Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey for Millville, NJ troops
Ethel E. Harper Campership Fund
  • Girl Scout Council of Northern New Jersey
Lillian Henry Trust
  • United Methodist Church (50%)
  • Balance of payout funds a scholarship
Heritage Fund
  • In January 2076 the balance is to be paid to the governing body of Wayne Township, NJ for the Tri-Centennial Celebration.
George I. Hollinshead Fund
  • First Presbyertian Church of Merchantville
James P. Hopping Fund
  • Old First Church
Eleanor Denmead Ingram Fund
  • Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey (20%)
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (20%)
Isles, Inc.
  • Isles, Inc.
Iverson Education Endowment in honor of Jerome Shelby
  • Montclair Art Museum
Kellogg Community Congregational Church Fund
  • Community Congregational Church Fund
Frederick W. Kelsey Fund
  • Essex County Department of Parks
John F. Kidde Fund
  • Clara Maass Foundation
Ann Kirby Fund
  • Township of Harding
Charles W. Knight Trust Fund
  • Woodbury Monthly Meeting of Friends
Land Conservancy of New Jersey Fund
  • Land Conservancy of New Jersey
Albert S. Larrabee Fund
  • All Saints Episcopal Church of Lakewood
Leon Family Fund
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Robert Lichtenfels Fund
  • Associated Humane Societies of New Jersey
Helen M. Lilley Fund
  • St. Columbia Church (80%)
  • Urban Alternative Education (Interfund) (20%)
Alice N.S. Lockhart Fund
  • Burholme Baptist Church
Mabel Salisbury Loudenslager Fund
  • Cooper Hospital University Medical Center (50%)
  • Virtua Health Foundation (50%)
Ann/Erma Loudenslager Kemble Fund
  • Kemble Memorial United Methodist Church
Warren C. Lummis, Jr. Fund
  • Cumberland County Historical Society
Fund for Margetts Field
  • Township of Harding for the preservation of Margetts Field
Alfred S. Marshall Fund #2
  • Presbyterian Church at Woodbury
Florence W. Mason Fund
  • Church of St. Marks and All Saints
August Mattheyses Fund
  • Cancer Research Fund of the D. Runyon-W. Winchell Fund
Mentor Fund
  • Plan New Jersey
Katherine E. & Albert W. Merck Fund Support of Plaid House
  • Plaid House Inc.
Mary L. Messler Fund
  • Manasquan United Methodist Church (50%)
  • Bethesda Methodist Church (50%)
Susan P. Miller Fund
  • Miller Memorial Presbyterian Church
Genevieve Miller Fund #1
  • American Cancer Society
  • Restricted for use for organizations in Bergen County, NJ
Genevieve Miller Fund #2
  • American Heart Association
Millhill Child & Family Development
  • Millhill Child & Family Development
Florence C. Mills Memorial Fund
  • Broadway Baptist Church
Othello W. Mills Thanksgiving Fund
  • First Baptist Church of Paterson
Elizabeth S. Moore Fund
  • Christ Church – Belleville
Herbert F & Parvine F Moore Fund
  • ASPCA
  • Catholic Relief Services
  • Covenant House
  • Boys & Girls Club, Trenton & Mercer Counties
  • Wounded Warriors Project
Olga J. Murphy Scholarship Fund
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark Police Foundation Fund
  • Newark Police Department
Newark Public Library Foundation Fund
  • Newark Public Library
Franklin C. Nixon Fund
  • First Baptist Church (50%)
  • Vincentown United Methodist Church (50%)
Roger Luke Noone Fund
  • St. James Church
  • St. Mary’s Church
  • St. Agnes Church
  • Mother Teresa Regional School
Old Barracks Museum
  • Old Barracks Museum
Oliver Family Fund
  • National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence
Dale Kathleen Otten Scholarship Fund
  • Blair Academy
Partenheimer Fund #1
  • Frost Valley YMCA
Partenheimer Fund #2
  • Amherst College
Passaic High School Fund
  • Basketball Trophy at Passaic High School
Isaac N. Patterson Fund
  • Challenged Children’s Charities
Plainfield Health Center Foundation Fund
  • Neighborhood Health Services Corporation
J. Elliott Potts Fund
  • Trinitas Hospital
John F. and Harriet Pohlke Family Rutgers Scholarship Fund
  • Rutgers University
Fund for the Preservation and Renovation of 72 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ
  • Present Day Club
Monsignor Vincent E. Puma Fund
  • Eva’s Village
Helen Rabone Fund
  • Free Public Library of the Borough of Madison (33-1/3%)
  • St. Luke’s Reformed Episcopal Church (33-1/3%)
  • Salvation Army, New Jersey State Headquarters (33-1/3%)
Thomas F. Reilly Fund
  • Society for the Propagation of Faith
E. Burke Ross, Jr. Peck School Family Annual Giving Fund
  • Peck School
E. Burke Ross Jr. NJ SEEDS Family Fund
  • New Jersey SEEDS
Robin Ross Fund
  • Peck School
Blanche J. Rue Fund
  • Murray Grove Association
Second Century Fund for Congregation B’nai Israel
  • Congregation B’nai Israel
Sendell Morristown Unitarian Fellowship Fund
  • Morristown Unitarian Fellowship
Eleanora Iris Shapiro Fund
  • Monmouth County Medical Center Foundation
Reuben Shapiro Scholarship Fund
  • Congregation Brothers of Israel
Ruth Shapiro Scholarship Fund
  • Congregation Brothers of Israel
Clifford Sinnickson Sherron Memorial Fund
  • Salem Health & Wellness Foundation
Harriet Ingham Sherron Alms Fund
  • St. John’s Episcopal Church
Etta Shur Episcopal Ministry Fund
  • Diocese of Newark
  • Diocese of New Jersey
Etta Shur Medical School Fund
  • University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Thorburn Sickler Fund
  • Masonic Home Foundation of NJ
Katherine Sickles Fund
  • Christ Church
John J. Slater Memorial Fund
  • YMCA of Passaic and Clifton
Sophronia Smith Fund
  • Children’s Home Society of New Jersey
  • Kids with a Promise
  • American Red Cross
  • Calvary Baptist Church
  • First Baptist Church
  • First United Methodist Church
John W. Sparks Fund
  • Gloucester County Historical Society
Mary V.G. Sproat Fund
  • Hope College
William A. Sproat Fund #1
  • Hope College
William A. Sproat Fund #2
  • New Brunswick Theological Seminary
William Carpenter Stevens Fund
  • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Wallace A. Stewart Fund
  • United Methodist Church of Washington
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Fund
  • St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church
Louise C. Stillman Memorial Fund
  • Frost Valley YMCA (33-1/3%)
  • Community YMCA of Red Bank (33-1/3%)
  • Urban Alternative Education (33-1/3%)
Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Fund
  • Stony Brook Millstone Watershed
Ercole Tamburelli Fund
  • Benedictines of Detroit
Charles Grant Titsworth Fund
  • New Jersey Council of Churches
Dale Truscott Fund
  • St. Paul’s Church
Urban Alternate Education Endowment Fund
  • Chad School Foundation
  • Ironbound Catholic Academy
  • Link Community School
  • Queen of Angels School
  • St. Francis Xavier School
  • St. Mary’s School
  • St. Michael’s School
  • St. Philip’s Academy
Anna G. Van Gilder Fund
  • Buckshutem United Methodist Church
Van Deusen Family Fund
  • 52nd Street Project Theater
Charles F. Wallace Memorial Fund
  • United Way of Millburn-Short Hills (5%)
  • YM/YWCA of Newark & Vicinity (25%)
  • United Way of Essex and West Hudson (70%)
Joseph N. & Edith C. Ward Fund
  • Haddonfield United Methodist Church
David O. Watkins Fund
  • Underwood Memorial Hospital
Eliza N. Watkins Fund
  • Kemble Memorial United Methodist Church
E. Olga Wesner Fund #1
  • Masonville-Rancocas United Methodist Church
E. Olga Wesner Fund #2
  • Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thelka Westervelt Fund
  • Englewood Public Library
Daniel J. Wilcox Camp Hope Fund
  • Jersey Battered Women’s Services
Harry Wild Fund #1
  • American Red Cross
Harry Wild Fund #2
  • Salvation Army North Bergen Area
Elizabeth Wilson Fund
  • Cedarwood Cemetery (interest only)
Thomas and Jane Wrigley Fund
  • Saint Joseph’s Wayne Hospital Foundation