Our Funds
The Guelph Community Foundation is home to over 100 funds that support: arts & culture, health & wellness, children & youth, education, recreation, seniors, social services, the environment and animal welfare.
 
Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted funds provide us with the most flexibility in responding to community needs. Named funds can be established with a gift of $10,000 or emerging funds can be created with pledge commitments.
 
Donors interested in supporting future community needs are able to make a contribution of any size to our Guelph Community Foundation (GCF) Community Fund.
 
BDO Community Support Fund
Bonnie Ewen Fund
Clare & Shirley Rennie Family Fund for Literacy
GCF Community Fund
GCF Operating Sustainability Fund
Macquarie Private Wealth Fund
Meridian Credit Union Fund
Norman Earl Webb Fund
RLB LLP Community Fund
The Co-operators Fund
Tom Bird and Jay Elinesky Fund
William K. Greenaway & Anne C. Bawden Fund
 
Field of Interest Funds
A field of interest fund enables donors to identify an area of interest they would like to support (i.e. children, animal welfare, arts, environment, education, etc.).
 
Andy Lindsay Memorial Scholarship Fund
Camp Discover Fund
GCF Children & Youth Fund
GCF Environmental Legacy Fund
Jamie Vickery Memorial Fund
Mildred Christie Fund
William Darragh Gastle Endowment Fund
 
Donor Advised Funds
Donor advised funds allow donors to have ongoing participation in the selection of charities that will benefit from their gift.
 
Ages Foundation Fund
Cremasco Fund
Dianne Dance & Family Fund
Dr. Glenn D. Peirson Fund for the Arts
Dr. Griffith A.V. Morgan Fund
Kathie Deters Young Performers Fund
Ken Danby Legacy Fund
Koornstra Family Foundation Fund
Hugh and Lorna Guthrie Fund
Masquerade Fund
Musagetes Fund
Norman Earl Webb Fund
Paul J. Smith Memorial Fund
Peter Szkotnicki Legacy Fund
Tai Yu Fund
William & Leslie Mactaggart Fund
William D. Packham Fund
Designated Funds
This type of fund allows donors the opportunity to specify (at the time the fund is established) the charitable organization they wish to support in perpetuity.
 
175th Scholarship Fund
Angelo and Rina Longo Fund
Anne Hohenadel Fund
Bruce Graham Memorial Fund
Class of '71 Award in Memory of Kathryn Winegard Fund
Dr. Charles Pinch Fund
Dr. Harry Downie Memorial Fund
Guelph Chamber of Commerce Millennium Scholarship Fund
John A. Hourigan Memorial Fund
Ken Boyd Fund
Ken Hammill Operating Endowment Fund
Kiera Schneider Memorial Fund
Kimberly Thompson Memorial Fund
McKeough Taylor Fund
Nan Hogg Fund
Norval & Mary K. Richards Fund
OMS Graduate Scholarship in Industrial-Organizational Psychology Fund
Terry Doyle Scholarship Fund
Thelma Townsend Fund
Tom Incledon Memorial Award Fund
Valcom Employee Guelph Health Centres Benefit Fund
Wynne Townsend Christie Fund
 
Funds for Charitable Distribution   (term-endowed)
These funds have been placed with The Foundation for a period of 5-10 years.
 
Corinne Beingessner Fund
Mactaggart Family Fund
Wood Roberts Family Fund
 
Funds Held for Others              
(non-endowed closed funds)
These funds have been placed with The Foundation for long term investment by other charitable organizations.
 
The funds listed below are ‘closed funds’ and have donation restrictions. If you are interested in supporting any of these funds and/or organizations contact our office for information.
 
Cedarcliff Fund
Centre Wellington Community Foundation
Friends of the Public Library Fund
Guelph Community Health Centre Managed Fund
Guelph Girls Fastpitch Championship Fund
Ontario 4-H Foundation Endowment Fund
Ontario Dairy Youth Trust Fund
Upper Grand Learning Foundation Fund
 
Charitable Agency Endowment Funds
Charitable organizations establish permanent endowment funds to provide a source of income to carry out their work.
 
Anyone can make a gift to an agency fund in support of a specific local charitable organization.
 
AIDS Committee of Guelph & Wellington County Endowment Fund
Bruce Trail Conservancy Fund
Children's Foundation of Guelph & Wellington Fund
Elliot Forever Fund
Sam & Gary Zuber Onward Willow Endowment Fund
Guelph Arts Council Jane Graham Memorial Fund
Guelph Arts Council Youth Endowment Fund
Guelph Community Health Centre Endowment Fund
Guelph Museums Fund
Hillside Festival Endowment Fund
Hopewell Children’s Homes Fund
Hospice Wellington Fund
June McCann Fund
KidsAbility Fund
River Run Centre Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts
Trellis Mental Health & Development Services Endowment Fund
United Way of Guelph & Wellington 'Tomorrow Fund'
 
Flow-through Funds
(non-endowed short term funds)
Flow-through funds are distributed over a specific period of time and support immediate impact grants.
 
Bishop's Education Fund/ WCDSB
Cutten Club Fund
Dr. Jagjit S. Gadhoke Volunteer Development & Training Fund
Fathers Remembered by Daughters Fund
Guelph Mercury Kids-to-Camp Fund
Italian Canadian Club Fund
Janet Borg Memorial Foundation Fund
Kimberley Walker Fund
Nicholas Lambden Memorial Children's Foundation Fund
Ray Scapinello Foundation Fund
 

Gary & Wynne Christie
“We don’t want to just live in a community. We want to support it, participate in it, and help to strengthen it. The permanent funds we created have significant meaning to our family”.

~Gary & Wynne Christie, fund holders since 2004~

The Christie's established the Thelma Townsend Fund in memory of Wynne’s mother Thelma Townsend (supporting Guelph museums) and the Wynne Christie Townsend Fund (supporting Hospice Wellington).