Matching Gift Opportunities

We love this busy time of the year at the Community Foundation! There are so many giving opportunities to strengthen the communities in the Fox Valley region with charitable gifts, and many organizations are offering to double the impact of your donations by offering dollar-for-dollar matches:

Matching Gift Opportunities:

• Apricity: An anonymous donor has given an additional $10,000 to Apricity’s $15,000 match! All donations will be doubled through January 15, 2023.
• Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass: Donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $40,000 through January 7.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Central Wisconsin: CoVantage Cares Foundation will match all donations up to $10,000 November 29 through December 13. Donations can be made inside a CoVantage Credit Union branch, or by mailing a check to the CoVantage Cares Foundation at 625 Deerwood Ave. Neenah, WI 54956.
• Boys & Girls Club of the Fox Valley: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $100,000, through December 31. 
• Building for Kids Children’s Museum: J.J. Keller Foundation, Inc., is matching $30,000 with up to $1,000 per donor for contributions made to the Rochelle Lamm Building for Kids Fund Endowment Designated to Support Access Scholarships. The Doug & Carla Salmon Foundation within the Community Foundation is matching $30,000, no minimum donation required, for contributions made to the Building for Kids Endowment Fund, designed to support critical operations of the museum. November 10 through December 31. 
• CASA of the Fox Cities: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $20,000 through December 31.
• COTS, Inc.: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000 through January 10, 2023.  
• Empowered Tutoring: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $35,000 through December 31. 
• Fox Valley Humane Association: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000 through Jan. 14, 2023. 
• Fox Valley Literacy: New Leaf Paper is sponsoring a $5,000 challenge gift through December 31. 
• Friendship Place: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to a total of $2,000 through December 31.
• Gathering Waters: Wisconsin’s Alliance for Land Trusts: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000 on Giving Tuesday (November 29), and through December 31 for our year-end appeal for a total of $20,000 in matching donations. 
• Girls on the Run of Northeast Wisconsin: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to a total of $5,000 through December 31. 
• Greater Fox Cities Habitat Area for Humanity: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000 through December 31. This gift is made possible through a generous donation from the Acts 20:35 Family Foundation within the Community Foundation. 
• Hearthstone Historic House Museum: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000 through December 31.
• Humane Society of Waupaca County: All donations $30 and over will be matched up to $10,000 by an anonymous donor. Mail donations to: HSWC, 2293 Commercial Dr., Waupaca WI 54981, or give online. Designate your donation to “Holiday Appeal” Through December 31. 
• Linwood Community – Fox Valley Lutheran Homes: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000 through December 31. 
• Navarino Nature Center: All donations up to $10,000 will be matched through December 31.
• Neenah Animal Shelter: All donations from our Giving Tuesday (November 29) and holiday appeal will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $40,000 through December 31. 
• NEWVoices: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $10,000 through December 31. 
• Pillars: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $35,000, thanks to a matching gift from SECURA. From Nov. 29 through December 28.  
• Reach Counseling Services: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $20,000 thanks to the generosity of Mary Beth Neinhaus and the Otto Bremer Trust, through December 31.
• St. Joseph Food Program: Donations to the Backpack Program will be matched up to $2,500 through December 16.
• Samaritan Counseling: Miller Electric/ITW will match $10,000 of donations through December 31. 
• SPIRITUS: All donations will be matched up to $100,000 through December 31.
• Tri-County Dental Clinic: All gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $45,000 through December 31.
• United Hmong American Association: All donations doubled up to $16,000 through December 31.  
• Vida Medical Clinic and Support Services: Thanks to a generous anonymous donor, all donations to Vida will be matched, dollar-for-dollar, up to $25,000 through December 31.
• White Lake Preservation Association: All donations will be matched up to $15,000 through December 31. 
• WisconSibs: Donations doubled up to $25,000. November 12 through December 31. 
• YMCA of the Fox Cities: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $20,000 through November 30.
• Youth Go: All donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $20,000 through December 31. 

Would you like to make a year-end gift using your fund at the Community Foundation? Talk with your Donor Services contact and make your gift before our recommended December 19 deadline to ensure your transaction is processed by the end of the year.

Doubling impact with Red Kettles

Our Community Foundation Salvation Army – Fox Cities’ Match Day was on Friday, December 2. A huge thanks to many generous donors with funds at the Community Foundation who will match all funds raised that day up to $51,000. We’ve listed them below.  

Last year’s 2021 campaign received $60,344 – a new record! Thank you to all who donated. These red kettle donations will be used by the Salvation Army to provide year-round services such as its daily meal program, food pantry, transitional housing, and rent/utility assistance. The organization also provides toys, food baskets, and gifts to families in need at Christmas. 

Our regional affiliate partner, Brillion Area Family of Funds, held its Red Kettle Match on two upcoming Saturdays thanks to The Robert & Patricia Endries Family Fund, which matched up to $10,000 for donations at Tadych’s Marketplace Foods (formerly Econo Foods), on Saturday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 10. 

Thank You!

A huge thanks to the donors connected to the 23 funds that combined their gifts to make a difference in our community in the year ahead! We want to recognize who contributed to the 2022 Red Kettle Match Day to make our December event possible:

• BRPM Fund 
• DeKeyser Family Fund 
• Ellen J. and Warren E. Franzke Fund  
• Ellen J. and Warren E. Franzke Fund II 
• Fred & Theo Grupe Charitable Fund 
• Col. Harold L. and Esther Graef Hamilton Fund 
• Helen Hardt Family Fund 
• Don and Betty Jabas Fund 
• Quentin Kuenzli Charitable Fund  
• Joseph and Phyllis Linder Family Fund 
• Mel W. and Dal C. Rausch Fund 
• James R. Reichel Charitable Fund 
• Estelle Ray Reid Fund 
• Alexander and Lucille Rudolf Family Fund 
• George and Jessie Rushton Charitable Fund 
• R W Charitable Fund 
• Salmon Foundation Fund for Salvation Army of the Fox Cities 
• Winton A. and Ruth M. Schumaker Fund 
• SECURA Insurance Companies Charitable Fund 
• Harley and Cody Splitt Charitable Fund 
• Helen and John Streur Fund 
• Hugo F. and Vera M. Wimmer Family Fund 
• Phyllis I. Wormwood Fund