Funds at MGCF

We differentiate among our funds by geographic area because each community is distinctive. Any fund that serves the area in general or a specific location not included in the geographic areas is a Michigan Gateway fund.

Key:

U = Unrestricted Fund
D = Designated Fund
FI = Field of Interest Fund
S = Scholarship Fund
A = Agency or Organizational Fund
DA = Donor Advised Fund
SP = Special Project (Temporary)
NE = Non-endowed

Buchanan Area Funds

Ann Desenberg Fund (D)
Advanced Test Prep (NE)
B R & Marjorie Desenberg Fund for the Buchanan District Library (D)
Buchanan Area Fund (U)
Buchanan Area Senior Center Endowment (A) Buchanan Community Schools Foundation
Buchanan City Parks & Recreation Fund
Buchanan Class of 1974 Scholarship (NE) Buchanan Class of 1975 Scholarship (NE)
Buchanan Class of 1977 Scholarship (NE)
Buchanan Class of 1978 Scholarship (NE)
Buchanan Class of 1979 Scholarship (NE)
Buchanan Education Fund (FI)
Buchanan Garden Club (NE)
Buchanan Promise (S)
Buchanan Kickstart To Career Buchanan Summer Concert (NE) Buchanan Youth Fund (FI)

Buchanan-Galien Lions Club Edu. Fund (S)
Carol D. Baker Memorial Scholarship (S)
Catherine & Louis Desenberg Fund (DA)
Detgen Music Enrichment Fund (NE)
Ellis Memorial Scholarship Fund (S)
First Presbyterian Church Improvement Fund (D)
George & Lavonne Sullivan Endowment for Downtown Buchanan (D)
Hike for Higher Education Scholarship (S)
Ida L. Hacking Scholarship (S)
Janet Funk Racht Memorial Scholarship (S)
Janet L. Mottl Scholarship (S)
Jason Kuntz History Club Scholarship (S) John Beckwith Dale Memorial Fund
Mary Ella Powell Memorial Scholarship (S)
McClellan Buchanan Student Academic Enrichment
McCoy’s Creek Trail Fund (D)

Pears Mill Fund (D)
Raymond R. Ricordati, Jr. Lake Michigan College Memorial (S)
Redbud Area Ministries Endowment (A)
Roma Holmes Scholarship (S)
Roti Roti Art Center of Buchanan (E)
Rotzien Scholarship Fund (F)
Sandstrom/Falkenstein Family Fund (DA)
Schwartz Scholarship Fund (F)
Smith Scholarship Fund (S)
Strayer Family Fund (DA)
Thaddeus Russell Stephens Scholarship (S)
Trull Family Scholarship (S)
Unity Hospital Education Fund (FI)
Walkden Memorial Scholarship (S)
Walter E. Schirmer Buchanan District Library Fund (D)
Walter E. Schirmer, Jr. Fund (FI)
Walter E. Schirmer, Jr. Memorial Scholarship (S)


Niles Area Funds

Ann Coulston Memorial Scholarship
Ann S. Cone Fund Families and Youth
Baxter Memorial Scholarship
Brandywine Class of 1967 Memorial Scholarship
Brandywine Class of 1973 Alumni Scholarship
Brandywine Education Foundation Fund (NE)
Carol Thurston Scholarship
Contois Scholarship Dr. James M. & Leila F. Munro Scholarship
Fay Frazee Scholarship
Greater Niles Senior Center Endowment
Help for Homes Fund

James & Hannah Sarley Scholarship
Jane S. Davis Scholarship
Janet Long Brand Diewald Scholarship
Jay and Cecile McCombs Scholarship
Jeanne Griffin Scholarship
J.W. & Virginia Sarley Scholarship
Lakeland Healthcare Auxiliary Endowment (A)
Low Family Community Improvement Fund (NE)
Mahlon J. & Thelma C. Smith Fund
Mary Swan Scholarship (S)
Niles Area Fund

Niles District Library Endowment
Niles Education Fund
Niles Music Club Fund
Niles Youth Fund
O.W. Coolidge Scholarship
Ralph & Margaret Vosburgh Family Memorial Scholarship Schimmel Family Fund (S)
Stephen Tyler Memorial Scholarship
Terrill Alan Powell Musical Education Fund Thomas A. Roberts Memorial Scholarship (S) United Way of Greater Niles & Southwest Michigan Endowment


Cass County Community Funds

Caryl Beck-Miller Pets Alive Scholarship
Cass County Community Fund
Cass County Council on Aging Endowment
Cass County Fair Association Endowment
Cass County Mental Health Foundation Fund (NE)
Cass County Youth Fund Cass District Library Capital Fund
Cass District Library Endowment
Cassopolis Schools Foundation Fund (E)
Cassopolis Schools Foundation Fund (NE)
Diamond Lake Youth Sailing Fund (NE)

Diamond Lake Youth Sailing Fund (E)
Dowagiac Area Historical Fund (E) Helen Indergard and Dale Cropsey Education Scholarship
Helen Singer Memorial Scholarship
Heritage Southwest Intermediate School District Endowment
Joseph Norton Sheteron Memorial Scholarship
Leland and Robert Alexander Memorial Fund
LifeCare Ambulance Service Endowment
Lloyd Bywaters Memorial Scholarship (NE) Lyons Family Reading Program (NE)

Marabeth Wright Memorial Scholarship Marcellus Area Emergency Services Fund
Marcellus Township Hudson Memorial Building Fund
Marcellus Township Wood Memorial Library Fund
Newberg Fire and EMS Association Fund
Partnership for MEANDRS Fund
Rev. William Carl & Myrtle A. Schilling
Memorial Education Endowment
Sam Adams Backpack Program Fund (NE) Underground Railroad Society of Cass County
Woodhouse Family Fund


Michigan Gateway (MGCF) Funds

Active Community Life Fund AJ Smith Memorial Scholarship Allied Heath Scholarship Fund
Ann Desenberg Fund for Fernwood
Berrien County Cancer Service Endowment
Bill Weaver Memorial Scholarship
Corrie Listenberger Bair Memorial Fund Denise Peters Camp Eberhart Scholarship Fund (S)
Dick Conrad Memorial Scholarship Fund DLYC YMCA (Cassopolis) Swim Scholarship
Fernwood Education Fund
Galien Ambulance Scholarship Galien Twp. School District Scholarship

George W. Romney Endowment Healthy Youth Healthy Seniors Fund IN-MI River Valley Trail Fund (NE)
IN-MI Trail Be Healthy Berrien (NE)
Kathy’s Garden Fund (Fernwood)
Lake Michigan SteamWorks Lee F. Auble Memorial Scholarship Fund (S)
Lucille B. Coles Fund for the Niles-Buchanan YMCA
Mahlon J. and Thelma C. Smith YMCA Capital Fund Marcellus Swim Scholarship Maudie Smith-Roberts Memorial Scholarship Fund (S)
Michigan Gateway Administrative Fund Michigan Gateway General Fund

Michigan Gateway Youth Fund Michigan Nature Association Endowment Midge & Tim Tyler YMCA Mem. Endowment
Niles-Buchanan Rotary Scholarship
Niles-Buchanan YMCA Endowment (A)
Raymond E. Babcock Memorial Scholarship
Ross Sanders Renovation Fund
Semper Fi/Corporal Ian Stewart USMC Memorial Scholarship (NE)
Spurgetis Family Fund (DA)