You can give to any of our already established funds and their causes listed on this page.

*Legacy Fund(s)

**Fund of the Yolo Community Foundation

  • 2020 Census Yolo County Operations
  • Anonymous (3)* Fund
  • Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship Fund: This scholarship will support students who attended Fairfield Elementary School in Davis, California with their continuing education into and through adulthood, be it university, college, trade school, or other relevant educational endeavor.
  • Bob Morris Family Community Fund: To provide high school scholarship funds, particularly students with an interest in science, music, and agriculture.
  • Buck Education Fund**: The Buck Education Fund provides grants in Yolo County to enhance and develop local science, technology, engineering, arts and math programs, also known as STEAM, support parent engagement efforts, and grow literacy programs for youth from pre-school through high school.
  • Burns-Bellhorn Scholarship Fund: This fund was established to benefit further education to a Winters High School senior to encourage and assist their participation in making the world a better Place. Applicants must be a Winters High School senior planning on attending a Junior College, Trade, Technical, or vocational school with a career goal of becoming a tradesman, business person or entrepreneurial fund general charitable purposes.
  • Cache Creek Conservancy Reserve Fund: The reserve fund is set up to meet the future needs of the organization.
  • Cache Creek Nature Preserve Endowment Fund: The fund supports the development, operation, and maintenance of the Jan T. Lowrey Cache Creek Nature Preserve.
  • Cary Family Fund: General charitable giving, including arts, education, environmental, and human service organizations.
  • Chan Family Fund: This fund supports general charitable purposes.
  • Charles W. Cunningham & Deborah L. Dunham Family Fund: This fund supports animal, cultural, educational, health, religious, and/or social service organizations in the United States.
  • Cone Family Fund: This fund is for general charitable purposes.
  • David and Margret Gerriets Family Fund*: This fund provides for the following agencies: Yolo Hospice, Suicide Prevention Services, Grace-In-Action, Davis Community Meals, Davis Schools Foundation, and the Yolo SPCA.
  • Davis Arts Center Long-Term Investment Fund: This fund supports the Davis Arts Center’s mission to provide a gathering place for dynamic engagement with the arts. Through multidisciplinary classes and programs for the regional community, the Arts Center inspires creative expression in people of all ages and fosters an environment for the arts to flourish.
  • Davis Recreation and Community Services Program Fund: This fund provides long term, consistent source of financial support for the City of Davis Community Services division, including but not limited to, assisting with ongoing operational costs for recreation, community and social services programs.
  • Davis Senior Services Endowment Fund: This fund provides long term and consistent source for financial support for the City of Davis Senior Services Division, including but not limited to, supporting and promoting the ongoing activities, services and facilities associated with the City of Davis Senior Center.
  • Davis Senior Services Improvement Fund: This fund provides long term, consistent source of financial support for the City of Davis Senior Services division, including but not limited to, assisting with ongoing capital maintenance needs, facility improvements, and special projects desired at the City of Davis Senior Center and its associated programs and services.
  • Donna and Nicole Douglass Family Fund*: This fund provides support for charitable organizations providing care and services for the elderly (such as but not limited to, Meals on Wheels) and animals. The annual spendable portion of the fund shall be allocated evenly between the two fields of interest.
  • Friends of Yolo County Archives
  • Friends of the Yolo Community Foundation**: This fund supports operating expenses of the Yolo Community Foundation (YCF) as recommended by the YCF Advisory Board.
  • Gollober Family Fund*: This fund is to benefit designated organizations.
  • Hay Family Fund
  • Hewitt Family Fund: This fund is for general charitable purposes.
  • Jack D. Forbes Endowment Fund: This fund is to continue and perpetuate the work and legacy of Native American scholar, historian, and activist Jack D. Forbes to support indigenous language revitalization, environment issues, traditional practices, historical research, and sovereignty issues.
  • Jack D. Forbes Fund: This fund is to continue the work and legacy of Native American scholar, historian, and activist Jack D. Forbes to support indigenous language revitalization, environment issues, traditional practices, historical research, and sovereignty issues.
  • Joan Q. Hogan Endowment**: This fund is to support Yolo County well into the future through grants to Yolo County organizations and support for operating expenses related to such work.
  • Julia R. Millon Memorial Scholarship: The Julia R. Millon Memorial Scholarship was created to honor the spirit of Julia Millon, a Winters resident who was dedicated and passionate about all of the activities that encompassed her existence, especially life outdoors, ultra trail running, reading, writing, science, health and well being. Julia graduated from Winters High School in 2008 and UC Berkeley in 2012. Julia’s family hopes that scholarship recipients will share Julia’s dedication, resolve and selflessness.
  • Lew Franck Family Fund: This fund helps protect or restore the environment (lakes, rivers, wetlands and open spaces in Yolo and El Dorado County), as well as to help meet future needs of Yolo County.
  • Martha S. West Fund: This is for general philanthropy.
  • Parro Family Fund for the Arts*: This fund supports art organizations in Yolo County, including all types of visual and performing arts.
  • Paul Makley Memorial Scholarship: This fund supports post-high school education via an annual scholarship to a graduating senior at Davis Senior High School.
  • Putah Creek Council Endowment Fund: This fund supports the mission of the Putah Creek Council to protect and enhance Putah Creek and its tributaries through advocacy, education and community-based stewardship.
  • Putah Creek Expendable Fund: This fund supports the mission of the Putah Creek Council to protect and enhance Putah Creek and its tributaries through advocacy, education, and community based stewardship.
  • Richard and Kyoko Luna Family Fund: This fund is for general charitable purposes.
  • Robin Kulakow & Bill Julian Family Fund: This fund is for general charitable purposes.
  • Robin Kulakow & Bill Julian Fund for Yolo Basin Foundation: This fund supports the Robin Kulakow Fellowship Program at the Yolo Basin Foundation.
  • Roy and Cynthia Kroener Family Scholarship: This fund provides scholarships to qualified students from Davis Senior High School to pursue higher education.
  • Sandeen Swingle Family Fund: This fund provides program and operational support to nonprofits selected by the advisors.
  • Sandronsky-Hirsch Family Fund: This fund supports the arts, education, environment and social services and other organizations that will continue to make this a great place to live and work.
  • Stallard Family Fund: This fund supports the arts, education, the environment, and other charitable purposes.
  • Stephens DeWall County Library Staff Fund: This fund supports the Yolo County Library (YCL) employees by funding staff development events and opportunities to celebrate and honor the good work of YCL employees.
  • The Bernd Crasemann and Joan Machlis-Crasemann Civil Fund: This fund is for general charitable purposes.
  • The Dr. Robert and Joanne Andresen Foundation
  • Valley Elderberry Beetle Mitigation Fund: This fund is to support the Habitat Manager in furtherance of the long-term stewardship of the Property in accordance with the Biological Opinion and the LTMP.
  • Vandergriff Brent Family Fund: Generally, this fund assists underprivileged children and families in the community and beyond, and especially to assist with higher educational opportunities.
  • Weiss Family Fund: This fund provides charitable support to organizations that provide service to those in need and other causes that improve the quality of life.
  • Western Yolo Recreation and Aquatic Fund: This fund supports the annual operations and maintenance of the Aquatic Recreation, a 10 acre public park and swimming pool in Esparto, CA and to support future infrastructure improvements and repairs of the park facility and grounds.
  • Wide, Wide World Fund: This fund promotes educational and cultural enrichment for students in Winters schools that will open a wider world to them. Monies from this fund may also be used to support the Burns-Bellhorn Scholarship Fund.
  • William and Nancy Roe Fund: This fund is for general philanthropy.
  • Winters Senior Fund: This fund supports seniors activities and facilities in Winters and other related purposes.
  • Woodland Schools Foundation Endowment Fund
  • Woodland Shakespeare Club: This fund is for the general operation of the Woodland Shakespeare Club.
  • Yolo County CASA: This fund contributes to Yolo County CASA operations/programs.
  • Yolo County Children’s Alliance Charitable Fund: This fund supports the mission of the Yolo County Children’s Alliance to assess, coordinate, and act to strengthen and support the continuum of prevention and intervention services and resources of children, youth and their families.
  • Yolo County Community Impact Fund**: This fund supports grantmaking to Yolo County nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to arts and cultures, basic human needs, education and community health, environment, and YoYoSA grants, as recommended by the Yolo Community Foundation Advisory Board.
  • Yolo County Historical Society Fund: This fund supports the mission of the Yolo County Historical Society through charitable and education programs and historical preservation. The society discovers, collects, preserves, and furthers knowledge of Yolo County history.
  • Yolo County Library Foundation: This fund enhances the ability of the Yolo County Library to provide library services to the county’s diverse and widespread population by raising funds and increasing public awareness.
  • Yolo Food Bank Endowment for Poverty
  • Yolo Youth Service Award (YoYoSa)**: This program is designed to promote and reward Yolo County youth volunteering with local nonprofit organizations, and encourage Yolo County nonprofits to engage with youth volunteers. Yolo Community Foundation is proud to recognize tomorrow’s leaders in local philanthropy.