Connecting personal values to high-impact opportunities.

By establishing a Field of Interest Fund, you can target your gift to address needs in an important area of community life - Arts, Aging, or At-risk youth. You identify your personal interest area when making your gift; our board awards grants to community organizations and programs that are making a difference in the area you select. Your gift stays flexible enough to meet community needs in your interest area — even as they change over time.

Field of Interest Funds address needs in an area of community life – such as the arts, elderly care, at-risk youth, or environmental preservation – that are important to the donor. Personal interest areas are identified when the fund is established. The Springfield Foundation then awards grants to community organizations and programs making a difference in the areas selected by the donor.

• The Ralph L. Barlow Cancer Care Fund - 1981
• The Ralph L. Barlow Handicapped Children & Mentally Retarded Assistance Fund - 1981
• The Clark County Community Fund for Animals - 2008 (via the Last Will and Testament of Isabelle F. Preston) 
• The Clark County Community Fund for Arts and Culture - 2002  
• The Clark County Community Fund for Civic Affairs - 2002
• The Clark County Community Fund for Conservation and the Environment - 2002
• The Clark County Community Fund for Education - 2002
• The Clark County Community Health Fund - 2002
• The Clark County Community Human Services Fund - 2002   
• The Dorothy Ella Dowell Fund - 1997
• The Robert M. Farish Family Building Trades Fund - 2002
• The Greater Springfield Day Care Center Children’s Fund - 2000
• The Sylvia K. Mendelson Fund - 1989
• The Hilda H. Seaman Memorial Fund - 1993
• The Springfield Children’s Zoo Fund - 1976
• The Louise Staley Fund - 1989
• The Howard L. Templin Endowment Fund - 2003