About the Bowling Green Community Foundation
P.O. Box 1175
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402-1175
419-354-5521

The Bowling Green Community Foundation was established in 1994 by the Charter Class of leadership BG as one if its alumni projects. Founding members were instrumental in determining the name of the Foundation, its service area boundaries, its method of operation and its goals. It was also decided to align the Foundation with the Toledo Community Foundation for investment purposes but to maintain the Board’s control of fund raising and the distribution of funds. Dorothy and Ashel Bryan gave the Foundation Board $5,000 as seed money to start its operation. The Foundation has its own 501©(3) designation from the IRS, so that it might consider the possibility of a Bowling Green Community Foundation independent of the Toledo organization once its endowment reaches $3,000,000.

With the assistance of an anonymous donor’s gift of $25,000 and a legacy gift from John Davidson, the Board raised $100,000 by June 30, 1996. A plaque listing charter year donors is on display in the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce Office. The Foundation awarded its first grants to nonprofit organizations in 1997 and continues to do so annually in the spring of each year.

With encouragement from the Foundation Board, other Bowling Green nonprofit organizations have become part of the Foundation’s family funds whose money is invested and managed by the Toledo Foundation. You too may express your philanthropic interests by investing in the Bowling Green Community Foundation’s unrestricted fund or by establishing a fund of your own which expresses how you wish to improve the quality of life in the Bowling Green community. You may also choose to give to one of the already established funds.

For more information on giving, see our website pages on “Family of Funds,” “How to Contribute,” or “Choosing an Option for Giving.”