The Fremont Area Community Foundation

The Fremont Area Community Foundation is a public charity and community foundation serving the Newaygo County, Michigan area. The mission of the Foundation is to improve the quality of life for the people of Newaygo County.

The Foundation started as the private Fremont Foundation in 1951. Twenty years later the Foundation was reorganized into its current legal structure as a public community foundation.

The Foundation is comprised of more than 400 separate funds, including two supporting organizations and three geographic affiliates, the Mecosta County Community Foundation, the Osceola County Community Foundation, and the Lake County Community Foundation.

Since 1972, the Foundation has received $60 million in gifts and made $166 million in grants to benefit the Newaygo County area, a 276% return on donors’ gifts. The net value of the Foundation’s endowment funds was $171 million as of December 2009.

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