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Grant Awards Selection Process Explained

The Pendleton Foundation Trust board members are sometimes asked how we determine what funds are available for grants each year. The process is that each January we determine what our total investments are at the end of the previous thirteen quarters and at our January board meeting we determine what percentage of this average amount we will make available for grants. This is
usually between four and one-half and five percent - depending on investments results. This tends to make the amount available more consistent than if we based it only on the previous year’s returns.

Using this process means we usually have between $160,000 and $200,000 available each year. We grant approximately one- half of
this amount in the spring and again in the fall. Oregon Community Foundation and other non-profits use a similar process.

Pendleton Foundation board members serve voluntarily without compensation and administrative costs run approximately six percent
of grants given annually. Compared to other non-profit organizations, this is a very low expense.
 

Grant Application Get the Pendleton Foundation Trust Grant application in PDF format.  The form can be filled in electronically and printed. 

Designated Grant Report Form Those organizations that received grant funds are to complete this form with an accounting of the funds spent.  Filing this form will close out the grant  with the Foundation.  It is recommended that you submit photos with this form so the Foundation can document the results of each project funded.

PFT helps start picture gallery at PHS - Spring 2011

Warberg Court at Pendleton High School is the venue for basketball games, assemblies and other civic events. It is the magnet for participants and visitors. The students felt that the entrance needed to stand out, to have a more distinctive, “cool” look. The Key Club, a PHS service group, undertook the project and decided that it would be appropriate and interesting to have a sports picture gallery line the hall facing the court entrance. The pictures would be action shops of all the many sports PHS offers, finished in canvas and in 18x24 frames. The professional quality of the project was helped with technical  advice from Tom Campbell of Northwest Mercantile Framing and Gallery. Photos on canvas require  special 8-9 mega pixel shots. Debbi Green, athletic trainer, provided much of the camera work. Each class at the high school contributed to the project. Contributions were gratefully received from the Pendleton Foundation Trust, Altrusa and Kiwanis Clubs. Seventeen pictures are already hung, with several more ready and more to be filmed . Eventually, about 30 pictures are planned to complete the gallery and make the walls a place of distinction and pride for Pendleton High School.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foundation Announces April 2012 Grants

The Board of Directors of the Pendleton Foundation Trust today announced allocations totaling  $82,830.00 to 13 community organizations and $2,250.00  to 7 memorial trust funds.

The seven-member Board of Directors recently met to consider applications at its annual meeting, reported Sharon Brown, Chairperson.  The Pendleton Foundation Trust uses the earnings from money donated to the trust by individuals, organizations and estates for its semi-annual grant allocations.

Grants Awarded by the Pendleton Foundation Trust, April 2012

Year Amount

Organization

 Description
       
April 2012      
       

 

 $19,500.00 VFW Let’er Buck Post #922 For materials to relocate the gas lines to underground and modify the shelter at Stillman Park.
       
  $5,300.00 PENDLETON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Toward the purchase of Chamber Master and Quickbooks Premier, a new internal organizational software system for a higher level of efficiency for chamber staff and local business.
       
  $7,000.00

CITY OF PENDLETON, PARKS DEPT

Toward the purchase of an outdoor movie screen, projector, DVD player and equipment to bring back the “Movies in the Park” summer series, which can be used at multiple venues and for many other projects.
       
  $4,746.00

SUNRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

To update the volleyball net system and purchase new volleyballs, which will benefit all volleyball programs at Sunridge.
       
  $443.90 McKAY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, PE DEPT To purchase a wireless microphone system.
       
       
  $350.04 SHERWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

To purchase two heavy duty custom mats for inside the two main entries at Sherwood.
       
  $10,185.00

PENDLETON LITTLE LEAGUE

To purchase a 120 ft long x 12 ft high batting cage to upgrade field #2.
       
  $10,375.00

PENDLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT 16-R

Toward construction of new concrete platforms with handicapped ramp for bleacher seating at Bob White Park.
       
  -$3,645.44

PENDLETON BABE RUTH ASSOC

 To purchase baseball player gear and field maintenance equipment for upkeep at Bob White Park.
       
  $5,000.00 PENDLETON HIGH SCHOOL Toward completion of the new lockers for the boys and girls locker rooms at the old gym.
       
  $9,285.00 PENDLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT 16-R/PHS To purchase 300 copies of the “Career Choices” textbook for the new freshman class, “Success 101.”
       
  $4,500.00 PIONEER RELIEF NURSERY To purchase toddler sized outdoor play equipment, with helmets, which includes trikes, picnic table and playhouse.
       
  $2,500.00 HOMESTEAD YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES, INC

To purchase a greenhouse for their youth program.  They will share extra produce with the local food bank, Senior Center and Pioneer Relief Nursery.     

 
       

The trust board also made the following allocations of earned income from special memorial trust funds, which totals $2,250.00:

$1,039.96 - Parks and Playgrounds Fund of the City of Pendleton;

$     47.47 - Roy Raley Memorial Fund of the City of Pendleton;

$   360.45 - Kilkenny Fund at Blue Mountain Community College Library;

$   151.20 - Donert Memorial Fund at Pendleton Public Library;

$    295.20 - Jack Mulligan Memorial Fund at Pendleton Public Library

$     62.10 - Woodmen of the World Fund at Pendleton Public Library;

$   293.62 - ANA Memorial Fund at Pendleton Public Library;

An additional $12,750.00 is given in scholarship awards, as follows:

$750.00 - Ole Groupe FFA Memorial Scholarship Fund for Pendleton High School FFAChapter, for an FFA student to attend the FFA National Convention.

 $1,000.00 - The Alan Wyland Memorial Scholarship Fund provides a scholarship to benefit a Pendleton High School student, with a preference for the study of music, which is also  a memorial fund of the Pendleton Foundation Trust.

 $5,000.00 - Jiggs and Maxine Fisk scholarship award

$5,000.00 - Pendleton Foundation Trust - two awards of $2,500 each.

 $1,000.00 - University of Oregon Alumni Assoc. - Let’er Duck Scholarship

 

The Trust Board of Directors also announced that memorial gifts and contributions were received by the Trust from November 2011 through April 2012 from individuals and civic organizations in memory of the following persons: Wesley Grilley, Ed Meyersick, LeRoy Johnson, Arthur Barrows, Robert Blanc, Joyce Knoll, Mike Tague, Lucile Stroble, Jim Eardley, John P. Adams, Wm. J. “Bill” Andrews, Penny Andrews, Leland Jones, Jane Collier, Jay Spratling, Don & Willie Mason, Dr. Jules Bittner, Mary Ellen Innes, Faber Dorough, Richard Helling, Robert “Bob” Collins, Patricia Erwin.

A gift to the Pendleton Foundation Trust is a tax-exempt contribution and may be mailed to the Pendleton Foundation Trust, P.O. Box 218, Pendleton, Oregon 97801.

Board members in addition to Sharon Brown, are  Dr. John McBee,  Ken Jackson,  Pat Terjeson, Ron Hughes, Kevin Hale and Brent Fife..  Jerri Bealer is the secretary for the Pendleton Foundation Trust and may be contacted at 541-276-3331.