Featured Funds

Orville Cotterman Charitable Fund 

This Fund provides operating funds to the Historical Society of Vandalia-Butler and Vandalia United Methodist Church. Orville Cotterman, a retiree of Frigidaire and a former Vandalia City councilman and School Board member, was a life-long resident of Vandalia until his passing in 2010.

Nancy Ellen Wegner Schumacher and Robert Frederick Schumacher Scholarship Fund

This fund helps students at Vandalia Butler High School pursue a degree in engineering, math or science. Robert Schumacher, a World War II veteran and manufacturing engineer for 30 years, retired from Chrysler Corporation in 1982. Nancy Schumacher worked as a chemist at General Motors until her marriage to Robert in 1953. During her years as a homemaker, she combined her chemistry experience with her love of cooking to develop new recipes.
 

Click here to see all of the Long Term Funds of the Vandalia-Butler Foundation. 
 

What is a Fund?

A FUND is the basic building block of a community foundation. Funds are named for their purposes, for their donors or as memorials. Most of the funds operate as perpetual endowments, distributing only their net income in the form of grants. Others distribute principal, either at specific times set forth at the fund’s creation or at the suggestion of the fund advisors. Almost any charitable purpose can be served through a fund within the Vandalia-Butler Foundation.

The funds described in this report have been created by individuals, businesses and organizations. They represent the growing history, begun in 1985, of the Vandalia-Butler Foundation and exemplify our donors’ commitment to society and to community philanthropy. The funds will continue to give, in our donors’ names, for generations to come.

Any individual, organization or business may make a contribution to these endowment funds. By making a contribution to an existing fund, a donor’s gift will join others for maximum charitable benefit.