FUND PROFILE

Wendy Munger & Leonard Gumport Endowment

The Wendy Munger & Leonard Gumport Endowment is an unrestricted fund that supports PCF’s local grantmaking and reflects the couple’s broad philanthropic commitment to education, the arts, and community well-being. As longtime Pasadena residents, they view PCF as a trusted way to support a wide range of local nonprofits through what they call “one-stop philanthropy.”

OVERVIEW

About the Fund

The Wendy Munger and Leonard Gumport Endowment is a Pasadena Community Foundation Endowment Builder fund and provides unrestricted support for PCF’s local grantmaking programs in the Pasadena area.

Wendy Munger served on the PCF board from 2005-2015. During that time, she noted, “We all have our favorite charities. They reflect our individual passions and our affiliations. Lenny and I get great satisfaction from supporting those charitable organizations and institutions with missions we believe in and leaders we trust. Our particular philanthropic focus has historically been support for education and the arts.”

“PCF provides an opportunity for us to stretch a bit in our giving and to support our local community as a whole. PCF makes grants to local organizations engaged in a wide variety of programs, including public health programs and those benefiting disadvantaged children, senior citizens, the homeless, and the disabled, as well as programs dedicated to education and the arts. A single gift to PCF supports many worthy nonprofits – one-stop philanthropy.”

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Grantmaking Impact

Through this fund, PCF has been able to

  • Provide sustained funding
  • Offer consistent financial support for our local grantmaking programs throughout Greater Pasadena.
  • Enhance community programs
  • Empower organizations to expand their services and reach more individuals in need.
  • Support flexibility
  • Allows PCF to direct resources when and where they are needed most, respond quickly to emerging needs, and fill funding gaps that restricted gifts can’t cover.

Contact Us

For more information about PCF giving opportunities, please contact
Pasadena Community Foundation
301 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 810
Pasadena, CA., 91101
626.796.2097
pcfstaff@pasadenacf.org