2020 in the Rearview Mirror – The Pacific Community Foundation looks back on 2020…and forward to 2021

Wreath designed by Todd Wiegardt

Philanthropy helps communities weather tough times.  Your financial support provides essential funds to local organizations when there are gaps between needs and services. 

In the year 2020, as community resources were being stretched beyond the breaking point, our friends and neighbors made the gifts that made the difference.

Pacific Community Foundation (PCF) Notables for 2020:

• Donations to the PCF in 2020 totaled $125,160.  This is a foundation record! Most of the donations this year went right back out to local organizations, rather than going to endowments. Endowments are our long term capital-building strategy. Of  $733,000, 80% is in endowments. In 2020, 57% of donations went right to the organizations that need this most. 

• 200 donors, of which 162 are new donors (both are foundation records!) gave their support to community organizations through PCF in the past year.

• Donations to the PCF Holiday Grant Catalog* totaled $31,070; nearly twice the amount the catalog received in 2019. Donations provided critical year-end funds to 11 participating local organizations.

• $40,336 was raised from March – December through PCF Critical Funds*. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic PCF established seven Critical Funds. Donors fund services that keep our neighbors safe and in their homes, the local animal shelter operational, our community food banks open and more. 

Our seven Critical Funds REMAIN open and are accepting donations because the Covid-19 pandemic is still with us and the need continues to grow. Visit the PCF website for more information: Link: https://spccf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/list.

To the big-hearted individuals and the hard-working organizations in our community – there are not enough ways to say THANK YOU.  PCF is dedicated to doing our part to help our communities survive and be stronger in 2021 and for years to come.  

* PCF pays the credit card fees and waives the administration fees for our Critical Funds and bi-annual grant catalogs (Holiday and Spring) – so, every dollar raised via those activities goes to local organizations.