Named Endowment Funds
The Society is grateful to the donors who have established more than 126 endowment funds. Named funds are invested separately and can be created with a commitment or gift of $50,000 or more. Pooled funds are invested with other endowment gifts to support a general program area or historic site. Pooled funds can be created with a gift or commitment of $10,000 or more. Funds starred were newly created during fiscal year 2009. For more information on setting up a fund, please call 651-259-3121.
UNRESTRICTED
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund (3)
The
Terry and Sharon Avent Fund
The Julian B. Baird Fund
The Isabella
and Leo Capser Fund
The Anna E.R. Furness Fund
The Marshall R.
and Elizabeth Hatfield Fund
The Donald and Gladys Henslin Fund
The
Helen Henton Fund
The Waring Jones Fund*
The Helen Katz Fund
The
Elsie A. Keasling Fund
The Fred and Elvina Mathison Fund
The Donald
and Alice McIlrath Fund
The Raleigh P. and Barbara B. Nelson Fund
The
Glen and Inez Oehlke Family Fund
The E.M. Pearson Foundation Fund
The
Julien Petit Fund
The Paul and Carolyn Verret Fund
COLLECTIONS
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund (2)
The
T.R. Anderson Rare Collections Acquisitions Fund
The Ballinger/Boeder
Fund for Collections and Historic Sites
The Arthur Franklin Bergstrom
Fund for Collections
The Josephine L. Darling Fund for Preservation
of Manuscripts
The Lila Johnson Goff Collections Endowment Fund
The
Loris Sofia Gregory Art Fund
The F.T. Gustavson Fund for Museum Collections
The
David and Kim Hakensen Fund for Collections*
The Ronald and Margaret
Hubbs Collection Acquisition Fund
The Carl and Helen Winton Jones Fund
for Archives and Manuscripts
The Herschel V. Jones Collections Acquisitions
Fund
The Jean R. Ljungkull Textile Fund
The Lydia Lucas Fund for
Archives and Library Processing
The Roger Preuss Fund for the Arts*
The
Louise D. Rose Fund for Processing
The Sibley Flandrau Stewart Fund
for Museum Collections
The Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Rare Books Fund
The
Henrietta W. Willius Conservation Fund
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The John Nelson Fund
For U.S./Dakota War and Civil War Collections*
The Dr. Patrick O’Dougherty
Fund for Collections*
EDUCATION
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund (2)
The
Marybeth Nelson Fund for Education
The Noel Fund for History Players
The
Jon A. and Delores J. Roeder Fund for Education
The Otto and Martha
Schmaltz Education Fund
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund*
EXHIBITIONS
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund
The George
W. Wells, Jr., and Mary Cobb Wells Exhibition Fund
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund
The Horace
F. and Esther J. Chamberlain Fund for Historic Preservation
The Mary
E. Lahiff Historic Preservation Fund for Buildings in Minneapolis
The
Charlie Nelson Fund for Historic Preservation
HISTORIC SITES – GENERAL SITES
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Richard and Shirley DeLeo
Fund for Historic Sites
The Gerald W. and Victoria K. Johnson Fund
for Historic Sites
The Vera Stanton Memorial Fund
The Women's
Organization of the Minnesota Historical Society Historic Sites Enhancement
Fund
HISTORIC SITES – SPECIFIC SITES
COMSTOCK HOUSE
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Comstock Memorial Fund for
the Comstock House
The Hiram M. and Ada Drache Fund for the Comstock
House*
FOREST HISTORY CENTER
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Evelyn Robinson Fund for
the Forest History Center
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Richard and Carol
Stahl Fund for the Forest History Center
JAMES J. HILL HOUSE
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Elisabeth W. Doermann Fund
for the James J. Hill House
The Janet L. Erickson Hill House Fund
The
Gertrude Hill Boeckmann Ffolliott Fund for the James J. Hill House
HISTORIC FORESTVILLE
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Florence Donohue Fund for
Historic Forestville
HISTORIC FORT SNELLING
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund
The Noel
Ann Ryan Fund
The Joseph and Marie Winter Fund for Historic Fort Snelling
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Agnes Gerlach Fund
for Historic Fort Snelling
The Robert Loring Jackson Fund for Historic
Fort Snelling
CHARLES A LINDBERGH HISTORIC SITE
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Charles A. Lindbergh Historic
Site Endowment Fund
MILLE LACS INDIAN MUSEUM
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Harry D. and Jeannette Ayer
Fund for the Mille Lacs Indian Museum
MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY HISTORIC SITES
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Nel Schweiss Fund for Minnesota
River Valley Historic Sites
ALEXANDER RAMSEY HOUSE
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Alexander Ramsey House Historic
Site Endowment Fund*
SIBLEY HOUSE HISTORIC SITE
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Dorothy M. Bennett
Fund for Historic Sibley House
The Robert and Marveen Minish Fund for
the Sibley House
SPLIT ROCK LIGHTHOUSE
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Allan L. Apter and
Brenda J. Ion Fund for Split Rock Lighthouse
The Odyssey Development
Corporation Fund
HISTORICAL SUBJECT FUNDS
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund*
The Eugenie
M. Anderson Women in Public Affairs Fund
The Atherton and Winifred
(Wollaeger) Bean Fund for Business History
The James Taylor Dunn Fund
for St. Croix Valley History
The Harriet Thwing Holden Fund for American
Indian History
The Ken and Nina Rothchild Fund for Business History
and Women's History
The Joseph and Josephine Ruttger Descendants Fund
The
John, Bernice and Judy Schwartau Fund for Agriculture and Rural Life
LIBRARY PROGRAMS
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund*
The Dorothy
Hagen Kettner Fund for Library and Archives
The William H. Likins Memorial
Library Fund
The Peg Meier Fund for Publications and the Library*
MILL CITY MUSEUM
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund (5)
The
Ed and Elly Asplin Fund for Mill City Museum
The Charles H. and Lucy
Winton Bell Endowment Fund
The Sage and John Cowles Fund
The David
and Barbara Koch Fund for the Mill City Museum*
The Harrison Hayes
Whiting Fund
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund
The
G. Richard Slade Fund for Mill City Museum
MINNESOTA’S GREATEST GENERATION
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund
ORAL HISTORY
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Rodney N. Searle Fund for Oral History
PHOTOGRAPHY
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Virginia P. Moe Fund for the Acquisition and Preservation of Historic Photographs
PROCESSING
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Kathryn A. Johnson Fund for Manuscript Processing
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund
PUBLICATIONS
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
The Elmer L. and Eleanor Andersen
Publications Fund
The June D. Holmquist Publications and Research Fund
The
Frank Dowding Mirador Fund for the Minnesota History Quarterly Journal of
the Minnesota
Historical Society
The Henry and Donna Morgan
Fund for Research and Publications
SPECIAL FUNDS
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund
The Earl
E. Bakken Fund for Creativity and Innovation
The Charles E. Flandrau
Research Leave Fund
The Mavis E. Hogan Fund for Genealogical Research
The
Lenore Jesness Fund for Genealogical Research
The Kuhrmeyer Family
Fund for Information Technology
The Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Fund
The
Betty Scandrett Oehler Fund
The Stans Lectureship Fund
STATEWIDE OUTREACH
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund
The Jean
and Frank Chesley Fund for Local and County Historical Societies
The
George W. Neilson Fund for Northwestern Minnesota
The John Newton and
Julia Morrow Peyton Fund
NAMED POOLED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
An Anonymous Fund
