The Galesburg Community Foundation has received their largest estate gift to date. President and CEO Josh Gibb shares how the $8.5 million gift will benefit the Galesburg Community Foundation and local organizations:
“Anna Sophia Johnson, she was a woman in Knox County, who has gifted us her estate to support the things that were really important to her. The idea of really providing resources the community foundation can address current needs and unknown needs, but also what was really important to her is the ability for the community foundation to own, operate, and use the income produced from the land that she gifted to the community foundation towards her charitable interests. The bulk of that gift was really ag land and so the community foundation has owned farmland since its’ inception and her gift doubles the amount of ag land that we have. As the crops are produced and sold on our behalf, we will then use the proceeds of that to support the things that Ms. Johnson chose.”
2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the Galesburg Community Foundation.
