Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
INDIANAPOLIS - More than $490,000 was given away recently in grant money by the trustees of the Franklin I. and Irene List Saemann Foundation.
Grant requests must be submitted to the Foundation by April 1 of each year to be considered.
This year, the Foundation made numerous grants to benefit the citizens of Kosciusko County and the surrounding area. A total of $80,000 was contributed to the Warsaw and Kosciusko County area by the Foundation. These grants included:
• Cardinal Center, $15,000.
• Catherine Peachey Fund, $2,500.
• Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, $1,000.
• Health Care Foundation, $2,500.
• Heartline Pregnancy Center, $10,000.
• Kosciusko Community Senior Services, $10,000.
• Kosciusko Community YMCA, $1,500.
• Kosciusko County Community Foundation, $3,000.
• Kosciusko County Historical Society, $2,500.
• Kosciusko Literacy Services, $2,000.
• League for the Blind and Disabled Fort Wayne, $1,000.
• Mentone Senior Citizens Center, $2,000.
• North Webster Community Center, $5,000.
• North Webster/Tippecanoe Library, $5,000.
• Syracuse-Wawasee Park Foundation, $1,000.
• Teen Parents Succeeding, $1,000.
• United Way of Kosciusko County, $15,000.
The Franklin I. and Irene List Saemann Foundation was created by the Saemanns to benefit culture, education and health care.
The primary mission of the Foundation as established by the Saemanns is to support Wartburg College, a four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, founded by Irene List Saemann's grandfather, Georg Grossman.
The Foundation, in addition, regularly makes grants that benefit libraries, volunteer programs, hospitals, colleges and other organizations.
Franklin I. and Irene List Saemann were longtime residents of Warsaw and supporters of the community, so the trustees of the Foundation also take into consideration applications from Kosciusko County. Saemann was one of the pioneers of the orthopedic industries.
