Spring 2024

The Board of Directors of the Pendleton Foundation Trust approved allocations totaling $94,629.35, providing funding for eight community organizations and seven memorial trust funds. Recipients of current spring grants for 2024 include:

• Arts Council of Pendleton – $5,500 toward the replacement of an aging heating system.
• City of Pendleton, Parks & Recreation Department – $10,000 to purchase security cameras for the Recreation Center and the Aquatic Center.
• College Community Theatre – $8,500 toward upgrading sound equipment.
• Happy Canyon Foundation – $6,000 to support rebuilding the “Elk Area” of the Happy Canyon set.
• Homestead Youth & Family – $7,000 in support of an updated outdoor play and recreation area.
• Pendleton School District, McKay Elementary School – $9,859 for the purchase of 29 magnetic white boards.
• Pendleton School District, Sunridge Middle School – $7,850 to replace weight benches and floor mats, and to purchase dumbbells for P.E. classes.
• Pendleton FFA and Agriculture, Science Technology Program – $10,000 to support updates to the Land Lab Barn.

The board also allocated $20,000 to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 922 pending the approval of an amended proposal for a joint project with the City of Pendleton to secure the grills at Stillman Park, and $8,200 towards the establishment of an office for Pendleton Foundation Trust.

The following allocations were made of earned income from special memorial trust funds, which totals $1,720.35:

$795.15 – Parks and Playgrounds Fund of the City of Pendleton;

$36.30 – Roy Raley Memorial Fund of the City of Pendleton;

$275.60 – Kilkenny Fund at Blue Mountain Community College Library;

$115.61 – Donert Memorial Fund at Pendleton Public Library;

$225.71 – Jack Mulligan Memorial Fund at Pendleton Public Library

$47.48 – Woodmen of the World Fund at Pendleton Public Library;

$224.50 – ANA Memorial Fund at Pendleton Public Library;

An additional $33,100 will be given in scholarship awards, through memorial and designated funds managed by Pendleton Foundation Trust, as follows:

$6,000 – Pendleton Foundation Fisk Scholarship, $3,000 renewable for a second year.

$4,800 – Pendleton Foundation Trust Dudek Scholarship – two awards of $2,400 each, renewable for a second year.

$2,500 Pendleton Alumni Scholarship, renewable for up to four years total.

$ 1,000 – University of Oregon Alumni Assoc. – Let’er Duck Scholarship, awarded to a PHS graduate attending University of Oregon.

$2,000 – Ole Groupe FFA Memorial Scholarship Fund, for a Pendleton High School FFA student to attend the FFA National Convention.

$1,000 – The Alan Wyland Memorial Scholarship Fund provides a scholarship to benefit a Pendleton High School student, with a preference for the study of music.

$2,500 – David Jon Lindberg Memorial Scholarship for PHS graduates

$6,000 – Lee and Luella Dudek Memorial Scholarship (2 x $3,000 through EOU Foundation)