Restricted Funds Overview & Guidelines

Founders Society
The Founders Society is a group of people past and present, who want to see the Hancock Turfgrass Research Center equipped with the necessary equipment for research. 

LaFontaine Endowment Fund
The LaFontaine Endowment Fund was created to establish a source of funding for basic research in the field of turfgrass science.  Basic research tends to be longer term, more involved and more expensive than applied research, and seeks to address research issues of long-term significance. 

Professor's (Rieke) Endowment Fund
This fund was originally begun to support a graduate student at MSU in turfgrass science from the interest earned on the principal.

The Michigan Turfgrass Foundation accepts gifts and pledges via cash, check or credit card for the Annual Fund or any of the three endowed funds. The MTF can also accept planned or immediate gifts from estates, insurance, real estate, stocks, bonds and other negotiable securities for any fund.  The MTF can also work with donors through the MSU Foundation to set up a variety of trusts.  The MTF is a 501c3 non-profit foundation.

Other Funds Related To Turfgrass, Not Managed By The MTF

Beard Endowment Fund
TGIF Library Fund
OJ Noer Slide Collection
Guyer-Seevers Endowed Chair

What is the role of the MTF in building these funds?
As a partner with MSU, the MTF will work to locate potential donors to these funds.