About Us
The Community Foundation of Tompkins County is dedicated to working with all people committed to local philanthropy and civic engagement as a means to enhance the quality of life for all who live in, work in, and love Tompkins County.
Community Impact
The Community Foundation of Tompkins County awards grants with the expectation of specific results to those groups whom we believe will make the differences we desire to see in our community.
Our History
In early 1999 a group of concerned citizens gathered to discuss ways of creating a community foundation to serve as the philanthropic center for Tompkins County and for those wishing to support and enhance the quality of life for all who live and work here.
Our Community
At the beginning of recorded time, the area that we today call Tompkins County was home of the Cayugas, one of the five nations of the Haudenosaunee or the “People of the Longhouse,” also known as the Iroquois Confederacy.
