Community Foundation of the Ozarks
425 E Trafficway St, Springfield, MO 65806, USA
https://www.cfozarks.org/
(417) 864-6199
Community Foundation of the Ozarks (CFO)’s mission is to enhance the quality of life in our region.
CFO pursues their mission through resource development, community grantmaking, collaboration and public leadership — connecting passion to purpose since 1973.
In the early 1970s, a group of estate-planning attorneys learned of a sizeable estate gift that left Springfield because there wasn’t a place here to accept a general gift for community betterment. Those 11 founders, supported by then-Springfield Mayor Jim Payne and businesswoman Anne Drummond, created the region’s first public charitable foundation in 1973.
Today, the CFO is governed by community volunteers and run by a professional staff that serves a network of donors, regional affiliate foundations, nonprofit partners and professional advisors through approximately 3,500 charitable funds.
Hours
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
