Looking to a Future Inspired by the Past
NICK OPINSKY is a senior development officer in institutional giving at American Jewish World Service, and a volunteer at several nonprofits. He has a field-of-interest fund in The Trust and is a member of our Legacy Society.
“My great-grandmother became financially independent at a young age and dedicated the rest of her life to giving back. It has always been my goal to follow in her footsteps and those of my ancestors who were instrumental in establishing some of the most important institutions in the fields of education, social justice, and the arts. Though the world is very different today, as I explore supporting groups working in LGBTQI rights, racial justice, and arts education, it still feels like I am following the path of those who came before me.
The fund that I set up with The Trust was the perfect philanthropic vehicle for me. It was a very simple process, but it led me to think about the legacy I could leave when I’m not here, even if that might be a very long time from now. It’s remarkably useful to have The Trust advise you on philanthropic goals even when you are doing it on a small scale. The goals that I set up for my fund were very broad, purposefully, because I recognize that the world can change.
As someone who had never really thought much about ‘estate planning,’ I think it’s great that The Trust makes starting a fund so easy and accessible. And the experience of thinking about the impact I want to have during and after my life has added another level of meaning and perspective to my daily work.
After I created a fund at The Trust, it gave me peace of mind. I felt prepared and grounded—that if something catastrophic happens, there is a plan in place that will continue to do good in my name, a living instrument to continue my legacy and help the causes that I really care about.”
Our Legacy Society brings together donors who want to make a permanent impact on the causes they care about most. The charitable goals of members of our Legacy Society are as diverse as the people of our city, but they’re linked together by their desire to create a better world for generations to come.
All donors who generously provide for permanent funds at The Trust, whether through wills, trusts, beneficiary designations, or who commit to leave a balance in their existing donor-advised funds to support our work, are invited to join the Legacy Society.
If you have included The New York Community Trust in your will or estate plans, or are considering doing so, we want to honor you in our Legacy Society.
For information about building your legacy, please contact Marie D’Costa at (212) 686-2461 or md@nyct-cfi.org.
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Donald Albrecht
Joseph Arena & Thomas D’Eletto
Steven Baum
Carol Berger
Steven D. & Amy Blecher
Barbara Block
Deborah T. Bloom
Lester Bower
Marcy Brownson
Richard Burgheim & Ricki Fulman Nelsen
Judith Byrd
Stephen & Emily Cahnmann
John Campbell
James Caras
Claire & Joseph Cohen
Ernest J. Collazo & Denice M. Collazo
David M. Conte & Suzanne C. Ouellette
Daniel I. Cotlowitz
Anne-Claude Cotty
John E. Covington
Marie D’Costa
Petra Danielsohn & Ana B. Salgado
Joan Delfino
William W. Donnell
Marsha Sheila Dorin
Jamie Drake
Jackie Dunbar
Barbara Dzubak
Linda A. Ellis
Lita & Walter Elvers
Hal M. Epstein
Charlotte Fischman
Dan Franklin
Joseph French Jr.
Patricia Galteri
Barry Garfinkel
Joseph Gelband
Rita Gilbert
Charlynn Goins
Robert Goldfarb
Gloria & Dick Grafer
Mary Greenebaum
Edmund Grossman
Joyce Haupt
Karen Hirsch
Pat Jenny & Kent Hiteshaw
Janet Johnson
Doug Jones & John Sanger
Robert M. Kaufman
Kevin Kellogg & Stewart Pearce
Allen Kleinman
Joan Kligman
Barbara Korman
Patricia Larson
Judith Lavenberg
Jill Leinbach & Lisa Huertas
Lisa LePage
Robert & Patricia Levinson
Claire Lieberwitz & Arthur Grayzel
Chris Lipari
Lester Lyons
Susan Madden
Roger Juan Maldonado
Lucia Maloney
Patricia C. Marcin
Jan Mardfin
Stuart & Victoria Marwell
Charlotte Mayerson
Kerry McCarthy & Kate Mann
Edward F. McGinley, III
Kate McLeod
Karen Metcalf
Robert Miss
Katherine Cromwell Moore
Natalie Moore
Robert Nardone
Michele & Raffiq Nathoo
Christopher Norwood
Barry Olmezer
Nicholas Opinsky
Beverly S. Oppenheim-Patterson
Richard M. Orin
Wendel Fentress Ott
Stephen Partridge
Valerie S. Peltier
Marnie Pillsbury
Ray & Alice Planell
Muriel & Virginia Pless
Marietta Poerio
Samuel Polk
Beverly Post
Stanley Pottinger
Valerie & Michael Puglisi
Deborah Fish Ragin & Luther M. Ragin Jr.
Charles Rosenblum
Judith Rubin
Peter & Meredith Phelps Rugg
D. Nicholas Russo
Kathy Shea
Diane & Jonathan Shoemaker
David & Mary Shover
Anne Sidamon-Eristoff
Cecile Singer
Lorie Slutsky
Ann Barringer Spaeth
Edward W. Stack
Pearl Staller
Nathaniel Stern
Roslyn & Samuel Stern
Dorothea (Dorry) H. Swope
Estelle Newman Tanner
Barron & Ursula Tenny
Ruth & Spencer Timm
Starr Tomczak
Judith E. Turkel & Jennifer L. Costley
Ann & Thomas Unterberg
Lulu Wang
Jennifer Watts
Helen P. Wiley
Richard & Linda Willett
Barbara & Douglas Williamson
Suzanne Dyer Wise
Amy Wolf
Melinda B. Wolfe & Kenneth D. Inadomi
Jason Wright
Irene Zelnick
Jane Schwab Abel and Elise Schwab Clemenger Memorial
Adel and Leffler Families’ Fund for Queens
Frederica M. and Morton L. Adler Trust
Barbara Albisser Memorial Fund
Oakey L. and Ethel Witherspoon Alexander Fund
B. Altman Fund
Arthur Altschul Memorial Fund
The Elizabeth & Peter Altwater Fund
Anne Anastasi and John Porter Foley, Jr. Funds
J.R. Anderson Fund
Patricia Anderson Fund
Esther Jean Arnhold Scholarship Trust
The Arundel Fund
Marcia Ashman Fund for Children
Astor Fund for Public School Libraries
Babsan Fund
Backman-Niesz Fund
Lee Bailey Fund
S. Prentiss Bailey Fund
Allyson Maya Collazo Baker Fund
Peleg S. Barber Fund
Parker W. Barnum Funds
William and Françoise Barstow Foundations No. 1 & 2
Harriett M. Bartlett Fund
Ruth Bedford Fund
Eleanor Robson Belmont Fund
Claire B. & Lawrence A. Benenson Fund
Charles L. Bernheimer Fund
William H. Berri Fund
June R. and Jonathan Bingham Fund
Richard & Margaret Blanchard Fund
Ernst P. Boas Memorial Fund
M. Alida Bonynge Memorial Fund
The Lillian G. Booth Fund
The Charles Bouman Charitable Trust
Thomas F. Bowen Fund
Clothilde de Veze Bower Fund
Annie Grant Breath Memorial Fund
Edward W. Browning Fund
William H. and George R. Brunjes Memorial Fund
May Evans Bryant Fund
Walter and Martha Burchard Family Fund
The Burkhart Fund
Frantzes D. Burkhart Fund
William H. Burkhart Fund
John U. and Minnie M. Burt Inter Vivos Fund
John U. and Minnie M. Burt Testamentary Fund
Jean C. Caldwell Fund
Frances T. Campbell Fund
Edith M. Clark Fund
Valerie G. Clark Memorial Fund
Helen Cohen Fund
Kevin P. Connors Fund
Gertrude Corbitt Bequest
Charlotte L. Crittenden Fund
Winifred Crost Fund
Day Memorial Fund
Jay and Ruth De Soto Mayor Fund
Albert P. Delacorte Fund
Valerie Delacorte Fund
Hester Diamond Fund
Ruth and Gerald Dickler Community Housing Fund
Ruth and Gerald Dickler Fund for Early Childhood Education
Dominican Sisters of Hope Empowerment Fund
Margaret E. Donnelly Fund
The Bruce Dresner Fund
Beatrice L. Drossman Fund
Dr. James R. Dumpson Fund for Social Services
Evelyn and Jack Eber Fund
Julius and Margarete Edelstein Fund
H. Rodger and Jessie Graham Elgar Fund
Dr. Deborah Elkins Fund
Gertrude Elkins Memorial Fund
Mildred F. Englander Fund
The Enos Fund
Charles and Lillian Erickson Fund
Josephine L. Erwin Fund
Edgar W.B. Fairchild Fund
Falk, Licheton & Rosenstein Fund
Raymond H. Fiero Fund
Simon Finck Fund
Golda and Mollie Fine Fund
Kirsten Flagstad Memorial
Josephine Flood Memorial
Francis Florio Fund
Michel Fokine Memorial Fund
Walter B. Ford Funds
Abraham B. and Sarah Frank Funds No. 1 & 2
Corinne R. Frear Fund
The Jacques A. Gerard Fund
Clarence H. Gifford Funds
Elena Gildersleeve Fund
Jacob and Helen Goldfein Fund
Selma Goldmacher Charitable Fund
Jack Goldring Fund
Maurice and Georgine Goodman Fund
Orland S. and Frances S. Greene Fund
Linda A. Griffith Fund
Arthur Griggs Fund
Emily Griggs Fund
Sydney A. Guggenheimer Memorial Fund
Horace & Amy Hagedorn Fund
Lola G. Hanna Fund
Elisabeth Scott Harms Fund
Charlotte Daniels Harris Memorial Fund
Katharine S. Harris Fund
Ralph Hayes Memorial Fund
Heiser Grant
Hejaz Tree Conservation Fund
Lucy & George Henning Fund
Alexander S. Henry, Sr. and Ann S. Henry Memorial Funds A & B
Leo and Ethel Heymann Memorial Fund
Ann and Leon Himelberg Fund
Mary and David Hoar Trust for the Honor and Glory of God
Lillian and William Hoffmanns Fund
Ralph N. Hubbard Fund
Lisette Verea Ruegg Hunter Fund
Mildred K. Hurson Fund
HVCS Legacy Fund
Rene K. and Samuel M. Hyman Memorial Fund
Charles F. Iklé Scholarship and Research Fund
George A. Ingalls and Ann C. Ingalls Fund
John Paul Itta and Tony Murray Fund
Isabel C. and Walter T. Iverson Fund
Lucy Wortham James Fund
Lucy Wortham James Memorial
Warren S. and Florence L. Jampol Fund
Jane Fund
J B Fund
Elise Jerard Environmental and Humanitarian Trust
Laura and Ray Johnson Fund
Marion Esser Kaufmann Fund
Walter and Selma Kaye Fund
Robert Prior Kehoe Fund
Joseph M. Kirchheimer Fund
Jane W. Kitselman Fund
Edward and Edith H. Klauber Fund
The Korda Fund
William A. Koshland Fund
Henry Phillip Kraft Family Memorial Fund
Wheaton B. Kunhardt Fund
Lands-Cabrera Fund
Allan Browning Lane Memorial Funds
David Lawrence Fund
Le Veque Memorial Foundation
Howard Z. Leffel Fund
Anne Leonhardt Fund for the Needy
Frederick H. Leonhardt Fund
Reba Q. Lerch Fund
Ursula Lerse Fund
Robert and Janet Liebowitz Fund
Alexander and Ella Lindey Fund
John L. and Frances L. Loeb Fund
Wilhelm Loewenstein Memorial Fund
Elizabeth Meyer Lorentz Fund
Ruth Norden Lowe and Warner L. Lowe Memorial Fund
Edna Wells Luetz/Frederick Riedel Funds
Clara L. Macbeth Fund
Sarah S. McAlpin Fund
Townsend Martin McAlpin Fund
Blanche and Edwin D. McArthur Fund
McClendon Fund
Cyrus McCormick and Florence S. McCormick Memorial Fund
Ruth McCreary Funds
Isabel C. McKenzie Fund
The Janet H. McPherson Memorial Fund for Children
Toni Mendez Fund
Helen Merrill Fund
Ralph D. Mershon Fund
Charles Merz and Evelyn Scott Merz Memorial Funds No. 1 & 2
LuEsther T. Mertz Fund
Helen F. and Alfred S. Meyer Fund
Middle Road Fund
Shirley I. Moore Fund
Alice V. & Dave H. Morris Memorial
George T. Mortimer Foundation
Mulber Fund
Thomas W. and Florence T. Murphy Fund
Murray L. and Belle C. Nathan Fund
Nancy A. Newman Fund
Reverend and Mrs. R. Heber Newton Fund
Northcliff Philanthropic Fund
A.P.J. O’Connor Fund
William B. and Suzanne H. O’Connor Fund for Visual Disabilities
Mary P. Oenslager Foundation Fund
Abraham Oestreicher Fund
Florence C. Oliveira Memorial
Origo-Levy Animal Care Fund
Linda W. Osanik Fund
Katharine A. Park Funds for the Elderly
Parkinson Fund
Mary Sherman Parsons Fund
Dorothy Patterson Fund
Irene Peron Fund
Charles M. Phinny Fund
John Polachek Fund
Leo L. Pollak Memorial Fund
Robert and Ellen Popper Scholarship Fund
Katharine Sloan Pratt Fund
Robert & Barbara Preiskel Memorial Fund
Sidney S. Prince Trust
Margaret Fenton, Samuel and Thomas Pringle Memorial
Addison C. Rand Fund
Rankin-Smith Fund
Helen Rehr Fund
Eugene H. and Patricia C. Remmer Fund
Rhodebeck Fund for the Elderly
Rhodebeck Fund for the Homeless
Richard and Mildred T. Rhodebeck Fund
Marion & George Riley Fund
Virginia S. Risley Family Fund
Virginia S. Risley Fund
Emilie D. Robb Fund
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund
Sarah and Harry Rogers Fund
Dr. Joseph Richard Rongetti Scholarship Fund
Rosenfeld Family Fund
John P. Rosenthal Fund
Clara Lewisohn Rossin Trust
Lisa Cordell Rubin Fund
Samuel N. and Charlotte Rubin Fund
Myrten G. and Lillian V. Saake Memorial Fund
Bonnie and Peter Sacerdote Family Fund
The Samuel Sacks Fund
Dr. Abraham and Shirley Saifer Fund
Jacob H. Schiff Memorial
Anna E. Schoen-René Fund
George Schreiber Fund
Mamie Seller Memorial Fund
Alfred M. Serex Fund
Severinghaus Fund
William H. Seward, Jr. Fund
The Shaw Foundation
Fannie Sherr Fund
Robert M. Sims/Robert L. Albright Fund
Abe, Lena and Irin Soskis Memorial Funds
Special Fund No. 14
Ilma Stafford-Greene Fund
The Betty J. Stebman Fund
Ettie Stettheimer Memorial Fund
Carole Stupell Travel Award Program
R. Swayze Gay and Lesbian Youth Fund
William J. Taylor Fund
Thomas COPD Fund
Thomas Fund
Annie Rensselaer Tinker Fund
Nathaniel and Sarah Tooker Fund
Traer Fund
Charles Welford Travis Trust
Trinity Chapel Home Fund
Paul N. Turner Bequest
Nina Untermyer Fund
The Edward & Sally Van Lier Fund
Lottie Grace Vanderveer Fund
Rudolf and Anna Marie Vetter Memorial Fund
The Enders M. Voorhees Fund
DeWitt Wallace Fund for Youth
Watcha Fund
David and Mary Warfield Fund
David Warfield Fund
Mary Warfield Fund
Alice W. Wattles Fund
James Howard Wattles Fund
Edna and Frederick Weingarten Fund
Mabel W. Weir Trust
The Herbert B. West Fund
Maria and Herbert B. West Fund
Florence and Elliot Westin Fund
Betty Wheeler Fund
Letitia M. Whipp Memorial Fund
Frederic J. Whiton Fund
Robert O. Wilder Fund
Henry K. S. Williams Trusts No. 1 & 2
Mildred Anna Williams Fund
Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Fund
Sam Wilner Fund
John H. T. Wilson Fund
The Margaret S. Winthrop Fund
Leone Scott Wise Fund
Jadin Wong Fund
Seymour B. Wurzler Bequest
Elliott Zagor Fund
Joel Zimmerman Fund