Living and Giving a Legacy
The Alice P. Kenney Endowed Designated Fund
The Alice P. Kenney Endowed Designated Fund is uplifting youth and supporting regional needs by providing a $10 million gift entrusted to the Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region. Marjorie Kenney established the Alice P. Kenney Fund at the Community Foundation in memory of her daughter, an act of love that has grown into one of the most significant philanthropic gifts in our region’s history.
In 2026, the Community Foundation celebrated a milestone: the presentation of the fund’s first round of grants to nonprofit leaders gathered in Albany. As a designated fund, the Alice P. Kenney Endowed Designated Fund will provide discretionary grants focused on uplifting young people and addressing basic needs across the Capital Region, while also delivering annual distributions to ten carefully selected public charities.
 The endowment beneficiaries are:
- American Red Cross of Eastern NY
- Capital District Center for Independence
- Clifton Park Baptist Church
- miSci, Museum of Innovation and Science
- New Netherland Institute
- Salvation Army of Albany
- Schenectady City Mission
- University at Albany Foundation
- WMHT Educational Telecommunications
- YMCA Camp Chingachgook
These organizations—spanning arts, education, health, human services, and faith communities—reflect the breadth of Alice Kenney’s values and Marjorie’s hope for a more compassionate, opportunity-rich region. For the Community Foundation, stewarding this gift is both a privilege and a responsibility because it reflects everything we believe about the power of thoughtful, enduring philanthropy: that a single act of generosity, matched with the right stewardship, can become a living force in a community, touching thousands of lives in ways its originators may never have fully imagined.
