About Us

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Statement of Purpose:  Founded in 2022, the Marquardt Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity that supports qualifying charitable, civic, and educational organizations and endeavors in Sedgwick County, Colorado.  Our mission is to initiate, facilitate, and distribute grants primarily to individuals and organizations using proceeds from the Estates of Delbert Marquardt and Sharon Marquardt Soper.

Mission: The Board of Directors will always be youth oriented in making grants.  This design of promoting the lives, the environment, and the education of the most important part of our future will be paramount.  In addition to age determinants, those who have an identified handicap or life challenges should be considered preferentially.

The Board shall be cognitively aware of the Agricultural Environment which predominates Sedgwick County.  Grants that facilitate the design of the Family Farm through education and cultural awareness should be significant.  Supporting programs that have these concepts in mind will be foremost in Grant funding.

Th Board must consider the Economic challenges that Sedgwick County presents.  Funding programs that will attempt to change the last fifty years of low economic and no population growth trends of the County must be considered.  Many of these designs will require coordination with other non-profit groups.  Because of the scale these challenges hold the Board can also be the Faciltator of other contributions toward joint solutions.

These Mission challenges were the reason for the funding of the Marquardt Foundation.