the community foundation, which was founded in 1994 with grants from the wyomissing foundation, a local private foundation, works with people, businesses and organizations to set up charitable funds that make grants to causes they care about. for example, someone who makes a donation to a humane society every year might want to continue to make that donation every year even after they die. by setting up a fund at the community foundation, that person can be assured that a grant will go to the humane society in his or her name every year.