The Schowalter Foundation is a Kansas-based

Mennonite Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. The name is derived from the founder of the movement, Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland. Through his writings about Reformed Christianity during the Radic ...

philanthropic foundation formed in 1954 from the estate of

Jacob A. Schowalter Jacob Abraham Schowalter (August 25, 1879 – March 10, 1953) was a Kansas farmer, business owner and General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite philanthropist whose estate formed the basis of the Schowalter Foundation. Schowalter was born in ...

Newton, Kansas Newton is a city in and the county seat of Harvey County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 18,602. Newton is located north of Wichita. The city of North Newton is located immediately north and e ...

. Initially funded with an estate of $1,157,000, the foundation's assets reached $10,298,000 in 2003 ranking among the top thirty Kansas foundations. Income from the foundation's assets are used for relief work, training of missionaries and ministers and promotion of peace. Grants totaled $425,950 in 2003. The foundation was originally overseen by two representatives from each of the large Kansas Mennonite denominations:

General Conference Mennonite Church The General Conference Mennonite Church (GCMC) was a mainline association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002. The conference was formed in 1860 when congregations in Iowa invited North American Mennonites to join ...

, (Old) Mennonite Church and

Church of God in Christ, Mennonite The Church of God in Christ, Mennonite, also called Holdeman Mennonite, is a Christian Church of Anabaptist heritage. Its formation started in 1859 under its first leader, a self-described prophet named John Holdeman (1832-1900), who was a bapt ...

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*Kaufman, Edmund G. (1973), ''General Conference Mennonite Pioneers'', Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas. *Krahn, Cornelius, Gingerich, Melvin & Harms, Orlando (Eds.) (1955). ''The Mennonite Encyclopedia'', Volume IV. Mennoniite Publishing House. {{refend Foundations based in the United States Mennonitism in Kansas