The Club Foundation’s Efforts to Date

The Club Foundation, Inc., although formed in 2010, did not have sufficient funds available to pursue its stated goal of ‘being there’ in the event of need due to calamity, illness or death, until late 2011. Since that time, however, the Foundation has been able to accept applications for grant assistance and consider the award of financial assistance to needy individuals as well as local charities.

In no particular order of importance and without deference to time of award, the Foundation has provided financial help to:

  • An employee of Congressional Country Club and his family as a result of a fire that destroyed the family dwelling and placed his 9 year old son in Children’s Hospital following substantial smoke inhalation. Happily, the family home has been rebuilt and the son continues to recover.

  • A family confronting substantial hospitalization charges not covered by insurance;

  • An individual involved in a traffic accident who was both forced to take time off from work and had incurred medical expenses and costs not covered by the offending motorist’s failure to have insurance;

  • An individual suffering a medical condition that forced him to maintain a port in his shoulder requiring him to take time off from his primary job and not being able to pursue his “second job” with further help to ensure he could make it to his scheduled dialysis appointments;

  • A single father as he coped in battling leukemia afflicting his young daughter, who by the way is now in remission and hopefully on the way to a full recovery;

  • A caddy at the Club who due to illness was not able to work and faced eviction if financial aid was not forthcoming;

  • The family of an individual who died following his day’s work at the Club in order that they could meet the burden of seeing to his proper burial and Last Rites;

  • Assist a Congressional employee’s continuing recovery from traumatic injuries sustained when being struck with a near-death incurring bolt of lightning;

  • A single father struggling to provide a stable environment for his twin sons in the face of unrelenting and ill founded efforts mounted by the boys’ mother to challenge, in several jurisdictions, previous granting of sole custody;

  • A woman in her battle against breast cancer; and

  • Mercy Health, located nearby in Gaithersburg, MD is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, community based health provider serving medically underserved, low income residents of Montgomery County.

  • Bethesda Cares, Inc., an exempt organization serving the needs of the homeless, and those learning to support themselves after years “on the street,” in the nearby Bethesda community.

  • Catholic Charities, founded over 100 years ago, offers resources from house, food & nutrition, healtcare and legal services to those most in need regardless of their faith.

The Club Foundation supports these charities for the good works as well as their alignment of the Club Foundation.