The Quad City Cultural Trust was formed in 2007 to develop an endowment, the earnings from which will be distributed to the following five major cultural assets in our community:
Figge Art Museum
Putnam Museum of History
and Natural Science
Quad City Botanical Center
Quad City Symphony Orchestra
River Music Experience
The founding board members and the organizations they represent on this board:
Mark Bawden, Chair,
Putnam Museum
R. Richard Bittner,
Bechtel Trusts & Foundation
John Bustle,
John Deere Foundation
Michael Duffy,
Independent Representative
David Freund,
Quad City Botanical Center
Frank Klipsch,
River Music Experience
Ken Koupal,
Figge Art Museum
Gary L. Medd,
Quad City Symphony Orchestra
C. Dana Waterman III,
Hubbell-Waterman Foundation |
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Through the five entities of the Quad City Cultural Trust, we serve 16 counties in the
Mississippi River Valley Region:
IA: Clinton, population 50,149; Des Moines, population 40,629; Dubuque, population 92,724; Jackson, population 20,296; Lee, population 38,052; Louisa, population 12,183; Muscatine, population 42,504 and Scott, population 164,690
IL: Carroll, population 16,674; Henderson, population 8,213; Henry, population 51,020;
Jo Daviess, population 22,289; Mercer, population 16,957; Rock Island, population 147,812;
Warren, population 18,735 and Whiteside, population 60,653 |