Family members currently fill six of nine seats on the Board of Directors and serve on all grant-making and management committees. While family participation is essential to our identity as a family foundation, our members strongly value involving others whose expertise and knowledge support the achievement of Foundation goals. An independent (non-family) member currently serves on our board and a number participate on our grant-making committees. We also involve community leaders in ad hoc advisory committees and regularly consult community members when we are developing new programs or evaluating ongoing ones. To round out our organization, we have full-time staff to support, guide, and work to continue building the vision of The Foundation.
Lumpkin Family Foundation Officers and Trustees
Richard De Wyngaert, President
Christina Duncan, Vice-President
Benjamin Lumpkin, Vice-President
Susan De Wyngaert
Bess Celio
Joe Dively
Barbara Federico
Richard Lumpkin, Treasurer
Steve Grissom, Assistant Treasurer and Secretary
Lumpkin Family Foundation Staff
After completing his Master's in economic history and development at the University of Toronto, Bruce spent two years as a CUSO (Canadian) volunteer in Botswana on a USAID project. Upon his return, Bruce began his career in nonprofit management as a fundraising consultant with an international fundraising firm. He worked on campaigns that raised in excess of $325 million. Bruce continued his nonprofit career as Executive Director of two hospital foundations in Canada. In 1998, Bruce decided to pursue his interest in nonprofit law and management by attending law school at the University of Iowa.
Bruce joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation in 2001. Bruce is on the Board of the National Center for Family Philanthropy, and Steering Committees for the Illinois Charitable Trust Stabilization Act and the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders. As well, Bruce is the US Coordinator for the Adonai Child Development Center in Uganda and a member of the Mattoon Arts Council.
Annie came to The Lumpkin Family Foundation from Leadership Ventures, a nonprofit management support organization in Indianapolis. As Vice President there, she initiated management services and performed quality audits, trainings and facilitations for many nonprofit organizations. Before that, Annie served in a variety of public and not-for-profit capacities including the State of Indiana’s Rural Affairs, faculty of the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership at the University of Georgia working with the Community Leadership Association, and as the inaugural Executive Director of Fiesta Indianapolis, Inc. She received the inaugural Young and Emerging Capacity Builder Award from the Alliance for Nonprofit Management as well as being Indiana’s delegate to the inaugural Nonprofit Congress in 2005. Locally, she has been recognized as a 2010 20 under 40, and as the Mattoon Rotary Rookie of the Year.
No stranger to Illinois, Annie received her MS in Agricultural, Environmental Communication and Education from the University of Illinois with an emphasis in leadership and community development. Annie grew up on a farm in Texas, where she received her BS from Texas A&M University. Annie joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation in May of 2008.
Annie lives in Mattoon and loves spending time with friends and family, boating and traveling. She began work in 2009 on a PhD in Leadership and Change Management from Antioch University. Locally, she is involved in Mattoon Rotary, and as a volunteer with a number of organizations.
Mary joined The Lumpkin Family Foundation in January 2000 to assist The Foundation's first Executive Director. She holds a Fine Arts degree from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and serves on its National Alumnae Board of Directors. She has been active in the nonprofit community of Central Illinois for many years, and serves as Director on several nonprofit Boards including the Kiwanis Club of Mattoon.
Mary and her husband, Bob, live in Mattoon and have two grown sons, John and Paul. She enjoys reading, traveling, and attending St. Louis Cardinals baseball games with her family.
Johnny Kraps is a senior at Eastern Illinois University, majoring in Communication Studies with an option in Public Relations. He is the Marketing and Public Relations intern for The Lumpkin Family Foundation and also works with goodWORKSconnect.org to helping foster discussion through social media. Inspired by his childhood experiences with UNICEF, Johnny plans to one day work as an External Communications Consultant for them.
At Eastern Johnny is the Vice President of the Public Relations Student Society of America. Johnny was originally from San Jose, California but moved his senior year of high school to Harrisburg, Illinois. He enjoys reading Repairman Jack novels, playing music, and traveling.
Sarah Estes is a senior Marketing major at Eastern Illinois University. She holds a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, focusing in Spanish, from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Since the age of 12, she has been involved in a variety of volunteer service and nonprofit groups. This position is an exciting opportunity for her to learn more about professional nonprofits, and she hopes to develop a career in the local nonprofit community.
Sarah and her fiancé, Justin, reside in Charleston; They live with their terrier, just a short jaunt from her hometown of Mattoon. She presently serves the community as a 9-1-1 dispatcher. Travel is her greatest passion, and her free time is most often spent reading, sewing, and spending time with friends and family.