Frances Charsky was a successful investor and financier who, with her husband, Louis, managed properties in the Denver area. Charsky left her valuable collections of fine antiques, jewelry, art, and more to the foundation.
After her passing in 2003, the real estate was sold and her collections were auctioned at $30 million. The funds went directly to our Community Endowment, now called The Fund for Denver, making it the biggest unrestricted gift to the foundation to date.
Frances Charsky’s unrestricted fund contributed to more than $92.7 million in grants. The funds are doing exactly what Charsky wanted: helping those in need in the city she loved.
