Senior Citizens Foundation receives Bassett Fund donation

The Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation is the recipient of a donation from the Charles Hibberd Bassett Senior Citizen Fund. Donations help TCSCF pursue its mission statement, “…to enhance the quality of life of senior citizens living in Tioga County, New York.”  

Each year the Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation makes its distributions from the investment account to non-profit organizations and community agencies that have programs to benefit senior citizens in Tioga County, N.Y. 

The Bassett Fund shares the same mission as the Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation: the welfare of local senior citizens. 

Although run by volunteer directors, the Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation has larger financial and organizational resources. The Bassett Fund has entrusted the Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation to assist in accomplishing its mission by directing its own annual distribution to the Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation. 

The Bassett Senior Citizen Fund is a field-of-interest fund established by James Thomas Bassett and his wife Silvia de la Garza and held at Community Foundation for South Central New York, Inc.

The Senior Citizens Foundation is grateful to the Bassett family for its trust and support. Receiving the Bassett gift also is a special honor. It maintains a strong connection to Charles Hibberd Bassett’s invaluable legal assistance. With Mr. Bassett’s help, the Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization in 1982, following the close of the Home for Aged Women in Owego. Mr. Bassett passed away in 1994, having been born and raised in the Village of Owego and practicing law for 25 years with an office in Owego.

All contributions to the Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation qualify as charitable gifts for income tax purposes. Donations and gifts in memory are gratefully accepted. 

For more information on how financial gifts to the Tioga County Senior Citizens Foundation help make a difference in the lives of so many in our community, you are encouraged to visit their website at www.tcseniorfoundation.com.