In 1999, co-chairs Lee Huggins and Dawn Chaney established the GGF Endowment Fund that successfully raised over $100,000 to create an endowment for GGF. The original founders of the endowment are listed below:
Ellison Armfield & Willisia Holbrook
Terry Brown & Jerry Cunningham
Joseph Bryan, Jr. & William J. Wright
Lee Carter & Greg Bradley
Dawn Chaney
Kathleen Clark
Bert Davis, Jr.
Donald Draggoo & Joe Nichols
John Faulkner
Bill Guill
Lee Huggins
Ron Johnson & Bill Roane
John LaLonde
Terry McKinney
David Morrisette & Ken Girouard
Sandra O’Connor
Bob Page & Dale Fredriksen
Andy Pilcher
Jimmy Plowden
Cathy Propst & Janet McGoldrick
Larry Richardson