The Warren County Foundation is a community foundation, which is a special category of not-for-profit organization. As defined by the Council on Foundations, "a Community Foundation is a tax-exempt, non-profit, autonomous, publicly supported, non-sectarian philanthropic institution with a long-term goal of building permanent, named component funds established by many separate donors for the broad-based charitable benefit of the residents of a defined geographic area, typically no larger than a state." In other words, people with a philanthropic desire to help their community in a lasting, meaningful and direct way, can utilize the services of the community foundation to achieve their charitable goals.

The Warren County Foundation was founded in 1997, when a group of community leaders and philanthropists created the organization as a means to preserve Warren County wealth and charitable dollars for the good of the county's citizens. The Foundation now manages and administers a number of different charitable funds and distributes income from its endowment funds to community charitable organizations and scholarship programs.

The Foundation works with individual donors, or with their financial and/or legal advisors to determine appropriate methods and instruments for giving, always sensitive to what is best not only for the needs of the community, but also what is best for the donor.