Eileen Scherberger

Eileen K. Higgins (who has professionally used the name Eileen Scherberger, matching the `@zfo.net` — Zeist Foundation — email in the stub) is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) who has spent her career in accounting and nonprofit financial management. She earned two undergraduate degrees simultaneously from Kennesaw State University — a BBA in Accounting and a BS in Psychology — and then spent several years in public accounting before moving into the foundation world.

She joined The Zeist Foundation in August 2000 and today serves as its Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Treasurer, responsible for the fiscal management of the organization. The Zeist Foundation, Inc. is a private family foundation established in Georgia in 1989 (by Dr. George W. Brumley, Jr.), headquartered in Atlanta, with a substantial endowment (reported in the hundreds of millions of dollars). It makes grants — largely on an invitation-only basis — to nonprofits serving underserved children, youth, and families, and pursues a "place-based philanthropy" model in specific Atlanta communities.

Beyond her Foundation role, Higgins is active in Atlanta's professional and nonprofit community. She has served as Board Treasurer of the Financial Planning Association of Georgia and sits on the advisory boards of Agape Youth and Family Center and Whitefoord, Inc. She is a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Financial Planning Association of Georgia, and the Atlanta Estate Planning Council.

> Important accuracy note: The stub data labels Eileen Scherberger as an "Angel Investor" doing "Seed Round" deals. I found no evidence that she is a startup/angel investor. Her documented role is CFO of a private grantmaking foundation. The "investor" tag almost certainly originates from data aggregators (e.g., Foundersuite/Preqin) that classify The Zeist Foundation's endowment as an "investor" profile. The sections below reflect her verifiable reality; I have not invented venture deals.

• As CFO of The Zeist Foundation, her "investment" domain is philanthropic grantmaking and endowment stewardship, not venture capital.
• The Foundation "seeks opportunities to leverage its investments in organizations that are innovative, collaborative, and sustainable in serving children, youth, and families."
• Grant focus areas: education, children's and family health/mental health, arts and arts-integration education, and place-based/community philanthropy.
• Geography: concentrated in metro Atlanta, Georgia, with additional activity in North Carolina.
• Grantmaking is generally invitation-only — organizations submit an online letter of inquiry (via Foundation Source) only at the request of Foundation staff or a board member.
• No publicly documented personal check size, seed-stage thesis, or target startup profile exists for her as an individual.