MENASHA — A Neenah allergist donated $12,500 Thursday to complete a J.J. Keller Foundation matching grant and help the Fox Cities Community Health Center stay afloat.

The clinic, which helps a growing number of underserved patients in the Fox Cities at its location in the Goodwill campus, needs $175,000 through Dec. 31.

Total contribution and match amounts have reached $120,696, according to Kristene Stacker, the center's executive director.

"I can barely talk about it without crying," Stacker said. "The response is overwhelming. It makes me so personally proud to live in this community, to see how much a community cares about other community members."

The outpouring of financial support was in the wake of a Sept. 3 Post-Crescent story that outlined the precarious state of the center's operating budget.

Thursday's major donation came from the family foundation of Dr. Jeffrey Glassheim, director of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, Neenah.

Smaller donations totaling about $3,000 were received from individuals, Stacker said, adding that many of those came clipped to The Post-Crescent's story.

The donation from Glassheim's foundation was actually $50,000, with a quarter of that satisfying the Keller Foundation's original matching grant. The rest — $37,500 — will be used as another matching grant to benefit the Community Health Center, Stacker said.

Glassheim could not be reached for comment Saturday.

Stacker said 93 percent of the clinic's patients are uninsured and fall at a poverty level low enough to qualify for the center's $20 fee. Last year, the center had 4,200 individual patients. This year, it reached that number by the end of July.