Why Choose us?
"The community foundation is an organization to give money through, not an organization to give money to."
George Bennett
Former President, NCCF
We Know Our Community
When you choose to invest in the future of our community, you want to work with someone who knows the territory. The broad cross-section of leaders who guide our work lends valuable insight that will help your charitable giving achieve maximum results.
We Help You Achieve Superior Tax Benefits
Since the IRS considers us a public charity, contributions are eligible for the highest available tax deductions. In most cases, these tax benefits outweigh using your assets to establish your own private foundation.
We Make Set-Up and Administration Easy
Establishing a fund can be done in less time than it takes to open a bank account. We take care of all the administrative and grantmaking activities, eliminating the need for you to set up a separate institution, formulate policies, file innumerable forms and monitor the status of grant recipients. We save you precious time and money.
We Share Your Interests
We are here to help you become connected to the issues you care about most. Your charitable interests and priorities are important to us because committed, caring citizens are so important to our community’s well-being.
We Care About the Future
By setting up a fund, you have the ideal opportunity to create a legacy for yourself and for our area.
Go ahead. Make a difference.
By establishing a fund with us, you’ll know your gifts are in good hands. Our staff can help you identify where your gifts will best benefit the community.
The result is a lasting legacy that addresses the needs of today and the challenges of tomorrow, establishes a tradition of philanthropy and ensures that your fund will develop community capital to improve the quality of life now and well into the future.We are your premier local source for comprehensive charitable gift planning. To learn more about establishing a fund, please contact us.
What do I do now?
Contact our foundation staff. You may know precisely which organizations you want to support or you may not. In either case, we can help you shape a grant making program that fits your needs and carries out your charitable intent forever. Let us show you just how easy, flexible and effective your charitable giving can be, and how you can make a difference.
Ways To Create A Fund and Receive Income For Life
Fixed Income For Life
You have worked hard. Now you find yourself with a comfortable accumulation of assets. You would like an assured income for life and want to see that your community continues to benefit from your wealth after you are gone.You establish an Annuity Trust, with the remainder going to a charitable fund in your name which may reduce your income taxes for up to six years. You and perhaps a survivor will receive an income for life, the same amount each year. Your estate taxes will be reduced and you will endow a permanent charitable fund in your name.
Variable Life Income Trust
You would like a regular income during your retirement, but you are concerned about inflation. A fixed income might buy less and less, and you would like a chance to have the income grow over the years.What you want is a Unitrust. This allows you to specify a percentage of your trust's assets paid to you each year for life, rather than a fixed dollar amount. Should your assets grow, your income will grow as well.
Charitable Lead or "Wait-a-While" Trust
You have a sizable estate, one that you would like to see take care of not only your children, but your grandchildren as well. But you worry about what will be left for them after the big bite you know estate taxes will take.Setting up a Charitable Lead Trust can take care of your philanthropic interests and more. You donate part of your estate to a trust now, and the income goes to your fund in the community foundation for a designated number of years. When the trust ends, the assets are passed on to your designated beneficiaries. This will reduce your estate taxes. Your fund supports charity during all those in-between years, and your beneficiaries receive much more than they would have otherwise. Certain lead trusts also make it possible to pass value to future generations at greatly reduced tax levels