When you’re ready to give back, consider establishing your own charitable fund with the Adams County Community Foundation, now or through your estate. You can trust the Community Foundation to provide meaningful guidance today and ongoing care to ensure your charitable priorities are carried out for generations to come.
Start your charitable fund in three simple steps:
- Give it a name. Your fund can perpetuate your family name, honor a loved one, or reflect your passion.
- Give it purpose. What matters most to you? We can design a fund that will achieve your charitable goals.
- Give it your support. Contribute tax-deductible gifts to your fund now or through your estate.
The Adams County Community Foundation offers various types of charitable funds to suit your specific philanthropic goals.
- Funds for Adams County — Give perpetual support to the community you love, addressing the critical needs of Adams County today and the unforeseen needs of the future.
- Field of Interest Funds — Ask the Community Foundation to take care of what’s in your heart, making grants in your name forever within an area of charitable interest, such as education, health, the arts, or a specific town or community.
- Donor-Advised Funds — Stay actively involved and simplify your giving by establishing an advised fund, enabling you to recommend grants to nonprofits here at home or anywhere across the country.
- Designated Funds — Benefit the nonprofits you name with an annual gift in perpetuity, the perfect way to honor your volunteer service and continue your annual giving forever.
- Operating Funds — Promote the Community Foundation’s continuing work to help make charitable giving a shared community value through initiatives like the Giving Spree, community grantmaking, and advocacy on policy issues like scholarship displacement.
What is the Best Way to Make a Gift?
Please review our page “What and How to Give” when considering the type of asset and when you would like to give. You could also consider using closely held stock or the proceeds from a private foundation to create your fund. Most types of funds may be established with a minimum gift of $25,000.
What Do I Do Now?
After you have considered the possibilities, come talk with us. It’s our pleasure to help you design the details of your charitable fund as part of your overall charitable plan. Please contact us today so we may answer your questions or provide additional information.
Click here for our administrative fee schedule.
For more information e-mail Ralph Serpe or call 717-337-0060.