You can create your fund now, establish it in your will, or create it through a trust arrangement that benefits your family as well as charity. Tax deductions are earned at the time of your gift, while grants awarded from your fund will continue into the future.
Funds can be established with cash, marketable securities, real estate, a lead trust, closely held stock, retirement plan assets, or by transferring an existing private foundation. Future gifts may be funded via a gift annuity, a charitable remainder trust, a life insurance policy, will, bequest or living trust. Contact Marilyn Howard, Executive Director to tailor the perfect charitable plan for you and your family at: marilyn@manateecf.org.
| Type of Fund |
Purpose |
| Donor Advised Fund |
Donors are able to recommend grants to qualified 501(c)(3) organizations from the funds they have established . |
Unrestricted
Funds |
Offers the broadest giving option, allowing grants to be made to wherever our professional staff determines our community's needs are the greatest. |
| Field of Interest Fund |
A field of interest fund allows donors to direct the fund to specific areas of need that have special meaning to the donor, such as children’s programs, arts education, the environment, aiding the homeless, etc |
Scholarship
Funds |
Help students pursue academic goals. You may define guidelines for candidacy, the advisory committee, the school and the award itself. |
Restricted
Funds |
Provides perpetual support to specific charities that donors care about the most. |
| Agency Endowment Funds |
Funds are established by nonprofit organizations to serve as everlasting endowments. |