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Ways I Can Give

Gifts of any amount to an existing Foundation fund are always welcomed and valued. Or, donors may wish to establish their own fund.

A minimum gift of $500 will enable you to open a new fund.  Once your fund reaches $10,000, it can be established as an endowment to serve the community in your name forever.

Following are a variety of ways you can contribute to the Foundation.

Cash

A gift of cash is the simplest and most convenient way of giving to the Foundation. Cash can be given in the form of currency, checks, or money orders. Checks or money orders may be made payable to the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley or to the fund designated to receive the gift. For your convenience, you may wish to print out our contribution form.

Credit Cards

For your convenience, you can donate online using your credit card.

Mail

Please download our contribution form and mail to:

Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley
PO Box 4786
Aurora, IL 60507-4786

Securities

Gifts of appreciated securities provide considerable advantages to donors. When securities have been held for the required period of time, a donor can deduct the full fair market value of the gift and avoid a capital gains tax on the appreciated amount of the securities. For your convenience, you may wish to print out a stock & bond electronic transfer form to provide to your brokerage firm.

Matching Gifts

Your employer and/or your spouse’s employer may double or even triple the value of your gift.  Please send your company’s matching gift form to maximize this benefit for the community.

Bequests

Many donors have created funds within the Foundation through a bequest. Bequests to the Foundation are not subject to estate or inheritance taxes, thus ensuring the maximum benefit to your charitable fund.

Life Insurance

Gifts of life insurance allow donors to make sizeable gifts at relatively low cost. By assigning ownership of a life insurance policy to the Foundation, you receive an immediate tax deduction and eliminate the proceeds of the policy from your estate. All premium payments made by you thereafter will also be tax deductible, subject to Internal Revenue Service limitations.

Charitable Remainder Trusts

Charitable Remainder Trusts enable donors to transfer assets to a trustee to be held on behalf of specified beneficiaries during the trust’s lifetime. You receive an immediate federal tax deduction for the year the trust is established, subject to Internal Revenue Service limitations. Distributions of income from the trust will be made to you and/or to other beneficiaries for the life of the trust. When the trust terminates, the proceeds will be used to create a charitable fund in your name or in any other name as designated in the original trust agreement.

Charitable Lead Trusts

A Charitable Lead Trust is the reverse of a Charitable Remainder Trust. This type of trust allows for payments to your charitable fund within the Foundation for a specified number of years. Upon termination of the trust, the principal is paid to you or any other non-charitable beneficiary you select. This vehicle is especially useful for property that has the potential to significantly appreciate.

Charitable Gift Annuities

The Foundation administers a Charitable Gift Annuity program that provides lifetime payments to donors participating in the program. Upon termination of the annuity, the remainder is placed in an existing charitable fund within the Community Foundation, as designated by the donor. The remainder also may be used to create a new charitable fund in the name of the donor or the donor’s family.

Transfer Of Charitable Trusts

The Foundation provides for the efficient and cost-effective management of charitable trusts. Such arrangements enable a maximum flow of charitable dollars to the community.

Private Foundation Transfers

Maintaining a private foundation can be burdensome and costly. By transferring the assets of a private foundation to the Community Foundation, you can benefit from tax and administrative benefits while retaining the original purpose and identification of your foundation.  View a list of advantages to creating a component fund within the Community Foundation.

Corporate Giving

Corporations can ease the administrative work required to manage their charitable giving program by creating a fund within the Foundation. All paperwork, acknowledgments, filing of government forms, and audits are handled by the Foundation. Corporations continue to receive recognition of their philanthropic generosity, unless anonymity is requested.

Other

Contributions of Real Estate, Tangible Personal Property, Closely Held Stock, Patents and Copyrights, Surplus Business Inventory, etc. are other ways of creating a fund within the Foundation.


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Education is important to us. We support causes that touch our lives and align with our values. We believe in paying it forward. We are here for a short time,, and it is the next generation that will take on what we leave behind.

Michelle Emanuel

Donor and Past Scholarship Recipient

Being a part of the Community Foundation scholarship committee is the highlight of my year. For many, a scholarship from the CFFRV is the reason they are able to continue reaching for their dreams and changing the future of our world. I hope each recipients knows just how inspirational they are to those of us who are lucky enough to read their stories.

Jessica Breugelmans

Scholarship Committee Member and Board Member

Grant funds from the Community Foundation helped provide updated technology. These upgrades were transformative. By creating new time saving processes, it turned us into a more efficient organization.

Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry

Grantee

YEP has made me realize the importance of being involved in my community, and how to make a difference. There are a lot of problems in the world but if we can do everything that we can to help the world will become a better place. YEP has helped me realize this and encouraged me to help more people in the future.

Madi Porter

YEP Member

YEP was a great experience to have in high school. I became a more confident person, someone with a lot more perspective. Coming from a small school, YEP allowed me to branch out into my community, meet students from other schools, and learn about their backgrounds. I made some great friends and still keep in touch with them today.

Abby Vagnoni

YEP Alumni

Give your gift of time and see what it means to the people you impact. Helping others is what life is all about.

Neal Ormond

Donor & Fund Advisor

I am incredibly grateful for the generosity of the Zari Foundation Scholarship and the Community Foundation in supporting my education. I am majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in aerospace engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institue of Technology. In my spare time, I volunteer on campus, in the community and I’m also the principal violist in the symphony orchestra. I hope to make an impact on the next chapter of space exploration by eventually working at a groundbreaking aerospace company such as SpaceX or NASA.

Taytum Newell

Albert M. Zari Scholarship Recipient

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