Create Your Own Fund

What do you hope to achieve with your fund? Let's start with one sentence.

There are many ways we can help your fund support your charitable goal. Please select the option you are most interested in.

Please enter the name and address of the specific organizations you'd like your fund to support.

When a grant from your fund is distributed across multiple organizations, you can determine how that support is allocated with a percentage.

Our program team will find projects and organizations that support your interests, vet each opportunity, and award grants to those with the largest impact related to your cause.

Please select the geographic area you'd like your grants to support, if any.

Depending on your goal, this isn’t always the most impactful path. If either example below applies to you, you can change your intention below.

If preferred, scholarships and awards can be limited to individuals of a certain age or education.

Please select the geographic area that you'd like your scholarship or award to support, if any.

In addition to age and education status, this fund can support individuals persuing or exceling in specific areas of study or activities. If you have no preference, enter "no limitation".

Is there any additional criteria related to this person you'd like us to know? Please include those details below.

Please enter the districts or schools that individuals must attend (or have attended) in order to be eligible for your fund's scholarship or award.

The support from a fund sparks lasting change for our community, for generations to come. You can determine how you'd like that support to be provided over time.

Please select the number of years you would like your fund to remain active, slowly spending down until the final year when the fund will be depleted and close.

How else can we support your charitable goals? Please include anything you’d like us to know before we chat, such as information about the person for whom the fund is being established, or criteria related to grant giving.

Based on what we’ve learned about your fund today, what name would you like to give it? This can always be changed later. People often name funds after themselves or a loved one, a cause they care about, or a personal philosophy.

We’ll email you a copy of your responses so that you can take them to our team (or your lawyer, accountant, or wealth advisor) to set up next steps.

We can’t wait to shine a light on your charitable plans. If you selected to share your responses with the Community Foundation, you’ll hear from our team shortly.