Options for Private and Family Foundations

Convert your private or family foundation to an NCCF Donor Advised Fund or Supporting Organization.

Donor-Advised Funds

Donor-Advised Funds allow you to play an active role in grant‐making without incurring the paperwork, taxes, and administrative expense of maintaining a private foundation.

A Donor-Advised Fund

• Frees you from administrative and compliance duties
• Provides you with information about nonprofit needs and grant-making support
• Enables you to plan for your foundation’s legacy by naming successors or transitioning your philanthropy to an NCCF designated, field-of-Interest, or community catalyst fund when there are no longer successors.

Supporting Organizations

Supporting Organizations benefit from public charity status and maintain the independence of a separate board of directors with grant-making responsibilities, but with less expense and avoiding the burden of meeting a public support test because they operate under NCCF.

Supporting Organization Board of Directors enjoy a high amount of involvement in their philanthropy while benefiting from the Community Foundation’s expertise in grant, investment, and administrative support.

"People don’t realize how expensive and time-consuming private foundations are to establish and maintain. It’s almost never financially advantageous to establish a private foundation. It’s almost always better to create a donor-advised fund with an organization like NCCF."

- Michael D. Rybak, Esq.