FAQs

Supporting the community may be your most important reason for giving to The Foundation. Establishing a fund through The Community Foundation For Delta County has some benefits that merit consideration. The advantages of being a donor include:

• We offer a variety of ways you can give and how you use your fund once its established. It all depends on what your financial situation is, what you want to achieve, and how you want to accomplish your objectives. Our Executive Director will be happy to sit down with you and your financial advisor to discuss options.

• The Community Foundation For Delta County is a public charity, and all donations qualify for the maximum available deduction for charitable contributions.

• We can establish most funds in one brief meeting. Plus, we keep complicated paperwork and charitable giving terms as simple as possible.

• Your gift at The Community Foundation For Delta County will carry out your charitable interests in perpetuity and will have lasting impact.

• By pooling contributions, we are able to achieve better investment performances. Management and administrative costs are kept to a minimum so your contribution supports programs rather than overhead. We track your fund individually and report the results to you via our annual audit.

• Our staff, committee members and trustees live in Delta County. We understand how local and regional issues affect the community as a whole. Our broad perspective ensures that the grants we distribute are targeted where they will do the most good.

• Each year we publicize an independent audit of our financial position, our statement of activities, a list of all gifts received and grants made in our annual report, and provide our donors copies