Hendricks County Community Foundation provides you a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving. We offer a variety of giving tools to help people achieve their charitable goals. You can make a gift of cash, stocks, bonds, real estate, or other assets to your community foundation. Most charitable gifts qualify for maximum tax advantage under federal law.

Each donor has a unique giving experience, tailored to suit his or her situation and goals. Some may choose to give to an existing fund or others may choose to create a fund at HCCF. Your gift can be placed into an endowment fund that is invested over time. Earnings from funds are used to make grants addressing community needs. Your gift – and all future earnings from your gift – is a permanent source of community capital, helping do good work forever.

Here are the basics on how you can create a fund at HCCF. For details, contact us.

• You make a gift to your community foundation. You can give cash, appreciated stocks, real estate, or other assets. See Charitable Instruments.
• We establish up a fund in your name, in the name of your family or business, or in honor of any person or organization you choose. See Funds.
• You receive tax benefits in the year your gift is made.
• Each type of fund offers its own impact on the community. You can recommend an area or organization you’d like your gift to support, or rely on the community foundation’s experienced staff to determine and address the areas of greatest need in our community.
• Our board awards grants in the name of the fund you establish (if you prefer, grants can be made anonymously).
  
• We handle the administrative details.