WAYS TO GIVE
Turn your passion into action. Our Community Foundation offers a variety of giving tools to help people achieve their charitable goals. Most charitable gifts quality for maximum tax advantage under federal law. Choose immediate support for the community or a lasting legacy for a cause. Please call 970-243-3767 for more information on gifts and assets.
Cash
Is the simplest way to give and always welcome. You can make an online donation or mail your gift to us.
Please mail checks to the address below and include the fund destination in the memo line:
WCCF
PO Box 4334
Grand Junction, CO 81502
Stock
Many donors like to donate appreciated stock and securities. The donor must contact our office prior to initiating a stock donation and let our staff know the specifics of their donation (number and type of shares) and of their intentions so that we can track their donation received into the stock account for proper deposit credit and donor acknowledgement. For a copy of WCCF stock transfer instructions, click here.
Real Estate, Business Interests and Royalties
These complex assets can be donated per our current gift acceptancy policy. Please call our office to discuss your gift.
Life Insurance
A donor can name WCCF as beneficiary of an existing policy that is no longer needed, or consider purchasing a life insurance policy naming WCCF as irrevocable beneficiary. The latter approach allows the donor to deduct the premiums paid from his or her tax bill.
Life Income Gifts
Special techniques such as a Charitable Gift Annuity or Charitable Remainder Trust allow the donor to receive considerable tax deductions and an income for life. When the donor passes away, the remainder transfers to WCCF for use specified by the donor.
Retirement Accounts
Donors who are 70½ or older can take advantage of the IRA charitable rollover to make donations or designate Western Colorado Community Foundation as the beneficiary of their retirement accounts at end-of-life.
What I have is not enough by itself, but the Community Foundation lets me put my assets in a common pool to benefit the whole community.
POWER OF ENDOWMENT
Western Colorado Community Foundation funds can be distributed in various ways. Primarily our funds are defined as Endowed and Non-Endowed.
Endowed Funds
These funds are invested for growth, with a portion of the income accessible for grantmaking. Donors with a longer-term vision typically establish this type of fund to achieve lasting community impact. Other benefits include membership in the Legacy Society and the ability to name children as a second generation of advisors.
Non-Endowed Funds
Donors often use this type of fund to simplify their annual giving to nonprofits or to become more familiar with the Foundation. The full balance is available for grantmaking at any time to support your favorite causes.
