Benefits for Donors working with The Skagit Community Foundation

1. The Skagit Community Foundation helps individuals, families, and businesses achieve their charitable goals by providing tools and resources that make giving easy, flexible, and effective.
   
   • Donors can create a charitable fund and recommend grants that support the issues and groups they care about – such as the arts, education, the environment, and healthcare. Donors can also rely on the Foundation’s expert board members and staff to make grants that reflect their particular interests or critical community needs.
     
   • Attractive alternative to starting a private foundation. We handle all record keeping, reporting to the IRS, accounting, and investment management.
     
   • Donors receive the highest available tax deductions for charitable contributions.
   • Funds can be started with a variety of assets and can facilitate complicated giving strategies.
     
   • We pool assets of individual funds, giving us the economies of scale for investment fees.
     Donors can choose to be anonymous in their giving.
     
2. Donors can create lasting legacies at The Skagit Community Foundation, ensuring that the causes they care about will be supported in perpetuity.
   
   • Funds can be established for a particular field of interest, to benefit a particular institution, or meet contemporary needs.
     
   • Ideal beneficiaries of CRT’s, CLT’s, and other deferred giving arrangements.
     
3. The Skagit Community Foundation Board of Directors and staff understand the community's challenges and work closely with diverse groups and individuals to address the community needs.
   
   • We are governed by leaders with strong ties to the community.
     
   • We foster greater giving and volunteering in the Skagit Community.
     
   • We monitor and take action on community issues, opportunities and resources.
     
   • Our knowledge of the community enables us to make a difference by funding effective programs addressing a broad range of local needs.
     
   • Our expertise helps donors learn more about local issues in order to make their giving as effective as possible.
     
   • The Skagit Community Foundation builds endowments to ensure that grants are always available to support the community and that each donor’s interests and legacy are honored forever.