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Planned Giving helps you meet your personal, financial and estate planning goals by making a lifetime or testamentary charitable gift. Learn about the benefits below.
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A Supporting Foundation is a separate non-profit corporation with its own board of directors. A simple majority of its board members are chosen by Federation and you choose the remaining board members. It is very much like a private family foundation, but because it is aligned with the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley, the supporting foundation is considered a public charity. You therefore receive significant tax benefits that are not available with a private foundation.
You and your family members serve as officers and directors of the supporting foundation. Your involvement with the board guarantees that you will have considerable flexibility in making recommendations to the board as to grants, investment and management. The supporting foundation also provides an attractive way of enabling your family to be involved in philanthropy, with family members able to serve on the board of directors in perpetuity.
The supporting foundation's board can make grants to any program or project which fits within the broad charitable purposes of the Lehigh Valley Jewish Foundation, either locally, nationally or globally. This includes grants to almost all secular and Jewish charities. The minimum to establish a Supporting Foundation is $100,000*.
Benefits you enjoy:
*Minimum amount to establish is subject to periodic review