You know your clients.
We know philanthropy.
Let’s work together for impactful and fulfilling giving
The Huron County Community Foundation is proud to be a trusted, local partner for philanthropic giving. With 30 years of expertise serving Huron County donors and nonprofit organizations, we provide tailored philanthropic giving solutions to support your clients goals and create lasting, impactful legacy. HCCF invests in improving the quality of life in Huron County. Through thoughtful conversation, we pride ourselves on connecting donor’s charitable interests with community needs and opportunities.
Why
HCCF?
Expertise in Philanthropy
The professional, full time philanthropic staff at HCCF are deeply engaged with giving trends locally and nationally. Our staff’s continual engagement with the broader charitable giving sector allows us to better serve your clients and the community. Think of us as a philanthropic consultant on call to support your firm and those you serve.
Customized Solutions
The community foundation supports a variety of gift vehicles, allowing flexibility in strategy to maximize community impact while meeting your clients financial goals. Through our giving tools and community impact funds, we can help your clients create a lasting legacy. In giving through the community foundation, donors have the opportunity to give anonymously. High net worth individuals may incorporate charitable giving into their strategy knowing that their confidentiality will be protected.
Local Impact
Studies show that, while tax and financial considerations are important, your clients are motivated to give charitably because they want to make a positive difference in their community. Annually, HCCF awards hundreds of thousands of dollars to every corner of Huron County. We understand current and future opportunities for giving to help connect your clients in meaningful ways.
Benefits for
Your Clients
Tax Advantages
Working with the community foundation offers your client real tax advantages, as well as the chance to make a great charitable impact in the community they love. Cash gifts and gifts of appreciated stock donated to the community foundation are tax deductible. Charitable IRA Rollovers are also a tax advantaged giving tool supported by HCCF. Charitable IRA Rollovers allow a client to contribute their Required Minimum Distribution directly to the community foundation, this qualifies the RMD and also does not require your client to claim the distribution as taxable income. Estate gifts, including life insurance, real estate, and retirement funds, may also support the donor’s long term plans for wealth transitions and easing the burden on their heirs.
Flexible Giving Options
Whether giving now or giving later through an estate, HCCF is prepared to accommodate your clients giving preferences. Working with the community foundation allows your client to continue supporting organizations they love in perpetuity.
With decades of experience, the staff at HCCF can connect your clients goals to nonprofit organizations and community needs. If your client has a special interest area they would like to support, we can create a giving avenue for that interest area. If your client has a number of nonprofits that they would like to support through an estate gift, we can create an endowment that will continue that support in perpetuity. If your client wants to be involved in their charitable giving during their lifetime, consider a donor advised fund. Donor advised funds at HCCF are a more practical choice for a client considering establishing a private foundation. Donor advised funds are more tax advantaged, easier to administer, and come with the support and expertise of the HCCF staff.
Personalized Service
With all of the tools and options available at HCCF, we will work with you and your client to create the best plan possible. The plan will meet your clients goals and positively impact the community for years to come. Plans often include multiple types of gifts, language for estate planning, and involvement of family in creating a multi-generational legacy.
How We
Can Help
Educational Resources
The Huron County Community Foundation stays up to date on current news, trends, and issues impacting the philanthropic sector. Sign up for our professional advisor newsletter to receive periodic updates in your inbox with information to better serve your clients. Signing up will also put you on the list for professional advisor events hosted by HCCF during the year.
Client Consultation Support
We are your no cost philanthropic giving consultant. We can help you create a strategy, frame a conversation, or suggest options for clients. Because HCCF works with nonprofit organizations across the county, consulting with us allows you to recommend charitable giving without needing to recommend a specific charity.
HCCF
Services
Donor-Advised Funds
A Donor Advised Fund is an extremely simple, inexpensive, and effective way for your clients to support their favorite charitable causes in a tax-efficient manner. Donor Advised Funds have the flexibility to recommend grants to any qualified public charity across Huron County and throughout the United States. Donor Advised Funds receive the support and expertise of HCCF staff when considering grant recommendations.
Unlike private foundations, Donor Advised Funds can be anonymous or provide recognition at the client’s discretion. Contributions can be made throughout the year, providing flexibility for gifts to be made whenever is most advantageous for your client. Gifts to Donor Advised Funds receive an immediate charitable tax deduction and there is no capital gains tax on gifts of appreciated, long term assets. Donor Advised Funds also alleviate all administrative burdens of a private foundation. HCCF is responsible for record keeping, audits, and due diligence.
Planned Giving
Planned gifts, sometimes called legacy gifts or deferred gifts, come in all varieties and sizes allowing your client to support the community they love forever. The most popular type of planned gift is a bequest, making HCCF a beneficiary in the trust or will which takes effect upon the donor’s death. This type of gift is easy to establish and costs nothing during the donor’s lifetime and can create a lasting legacy. Bequests are often written as a dollar amount or a percentage of the total estate.
Other types of easy to establish planned gifts include listing HCCF as the beneficiary of assets. These could include gifts of stocks, life insurance, retirement funds, or real estate.
HCCF can also work with Professional Advisors on more complex planned gifts, such as charitable lead trusts and charitable gift annuities.
Clients want to leave a lasting legacy and ensure their contribution is impactful, we can work together to create the best option for your clients financial situation and for the community.
Grantmaking Expertise
HCCF is a trusted partner for local nonprofits, community groups, and schools. Our staff is regularly communicating with causes and organizations your client cares about. HCCF lends our decades of partnership and experience to your clients to identify projects that support their charitable goals. Throughout the process of the gift and beyond, the staff at HCCF provides a valuable perspective that connects community needs and your client’s vision to make a positive difference.
Each year funds at the Huron County Community Foundation are supporting organizations across the county. Let our existing relationships work for your client. HCCF will seek out opportunities, provide the due diligence and follow up record keeping, allowing your client to enjoy the impact of their gift without the hassle.
Advisor
Resources
There are many options to leverage charitable giving to meet your client’s philanthropic and financial goals. Finding the best way starts with an open conversation. As you work with clients on planning, HCCF is always available as a resource and local partner