Empowering Donors

Empowering You to
Make a Difference

Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation is your ideal philanthropic partner, with the experience and expertise to help you achieve your charitable goals. Whether you want to contribute to one of our existing funds or create your own named fund, we’re dedicated to assisting you in leaving a lasting legacy for yourself and your family.

Our endowed funds generate a steady income stream, meaning your gift will continue benefiting the region indefinitely. We prioritize sound investment portfolio management, ensuring responsible stewardship of your contributions.

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Why NCCF?

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Flexibility

We accept a wide range of assets and can facilitate even the most complex forms of giving.

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Expertise

Our team understands the community’s needs, ensuring your donation has a meaningful impact.

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Varied Funds

We offer diverse fund types to effectively fulfill your charitable objectives for generations.

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Enduring Legacies

Your endowment fund will benefit the community forever while creating a meaningful legacy.

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Community Leadership

We lead positive change by bringing various organizations together and coordinating resources.

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Local Roots

We are deeply rooted in the community, existing in perpetuity for the benefit of all of northern Chautauqua.

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Professional Partnerships

We collaborate with professional advisors for practical charitable giving approaches.

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Tax Advantages

Your gift will provide maximum tax benefits under the law.

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Cost-Effective

Your gift is pooled with those of other donors for investment purposes, creating economies of scale and minimizing fees and expenses.

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Personalized Service

We provide customized service tailored to your charitable and financial interests.

Giving Strategies

Our professional staff provides a personal approach to philanthropy, ensuring that your current or future gift will fulfill your wishes. We make giving easy and effective, accept a wide variety of gift types, and offer various charitable options.

Cash

  • The simplest and most convenient giving option

Appreciated Securities

  • Easily transacted
  • You pay no income tax on the appreciation

IRA Accounts

  • If you are 70 ½ or older, you may donate directly from your IRA to the NCCF
  • Donations are tax-free and excluded from taxable income, and can satisfy part or all of your required minimum distribution (RMD)

Life Insurance

  • Name the NCCF as the owner and beneficiary of a new or existing life insurance policy and receive an immediate tax deduction
  • Premium payments thereafter are also deductible

Real Property

  • Contact us to discuss contributions of real estate or other real property

Future Gifts

  • Learn more about the Bequest Society of Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation and how you can become a member.
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Types of Funds

Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation is your partner in making a positive difference in our community. We offer a variety of funds to help you meet your charitable goals. All funds are open-ended; anyone can contribute to any existing fund in any amount at any time. Our professional staff is ready to help when the time is right for you!

Community Funds

We have our finger on the pulse of the community’s needs. A Community Fund provides the opportunity to support those needs, even as they change over time. Community Funds support our Community Grants Program, local economic development, nonprofit capacity building, and more. Unique to community foundations and our most impactful means of community transformation, they are designed to operate in perpetuity, enabling your gift to provide support that evolves over time as priorities in the community shift.

Join us in shaping the future of our community by establishing your own named Community Fund with a minimum gift of $3,500 in celebration of our 35th anniversary!

Community Donor Advised Funds

Community Donor Advised Funds are designated for specific towns and villages within the broader community of northern Chautauqua County, allowing you to contribute actively to local initiatives. A committee of members from the designated area directs grants to projects and organizations within their community. Currently, we hold Community Donor Advised Funds to serve Silver Creek-Irving, Ripley, and Westfield, and a fund to benefit Sheridan is in the works.

Establish a Community Donor Advised Funds for your community with a contribution of $10,000.

Donor Advised Funds

A Donor Advised Fund allows you to suggest grants from your fund. With the guidance of NCCF, you can continually direct your grants to the charitable organizations that matter most to you. Your grantmaking can evolve alongside your interests. Establish your Donor Advised Fund with a gift of $10,000.

Scholarship Funds

You can set up a fund to support students’ educational pursuits based on the parameters and application requirements you select with guidance from the NCCF. Scholarship funds support various career paths and educational opportunities, including trade schools, traditional colleges, and certificate programs.

Establish your Scholarship Fund with a gift of $10,000.

Agency Funds

An Agency Fund is similar to a Designated Fund (description below), except, in the case of an Agency Fund, the source of the initial contribution is the designated recipient charity itself. These endowed funds enable charitable organizations to generate continuous income and promote endowment giving to their constituents. Our staff is adept at navigating the specific accounting standards unique to this arrangement.

Establish a fund for your agency with a contribution of $10,000.

Designated Funds

A Designated Fund allows you to direct giving to a specific agency or purpose. Our staff manages the distributions from the fund according to the terms you established. Designated Funds are endowed, ensuring the preservation of the principal balance while generating quarterly or annual income for the selected organization.

Establish your Designated Fund with a gift of $10,000.

Field of Interest Funds

A Field of Interest Fund allows you to target grantmaking to a specific area of charitable intent, such as education, healthcare, the arts, or youth services. You set parameters aligned with your interests, and our Board ensures that grants from your fund align with your intentions.

Establish your Field of Interest Fund with a gift of $10,000.

Find the Fund That’s Right for You and Donate Today