Types of Funds

We offer several types of charitable funds to facilitate your giving. Our staff is available to discuss these options with you and help you select one that best meets your needs. 

Donor-Advised Funds

Donor-advised funds are established by donors who wish to participate actively in the grantmaking process. You establish a donor-advised fund with a gift of $10,000 to $100 million or more. Then you can recommend grants from that fund to the charitable project or organizations you want to support. It is easy to give to multiple nonprofits through a donor-advised fund. For more information, please click here.  

Business-Advised Funds

When you create a business-advised fund, we can support your company's goals with a full spectrum of services, including grantmaking, due diligence, site visits and community updates. For more information, please click here. 

Designated Funds

Establishing a designated fund allows you to support the good work of a specific organization that has touched your life. Because we handle the details of managing the fund, the nonprofit organization’s staff is freed up to focus on its mission. For more information, please click here.  

Scholarship Funds

Scholarship funds can be structured to benefit students at any education level or institution. A scholarship fund can also be created to honor a loved one. For information on establishing a scholarship fund, please click here. 

Agency Funds

Nonprofit organizations establish a fund with us in order to grow assets to meet both current and future needs. They look to our Board of Trustees for strong investment oversight services and ask our staff to manage all of the administrative details. It frees the nonprofit to focus on what it does best in the community. For more information, please click here. 

Field of Interest Funds

Field of interest funds are often established to support particular interest areas, specific program initiatives, causes or geographic areas. At your request, use of the funds is restricted to a specified area of interest. You give the financial resources and the general "field" to support and we select the grantees through our thorough due diligence process. For more information, please click here.

Unrestricted Fund

This fund is used when donors give to the foundation and entrust CFT to use the money to better our community.