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Overview - What is the Community Foundation?

The Gainesville Community Foundation is a non-profit, tax-exempt public charity that promotes and facilitates long-term charitable giving. Through the establishment of charitable funds, the Foundation helps people make their charitable giving as effective as possible. We also help local non-profit organizations as a source of grants, as a vehicle for building endowments for their future and as a resource for building capacity. Additionally, the Foundation is a resource for professional advisors to assist their clients with their charitable goals.

As the fastest growing form of philanthropy, community foundations now number more than 700 throughout in the United States. Community foundations provide a simple, but powerful and highly personal approach to giving.

The Community Foundation is here to:

Help People
Individuals, families and businesses can establish a charitable fund at the Foundation and in essence create something similar to a private foundation. The charitable fund may be created with amounts both large and small. The fund carries the family or business name and functions much like a private foundation but without the expense, administrative burdens and restrictions. The Foundation manages the fund including all investment, reporting, accounting and administrative complexities. That leaves the fun and rewarding part to the family or business: helping their favorite charities for generations.
Help Local Charities
The Foundation is a source of grants and a vehicle for endowment building for local non-profit organizations. Establishing an endowment fund at the Community Foundation provides the non-profit organization with investment expertise, economies of scale, relief from administrative burdens, and greater recognition among a wide range of donors.
Help Professional Advisors
The Community Foundation is a single, simple, and highly personalized vehicle for donors to support all the causes they care about most. We are here to help professional advisors assist their clients in accomplishing their charitable goals.

Events

Women's Giving Circle Summer Social - July 22nd at 7pm - More Info Here

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Notice

The Gainesville Community Foundations 990 Form, as well as current and past audit statements are available upon request.

The Foundation will make the Form 990-T available for any years in which it files the form.

The Gainesville Community Foundations Investment Policy is available upon request