When considering investing your money, you want choices. IECF aspires to make supporting causes easy and effective, offering a variety of immediate, annual, and legacy giving options. IECF manages about 400 funds and often works with professional advisers who establish funds for their clients through these vehicles:

• DONOR ADVISED FUNDS: You or your heirs direct how funds are used, and IECF offers guidance and IRS reporting. These funds make an immediate impact and  support causes over time.
• FIELD OF INTEREST FUNDS: Supports multiple nonprofits focused on an issue or a designated fund restricted to a specific organization through yearly grants.
• ENDOWED FUNDS: Establish any type of fund as an endowment that generates grants or scholarships in perpetuity through stock and bond investments. Direct where monies go or rely on IECF expertise to identify areas of greatest need.

If you want to help your community without having to conduct extensive and constant research into nonprofit organizations, you can contribute to the COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND, through which IECF’s board of directors responds to the most critical needs in the region as they arise.

Appreciate a strong IECF building a “culture of philanthropy” in the Inland Empire? Consider giving to the Here for Good Fund, which provides annual support and community leadership on multiple issues, including advancing innovation and nonprofit capacity-building through regional fundraising and advocacy.

You needn’t have a considerable cache of cash to make a difference. Other tangible assets can be put to philanthropic use. Perhaps you have stocks and bonds, real estate, an IRA account, intellectual property, or other assets of value. You can make a planned giving contribution through a bequest in a will or trust, retirement plan or life insurance beneficiary designation, charitable gift annuity, or charitable remainder trust. Even modest amounts can yield significant impact over time.