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Gifts from private foundations to field of interest funds, designated funds, and other funds that are not donor advised, are entirely permissible and do not raise special concerns. Gifts to a donor-advised fund can raise red flags as a potential donor control issue. The law does not prohibit gifts…
Peter Kostishack is Vice President and Director of Programs at Global Greengrants Fund.
Can a 501(c)(3) organization with a donor advised fund at a community foundation make a distribution to itself?
Unfortunately, when the law changed under the Pension Protection Act of 2006, this was left unclear. Intermediate sanctions rules prohibit grants and similar payments to donors from a…
Gates advises a variety of philanthropic and non-profit organizations on the issues of civic engagement, democratic reform and philanthropic and non-profit practice. He is also a lecturer at Georgetown University’s Global Social Enterprise Initiative and an elected Fellow at the National Academy of…
The East Bay Community Foundation has kept the Council abreast of the latest in regards to the recent tragedy in Oakland. Included in their response is a strategic move to address the safety and affordability of spaces for the artist community in Oakland.
The City of Oakland and surrounding…
Everything you need to know to stay out of trouble with third-party representatives.
Does hearing the sentence "Just make that grant check payable to my fiscal agent" stop you in your tracks? It should. If your potential grantees are washing your grant funds through an accommodating charity…
Since 2008, Irene has served as a director of the Local Grantmaking program for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Through the program, over $14M in annual support is provided to nonprofit organizations that effectively work in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito…
Family foundations use discretionary grantmaking to achieve a variety of purposes. Discretionary grantmaking allows some foundations to avoid strife by giving each branch of the extended family a sum of money that it can think of as its own to control. For others, a discretionary fund provides…