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Choose a fund that matches your goals—whether you want flexibility for today or a legacy that lasts for generations.
Explore fund options or contact our team for help getting started.
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Give to CCGF’s Unrestricted Fund
Support the Foundation’s day-to-day work and help us remain a trusted resource for donors, nonprofits, and the community. Your gift strengthens our ability to steward funds, provide local expertise, and respond to emerging needs.
Donate to CCGF
Give to the Coastal Community Endowment
Make a permanent investment in Coastal Georgia. The Coastal Community Endowment supports a wide range of community needs—education, hunger, environmental stewardship, arts and culture, neighborhood revitalization, and more.
This fund also helps support our annual Community Impact Fund grants program, benefiting at-risk youth and their caregivers.
Donate to the CCE
Give to an Existing Fund
Support a cause you care about—there may already be a fund aligned with your passion.
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Ways to Give
We accept a variety of gift types to help you support the causes you care about most. If you’re unsure what option is best, we’re happy to help.
Cash
Gifts of cash or check are the most convenient way to make a charitable contribution and can be used to establish your own fund or add to one of the Foundation's existing funds. Cash gifts entitle you to a tax deduction of up to 60% of your adjusted gross income (AGI), with an opportunity to carry-over any excess deduction for five years.
Securities
Gifts of appreciated securities (bonds and stock, including stock in closely held companies) may also be used to establish a fund or add to an existing fund. Such gifts often provide important tax advantages. Their full fair market value is deductible as a charitable contribution up to 30 percent of your adjusted gross income. As with gifts of cash, deduction amounts exceeding this limit may be carried forward for up to five additional years. The added benefit of giving appreciated securities is the avoidance of the capital gains tax on the appreciated portion of the gift. Click Here For Gift of Stock Instructions
Real Estate
A gift of real estate held more than a year can provide the same federal tax advantages as those described for gifts of securities. If you are thinking of contributing real estate, it is important that you contact us prior to any action as such gifts must be reviewed by the Foundation's Board of Directors. Upon request, we will be happy to provide you, or your professional advisor, with the section of our gift acceptance policy that deals with proposed gifts of real estate.
Art, Jewelry, Antiques, and other Valuables
The Foundation is able to assist a fundholder with the liquidation of heirlooms and other estate items and allows for those proceeds to be used to establish or add to an existing fund. The greatest tax benefit comes when the donated object is considered to be a long-term capital gain property by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that has been held more than one year.
Assets from Trusts or a Private Foundation
To the extent you are permitted by law to make grants from a private foundation, you can direct those grants to the community foundation. In most cases, if a private foundation has become burdensome, it is possible to terminate it completely and transfer its assets to create a donor advised fund or other type of fund at a community foundation.
Charitable IRA Rollover
IRAs can qualify for tax-free charitable distributions. The Coastal Georgia Foundation can help turn your individual retirement accounts (IRAs) into tax-saving charitable gifts. Extended tax benefits allow more people to experience the joy of giving during their lifetimes. Click Here For More Information
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