Donor Benefits:
10 Reasons to Give Through the Orange County Community Foundation

1. A donor-advised fund is easy to establish and eliminates the legal complexities, administrative burdens and compliance requirements of a private foundation.
2. We provide highly personalized service to help you develop a giving approach that matches your financial and philanthropic interests.
3. We make giving easy by accepting a wide range of assets. Our planned giving team can help facilitate even the most complex giving strategies. 
4. Our staff continually monitors a broad spectrum of community need— including arts and culture, education, environment, health, and human services—to help donors invest in the agencies and programs they care about most.
5. We build endowment funds to benefit the community forever and help donors leave a personal legacy.
6. The community foundation is the perfect place to involve succeeding generations in family philanthropy.
7. We bring people and organizations together, convening diverse voices to address solutions to local issues.
8. Donors can make gifts in their name or protect their identity and remain anonymous.
9. A tax-exempt public charity, we offer the maximum income, gift and estate tax benefits allowed under federal law.
10. We effectively manage the assets entrusted to us under the guidance of a seasoned investment committee and independent investment advisor. We report financial performance and audit results in our annual report.

Other Benefits
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