Wamego Community Foundation serves as a conduit for charitable contributions – connecting people who care with causes that matter. Most people who give to Wamego Community Foundation are not making gifts to the Foundation; rather, they are giving to their chosen charitable causes by giving through the Foundation.*
A gift can be given at any time and in any amount to an existing fund of Wamego Community Foundation.
View a list of existing funds and the charitable intent of each.
Benefits of Giving
Wamego Community Foundation can help you develop a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to accomplishing your charitable goals. By working with the Foundation, you can:
- Easily and effectively support the groups and issues you care about, in Wamego or world-wide.
- Create an endowment that will support your designated causes forever.
- Give a wide variety of assets.
- Name your fund if you choose, or remain anonymous.
- Give now or later, as part of your estate plan.
- Benefit from the most favorable tax deductions available under IRS regulations.
- Make grant recommendations.
- Receive periodic reports detailing the fund’s financial activity, including earnings; additional contributions made to the fund, either by you or by others; and disbursements made to grant recipients.
*The exception to this is a contribution made to the Foundation’s Administrative Fund, which is used to support the Foundation’s operating expenses.