GiveWell’s Maximum Impact Model
GiveWell’s Community Foundation seeks to improve lives by helping donors achieve their charitable goals and meet community needs.
The GiveWell Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity serving Polk, Hardee, and Highlands counties in Central Florida. GiveWell holds more than 300 charitable funds established by individuals, families, organizations, and private foundations and serves various philanthropic services.
The Community Foundation Model
A community foundation is a tax-exempt public charity serving thousands of people who share a common interest — improving the quality of life in their region and beyond. Individuals, families, businesses, and organizations create charitable funds that help meet local and national challenges.
A community foundation receives charitable gifts, manages charitable assets, and makes philanthropic grants. Community foundations offer several types of funds to help donors achieve their philanthropic goals and to meet community needs.
Community foundations work with individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofits to make giving easier, more effective, and more enjoyable. Setting up a charitable fund with GWCF is an easy way to streamline your giving and realize your philanthropic goals.
Below are just some of the benefits:
Simplicity
Bring strategy and structure to your giving.
Utilize our staff to support your charitable giving goals with services like family meeting facilitation, business giving strategy sessions, or deep research on your interests.
Receive one tax receipt
Maximum Impact
Leverage our community experts who review more than 1,000 nonprofit grants annually and have deep expertise in issues you care about.
Benefit from due diligence conducted on every nonprofit of interest.
Flexibility
Stay personally involved in grant-making
Incur fewer administrative burdens and cost than a private foundation
Maximum tax benefits — more than a private foundation
Invest with over 300 other funds and roughly $200 million in assets
Donate diverse types of assets like privately held stock, real estate, and more