Once you've discovered how affordable and financially advantageous charitable giving can be, you may be surprised. Before making any large decision about your financial or charitable wishes, we suggest you consult with your financial advisor, accountant or attorney. These professionals can help you better understand how your personal situation may improve and your charitable dreams can be realized by setting up a fund at our community foundation. 

Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation is flexible by nature and works with donors and their advisors on a one-on-one basis to fulfill their philanthropic wishes.

• All gifts to Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation are fully tax deductible.
• Gifts to a community foundation's unrestricted fund works to support the entire community— donors can be part of something "larger."
• Setting up a Donor-Advised Fund removes the legal, management, and accounting hassles associated with private family foundations established for the same purpose.
• A person can memorialize someone by making a gift in their honor to a permanent endowment fund that supports an organization their loved one cared about.
• Donors can put restrictions on a Field of Interest Fund that will help support issues they care about in perpetuity.

The donor has many choices between fund types, funding methods and fund recipients, and the staff at the Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation is able to accommodate virtually any mix of these variables.