As your Community Foundation, depend on
us for personalized donor services. As
philanthropists, people invest resources --
financial, human, and intellectual -- individually
and collectively, to improve the well-being of
our community. We provide our donors with knowledge
about the issues affecting Reno County and
the organizations addressing those issues.
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Donate to a Fund using a Credit Card or PayPal
Use the drop-down menu below to choose a fund and then click the "Donate" button. This action will direct you to the Hutchinson Community Foundation PayPal website where you can use a credit card or a PayPal Account. (* NOTE: You do NOT HAVE to have a PayPal account to use this service.)
If the fund is not listed above and you wish to make a donation, please call our offices at 620-663-5293.
Administrative Support
We make sure we take care of the administrative back-office work, so you can focus on what truly matters – making an impact with your gift. This includes:
IRS tax reporting to ensure compliance.
Due diligence on nonprofit organizations to ensure fiscal responsibility, board and volunteer engagement, diverse funding resources, etc.
Management of grantmaking processes from solicitation to evaluation.
Quarterly statements providing an update on spending and earning of your fund.
Confirmations of all gifts received and grants made.
An annual report listing all grants made from your fund.
Community Expertise
Our extensive community expertise comes through our leadership in Reno County on specific initiatives and our grantmaking to nonprofit organizations. This comprehensive information on critical area issues and particular nonprofit organizations is available to you to provide insight for better informed philanthropic decisions.
Getting Started
The Hutchinson Community Foundation supports you with your philanthropy by working directly with you and your family to make it both easy and effective while also helping you find joy in giving. We work with individuals, families and professional advisors to engage and educate you about the issues affecting our community and how to make an impact with your giving. We provide administrative support and fiscal stewardship, encourage innovative thinking and share community knowledge.
By setting up a fund with Hutchinson Community Foundation you receive the flexibility and involvement of your own private foundation with the tax advantages and simplicity of a community foundation. You can choose to give now through a variety of charitable funds we offer. Or you can choose to give later through our options in planned giving.
Ways to Give
Our role is to make philanthropy effective, easy and flexible for you, so you can get started with discovering your passion right away. As a donor to Hutchinson Community Foundation, you have several giving options ranging from outright contributions to planned giving vehicles. We are flexible in our ability to receive many kinds of assets including stocks, property and cash.
And because we are a public charity, you receive important tax benefits by donating to us – an income tax charitable deduction now, and the reduction or avoidance of future estate taxes. If you use securities or other appreciated property to make gifts, capital gains taxes are usually eliminated, and you can take a charitable deduction equal to the full, fair market value of the gift.
If you wish to start a fund or contribute to Hutchinson Community Foundation, please contact our President - Aubrey Patterson
Direct Current Gifts
Donors may establish (and later add to) any of Hutchinson Community Foundation’s various fund types by contributing a variety of types of assets during their lifetime. Current gifts generate the most beneficial charitable income tax deduction available under the law, while at the same time removing the contributed assets from the donor’s estate for estate tax purposes.
Types of Assets
The Community Foundation has the technical expertise and resources to accept any appropriate asset as a charitable contribution. We regularly work with donors and their professional advisors to create and complete sophisticated giving strategies. In addition to cash, we regularly accept gifts of:
Publicly Traded Stock
Mutual Funds
Bonds and other debt obligations
Real Estate—complete or partial interests in residential or commercial real estate
Land
Privately held companies—Interests in C-corporations, LLCs, Limited Partnerships
Restricted Stock
Intangible/Intellectual property
Types of Funds
At Hutchinson Community Foundation, we offer you the ability to establish a variety of different funds to meet your charitable goals. Many donors choose to set up a Donor-Advised Fund to actively participate in grantmaking. Donor-advised funds offer an immediate tax benefit while also allowing you the time to learn about issues and then make gift recommendations when you’re ready. Others choose to make an unrestricted gift to the Fund for Hutchinson that can benefit the community more broadly. Likewise, for donors that wish to support one or more named charities perpetually, we offer Designated Funds. We also offer Scholarship Fund options.
