Types of Funds

Donor-Advised Funds. You can have ongoing involvement in the use of your gift.
You work with our professional program staff, identifying ways to use dollars from
the Donor-Advised Fund you establish to address the issues and needs you care
about most. Your recommendations are submitted to our local board for approval;
we then distribute grant dollars.

Unrestricted Funds. Your gift can address ever-changing community needs —
including future needs that often cannot be anticipated at the time your gift is made. We evaluate all aspects of community well-being — arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health and human services, neighborhood revitalization, and more. The flexibility of your unrestricted gift enables your community foundation’s program experts to respond to the community’s most pressing needs, today and tomorrow.

Field of Interest Funds. You can target your gift to address needs in an important area of
community life. Arts. AIDS. Aging. At-risk youth. You identify your personal interest area when making your gift; our board awards grants to community organizations and programs that are making a difference in the area you select.

Scholarships. You can invest your gift in our community’s future and show students you care, all with the guidance and personal services of your community foundation. You determine the criteria students must meet to receive the Scholarship you establish. With your assistance, students achieve their academic and career-oriented goals—from preschool to postgraduate work.

Designated Funds. You can direct your gift to a specific nonprofit organization or purpose. Help provide ongoing funding for a senior center, museum, or virtually any non-profit charitable organization. Nonprofit organizations can use a Designated Fund through the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio to build their endowment and enhance their ability to accept large and complex gifts.

Supporting Organizations. You can use your gift to establish an excellent alternative to a private foundation — with only a fraction of the administrative responsibilities. You select some of the board members, maintain personal involvement, and support the causes and organizations you care about while enjoying the favorable tax treatment of a public charity. Leave investment management, startup costs, grant administration and reporting to the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio.

School Endowment Funds are established with The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio to enhance educational programs, provide scholarships, and encourage teacher development opportunities.

Alumni, friends, businesses and volunteer groups in school communities work together to establish and build their own school endowment to support non-required school programs, such as fine and performing arts, field trips, teacher instruction and other academic enrichment activities. School funds are not created to substitute the normal tax-based operating funds, but rather to ensure students and teachers have ongoing access to programs and activities that enhance and enrich their educational experience.

Gifts to the School Endowment Fund are never spent but instead invested with The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio and pooled with its total assets. Each year, a percentage of the income earned from the fund is presented to the School Endowment Fund Committee and then disbursed as a grant directly to the recipients in the school community. The School Fund Committee is comprised of community leaders, alumni, retired educators and friends. The committee acts independently from the Board of Education and supervises the fundraising goals and activities, grant making priorities and annual grant awards. 

Contributions to the fund can be made in several ways:

Outright Gifts - Cash or long-term appreciated securities
Memorial Gifts - Cash or assets in memory or in honor of someone special to you
Deferred Gifts - Bequests, gift annuities, life insurance, charitable remainder trusts
Incremental Gifts - Gifts made in planned stages over a specific period of time