How to Give

Below is information about different types of available funds:

Unrestricted Funds

You can use your gift to meet 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 wellbeing – arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health and human services, neighborhood revitalization, and more. The flexibility of your unrestricted gift enables our local 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. You identify your personal interest area when making your gift; our board awards grants to community agencies and programs that are making a difference in the area you select.

Designated Funds

You can direct your gift to a specific organization or purpose. Help provide ongoing funding for our community center, a museum, your church, or virtually any nonprofit charitable organization. You identify the recipient you wish to benefit through your gift; our staff manages the annual distribution of funds.

Donor Advised Funds

You can have ongoing involvement in the use of your gift. You work with our professional grant making staff, identifying ways to use dollars from your Donor Advised Fund 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.

Scholarship Funds

You can direct your funds toward supporting the educational needs of tomorrow’s leaders. Establish a fund in your name. Any of these funds can be established in your name, or in the name of your family, your organization, or anyone you wish to honor (minimums may apply). All grants distributed from your fund — today and in the future — are then awarded to charities in the name of your fund. It is a great way to always be involved with, and be remembered for your community support.

Community Funds

These funds are created by local residents to address current issues on the Key. Examples would be Active Seniors on the Key (ASK Club), Familes in Action, Key Biscayne Lighthouse Run, Key Rats Scholarship Fund, Key Biscayne Athletic Scholarship Fund, the Cuban-American Heritage Fund, the Library Beautification Fund and the Chamber of Commerce Good Neighbor Fund.

 

Of course, giving doesn't only have to be done in monetary terms. If you want to volunteer your time -- both on the Key and off -- we can be a resource for directing your personal talents to where they are served best.

If you have questions about any of the above, please contact the Foundation at 305-361-2270.