Charitable Foundation Services LLC
Founded in 1998, Charitable Foundation Services LLC ("Foundation Services") is a donor-focused professional
services organization specializing in the formation and administration
of charitable foundations. Its mission is to assist foundation directors
with the creation of innovative and meaningful philanthropic strategies,
while concurrently attending to the back office tasks that too often burden
the development of a foundations legacy of giving.
Foundation Services offers a personalized approach to foundation management
and administration, thereby ensuring that all grant issuances and other
foundation activities adhere to client-specified guidelines. Through the
provision of customized research of charitable causes, the disbursement
and accounting of client-approved grants, the assembly of monthly, quarterly
and annual grant-making activity reports, and the presentation of foundation
investment portfolio allocation and growth summary reports, Foundation
Services functions as a full-time business office for its private foundation
clients.
Leveraging the technological advancements of the Internet, Foundation
Services also provides each of its clients with a custom-built website.
This contemporary communications vehicle not only allows the directors
of a foundation to share the message of their mission and grant-making
guidelines with the charitable community, but also allows qualifying public
charities to submit grant requests online, 24/7/365. A secured (password-protected)
section within each clients website also ensures that all approved
directors and family members have immediate access to summary information
about year-to-date grant requests, approvals, issuances and other foundation
information without regard to time or proximity. For individuals (and families) in the early stages of establishing a
private charitable foundation, Foundation Services offers assistance with
the articulation of the foundations philanthropic goals, as well
as with the processing of all required private foundation legal documents.
Your foundations articles of incorporation and IRS certificate of
tax-exemption can be prepared and filed by Foundation Services legal
team, thereby alleviating the costs and bureaucratic red tape often associated
with this filing process. For each of its clients, Foundation Services
also offers the ability to process and manage all foundation accounting
& reporting activities, including the preparation and filing of the
990-PF annual income tax return.
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