Create a Charitable Giving Fund

You:

• Make a one-time, tax-deductible gift to Tides Canada
• Create a name and purpose statement for your fund
• Recommend grants to charities and tell us when you want them to occur

We:

• Take care of all administrative details and requirements, fund management, and reporting
• Manage your grantmaking and make sure your funds are invested responsibly
• Help you determine whether your fund should be annual, long-term, or endowed as a legacy for the future

Efficiency and cost savings:

• Simplify your giving. No need to track receipts from multiple charities. We provide you with quarterly and year-end statements summarizing all the activity in your fund.
• Save money. Tides’ Charitable Giving Fund is significantly more cost-effective than administering your own foundation.
• Gain tax efficiencies. When you donate highly appreciated securities to your fund you receive the maximum tax benefits allowed by law.

Flexibility and personal involvement:

• Time the distribution of grants to charities without the pressure of year-end deadlines.
• Receive acknowledge for your generosity or remain anonymous. The decision is yours.

A Sense of Community:

• Join a growing community of like-minded Tides donors.
• Benefit from invite-only opportunities to learn about cutting-edge environmental and social issues and solutions, trends, and best practices in philanthropy.

Personalized Strategic Counsel:

• Consult with Tides to create a high-impact, strategic giving plan customized to your unique philanthropic goals.
• Access the best advisory network in environmental and social justice issues to strengthen, expand, and inform your choices.

International Giving Services:

• Make gifts recommended abroad. We facilitate tax-efficient cross-border philanthropy and donations to all the places you care about, in partnership with Tides Foundation in the U.S.

Socially Responsible Fund Management:

• Rest easily knowing that all Tides funds are invested only in businesses and institutions whose practices are as consistent as possible with our shared mission to support social justice and environmental protection.

When you:

• Have decided to graduate to a more complex level of charitable giving and think you would benefit from the range of advisory, administrative, reporting, and investment management services that Tides offers
• Have highly appreciated securities or property and want to avoid paying capital gains taxes
• Are contemplating the sale or liquidation of your business and want to reduce your tax liability
• Have a small private foundation and want to reduce the paperwork and costs;
• Have decided you want to give anonymously
• Are preparing your will, establishing a trust, or designating a beneficiary for your retirement assets and want to pass on a legacy of charitable giving to your children

For more information, contact us today.