About Charitable Giving Funds

You:

• Decide what causes you want to support
• 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:

• When you donate highly appreciated securities to your fund you receive the maximum tax benefits allowed by law.
• You have no need to track receipts from multiple charities. We provide you with quarterly and year-end statements summarizing all the activity in your fund.
• Significantly more cost-effective than administering your own foundation.

Flexibility and personal involvement:

• You have the opportunity to time the distribution of grants to charities without the pressure of year-end deadlines.
• The charitable grants made from your fund can either acknowledge you or be made anonymously. 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:

• You can take your charitable giving a step further and consult with Tides to create a high-impact, strategic giving plan customized to your unique philanthropic goals.
• Take advantage of the best advisory network in environmental and social justice issues to strengthen, expand, and inform your choices.

International Giving Services:

• Through our relationship with Tides Foundation in the US, we are able to offer our Canadian donors tax-efficient, streamlined services that assist with international giving.

Socially Responsible Fund Management

• 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.

Please contact us.