Create a Fund
Let’s Do Good Together is at the heart of how we move the needle forward to creating Transformative Communities. We welcome collaboration and invite organizations to partner with us. Learn more about supporting us through annual gifts, matching gifts, and gift planning.
Annual gifts
Annual gifts strengthen programs of central importance to The Atlanta Regional Foundation’s fundamental mission of financial support to all of our programs.
Annual giving supports undergraduate financial aid. By making an annual gift, you provide the Atlanta Regional Foundation with the greatest flexibility in support of the overall mission and vision.
Gifts of cash are the most immediate way to the Foundation’s important work. Making a cash gift to the Foundation is easy. You can:
Make a gift through our website.
To pay by credit card, please call 404.654.9052
Send your gift by check or send your credit-card information to:
Forest Park, Georgia 30297
Checks should be made payable to the Atlanta Regional Foundation. If you wish to direct your support to a particular area (Scholarship Fund) of the Foundation, please include instructions.
Matching gifts
Thousands of companies and corporate foundations match the gifts of their employees to nonprofit institutions such as The Atlanta Regional Foundation. In fact, more companies match gifts to foundations for community-based programs than any other type of charitable giving. Gifts of securities, in addition to gifts of cash, are also often eligible for matching.
Matching-gift benefits can double, sometimes triple, the value of your gift, while supporting the same program(s) that you support and are credited to you. Retirees, employee spouses, board members and officers are included in some programs, so inquire about eligibility.
If your company has a matching-gift program, request a matching gift form from your employer and send it completed and signed with your gift. We will do the rest. Matching gift forms are most often found in Human Resources but are increasingly available on company intranet sites or other online formats.
If you have already sent your gift, it may not be too late to qualify for matching dollars this year. Send a completed form to:
Gift Planning
You may make a gift of cash, securities, real estate, or other assets by providing in your will for a bequest to the Foundation. Your gift may be a specific bequest of a designated sum or asset, or it may be a percentage of your residuary estate.
The value of your bequest to the Foundation is fully deductible for tax purposes. You may also establish an income-producing planned gift for the benefit of others through your will, thereby reducing your taxable estate. A bequest, whether outright or to fund a planned gift, can be a planned gift, can be a useful and advantageous addition to your estate plan.
If you have provided for the Foundation in your estate plans but have not previously notified the Foundation of your intentions, please contact the Donor Services at 404.654.0952 or [email protected]. Sharing your plans with us allows us to express our gratitude to you during your lifetime, ensures that your wishes will be met, and also assists the Foundation’s long-term planning efforts.
As with gifts of long-term capital-gain securities or real estate, you are entitled to a charitable deduction for a gift of long-term capital-gain tangible personal property such as works of art, rare books, and stamp or coin collections. (Note: The capital-gain tax rate on such assets is 28%.) How much you can deduct depends on the so called standard of "related use."
Here is how the standard is applied: If the use of the contributed property is related to the exempt purposes of a charity (e.g., a painting to a museum or rare books to a library), you are entitled to a charitable income-tax deduction for the fair-market value of the property.
If the use of the contributed property is unrelated to the exempt purposes of the charity (e.g., stamp collection to Cornell University to sell and use the proceeds), you are entitled to a charitable deduction for your basis in the property.
| Fair-Market Value | $20,000 | $20,000 |
| Cost Basis | $ 5,000 | $ 5,000 |
| Charitable Deduction | $20,000 | $ 5,000 |
| Actual Tax Savings (33%) | $ 6,600 | $ 1,650 |
By Pledge
A gift pledge is a written commitment from the donor to give a future donation. There are cases where we book verbal pledges, as in pledges booked by a Phone-a-thon caller.
For a written pledge, it is important for the Pledge Form (or Letter of Intent) to be filled out completely to ensure accurate processing. Here are the essential components needed to book a pledge:
- Total amount of pledge
- Payment Schedule of pledge (monthly? quarterly? annually?)
- Fund Designation
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Is the donor considering company matching contributions as part of their pledge amount?
- Would the donor like to receive pledge reminders?
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As a courtesy, Donor Services sends out reminders every 4-6 weeks for any outstanding pledge installment. We will send pledge reminders unless we are specifically told NOT to.
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The form must be signed by the donor and is required by the IRS for major gift pledges. Verbal pledges and emails are not sufficient documentation.