Corporate Giving Made Easy
Regardless of whether you have a staff of 100 or 1, with Marietta Community Foundation, corporate giving is easy, effective, and rewarding. We have the systems and tools needed to simplify your giving, grow your charitable resources, and maximize your tax benefits. Plus, we’re audited annually to ensure your peace of mind.
Everything your business needs to make the greatest impact, all under one roof.
Corporate Giving Just Makes Sense
Charitable donations and volunteerism lead to more brand recognition than advertising.
Consumers are more inclined to do business with companies that give back to their communities.
Philanthropy strengthens the community and creates a better quality of life for everyone.
Corporate giving creates meaningful opportunities for employee engagement.
For some companies, opening a donor-advised fund is the best option for simplifying their giving. We offer many of the same benefits as a private foundation, plus increased flexibility, tax advantages, and customized services to support your charitable vision.
We can help develop a giving program tailored to your company’s specific interest areas and giving priorities. Once we know what you value most, we can quickly identify local solutions.
Once your fund is established, we do the heavy lifting. Our grantmaking practice follows a strict due diligence process to ensure that your investments are only disbursed to reputable organizations. After we process the grant on your behalf, we follow up on your gift’s status to ensure its usage matches your intent.
How it Works
When Should You Create a Charitable Fund?
When you would like to simplify your charitable giving and have the minimum $2,500/$10,000 to donate immediately
When your business has had a particularly profitable year and is looking for ways to reduce its taxable income.
When your business finds it time-consuming and administratively burdensome to manage multiple charitable donations to various organizations or a private foundation.
If your business experiences fluctuating cash flow throughout the year and wants flexibility in when and how much it contributes to charitable causes.
When you’d like to honor or memorialize a family member, friend, or colleague
When your business wants to align its charitable giving with its corporate values and strategic objectives.
When a business wants to enhance its reputation and brand image by supporting charitable causes and demonstrating its commitment to social responsibility.
When you wish to provide steady support to your favorite organization(s)
When a business owner is thinking about retirement and wants to involve their family in charitable giving decisions and leave a lasting philanthropic legacy.
Having your own charitable fund is so simple, 350+ neighbors have already done it.
“You can give money to any organization, but you’re not always sure where that money is going... With Marietta Community Foundation, you know exactly where it’s going. You can see it; it’s your friends, it’s your neighbors. We love this community, and we’re happy to support it.”
Brian Chavez
DeepRock Disposal Solutions LLC
Receive your charitable income tax deduction when you contribute to your fund, then give the dollars away when you are ready.
We can serve as your charitable giving back office, insulating your business from the flood of requests for contributions while acting as a buffer for on-the-spot solicitations.
Not only does MCF make your giving more impactful, we help nonprofits to be more impactful.
You don’t have to budget for these benefits.
Quick Setup
Once you’ve completed a standard fund agreement and made your initial contribution, you can begin recommending grants whenever you’re ready.
No Surprise Fees or Requirements
Our expert services are provided freely to the community. There is no cost to open a Corporate DAF or requisite ongoing administrative fees. Additionally, there are no minimum payout requirements.
Administrative Ease
Simply tell us the recipient and amount of your donation, and we’ll take care of the rest. We handle the due diligence, grant processing, reporting, and record keeping. Plus you’ll receive automatic quarterly fund statements.
Expert Management
Our expertise is at your disposal, including security, investment, management, distribution, marketing, and more. Our investment strategies provide a stable resource that responds to today’s needs while preserving and enhancing the real value of funds for the future.
Maximum Tax Benefits
Enjoy significant tax benefits as your fund grows, then grant to your favorite organizations whenever you please. Think of your Corporate DAF as a “charitable savings account,” making philanthropy a financially savvy choice.
Getting started is a breeze.
We’ve streamlined the fund creation process to be so effortlessly simple that your biggest challenge will be choosing the perfect name for your brand-new fund.
Not sure a charitable fund is best for your business?
Explore Sponsorship Opportunities
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
The Imagination Library ignites a love of reading by gifting books to children from birth to age five. Each book is personalized with the child’s name and mailed directly to their home to create an experience that makes books both exciting and special.
Funding for the program is shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners, such as corporate sponsors.
