Funds of the Foundation

GCF offers four types of funds – strategic giving options that can be tailored to the charitable interests of individuals, families, and organizations.
 

Donor Advised Funds

Donor advised funds are a convenient, versatile tool that many individuals and organizations use to effectively plan and manage charitable gifts. Donors can use these funds to support a broad range of community interests in the Greater Cincinnati region, or other places they call home.

Restricted Funds

A restricted fund supports a specific organization or purpose, such as scholarships, or ongoing funding for a museum, house of worship, or virtually any public charity. Restricted funds can provide an organization with secure long-term funding.

Field of Interest Funds

These funds let donors target their giving for needs in an important area of community life such as the arts, AIDS, aging, or at-risk youth. GCF’s Governing Board awards grants to community agencies and programs that are making a difference in the field specified by the fund’s establishers. It’s a flexible way to meet community needs even as they change over time.

Unrestricted Funds

Unrestricted funds support ever-changing community needs – including future needs that cannot be anticipated now. GCF evaluates all aspects of community well-being and responds by awarding grants to the nonprofit organizations that undertake our community’s most critical work. Unrestricted funds help GCF to support long-term solutions, respond quickly to emergencies (like our ongoing Weathering the Economic Storm Fund), and meet changing social, cultural, educational, or environmental needs in our local community.