What is a supporting organization?
A popular alternative to a private foundation, a supporting organization at the California Community Foundation can facilitate your family’s charitable activities without the administrative hassles and management burdens of a separate family foundation.
As an affiliate of CCF, your supporting organization obtains public charity tax status while maintaining a separate identity, its own specific mission and purpose defined by your board and an independent, active role in the nonprofit community.
Your supporting organization will be a separate entity with its own identity (it may have its own letterhead, brochures and Web site). As board members, your family active participates in your supporting organization’s management and grantmaking.
Typically, the board of your supporting organization consists of five or seven members with the majority appointed by the California Community Foundation. We appoint individuals who will most ably assist your supporting organization’s philanthropic goals.
Highlights
- Your supporting organization avoids burdensome IRS regulations and receives favorable tax benefits that are unavailable to private foundations.
- The California Community Foundation will assist in creating your supporting organization’s grantmaking mission and focus, structure a grant application and review process, evaluate grants made and publicize its activities.
- We provide ongoing professional staffing and administration to your supporting organization, including accounting and filing of all required reports.
- You may choose to pool your supporting organization’s assets with the California Community Foundation’s $1 billion in assets, or have your own investment policy.
- Our existing administrative and grantmaking infrastructure enables your supporting organization to make an immediate community impact.
Opening Balance
$3 million
Administrative Fees
Administrative fees charged to funds cover general operating costs
including gift establishment, receipt of assets and contributions, grants and
fund administration, research into nonprofit agencies and issue areas and
other donor services. Fees are assessed quarterly. Investment management and consulting fees related
to the foundation's investment pools are charged separately. Additional
fees may be charged for any mutually agreed upon extraordinary legal,
banking or other services rendered on behalf of a fund.
| Fund Assets |
Fee Structure |
| $1 million or less |
1.25% of assets |
| Between $1 million and $5 million |
0.75% of assets |
| Between $5 million and $20 million |
0.50% of assets |
| Between $20 million and $40 million |
0.25% of assets |
| $40 million or more |
0.15% of assets |
Compare the benefits of a CCF affiliated supporting organization with a private foundation.
To learn more about supporting organizations, please contact Director of Gift Planning Carol Bradford at (213) 413-4130.
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