1. We are a local organization with deep roots in the community.
Since 1921 The Dayton Foundation has been an effective steward of the community's charitable resources. Representatives of diverse local leadership appoint the Foundation's volunteer Governing Board, which oversees all facets of the Foundation's operations.

2. Our professional staff has broad expertise regarding charitable-giving vehicles, as well as community issues and needs.
We employ a staff of experts, including two estate-planning attorneys, two CFRE-certified fundraising executives and a CPA to help you and your financial advisor focus your giving and make it more effective. We also have grantmaking professionals and three former CEOs of local not-for-profit organizations to offer their knowledge of community issues, opportunities and resources.

3. We provide highly personalized service, tailored to each individual's charitable and financial interests.
Whether you want to give now or in the future, locally or nationwide, we can customize a charitable-giving plan to make your philanthropic and financial goals a reality. You also can be as involved in your charitable giving as you wish. We will meet with you and your financial advisors to discuss your charitable-giving needs and how we can best fulfill them.

4. Our charitable funds help people invest in the causes they care about most.
We offer an array of endowed fund options that allow your fund to be positioned for growth over time and to provide lasting support for the charitable causes most meaningful to you. You can select the degree of involvement and recognition (or anonymity) you desire in awarding grants to charity. The Foundation's Charitable Checking Account Service^SM also provides a great way to handle your regular charitable gifts, such as gifts to your place of worship or other favorite charity, and enables you to open your account and do your giving online.

5. We accept a wide variety of assets and can facilitate even the most complex forms of giving.
You can gift cash, appreciated stock, real estate or other assets and receive maximum charitable and tax benefits. You also can plan future gifts through bequests, lead trusts, life insurance policies and other arrangements. Tools, such as a charitable gift annuity or charitable remainder trust, can provide an income stream for you or a loved one, while generating an immediate tax deduction and creating a charitable legacy with the remainder interest.

6. We partner with professional advisors to create highly effective approaches to charitable giving.
Every day, local professionals provide invaluable tax-, financial- and estate-planning advice to clients who are charitably inclined. A significant percentage of donors are introduced to the Foundation through their trusted advisors. We work with donors and their advisors to develop the best and most tax-wise, customized and effective charitable-giving plans.

7. We offer maximum tax advantages under state and federal law.
Gifts of cash to The Dayton Foundation are deductible up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income (AGI); gifts of appreciated, long-term capital gains property are deductible at fair-market value, up to 30 percent of AGI. We also can offer solutions to help reduce estate-tax liability.

8. We multiply the impact of gift dollars by pooling them with other gifts and grants.
Combining unrestricted contributions provides a source of funding to help the Foundation respond to current and future community needs through the Foundation's discretionary grantmaking process and leadership initiatives. Coupled with grants from more than 2,000 donors' funds, they produce a collective force for community good.

9. We build permanent endowment funds that benefit the community forever and help create personal legacies.
Each year we assist thousands of donors and award tens of millions of grant dollars to charitable organizations for worthy causes. We take pride in the role we play in carrying out the dreams of our donors and in keeping our community strong.

10. We are a community leader, convening agencies and coordinating resources to create positive change.
The Dayton Foundation brings together community leaders and nonprofit organizations to identify emerging problems and opportunities in our region, as well as to find new ways to work together to meet challenges. Our leadership initiatives address large-scale community issues, may involve major, long-term grant commitments and foster partnerships between interested parties, funders and local service providers. By combining the knowledge and resources of multiple organizations, these partnerships have the opportunity to create a greater impact on our community than any one organization could accomplish alone.