At the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, we believe in the power of collaboration to create lasting change in our community. We understand that as a professional advisor, you are dedicated to helping your clients achieve their financial and philanthropic goals. Partnering with CFGF can enhance your services and provide exceptional value to your clients. Here's why advisors choose to work with us:

Expertise and Local Knowledge Our deep understanding of Flint and Genesee County's needs and opportunities allows us to offer unique insights and guidance. We help you and your clients make informed decisions that align with their values and passions, ensuring their charitable investments make a meaningful impact.

Customized Philanthropic Solutions We provide a range of flexible giving options tailored to your clients' specific goals, including donor-advised funds, scholarships, and endowments. Our team works closely with you to design personalized philanthropic plans that maximize tax benefits and reflect your clients' legacy intentions.

Efficient and Effective Giving With CFGF, your clients can achieve their charitable aspirations in a tax-efficient manner. We assist with the donation of complex assets, such as real estate or closely held stock, making it easier for your clients to give generously and wisely. Our expertise ensures that their contributions are managed and invested prudently for long-term community benefit.

Community Leadership and Grantmaking Excellence As a trusted leader in local philanthropy, CFGF has a proven track record of effective grantmaking. We identify and support high-impact nonprofits and initiatives that address critical community needs. By partnering with us, you provide your clients with the assurance that their gifts are driving positive change where it is needed most.

Legacy Planning and Stewardship We work with you to help your clients establish lasting legacies through thoughtful estate planning. Our team ensures that their charitable intentions are honored for generations to come. By choosing to partner with CFGF, your clients' philanthropic visions are stewarded with care and expertise.

Collaborative Partnership We value the relationships we build with professional advisors. Our goal is to complement your services and support your role as a trusted advisor. Together, we can help your clients achieve their philanthropic dreams while enhancing your practice with the resources and expertise of CFGF.

Gift Types

Your clients can establish a fund with a wide variety of assets.

  • Cash, check, wire or online donation
  • Appreciated securities (stocks and bonds)
  • Mutual fund shares
  • Bequests
  • IRA distributions
  • Charitable remainder trusts
  • Life Insurance
  • Retirement plan assets

Fund Types

We offer customized charitable giving vehicles that support your clients’ lifetime giving and legacy planning.

Your gift can address ever-changing community needs – including future needs that often cannot be anticipated at the time your gift is made. We evaluate all aspects of community well-being – arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health and human services, neighborhood revitalization, and more. The flexibility of your community leadership gift enables your community foundation’s program experts to respond to the community’s most pressing needs, today and tomorrow.

You can direct your gift to a specific nonprofit organization or purpose. Help provide ongoing funding for a senior center, museum, or virtually any nonprofit charitable organization. Nonprofit organizations can use a Designated Fund through the community foundation to build their endowment and enhance their ability to accept large and complex gifts.

You can have ongoing involvement in the use of your gift. You work with our development and program staff to identify ways to use the Donor Advised Fund to address the issues and needs you care about most. Your recommendations are submitted to our local board for approval; we then distribute grant dollars.

  • Donor/advisor recommends grants to any 501(c)(3) in the United States, approval required by the Community Foundation of Greater Flint Board of Trustees
  • Grant checks cut upon request
  • Ability to distribute grants from income to minimum required fund balance
  • No minimum payout
  • Expertise of the Community Foundation of Greater Flint staff available for consultation

You can target your gift to address needs in an important area of community life. Arts. Aging. At-risk youth. You identify your personal interest area when making your gift; our board awards grants to community organizations and programs that are making a difference in the area you select.

You can invest your gift in our community’s future and show students you care, all with the guidance and personal services of your community foundation. You determine the criteria students must meet to receive the Scholarship you establish. With your assistance, students achieve their academic and career-oriented goals – from preschool to postgraduate work.

You can use your gift to establish an excellent alternative to a private foundation – with only a fraction of the administrative responsibilities. You select some of the board members, maintain personal involvement, and support the causes and organizations you care about while enjoying the favorable tax treatment of public charity. Leave investment management, startup costs, grant administration, and reporting to your community foundation.