A tax-smart and creative way to give is to name your HCF Giving Fund as the beneficiary of all or a portion of your estate (through wills or IRAs, for example).  This allows you to reduce your estate's tax burden upon your death, while also ensuring that your giving goals and objectives are carried out after you are gone. 

Once the proceeds from your estate move into your Fund, HCF then carries out your giving instructions that you prepared when you were living.  These can be simple written instructions that you can change with HCF at any time prior to your death, or you may choose to establish a Legacy Fund (click the link on the left to learn more).

What are the benefits of testamentary giving through HCF?

• Opportunity.  You can decide today how you want the charitable portion of your estate to be handled after you are gone.
   
• Flexibility.  During your lifetime, you can change the list of organizations you wish to support at any time without going through the costly expense of ammending your legal documents.  A simple letter to NCF suffices.
   
• Simplicity.  Setting up a Giving Fund is simple and fast to do.  Then, you draft testamentary instructions and leave most of the paperwork to us.
   
• Christian-focus.  Aligning with HCF ensures you that you are working with people that have the same mission as your own.  We help you carryout the responsibility God has given you over your assets after you are gone.

 
To provide HCF with testamentary instructions for your Giving Fund, click on the "Forms & Reports" link on the left bar to download the Giving Fund Letter of Advisement.