For Donors

Where To Start

Every gift to the Minot Area Community Foundation, however you choose to make it, becomes part of a permanent investment in this community. Whether you’re making your first gift or planning a legacy with your advisor, here’s where to start.

Ways to Give

Explore the many ways to give back to your community with Minot Area Community Foundation.

Start a Fund

Create a permanent, named fund that reflects your charitable goals: flexible, tax-smart, and built to last.

Planned Giving

Make a more significant gift than you thought possible, through your will, trust, IRA, or life insurance policy.

Advisors

Begin partnerning with MACF to help your clients achieve their charitable and estate-planning goals.

Donor Testimonials

“Working with MACF… you can structure something that is going to exist in perpetuity so you can have an effect on the community in the here & now… and long after you’re gone…”

— Bob Weigelt

“We have an incredible responsibility to our donors to make sure that their intent & their charitable wishes are met, because without their endowments, we wouldn’t exist.”

— Jason Zimmerman

“Minot has given us so much, we feel a need to give back… it’s a great way to do it through MACF, starting the endowment. It has great tax benefits.”

— John & Kelly Butz

Donor FAQ

You can open a permanently endowed fund with a minimal contribution, though the fund balance must exceed $5,000 before any distributions are made.

North Dakota offers a 40% state income tax credit on qualifying gifts of $5,000 or more to ND-based charitable endowment funds, in addition to the usual federal deduction. See Planned Giving.

MACF accepts a wide range of planned gifts: bequests, IRA charitable rollovers, charitable gift annuities, and more. See Planned Giving.

Contact Jason Zimmerman at 701-852-0646 to discuss your goals. Staff meet personally with every donor to build a fund that fits.