Giving

Giving

Charitable Giving that Works

The Eastern Bay Community Foundation facilitates simple, effective charitable giving.

How You Can Help

You can build a permanent legacy to benefit the region's communities by establishing your own permanent endowment fund or by contributing to one of the Foundations established funds. As your fund grows, the interest it generates enables you to support different initiatives while preserving the capital. Some funds grow into a permanent endowment over time, and others are able to make donations as they grow.

What We Do

We provide a professional service to handle everything related to your giving including:

  • trusted, enduring, local and voluntary trusteeship
  • management, administration and support
  • prudent investment of your charitable funds for the long term

We can help you realise your charitable goals, wether you want to build a fund gradually, make a significant one-off gift, leave a bequest in your will or show your generosity in another way. As a giving community of like-minded people together we can make a difference to the communities we live in: the health and social well-being of our residents, preserving our precious environment and heritage / taonga, reducing inequity in our neighbourhoods, supporting music, art and cultural activities and expanding education and learning opportunities for young and old.

That unexpected windfall, Lotto win, or tax refund could be the gift that makes a tangible difference to a local cause that you really care about. 

The gift may be added to our Trustee Community Fund (which Eastern Bay charitable organisations make applications to, for specific projects) or to one of our current established funds.

Smaller untagged donations will go in to our Trustee Community Fund, and donations that total $50,000 or more will have a separate Named Endowment Fund created either personally or in the name of the chosen charity or educational establishment, in order for other members of the community to add their financial support. Form more information about creating a Named Endowment Fund, please download our application form.

Currently charitable donations (during lifetime) qualify for a 33.3% tax credit, that's 33 cents for every $1 you donate.