


Six tips for your year-end game plan
With only a few months left in 2025, it is important to evaluate your philanthropy sooner rather than later. Recently passed tax laws may throw a curveball into the financial planning strategies you’ve set in motion with your advisors. Here are six tips to help you...
Balancing immediate and long-term support for community causes
At IECF, we’re committed to working with individuals, families, and businesses to help make a difference in the causes you care about. Indeed, many people have at least a general idea of the community impact they’d like to achieve when they first establish a fund. If...
Lean on us: Five reasons to call IECF
In an economic and legislative environment full of unpredictability, we encourage you to tap the knowledgeable team at IECF–perhaps even more than you have in the past. If you’ve already established a donor-advised or other type of fund at IECF, you’re familiar with...Philanthropy is for everyone: Three tips for young adults
“Philanthropy” may sound like something reserved for wealthy, “mature” adults, but that’s not at all the case. At IECF, we work with individuals of every generation, from young adults to retirees and everyone in between. Young adults in particular are getting involved...