Your gift to East Bay Community Foundation supports our regional grantmaking strategies, impact investing work, and innovation in grantmaking, ensuring that EBCF remains a community anchor in the East Bay for generations to come. Thank you for resourcing our impact in the East Bay!
How to Make a Gift
Click on the sections below for more information and instructions on how you can support EBCF. Gifts to the following two funds are especially appreciated.
- EBCF Future Fund. Our success in the community is directly linked to the strength of our organization. By making a gift to the Future Fund, you fortify EBCF’s foundation so we can plan, innovate, and get ahead on issues affecting East Bay residents. Your support funds critical infrastructure allowing EBCF’s team of leaders to resource community partners and advocate for change. Together, we can weather future crises like pandemics, climate change, and political instability to build a just and inclusive future for the East Bay.
- Campaign for a Just East Bay (CAMP) is a central fund for strategic investment that mobilized $4.2M over the 2024 fiscal year. Because no single organization can create the just and inclusive East Bay we all deserve, CAMP pools our community’s resources to magnify our collective impact and accelerate change. By making a gift to CAMP, you support EBCF’s core grantmaking as well as our leadership work across the East Bay.
All contributions to EBCF received or postmarked on or before December 31 will be credited to the 2024 tax year. (Please note that if your contribution is made after December 13, you will receive your tax receipt by January 20, 2025.)
Complete the online Donation Form and provide your payment information to make a gift to East Bay Community Foundation’s Campaign for A Just East Bay.
Send a check payable to East Bay Community Foundation. To support our EBCF Future Fund or Campaign for A Just East Bay, indicate Future Fund or CAMP on the memo line and mail the check to:
East Bay Community Foundation
c/o Donor Services
De Domenico Building
200 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612
To make a gift of cash to the foundation via electronic funds transfer, please contact foundation staff at finance@eastbaycf.org or (510) 208-0811.
East Bay Community Foundation often receives gifts of securities without essential donor-identifying information. To ensure proper credit of your gift, please complete the online form. Complete stock and donor information may also be e-mailed to finance@eastbaycf.org or provided over the phone at (510) 208-0811.
Additionally, you can use the following information to transfer your securities:
Account Name: The East Bay Community Foundation
DTC#: Ø226
F/B/O NFS Account #: ØBP798337
For you have any questions, please contact our broker:
Attn: Steve Baumhoff
350 California Street, 18th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415-796-5098
Making a cryptocurrency contribution is a simple and tax-efficient way to support your community and help advance an inclusive, fair, and just East Bay. EBCF partners with BitPay to process donations of cryptocurrency. Click here to get started.
IRA QCDs or IRA Charitable Rollovers, as they are sometimes called, are an increasingly popular way for donors 70 ½ or older to support EBCF. You can make up to $105,000 in tax-free charitable distributions annually, supporting communities right here in the East Bay, lowering your taxable income and, if you’re 73 or older, helping you meet your minimum distribution requirement or RMD.
Contact your IRA plan administrator and ask them to initiate a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD). We suggest that you begin this process by December 1 to ensure that the distribution is made before the December 31 deadline. All QCDs must be made directly to East Bay Community Foundation by your plan administrator. Your plan administrator may have a form for you to complete.
If you have check writing privileges, make the check payable to “East Bay Community Foundation.” Please allow enough time for the check to clear to ensure that the funds are withdrawn during your preferred tax year.
Please note that QCDs are not permitted to Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). By directly transferring funds from your IRA to EBCF, you can satisfy your annual RMD requirement without increasing your taxable income. Every dollar contributed directly to EBCF’s Future Fund *or* Campaign For A Just East Bay is a dollar put to work in our community, supporting strategic grants and initiatives that drive meaningful change.
Thousands of companies match donations to organizations like EBCF. You can use Charity Navigator’s lookup tool to see if your will match your charitable contribution.
EBCF fund advisors can support the Campaign for A Just East Bay with a grant from their Donor-Advised Fund. You can initiate a transfer to EBCF here or reach out to philanthropicadvisors@eastbaycf.org for support.
Resources for Fund Advisors
EBCF fund advisors can support the Foundation with the giving options above. Visit our resources page for information on managing your fund, making grant recommendations, and important year-end giving deadlines.
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