Fayetteville Community Foundation’s Family of Funds

Donor Advised Funds

Donor Advised Funds provide maximum convenience and flexibility, operating much like your own personal or family foundation. You select a fund name and then get to enjoy making grants to organizations committed to the causes you care about. You can also involve your children and grandchildren, to share in a family tradition of giving. Donor advised funds are particularly useful for donors who need to contribute in a particular year for tax purposes, but who want to spread the charitable giving over several years.

• Bechtel Family Fund
• Dennis & Marla Hunt Charitable Fund
• Hugh & Brenda Kincaid Charitable Fund
• Randy and Brenda Laney Family Charitable Fund
• David and Lanell Lashley Fund
• John and Helen Lewis Fund
• Muccio Family Fund
• Rowland & Reagan McKinney Fund
• Restore Humanity Fund
• Randall and Miriam Smith Family Fund
• Sister to Sister Fund
• Carolyn F Walton Fund
• Cameron Averitt Bobbitt Memorial Fund
• Bechtel Family Advised Endowment Fund
• Genevieve M. Pennington Charitable Fund
• Parker-Thompson Family Endowment

Corporate Advised Funds

Operating much like a donor advised fund, with a corporate advised fund, your company recommends grants to charitable causes, while we handle the due diligence, issue the checks and provide quarterly reports on your charitable giving.

• Bank of Fayetteville Fund in Honor or John Lewis
• Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas (MANA) Charitable Fund
• Murray T. Harris Scholarship Fund

Field of Interest Funds

This type of fund allows you to support an area of charitable interest, defined broadly (such as education) or narrowly (such as advanced vocal music training). You also can select a defined geographic area or specific community to benefit from your named fund. You can stay involved, appoint an advisory committee or leave the work to the Foundation staff. It's your choice.

• Abilities Unlimited of Northwest Arkansas Fund
• Fayetteville Restoration Fund
• Health Care Employee Benevolence Fund
• MANA Education and Research Fund
• Northwest Arkansas Tip Off Club

Designated Funds

These funds are created to ensure that support will be provided to one or more specific charitable organizations named by you. Designated funds are often endowed in perpetuity with the income used to support the organizations on an on-going basis. The Community Foundation ensures that disbursements are made to appropriate charitable agencies as specified in the establishing fund document. If an agency stops functioning as an exempt charity or ceases to exist, the Foundation's Board may select an alternative charity as indicated in the fund document.

• Starr Grandchildren Endowment for the Fayetteville Public Library Foundation

Non-Profit Agency Endowed Funds

An organization endowment fund holds assets for a charitable organization and generally distributes investment income to the organization on an annual basis. Through economies of scale, organizations benefit from the Community Foundation's investment portfolio diversification and low investment fees.

• Arkansas Support Network, Inc.
• Economic Opportunity Agency of Washington County
• Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association
• Northwest Arkansas Free Health Center
• Ozark Literacy Council (The Barbara Broyles Endowment Fund)
• Washington County Historical Society

Endowed Scholarship Funds

Scholarship Funds allow you to support students at an institution (high school, college, technical), students in a particular field of study, or students from a particular geographic area. The Community Foundation handles the necessary paperwork and ensures that scholarships are distributed in an equitable manner.

• Murray T. Harris Scholarship Endowment

Community Funds

This type of fund allows the FCF Board of Directors discretion to make grants to the local non profit groups.

• John Lewis Memorial Fund

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