Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Griffith R. Harsh IV and Margaret C Whitman Charitable Foundation are a Saratoga Springs, New York private foundation managed by Griffith R. Harsh and Meg Whitman. [1] The Atherton, California-based couple, Whitman, the former eBay CEO, and her husband, a Stanford neurosurgeon, formed the foundation by donating 300,000 shares of eBay stock in the last weeks of 2006. [2]
A Section 664 trust makes payments either of a fixed amount (charitable remainder annuity trust) or a percentage of trust principal (charitable remainder unitrust), [15] to either the donor or another named beneficiary. If the trust qualifies under the IRS code, the donor may claim a charitable income tax deduction for their donation to the trust.
A charitable trust holds assets and distributes them to charities. When you establish the trust you can specify how it will manage and invest its assets, as well as how it will make donations.
Established in 1998, Oprah's Angel Network raised more than $80 million for charitable projects, funding scholarships, women's shelters, and youth centers and residential facilities. [1] Oprah Winfrey donated more than one million dollars to the Angel Network in 2009. [2] The Angel Network ceased operations in 2010. [1] [52]
Charitable trust [ edit ] For an organization to qualify as a type III supporting organization, it must first prove that it constitutes a charitable trust under state law, the beneficiary is the supported trust, and the supported organization has the power to compel an accounting and enforce the trust. [ 24 ]
Yield Giving is an American foundation which is the primary philanthropic vehicle for MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. [1] The organization's name is based on her philosophy of adding value in her philanthropy by giving up control to local organizations (localization).
The Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), founded in 1948. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Pew's stated mission is to serve the public interest by "improving public policy , informing the public, and invigorating civic life". [ 4 ]
The Trust was founded in 1920, when a group of New York banks came together to create a charitable trust that would support philanthropic activity in New York. [4] The Trust's first grant was awarded in 1924, when Rosebel G. Schiff gave $1,000 to establish a fund in memory of her principal at P.S. 9.