Welcome to Horizons Foundation’s Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) Program. As a community foundation serving the San Francisco Bay Area’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities, our DAF program exists to support the philanthropic goals of individual donors and to increase the financial resources available to nonprofit organizations working to secure the rights, meet the needs, and celebrate the lives of LGBTQ people.
This exciting tool can help you take a tax deduction in the current year, avoid capital gains from the sale of highly appreciated assets, and spread the granting of charitable gifts over an unlimited number of years.
Your Donor-Advised Fund is not just a powerful tool to facilitate your current giving and immediate philanthropic intentions but can be an efficient way to continue to support the organizations you care about in perpetuity.
You can make your fund the beneficiary of cash, securities, or other assets. Retirement funds or life insurance policies can be an excellent way to add to or create a fund. A fund can also be the beneficiary of a charitable remainder trust or charitable lead trust as a deferred gift. You should complete the Donor Agreement, name the fund, include any advance recommendations for grants, and if you choose, appoint successor advisor(s). Be sure to consult your tax and legal advisors when setting up any deferred gift or trust.
Make one donation. Help hundreds of organizations. Change thousands of lives.
If you have already started an application: Login with the username and password you created previously. You will be shown any open applications that you can then continue.
If you have not started an application: Click on "Create an Account" to get started today! OR email daf@horizonsfoundation.org for more information.
