Community Groups

We can assist your local charity and cause by setting up a ‘special interest fund’ or a specific fund for a specific cause.

Geyser Community Foundation can also help to lift the expertise of local charities, assisting you with tools and knowledge to feel comfortable around having bequest conversations and promoting this as an option to your supporters.

This can be really change-making work for a local charity.  Did you know that The main reason people leave a bequest to a charity is because they were asked”!

Why would a charity start its own Fund with Geyser Community Foundation?

• It will return far more to the charity over time than a one-off donation
• The perpetuity model ensures a sustainable income stream, forever
• Donors will appreciate being given another, more strategic option for supporting the cause that they love
• Your charity or community group will grow in confidence having conversations around major gifts and bequests
• It’s fundraising with a strategic lens, appealing to forward-thinking Boards
• Your Fund will be suggested as an option for donors and marketed along with the growing range of  Funds managed by Geyser
• Economies of scale and a very low fee structure lead to better investment returns
• The capital is preserved forever, with the extra income being reinvested each year to ensure Fund health and factoring in inflation
• Funds are held off your charity’s balance sheet with income flowing back as a revenue stream
• A professionally managed Fund will attract larger gifts

In addition, because our work is so specialised, we are better placed than many local charities to attract significant major gifts and bequests.

Resources for Community Organisations:

• How to formulate a Bequest and Endowment Strategy – A professional resource from the Geyser Community Foundation