Ways to Give
The Spring Valley Area Community Foundation is dedicated to supporting projects that improve the quality of life in our community. To fulfill this mission, we need your continued support. We welcome and appreciate all donations.
Gifts can be made online by credit card or debit card through the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation’s website. To make a gift by check, please mail your contribution directly to:
Spring Valley Area Community Foundation
201 South Broadway Ave.
Spring Valley, MN 55975
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Gift Options
Endowment fund: A permanent fund, from which a percentage of the assets is used by the Community Foundation annually for local grant awards.
Unrestricted fund: A flexible fund use for immediate grant-making and operating costs.
Ways to Give
Current gifts are primarily received in the form of checks. Gifts of real estate, securities, and personal property can be made with advanced coordination with the foundation.
Deferred gifts you can leave to the foundation include bequests/trust distribution, life insurance policy, real estate and personal property and retirement asset.
Income producing gifts include charitable gift annuities, charitable lead trusts, charitable remainder trusts, appreciated securities.
We would love to discuss the impact your gift can have on our community. Please feel free to reach out at any time. You can also find more information on the above ways to give on Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation’s website here.
All contributions are tax-deductible. Spring Valley Community Foundation is an affiliate fund of Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) organization, which provides assistance and funds management.
Farmland Retention Program
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation’s Preserving Our Heritage program preserves one of the greatest natural assets of southern Minnesota: farmland. Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) retains the gifted land as an asset, allowing it to continue to be farmed. The land provides a lasting legacy for the community and region.
