Turnkey Family Foundation Program

ESTABLISH YOUR LEGACY
Create Your Own Family Foundation

Enjoy the freedom that comes from fulfilling your dreams and charitable ambitions.

In the past, people have established gift plans that gave money directly to a charity at the time of their death. A better way is to create a family foundation while living to get the equivalent of a double or triple tax deduction, while at the same time establishing a legacy of perpetual family giving.

Not only can you fund your family foundation with cash and securities, but it can also be designated as the beneficiary of every kind of planned gift or charitable trust permissible under tax law. And most important, family foundations with the American Foundation receive the higher, public charity tax deductions.

Recognizing the meaningful support charitable foundations can provide to our nation's communities, our tax laws offer significant benefits to anyone who contributes to these plans. And perhaps the greatest benefit is the opportunity to help a vast number of worthy charities.

The American Foundation helps individuals and families create foundations that give perpetual financial support to their favorite charities. We help educate prospective donors about the tax and financial planning techniques that provide great incentives for individuals to be philanthropic. In many cases, these plans can actually help donors increase their income while lowering their taxes. In addition, ancillary planning can help donors transfer twice as much wealth to heirs.

At the American Foundation, we want people to become personally involved with their family foundation and the charities they support. In fact, we believe the more and longer a donor is involved, the better. Three good things happen when individuals, families, and business leaders become more involved in the charitable process:

· they tend to give more,
· they become better people, and, in most cases,
· the charity or charitable program is more effective and successful.

Because of increased donor involvement, those who establish a family foundation at the American Foundation retain what we call "Charitable Ownership."