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Supporting SVCF allows you to make a difference right here at home and around the world. You can affect pressing local challenges or broader causes that you care about.

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Legacy Giving

When you include SVCF in your estate plans, your gift provides flexible funds for urgent local needs, protecting and serving our region in perpetuity.

Your Legacy Gift to SVCF ensures long-term support for the people of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. We can help you get started.

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Questions? Our Development team can provide advice on our wide range of giving options.

Please email us at donate@svcf.org or please call us at 650.450.5444.

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SVCF is the region's leader for innovative charitable solutions. Let us help put your vision into action.

To open a fund with SVCF, please email our Development team (donate@svcf.org) or call us at 650.450.5444.

Assets We Accept

SVCF’s experience with and ability to handle complex assets sets

us apart. You can establish or add to a charitable fund with any of the following:

Stocks and other securities:
  • Publicly traded securities
  • Mutual Funds
  • Bonds
  • Privately held business interests
Privately held business interests:
  • C-corp interest
  • S-corp interest
  • LLC and LP interests
  • Venture capital/private equity LP interests or GP carry interests
  • Hedge fund interests
  • Pre-IPO stock
Other non-cash assets:
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Restricted stock (e.g., 144, 145)
  • Retirement assets
  • Life insurance
  • Real property
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Community Opportunity Fund

Support local residents by donating to the Community Opportunity Fund. By supporting this permanent SVCF fund, you are supporting the initiatives listed below.

  • SVCF’s Strategic Initiatives – These prioritize housing, early childhood development and advancing financial stability.
  • Community Action Grants Program – Our grants program supports arts & culture, environment, faith & neighborhoods, health, immigration, local journalism, safety-net services and more.
  • Special Projects
    • Equity Forward - A multi-sector movement to close the economic divide in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
    • LatinXCEL Fund - This fund increases funding for Silicon Valley's Latinx community and nonprofits through targeted, long-term investments.
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Giving Guides

Explore our curated and regularly updated giving guides to focus and bolster your community impact.

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LatinXCEL Fund

Created by SVCF in partnership with the Castellano Family Foundation, the LatinXCEL Fund is an initiative that calls for funding for Silicon Valleyʼs Latinx-allied nonprofits through long-term investments.

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Equity Forward

An essential new initiative focused on closing the economic divide in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

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Peninsula Community Foundation

Peninsula Community Foundation

Since 1964, our community foundation resources have been serving the communities, nonprofits and residents of San Mateo County and the Peninsula region with a deep commitment to support the people, neighborhoods and needs of this region. Express your commitment to this beautiful, diverse and productive region by contributing to the Peninsula Community Foundation, which invests in organizations working to improve lives and increase equity throughout San Mateo County and northern sections of Santa Clara County.

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Current SVCF donors can contribute to a fund through our donor portal.

To open a fund* with SVCF, please email our Development team or call us at 650.450.5444.

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