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Request a detailed proposal about NPT's services by calling toll-free (888) 878-7900.
CONTACT US »CHARITABLE PLANNING
Let NPT guide you in all areas of your charitable giving.
- Plan your giving
- Follow your passion
- Put it into practice
You receive many benefits and services when you establish a Type One Supporting Organization with NPT. These include:
Benefits
- Select your own name, identity, mission and governing structure
- Determining your own investment policy
- Create grant guidelines and giving strategies
- Have no limits on further generations of successor board members to the fund
- Exemption from all private foundation excise taxes and administrative requirements
- No annual minimum grant distributions required
NPT Administrative Services
- Prepare and submit necessary state and federal tax filings
- Provide required number of board members
- Provide meeting space
- Maintain lists and other computer records
- Prepare and print documents and customized stationary, if desired
- Staff board meetings; provide minutes and follow-up
- Prepare and distribute press releases about grants
- Directors and Officers liability insurance
NPT Grantmaking Services
- Assist in preparing grant guidelines
- Print grant guidelines and grant application forms
- Process grants
- Monitor grant results
- Prepare grant denial letters
- Review grant proposals and prepare recommendations for board meetings
- A program officer to oversee grantmaking (subject to additional fees)
NPT Financial Services
- Arrange for investment management and custody
- Provide financial oversight and reports, including annual budgets
- Review investment performance and investment fees
- Prepare sample investment policies including asset classes and allocations
- Prepare a sample spending policy
- Prepare Form 990
- Prepare checks
- Prepare custom investment portfolio and financial statement
What's not included?
- Costs of marketing materials (for example, separate corporate graphic identity, website, annual report)
FAMILY GIVING
"Supporting Organizations are flexible and entrepreneurial vehicles for family philanthropy. Families who know the specific causes they wish to support, and who are comfortable sharing control of their grantmaking...may well find supporting organizations to be the most appropriate option for their philanthropic goals."
National Center for Family Philanthropy
