Endowment fund

What is the Endowment Fund?

     GUUF’s Endowment Fund provides members the opportunity to make enduring gifts. Our permanent fund is carefully administered by your elected committee and is invested through a fund which reflects our UU values. As the fund grows, it generates revenue which can be used to further the mission and the ministries of this Fellowship. Years from now, members will continue to benefit from your prudent planning and generosity.

How Does the Endowment Grow?

     The Endowment Fund is built entirely upon the generosity of members like you. Every gift increases the base and the earning power of the fund, so gifts of all sizes are important. Because the endowment principle is protected, the Endowment Fund is perpetual. This enables us to live our values and sustain our liberal inclusive congregation for future generations. Supporting our endowment fund is one of the best ways you can ensure that GUUF’s mission and ministries will thrive for years to come.

Become a GUUF Sustainer – Give Now or Plan Now for a future Legacy Gift

       A Sustainer is a member like you who wants to ensure that the congregation we all cherish lives on and thrives long after we’re gone. Putting belief into action, make a significant gift to GUUF, either now as a Living Gift or arranged as a Legacy Gift at your death.

     You become a GUUF Sustainer when, in addition to making your annual operating contribution, you also do one or both of these:

  • make arrangements for a Legacy Gift
  • make a Living Gift valued at $3,000  ($6,000 for a couple) or more.  

     You’ll be recognized today and become one of those who, years from now, will be gratefully remembered as one who enabled our congregation to endure. Of course, if you wish to remain anonymous, your wishes will be honored.

How Do I Give?

   There are many ways to make either a Living gift now or a Legacy gift, all of which may have tax benefits.

  • Cash, check, etc.
  • Memorials, Tribute Gifts, in Honor of someone
  • Securities, Stocks, Bonds
  • Real Estate, Property
  • Qualified Charitable Distribution from retirement account 
  • Donor advised fund – a direct gift or designating GUUF as the beneficiary
  • IRA or Retirement Plan beneficiary
  • Wills and Bequests – “I, [name], of [city,state,zip], give, devise, and bequeath to Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship [set amount or percentage of the estate or description of property] for its Endowment Fund.”
  • Life insurance – Designate GUUF as the beneficiary. Or, when protection of a whole life insurance policy is no longer needed, transfer the policy’s ownership to GUUF.
  • Charitable Trust

Contact us for more information.

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