Leave a Legacy at CFCI

A gift in your will can make a difference to the important work that CFCI does in our community.

You can help keep a child safe, fed and in school. You can be the spark that ignites a love of art and culture in the next Lin-Manuel Miranda. You can leave a legacy.

Planned giving offers flexible and simple options to continue your passions beyond your lifetime. Working with your attorney, you can add simple bequest language to your will to support either CFCI’s unrestricted fund or a named component fund within the Foundation. The Foundation’s unrestricted fund, the Community Impact Fund, responds to the ever-changing needs in the CFCI service area by awarding grants to nonprofits working to improve the quality of life throughout Central Illinois. Your estate can also establish a component fund or flow into an existing component fund from which grants will be made in perpetuity to support the causes and organizations that you care about most.

“Community Foundation of Central Illinois is a fabulous organization dedicated to ‘connecting people who care with causes that matter.’ We created two endowed funds with CFCI because these two ‘causes that matter’ are important to us… and we wanted to create the opportunity for people who have ideas for promoting these two causes to receive funding. We believe that the arts represent an opportunity for economic development (“The Arts Mean Business” fund) and we believe strongly in the importance of supporting local jobs (the “Local Jobs” fund). CFCI is the only mechanism of which we are aware to turn these concepts into reality.”

– John and Sharon Amdall, The Arts Mean Business and The Local Jobs Fund Fundholders

November 10, 2018

Sample Bequest Language for an Unrestricted Gift

[I give, bequeath, and devise ____% or $____, or the rest and residue of my estate] to the Community Foundation of Central Illinois, an Illinois corporation authorized by its charter and bylaws to accept, hold and administer charitable funds, to be used to support the Community Impact Fund and to be administered pursuant to the policies of the Community Foundation of Central Illinois.

Sample Bequest Language to Establish a Component Fund

[I give, bequeath, and devise ____% or $____, or the rest and residue of my estate] to the Community Foundation of Central Illinois, an Illinois corporation authorized by its charter and bylaws to accept, hold and administer charitable funds, to be used to establish a component fund of the Community Foundation of Central Illinois to be known as the ___________________________ (“the Fund”) and to be administered pursuant to a fund agreement on file with such organization.

Sample Bequest Language to Add to an Existing Component Fund

[I give, bequeath, and devise ____% or $____, or the rest and residue of my estate] to the Community Foundation of Central Illinois, an Illinois corporation authorized by its charter and bylaws to accept, hold and administer charitable funds, to be contributed to the __________________________ (the name of component fund) of the Community Foundation of Central Illinois and to be administered pursuant to a fund agreement on file with such organization.

Please use the following information for the Foundation:

Community Foundation of Central Illinois
3625 N. Sheridan Road
Peoria, IL 61604
Phone: 309-674-8730
EIN: 37-1185713

The professional staff at the Community Foundation of Central Illinois is ready to work with you to achieve your goals.

For more information, please contact the Foundation at 309-674-8730 or send us an email.