May 2025 Professional Advisors Newsletter Trending Topic 1

Hello from the Starved Rock Community Foundation. We appreciate the opportunity to work with you and so many other attorneys, CPAs, and financial advisors as you assist your clients with their estate, tax, and charitable planning needs. Your partnership is especially important in today’s economic climate as the need for philanthropic support becomes more critical […]

April 2025 Professional Advisor Newsletter Topic 2

In our first April 2025 issue, Topic 1 addressed trust as being at the foundation of your client relationships. In this issue, Topic 2 addresses private foundations and donor-advised funds to assist you in helping your clients make the best choice for them. Click here to download this newsletter

April 2025 Professional Advisors Newsletter

Hello from the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation! The SRCCF team is honored to work with attorneys, CPA’s, and financial advisors as you help your clients achieve their charitable giving goals. Put us on speed dial – we want to be your first call when the agenda turns to philanthropy! Click here to download this […]

March 2025 Professional Advisors Newsletter

Greetings from the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation. Here we are, right in the middle of another tax season. The years go by so quickly! Of course, preparing clients’ tax returns and planning for the year ahead are top of mind for attorneys, CPAs, and financial advisors. The team at the SRCCF is happy to […]

February 2025 Professional Advisors Newsletter

Hello from the SRCCF! We hope all is well as 2025 gets fully underway. Our team is really happy that so many attorneys, CPAs, and financial advisors have already reached out to ask questions about charitable planning techniques that could be a good fit for your clients. It is our honor to be your first […]

The Illinois Gives Tax Credit Act

The Starved Rock Country Community Foundation (SRCCF) is honored to receive state approval as a Qualified Community Foundation (QCF) for the new Illinois Gives initiative. Illinois Gives will incentivize up to $100 million in new charitable giving over the next 5 years by authorizing a 25% state income tax credit for charitable donations to eligible permanent endowments held by the SRCCF […]

January 2025 Professional Advisors Newsletter

We hope your 2025 is off to a good start! What a wonderful year-end to 2024, full of many opportunities to work with attorneys, CPAs, and financial advisors to help ensure that clients’ charitable giving goals and tax-planning goals were achieved. We are honored to be your first call when the topic of charitable giving […]

December 2024 Professional Advisors Newsletter

We appreciate the opportunity to work with so many of you as you build meaningful and tax-savvy charitable giving plans for your clients. The team at the SRCCF is here to be your first call anytime the topic of philanthropy pops up in your conversations. As always, we’re committed to keeping you up-to date on […]

November 2024 Professional Advisors Newsletter

Check out our insights and tips for hurricane relief, how your clients define “wealthy” and why it matters for their philanthropy, and important year-end giving reminders about ways the community foundation can help.

October 2024 Professional Advisors Newsletter

Greetings from the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation!  As the end of the year draws closer, we’re looking forward to working with so many of you to structure and fulfill your clients’ charitable giving goals for 2024. The SRCCF is honored to be your very first call whenever the topic of charitable giving is part […]