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Donor-Advised Funds

Shape the impact you are making, year after year. Stay close to your giving, guide where it goes, and feel the difference it makes in the city you love.

Feel your impact

Stay close to every dollar you give — every grant, every year, every step forward.

Your giving, your direction

Some donors are happy to set their generosity in motion and step back. Others want to stay close to their giving, following their passions, watching their impact unfold, actively involved in where their generosity goes each year. A donor-advised fund is built for them.

More than a one-time gift

Aerial view of the Provencher Bridge in Winnipeg

A single donation, however generous, is used and gone. A donor-advised fund works differently. Your gift is invested as an endowment, generating a permanent source of granting you can shape, direct and see the impact of, year after year.

That’s the difference between giving once and giving forever. Between a single act of generosity and an ongoing relationship with the change you’re creating.

You can expect

  • Active involvement

    Work with the Winnipeg Foundation team each year to guide where your granting goes. Stay close to every dollar you give, and feel the difference it makes in the causes and city you love.

  • Control without the complexity

    All the intentionality of a private foundation, without the administrative burden. Make it a shared family endeavour across generations, with successor advisors named to carry your vision forward.

  • Recognition

    Grants are made in the name of your fund, keeping your generosity visibly connected to the causes and organizations you support. Every gift carries your name forward into the community it serves.

  • Permanence

    Your gift is invested and grows over time, generating grants year after year, forever. And because contributions are eligible for a charitable tax receipt when made, there are meaningful tax advantages to consider as well.

    • An ongoing partnership

    Each year, you work with the Winnipeg Foundation team to guide where your granting goes, whether that’s a charity you’ve supported for years, a new cause that’s caught your attention, or an emerging need in our community. Your focus can shift as your interests evolve, and the fund moves with you.

    Because you helped direct every dollar, you feel every dollar working. You know where it went, what it moved, and what it made possible. And next year, you get to do it again — your impact compounding, in the causes you care about and the city you love.

    See the impact of your donation

    Winnipeg Foundation Giftabulator will walk you through the best ways to give with pre-tax dollars to optimize your end of the year tax savings.

    See your giving potential

    Get started

    Donor-advised funds can be established starting at $20,000. Begin your fund with any gift size, and take up to five years to build to the full amount.
    Contact our Generosity Team to learn more or to start a Donor-advised Fund today. You can also call us at 204-944-9474 (toll-free 1-877-974-3631).