Ways to Give
Online (Credit Card, ACH, and Venmo)
Our secure site allows you to make a contribution online using your VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, or ACH. If you would like to use Venmo please click the code below.
Recurring Gifts
Recurring credit card gifts are a convenient and environmentally friendly way to support the 500-Year Forest Foundation. You can set up a monthly, quarterly, or annual gift on our secure site.
Checks
Checks should be made out to the 500-Year Forest Foundation. Please include the designation on the memo line, or in an accompanying note, and mail to:
500-Year Forest Foundation
PO Box 1272
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Donor Advised Funds
Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) are charitable investment accounts that help you manage donations to the organizations that mean the most to you — like the 500-Year Forest Foundation. They are, in essence, personal savings accounts that you set up with a nonprofit organization (i.e. sponsoring organization), or a brokerage firm or bank that has an existing Donor-Advised Fund, to manage your charitable giving.
When you contribute cash, securities, or other assets to DAFs, you qualify for a federal income tax deduction, and the money grows tax-free as you consider the timing and impact of grants you request from the fund to support charitable organization(s) of your choice.
Click here to give directly through Fidelity, Schwab, or BNY Mellon.
For more information, contact us via e-mail at 500yearforests@gmail.com.
Family Foundations
Please contact us via e-mail at 500yearforests@gmail.com if you have any questions or require additional information about making a gift through a family foundation.
IRA Distributions
If you are 70½ or older, you are able to make tax-smart gifts to the 500-Year Forest Foundation through your IRA. By authorizing a Qualified Charitable Distribution from your IRA, you can donate up to $105,000 (in 2024) to eligible charities like the 500-Year Forest Foundation.
Contact your IRA administrator/custodian for instructions on how to authorize a Qualified Charitable Distribution to the 500-Year Forest Foundation.
Matching Gifts
Do you or your spouse work for a matching gift company? Corporate matching gifts provide a wonderful opportunity to double, sometimes even triple, your contribution to the 500-Year Forest Foundation.
To determine eligibility contact your employer’s HR department. If your company is eligible, request a matching gift form from your employer, and send it completed and signed with your gift to:
500-Year Forest Foundation
PO Box 1272
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Real Estate
If you would like to donate a gift of real estate to the 500-Year Forest Foundation, please contact us via e-mail at 500yearforests@gmail.com. A gift of real estate may be a principal residence or vacation residence, a farm, a commercial building, a subdivision lot, or unimproved land. The gift may be the entire property or a fractional interest in the property. All gifts of real estate require approval by the 500-Year Forest Foundation Board.
Wire Transfer/ACH
Donors may wish to make a gift to the 500-Year Forest Foundation via electronic transfer. To receive information on how to make a gift via electronic transfer, including bank and routing details, please contact us via e-mail at 500yearforests@gmail.com.
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To Donate
Help us to grow, nurture and preserve our forests for future generations.
If you have ever visited an old-growth forest, you know the quiet power and majesty within its depths. Old-growth, with all its benefits including the ability to reduce the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, is increasingly rare.
Your donation to the 500-Year Forest Foundation makes you a part of the old-growth community, helping to create and preserve old-growth forests into the future. The 500-Year Forest Foundation requests your tax deductible contribution in one of the following easy options.
To Donate by mail please mail your contribution to:
The 500-Year Forest Foundation
PO Box 1272
Charlottesville, VA 22902
