anchor our stable future with sustainable giving

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community foundation, we rely upon the generosity of our donors to provide support and financial assistance to some of the most vulnerable members of our society. We manage our funds prudently so that we can ensure that our programs will be around for years to come. With your sustainable gift, we will be able to expand our reach and help more people become better versions of themselves. Sustaining donors can receive public recognition of their gift.

Give with Sustaining Purpose

Sustaining Pride

For $1400 per year or $130 per month, you ensure that we are able to sustain our community programs for that year. Your gift will give transgender or nonbinary individuals the ability to meet people like them and receive support from affirming community resources.

Sustaining Dignity

For $1600 per year or $150 per month, you ensure that we are able to provide three dignity grants that year. Your gift will give a transgender or nonbinary individual a legal name change which will assist them in improving their social experiences and economic viability.

Sustaining Justice

For $2500 per year or $220 per month, you ensure that we are able to provide three justice grants that year. Your gift will give a transgender or nonbinary individual the ability to start hormone replacement therapy which will assist them in improving their social experiences and psychological health.

Sustaining Courage

For $3200 per year or $280 per month, you ensure that we are able to provide three courage grants that year. Your gift will give a transgender or nonbinary individual the ability to fund part of their gender affirming surgery which will allow them to change their gender marker on identification documents, improve the quality of their social experiences, and provide incredible gains to their overall health and wellbeing.

Sustaining Legacy

Gifts over $3201 are divided in two ways: first, 25% of the gift goes toward the general budget for the fiscal year. The remaining 75% will go toward our endowment, thus ensuring a stable future for our programs and grantmaking. Sustaining donors may also leave funds, assets, or stocks in any amount to the foundation as a bequest. The full amount of a bequest will go toward our endowment.

How Sustainable Giving Works

Sustainable gifts can be given in three ways:

  1. One-time: You send us the total amount by January 31.
  2. 6-month: You send us half of the total amount by June 30 or November 30.
  3. Monthly: You send us 12 equal payments by the last day of each month.

Funds should be provided by check or ACH bank transfer as these methods are not subject to the percentage processing fee charged for credit card or debit card transactions. ACH is arranged so that you only have to submit the information once, and our donations processor will start the transfer automatically on the last day of the month. All donations are tax deductible, and you'll receive a receipt after the conclusion of the fiscal year (Jan 1 to Dec 31) which will be sent by January 15, of the next fiscal year.

Public Recognition

We choose to honor our Sustaining Donors in the following ways:
  1. Notification of grant recipients: the donor's name will be included on the grant award letter of funded grants
  2. Publication on our website
  3. Sustaining Donors will be honored in the winter edition of or magazine Pathways:
  • Sustaining Dignity donors are honored with a quarter-page donor spotlight
  • Sustaining Justice donors are honored with a half-page donor spotlight
  • Sustaining Courage donors are honored with a full-page donor spotlight
  • Sustaining Legacy donors are honored with a two-page feature story*

Sustaining Donors may opt for their first name to be published only or to remain anonymous. Sustaining Donations may also be made in honor or memory of someone.

*Legacy donors will be permanently recognized each year on our general donor spotlight. Additionally, we may name future grants or scholarships after legacy donors.

    Becoming a Sustaining Donor

    If you wish to give through sustainable giving as a sustaining dignity, justice, courage, or legacy donor, please fill out the form below, and our Director of Development and Community Relations will contact you about setting up your gift.
Darcy Jeda Corbitt Foundation (E.I.N. 81-4999870) is a nonprofit corporation registered in the State of North Dakota which is tax-exempt under Federal I.R.C. 501(c)(3). Donations made to this Foundation pursuant to I.R.C. section 2055, 2106, or 2522 may be tax deductible. We provide donation receipts at the conclusion of the fiscal year (Jan 1 - Dec 31) by January 15 of the following fiscal year.