How to Give

Plan your gift

Tracy Gary, a Women's Foundation of California founder, Author, Philanthropic and Legacy Advisor, and founder of Inspired Legacies, has created this useful tool to help you think about your giving strategies: Transformational Philanthropy Worksheet


Give Online

You can make a tax-deductible contribution online through our secure server.

Our Tax ID # is: 94-2752421


Mail a check

For those who prefer to give by check, tax-deductible contributions can be mailed to:
Women's Foundation of California
340 Pine Street, Suite 302
San Francisco, CA, 94104

For questions about making a contribution, please contact Nicole Decouzon McMorrow at nicolem@womensfoundca.org or (415) 837-1113, ext. 341.


Stock Donations

Making a charitable contribution in the form of stocks and/or bonds is a popular and convenient way to give. Prior to authorizing a stock gift, please notify Ellen Monroe ellenm@womensfoundca.org.

Transfer information: 
Wells Fargo
Agent Bank #: 12204
Institution #: 09577
DTC #: 0025
F/C: The Women’s Foundation of California
Account #12949608

For stock transfer questions, contact Ellen Monroe, director of finance, at 415-321-2043 or ellenm@womensfoundca.org.


IRA Charitable Distributions

Thanks to the IRA charitable rollover extension, your gifts to the Women's Foundation of California in 2008 and in 2009 can:

  • Count toward your required minimum distributions, and
  • Be excluded from your gross income—a tax free rollover.

For your gift to qualify for benefits under the extension:

  • You must be 70½ or older at the time you make your gift
  • The transfer must go directly from the IRA to the Women's Foundation of California
  • Your total IRA gift(s) cannot exceed $100,000 per year
  • Your gift must be outright

For more information, please contact Ellen Monroe at ellenm@womensfoundca.org.
 

Donor Circles

A donor circle is a group of individuals, corporate investors and/or philanthropic partners who pool their resources to make a greater impact on the issues they care about. The Women’s Foundation of California operates several successful donor circles and fiscally sponsors one. Recognized as a national leader in this donor engagement model, the Foundation's donor circles provide members with a meaningful experience in effective community activism and strategic philanthropy.


Property Donations

Gifts of real estate can provide a lasting legacy to the Foundation and offer significant tax advantages for the donor.


Planned Giving

We invite you to join the Living Legacy Society, a special group of supporters who have made a commitment to the Foundation's vision of equity and justice by choosing to include us in their estate plan. As a member of the Living Legacy Society, you will play an important role in sustaining the Foundation's progress for generations to come.


Donor-Advised Funds

Donor Advised Funds allow donors to work actively with the Women’s Foundation of California in selecting specific issues to address and suggesting particular grant recipients. In this collaborative effort, the Women’s Foundation of California acts as facilitator, working to combine the activism of our donors with communities of women and girls that they might not have found on their own.