Madison Legacy

Your Values. Your Community. Your Legacy.

Madison Legacy Partners are individuals and families who include the Madison County Community Foundation in their estate or charitable plans. When you share your intentions, you become a Madison Legacy Partner.

Your legacy can reflect what matters most to you

Strengthen the future

Create lasting resources for changing needs and new opportunities when you direct your future gift to Impact Madison unrestricted funds.

Preserve what matters

Support a favorite cause, organization, scholarship, or community.

Share a family legacy

Carry generosity forward to children, grandchildren, and future generations through a future named fund.

Ways to create a Madison Legacy

  • Make a bequest to Madison County Community Foundation in your will or revocable trust

  • Designate Madison Community Foundation as a beneficiary of an IRA or other retirement plan

  • Create a life income gift agreement such as a charitable remainder trust, charitable lead trust, pooled income fund or charitable gift annuity

  • Make Madison County Community Foundation the owner of a paid-up life insurance policy or the beneficiary of a life insurance policy

Madison Legacy Sample Bequest

How Madison Legacy Works

Choose what you want to support

Direct your future gift to changing community needs, a favorite nonprofit organization, a scholarship, or another charitable purpose.

Include MCCF in your plans

Name MCCF or an MCCF fund in your will, trust, retirement account, life insurance, or another planned gift.

Share your intentions with us.

Complete the Gift Intention Form so MCCF can document your wishes and recognize you as a Madison Legacy Partner.

Let your legacy take shape

When your gift if received, MCCF carries out your intentions. A future fund may become a Madison Legacy Fund.