Focus on mission and strategy while Foundation Source handles back-office administration and compliance tasks.

Thinking of creating a new foundation?

We make it fast and easy

Do you want your foundation to have more impact with less work?

We provide all the services and technology you need to run a great foundation

Donors And Families

Donors and Families

Advantages
  • Quick and easy start up - new foundations set up in three days
  • Relieves administrative burden of foundation management
  • Engages the family more meaningfully in philanthropy
  • Provides experience and expertise to improve effectiveness

Foundation Source helps new donors become the best philanthropists they can be. We assist donors and trustees of established foundations in making their operations more efficient and their giving more effective.

Whether you’re the founder, a family member, a board member or foundation staff, you’ve made a commitment to a philanthropic objective. You want to have an impact and, in most cases, you want to share the experience of giving with others.

Do More of What Matters Most

Foundation Source helps individuals and families build better foundations and become more creative and engaged philanthropists.  Our services help make your foundation operations run smoothly and efficiently, and your giving more effective and rewarding.  Our staff of professional advisors oversees every detail of foundation administration: compliance monitoring, grant processing, regulatory issues and more. We handle tasks and burdens that you don’t have the time, inclination or capacity to do, so you can spend more time on your philanthropy.

Since our inception over a decade ago, Foundation Source has become the largest U.S. provider of complete back office, online resources and advisory services for private foundations.  We work to ensure that the administrative, technical and human aspects of every foundation are run flawlessly, without conflict or compromise. While every client we serve is unique, all have one thing in common: they want their foundation and their foundation experience to be a great one—on the terms they set.

  • New FoundationsFoundation Source can provide a new foundation in as few as three business days, or work with foundations set up independently by your attorney.
  • Existing Foundations – We can work with you or your advisors to smoothly transition to our platform by uploading investment balances, grant history and other activities onto your password protected, secure, private web site.

Our experienced team of Managing Directors is ready to provide you with the information you need to get started with Foundation Source. Contact Us

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Testimonial

“Initially, I resisted setting up a private foundation, but Foundation Source has made this not only a relatively effortless process, but also a very enjoyable one. I am grateful that Foundation Source has served a vital role in facilitating this Sievert family legacy.”
- Fred Sievert, President The Sievert Family Foundation
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