Capstone Legacy Foundation
Ensuring Your Gifts Echo into Eternity
Welcome to Capstone
Capstone Legacy Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) Christian community foundation dedicated to the preservation of donor intent. We believe that stewarding God's blessings is a form of obedience and worship. Whether you wish to fund good works or do good works, Capstone provides customized giving solutions that enable each dollar to go further. Don't start a foundation, launch a ministry, or rush to distribute windfall gains without considering our range of innovative funding solutions. Contact us to request our public documents.
DONOR ADVISORY
Are you looking for Christ-centered, morally driven giving? Looking for a kingdom-driven perspective on wealth? Capstone Legacy Foundation provides a diverse series of giving vehicles and fiduciary services that provide you with peace of mind.
MINISTRY CHARITY PROJECTS
Have you ever wanted to start a charity or ministry? Our Ministry Charity Project (MCP) "incubator” allows you to receive tax-free donations without the expense and hassle of forming your own 501 (c) (3). Capstone MCPs handle your legal and accounting paperwork so you can focus on the work you feel called to do.
RECENT EVENT
Featuring Special Guest: Brigitte Gabriel
NYT Best Selling Author / Political Commentator
Brigitte Gabriel is a leading commentator on politics, culture and national security. As a legal immigrant to America born in Lebanon, Ms. Gabriel survived war in the Middle East living in an 8x10 underground bomb shelter from the age of 10 until 17.
She lectures nationally and internationally, and her expertise is sought after by world and business leaders.
Ms. Gabriel moved to Israel in 1984 and became news anchor for “World News,” an evening Arabic news broadcast for Middle East Television seen throughout Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. Her work is of international scope having brought her in contact with world figures such as Margaret Thatcher, George H. Bush, Queen Nour El Hussein, Itzhak Rabine, and Shimon Perez.
Ms. Gabriel immigrated to the United States in 1989 and founded a television production and advertising company. Her clients included ABC, NBC, CBS, Discovery, TLC, History Channel, CNN, the Oprah Winfrey show, 20/20, World News Tonight, and Good Morning America just to name a few.
Ms. Gabriel is Founder and Chairman of ACT for America, the largest national security grassroots organization in the U.S. with over one million members. She is a NYT best-selling author of three books the latest is “RISE” In Defense of Judeo-Christian Values and Freedom.
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ABOUT US
Our History
Our dedication to establishing your legacy comes from the depth of our own Pennsylvania roots. Although Capstone was organized in 2005, our financial and spiritual legacy stems from one of America’s oldest industrial firms—the Lukens Steel Company—founded in 1810. This 200+ year perspective inspires our efforts to ensure that we help your giving echo into eternity.
MISSION
Capstone is a community foundation whose mission is to empower givers to increase their generosity by planning strategically and establishing legacies to fund ministries.
VISION
The community one in Christ: to unite a missional community to transform the culture and serve each other in love.
VALUES
Christ-centered, Earning Relationships, Evoking Passion, Empowering Intentional Stewardship, Prayer Guided, Sharing Living Legacies
The Problem
Pareto's principle, named for Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, is well known as the "80/20 rule.” It holds the 80% of the results in any enterprise often come from 20% of the actions. In planned giving, there is a similar phenomenon. Most charitable giving follows a variation of the 80/20 rule:
- Most people hold their wealth in non-cash assets, such as stocks, bonds, cars, boats, personal real estate, commercial real estate, closely-held businesses, gold, silver, royalties, copyrights, and patents, to name just a few.
- Unfortunately, when these people donate money, they tend to write checks and give cash.
This creates the following problems:
- At the time when people want to sell any of the assets listed above, it may not be a seller’s market.
- The market for these assets may not be liquid: there may not be many buyers and sellers.
- If everything goes well, and people can sell their assets at profit, they will pay heavy taxes on capital appreciation.
As a non-profit 501 (c) (3) community foundation, Capstone can help you solve these problems through the various giving vehicles and services. If you have any questions, please contact us to discuss your situation. We can help you find ways to donate and receive non-liquid assets.