Estate Giving
A Legacy of Opportunity and Hope
“Education is my top priority because I know it will give my children better lives, so I am very thankful to CSF supporters. Without your help, my children and the children of my friends and neighbors would not have the future that they now have.”
– CSF Mom Esperanza
When Ted Forstmann and John Walton launched Children’s Scholarship Fund in 1998, they knew they were changing the lives of thousands of low-income families, providing opportunity and hope. That’s what a quality education does. But they didn’t know their investment would catalyze more than a billion dollars in support for more than 224,000 students—and counting.
Founders’ Legacy Society
When you join the Founders’ Legacy Society with a gift through your will or estate, you make this astounding legacy of hope and opportunity your own, ensuring that more K-8th grade students and their families will have the means to make a life-changing private, independent, or parochial school education part of their own family story.
Through the Founders’ Legacy Society, you can give children the gift of a quality education and advance a future of greater educational opportunity for all children for years to come.
Founders’ Legacy Society Benefits
- Special recognition in the CSF Annual Report and at events;
- An annual mission update from the President;
- Exclusive briefings from CSF alumni as they make their own mark on the world and rejoin the CSF community as supporters themselves; and
- Opportunities to share the story and intent behind your gift.
There are several ways you can join our Founders’ Legacy Society!
BENEFICIARY DESIGNATIONS
Designate Children’s Scholarship Fund as a beneficiary of a financial account, such as:
- life insurance policy,
- retirement account,
- donor advised fund,
- other financial account.
BEQUESTS
Include Children’s Scholarship Fund in your will or trust by inserting a provision containing our legal name and federal tax ID:
Sample Language: “I give, devise, and bequeath to The Childrens Scholarship Fund, an independent, nonprofit educational institution located in New York, NY (Tax ID #13-4002189), or its successor organization [% of my estate/item/asset/amount or residual amount] to be used (choose one of the following):
for [designated purpose]. If at any time it becomes impossible or impractical for my gift to be used for the above designated purpose, Children’s Scholarship Fund shall use my gift for a purpose and in a manner that it determines most closely meets the above designated purpose.”
for its general support and charitable purposes without restriction.
If you decide to make Children’s Scholarship Fund a part of your enduring legacy, please let us know!
Please complete and return this Letter of Intent form to Michele Mitola at mmitola@scholarshipfund.org or mail it to us at:
We will be honored to welcome you to our Founders’ Legacy Society and to thank you for your generous and lasting commitment to giving all parents a choice and children a chance to get a good education and flourish.