ELEA Endowment
The ELEA Endowment Fund connects, develops, and inspires member schools and learning centers of the ELCA. Consider supporting the ELEA with your abundance to ensure its perpetuity.
The ELEA Endowment Fund is held in the Ministry Growth Fund of the ELCA Foundation, a socially responsible endowment fund that provides resources, financial education, and investment services to support Lutheran Education.
ELCA Foundation gift planning services are available without obligation to individuals and congregations. Gift Planners can help you create a plan that benefits our endowment fund, fits your financial situation, and provides you with maximum tax benefits.
About Our Endowment
In 2021, supporters and friends of the ELEA created the ELEA Endowment to help enhance our mission and give back to our schools and learning centers.
Endowment donors envision the growth of Lutheran Education for generations to come.
Founders
I give to the ELEA because I feel we need to provide training, support, and many blessings for our organization and all who provide this ministry for our children/students and their families. It’s been awesome for me living in this town to hear from former staff, students, and parents how much our small school meant to them and the BEST part is finding out that our former students are now sending their children to TLPS. We continue to “praise God from whom ALL blessings flow.
Pat Garrett (1944-2023)
Founder and former Director of Trinity Lutheran Preschool, Enumclaw, WA. ELEA Donald A. Vetter, lifetime of service award recipient, and philanthropist.
Ways to Give
Give Now
Giving Options
- Make an immediate, outright charitable gift
- Cash
- Publicly traded securities
- Closely held stock
For People Who
- Want to provide charitable support now
- May want to give anonymously
- Seek an immediate charitable deduction
Give Later
Giving Options
- Keep control of use of assets while living and make a charitable gift upon death
- Living will or bequest
Beneficiary proceeds such as retirement assets or annuities - Life insurance
- Life estate reserved
For People Who
- Want to leave a legacy by giving
- Wish to retain control of their assets while living
- Wish to make a larger gift upon death
- Help heirs avoid estate taxes on assets given
Give & Receive
Giving Options
- Make a charitable gift and receive ongoing income payments for life or a term of years. The remainder provides charitable support.
- Charitable gift annuity
- Charitable remainder annuity trust
For People Who
- Want to leave a legacy by giving
- Own appreciated assets
- Seek an additional source of income
- Seek an immediate charitable deduction for a portion of the gift’s value
How to Give
Individuals/families can create their own donor-advised fund to benefit our Endowment Fund. Want to learn more about giving to the ELEA Endowment Fund? Please contact the ELEA at info@elcaschools.org or 800-500-7644, or contact the ELCA Foundation at 773-380-2970.