Permanent Endowment Fund

Where your gifts will live forever.

Make Your Gift Now

The Permanent Endowment Fund of First United Methodist Church of Chula Vista provides a means for members and friends to make charitable gifts that will survive perpetually while providing annual income to the Church and its missions and ministries.

About the Permanent Endowment Fund

A monetary gift to the Endowment Fund is invested with the California-Pacific United Methodist Foundation. That gift becomes a permanent part of the Fund, and is not spent. Earnings from the investments are returned to the Church to be used according to the purposes of each designated fund.

How the Fund Works

A gift to the Endowment Fund can be made anytime and for any amount. Some people choose to make an endowed gift to celebrate a special occasion, to honor a loved one, or to share an inheritance or unexpected financial blessing. An endowment gift to the Church can also be very easily made through your will or trust so that you can be a blessing to the Church beyond your lifetime.

How You Can Make a Gift

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  • Donations are tax-deductible.

  • The missions or ministries most important to you will be supported for generations to come.

Benefits of Endowed Gifts

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Designations to the Fund

You decide how your gift is to be used by "designating" the purpose, or you can make an "undesignated" gift that will be invested by the Endowment Committee where most needed. The current Endowment Fund categories are:

  • Mission Funds:

    • Denominational Mission Fund

    • Local Mission Fund

    • Meek Memorial Fund to be used for missions

    • Taylor and Essley Memorial Fund

  • Property Funds:

    • Property Maintenance Fund

  • General Funds:

    • Scholarships:

      • Ruth Collet Memorial

      • Charles Rowe Memorial

      • Wesley Fund

    • Parsonage Fund

    • Music Ministry Fund

    • Mooney Foundation Fund

      • Ruth Collet Memorial

Gifts of any size can be contributed to increase the permanent principal of these funds. For donations of $10,000 or more, you have the option to establish a new endowment fund, creating a lasting legacy in your name, a loved one's name, or a meaningful name of your choice. You also decide how the earnings from this fund are to be allocated at FUMCCV.

Large or small, endowment gifts are always appreciated!

  • Senior Pastor

  • Chair of the Endowment
    Committee

  • Chair of Finance Committee

  • Church Treasurer

Members of the Permanent Endowment Fund Committee

  • Wills

  • Living Trusts

  • Charitable Gift Annuities

  • Charitable Remainder Trusts

  • Real Estate

Estate Planning and Gift Opportunities

Appointed Members

At large, members are selected to serve a particular period of time.

  • Retirement Plans

  • Life Insurance

  • Marketable Securities

  • Donor Advised Funds

Information on all of these is available at http://www.coumfgift/contact or contact the Endowment Committee Chair, Karl Bunker, at kpbunker@pacbell.net or 619-426-3817

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