Legacy GIving

Gifts to CAP make visible, meaningful, and enduring progress toward a Lancaster community where everyone thrives. In a world that is changing so rapidly, CAP has remained steadfast at the center of our community’s needs for almost 60 years.

Throughout its history, CAP has served as a reliable organization committed to transforming generational poverty into economic prosperity with programs that assist full families in every stage and place of life. Led by innovative and visionary leaders, CAP connects with members of our community and directly addresses their complex and changing needs.

CAP maintains a strong and established financial position while constantly improving and discovering new ways of supporting economic mobility for folks in our community.

Last year alone, CAP served over 42,000 individuals while actively maintaining 57 grants ranging from $2,500 to $8.2 million. As CAP now looks toward the future, we do so alongside the Lancaster County Community Foundation to elevate sustainable, responsible, and impactful investing approaches into our endowment strategy.

CAP holds an organizational endowment at the Lancaster County Community Foundation and donors have two choices: To direct their endowment gifts to support the overall work of CAP; or to direct their endowment gifts to support the Domestic Violence Services program.

This endowment fund will ensure a long-term success plan for CAP programs, equipping them with stable revenue sources in perpetuity.

CAP donors can use a variety of methods to make contributions to the endowment fund. Gifts of all sizes and in many forms are welcome, including:

Cash gifts, which qualify as a charitable deduction for federal income tax purposes.

Bequests and estate gifts through your will, where you can designate CAP as a beneficiary of a portion of your estate, a portion of a retirement account, or as the recipient of a charitable remainder trust.

Life insurance, where you can purchase new insurance in the name of the CAP Endowment Fund or designate the Endowment Fund as a full or partial beneficiary of an existing life insurance policy.