News for Professional Advisors

Tongue Twister: OBBBA, IRA and QCD

The Community Foundation can set up charitable giving plans that help your clients achieve their philanthropic goals.

Our Year in Review: 2025 Donor Reception

The Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation honored Joe and Jennifer Kirby for their commitment to generosity and the community. We also celebrated a record year of grantmaking, distributing more than $38 million to nonprofits and causes the past fiscal year.

Timing is everything for clients' 2025 charitable giving plans

Major changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed into law on July 4, 2025, are creating complexity, opportunity, and, for some, urgency. The OBBBA reshapes both how much a client can deduct for charitable contributions, and which clients can benefit from these deductions in the first place.

Local giving: Our community nonprofits need us

Our community needs us. Whatever your passion is – from causes that support youths to parks to social services – local charitable giving can be particularly meaningful right now.

One Big Beautiful Bill: 3 insights for philanthropy

Are you wondering how the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill will affect your clients? Here are three insights - on the standard deduction, charitable deductions for non-itemizers and the estate tax exemption.

Strategic giving options for clients beyond the Qualified Charitable Distribution

Naming a fund at the Community Foundation as a beneficiary of an IRA can be a powerful planning tool – allowing charitable intent to continue after death, reducing estate taxes and avoiding income tax that would otherwise be owed by heirs.