Defining Your Legacy

We empower changemakers — individuals, families, foundations, nonprofits, companies, and financial advisors — to navigate and maximize their charitable efficacy

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Individuals and Families

Not sure where to get started in philanthropy? Outpour is here to guide your personal charitable contributions and connect you with meaningful ways to give back.

We'll help you:

Reflect on your values and giving focus: Explore your passions and identify the causes and communities you want to support.
Understand the landscape and get connected: Gain deeper insights into the issues you care about and build direct connections with relevant organizations.
Strategize your philanthropic engagement: Determine an impactful giving structure that aligns with your unique situation and personal values.
Get directly involved in the community: Participate in tailored volunteer opportunities that build connections among community members and donors.

Philanthropic Advising

Not sure where to begin in your philanthropic journey, or seeking support for your existing family foundation? Outpour Charitable Advisors is here to guide you. We partner with individuals, families, and foundations to transform charitable intentions into tangible outcomes.

Our comprehensive advising services empower you to give with clarity, purpose, and maximum effect:

Philanthropic Values Articulation: We partner with you to clearly define you core philanthropic values or your organizations values, mission and vision.
Strategic Focus & Long-Term Planning: We help you translate your defined values into actionable philanthropic goals, then develop comprehensive, long-term roadmaps to achieve them effectively.
Philanthropic Values & Focus: We partner with you to clearly define your core philanthropic values, exploring your passions to identify the specific causes and communities you are most driven to support.
Strategic Direction & Planning: We help you translate your defined values into actionable strategic focus areas, then develop impactful, long-term plans to achieve your philanthropic goals.
Understanding the Landscape: We help you gain deeper insights into core issues, connect with beneficiaries, and build strong relationships with relevant organizations and potential partners.
Optimizing Giving Structures: We advise on establishing or refining the most suitable giving vehicle – such as grants, scholarships, or endowments – ensuring its structure aligns seamlessly with your unique situation and strategic goals.
Comprehensive Grantmaking Management: For foundations, we expertly manage the entire grant lifecycle, overseeing everything from application review and due diligence to legal and fiscal compliance, including drafting agreements and final reporting.
Essential Administrative & Board Support: We provide crucial administrative services, acting as administrators for leanly-staffed foundations to streamline daily operations and ensure efficiency. When necessary and appropriate, our team can also serve on boards to provide strategic and operational support.
High-Impact Program Development & Collaboration: We help you identify and cultivate strategic partnerships with impactful projects that align with your philanthropic vision, thereby maximizing your ability to create meaningful change.
Direct Community Engagement: We facilitate hands-on community involvement through collaborative efforts, arranging tailored volunteer opportunities that build connections and deepen relationships among community members and donors.

Foundations and Organizations

Need support for your entire organization, or perhaps the management of a specific program, or even an endowment? Outpour empowers your business to maximize giving through a range of tailored services designed to meet your unique needs and objectives.

Our areas of expertise:

Philanthropic Framework Development: We help you to articulate your core philanthropic values, define strategic focus areas, and develop sustainable long-term goals.
Grant Management: We handle every aspect of your grants including applications, due diligence, and legalities to ensure a smooth and compliant process.
Embedded Staffing: We serve as board governance and act as administrators to provide operational support for charitable organizations with minimal staff.
Strategic Partnerships: We assist in identifying and cultivating partnerships and projects that align with and fulfill your philanthropic goals.
Grantee Capacity Building: We don’t just provide funding to your grantees, we actively support their organizations immediate needs by leveraging all of our available resources.

We advise within a multitude of mission areas including:

Healthcare Accessibility

Create greater access to physical and mental health services for populations experiencing health disparities.
Environmental Justice

Aid initiatives in the mitigation of global warming, its effects, and environmental injustices.
Educational Development

Invest in educational and career development opportunities for youth in marginalized communities.
Family Support

Assist organizations that provide vital resources to uplift our community’s parents, caregivers, and children.
Arts Participation

Provide access to arts participation and consumption across all visual and performance mediums.
And Many Others

We help you pinpoint specific mission areas that align closely with your personal passions and philanthropic goals.

What Sets Us Apart?

Our team is highly educated and experienced in effective philanthropic practices.

We can help you utilize informed giving knowledge on how best to serve our communities.
You are in charge of your charitable contributions.

The choice of how much to give and when is completely up to you. Our expertise lies in helping you navigate that decision in a way that honors your values, while addressing community needs.
Our philanthropic knowledge is guided by listening to the needs of the communities we aim to assist.

We do not have the answers for all social issues, so, we choose to center the people and communities who are closest to those issues.
Your giving will have a greater impact than just financial support.

With each grant, you empower our team to utilize our own additional resources – including time, knowledge, and connections – to better support grantees.