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Financial Contribution
When you want to share the memories of your loved ones on happy occasions like birthdays, wedding, graduations, and anniversaries, you can request friends and relatives to donate to Maharashtra Foundation in lieu of flowers and gifts. Your joys and memories will be enhanced thousand fold by remembering people who need and deserve your help. Many of our friends have done this in the past.

Sharing pleasant emotions with friends and family make our life colorful, enjoyable and vibrant. And sharing painful emotions with friends and family keeps the pains bearable and memories worth cherishing. In such cases also people have prefered to donate to Foundation instead of sending flowers.

You can make a tax-deductible financial contribution.

  1. Organization in India should have an 80 G certificate.
  2. Indian charities must have the FCRA certificate. Click here: http://mha.nic.in/fcra.htm for further information about foreign contribution regulation act (FCRA).
  3. Donor has to be a member of Maharashtra Foundation. Membership Fee $ 20.00 per year.
  4. 5% of the donation is deducted for administrative expenses.
  5. Please send checks payable to Maharashtra Foundation.
    Address: Maharashtra Foundation P.O. Box 2287, Church Street Station, New York, NY 10008 – 2287
    MF Tax ID: 22-2213611
    United Way Agency Code: 11675
  6. Please write a covering letter as to which qualified organization your donation is to be disbursed. Please be sure to include your own name, address and e-mail address.
  7. Regarding any further questions regarding your donations please send e-mail to treasurer@maharashtrafoundation.org
To check whether your charity organization has FCRA approval: Click here: http://mha.nic.in/fcra.htm

Please send checks payable to Maharashtra Foundation.

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Click here for Procedure of MF- donation for securities

There are several other ways to make donations to the Foundation


1. Gift of Securities
Some donors prefer to use appreciated stocks instead of a personal check. This kind of donation is advantageous to the donors, as they can save the capital gains taxes at both federal and state level. The donors have to authorize the broker to transfer the securities to Maharashtra Foundation. For complete procedures and more details please contact us.

2. Matching Gifts
Many corporations match or multiply their employee's gifts to a charitable organization. Please ask whether your employer or your spouse's employer participates in such a program. If such cases, you have to follow some formalities in your company, complete some form and send it to the Foundation. We then complete the form after we receive your donation and forward it to your employer for their matching gift.

3. Contributions to United Way
Maharashtra Foundation (MF) is registered with United Way. If you are making a payroll deduction for contribution to United Way, you can designate Maharashtra Foundation as your choice organization for your donation. Some corporations match employee's contribution.

MF Tax ID: 22-2213611
United Way Agency Code: 11675

4. Donations to Maharashtra Foundation (MF) by persons in Canada.

The following information is to the best of our knowledge and each person should always consult their own accountant.

a) We expect your donation to MF to be tax deductible as long as you keep the receipt from MF.

b) If a Canadian person has income in US dollars, then donations to MF are deductible.

Please include a memo stating that the donation should be forwarded to the MF USA, perhaps to a specific project.


 

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