Community Real Estate & Personal Property Foundation

CREPPF is a separate 501(c)(3) public charity that is affiliated with the Community Foundation, Wisconsin’s second-largest community foundation. Through this relationship, the volunteer CREPPF board brings additional expertise to gifts of complex assets, making such gifts more readily available to all charities and increasing the overall level of giving of non-cash in our community.

Not every nonprofit organization has the capacity to handle a gift of real estate, business interests, or other non-cash assets. CREPPF’s professional staff and volunteer board can make your gift happen quickly and inexpensively, realizing the optimal value for your charity of choice. Plus, you can divide the proceeds of a single gift among multiple charities or work with the Community Foundation to design a custom charitable giving program for your family.

Our staff can help answer your questions and consult with your professional advisors upon request. Following initial discussions and information gathering by staff, members of the CREPPF board will review each potential gift and evaluate its suitability based on our Gift Acceptance Policy.

Gifts of real estate, business interests, and other non-cash assets generally require significant staff time and effort to evaluate, administer, and liquidate. Our standard fee is 5% for real estate and 2% for business interests, within set minimum and maximum fees (see our Fee Schedule). Fees for other types of gifts will be negotiated based on the complexity of the transfer. We discount our fees by one-half if the sales proceeds are transferred to a charitable fund within the Community Foundation.