The National Heritage Foundation

The National Heritage Foundation’s mission is “to undertake segregated projects (which we call “foundations at NHF”) that tend to restore, rebuild and maintain our national heritage of people-to-people charitable, educational, scientific, or religious action worldwide.” “The purpose of the National Heritage Foundation is to conduct project activities that in the opinion of its Board of Directors tend to restore, maintain and extend our national heritage in the United States and the national heritage of cooperating countries throughout the world. The National Heritage Foundation was established in 1968. NHF promotes people to people projects by setting up “Foundations at NHF” (FANHFs) in the area of charitable, educational, scientific or religious activities as described in Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code as amended. By consolidating the administration of these charitable projects, we lower costs to minimum levels. One of our main objectives is to popularize the use of Foundations. We want to make foundations accessible to everyone, regardless of income level. A Foundation at NHF is inexpensive to start and inexpensive to operate. NHF does all the “administrivia” for you, including receiving all donations, writing checks and making disbursements from your foundation, sending charitable receipts for donations to your foundation, all accounting, state and federal compliance and reporting.” “Once your foundation application is accepted by our Board of Directors, the Donor/Founder’s project becomes an integral part of the National Heritage Foundation. Since the project becomes a part of the NHF, it attains nonprofit status under the NHF. The Foundation does not receive a different tax ID number. The Donor/Founder understands that once a project is accepted by NHF, the identity of the project is maintained as ‘a National Heritage Foundation.’ The project must state this relationship on all literature.”