You know your clients. We know our region's needs and nonprofits. Together, we can help your clients maximize their giving impact here in Stark County, as well as across the country.
Stark Community Foundation has worked closely with tax, legal and financial experts for more than 60 years to identify the best solutions to fulfill their clients’ financial and charitable goals.
Professional advisors have referred their clients to Stark Community Foundation to establish a charitable fund for many reasons. For some, it is the simplicity and convenience a charitable fund can provide or our staff’s in-depth understanding of our region’s needs and opportunities. While for others, it is about helping their clients create a personal legacy or teach their children and grandchildren about the importance of giving back to their community.
We all benefit from the strongest possible relationship between you and your client. We never look to eclipse your role — we want to enhance it. Stark Community Foundation can work entirely in the background, or take a more forward role in guiding conversations.
We work closely with professional advisors to help you identify the best ways to meet your clients’ financial goals as well as accomplish their charitable giving objectives. As your clients are considering how to make an impact, we want to work alongside you to lead family discussions around giving goals, supporting their passions and developing strategic giving plans.
Stark Community Foundation offers different charitable funds that can fit your client’s needs and interests. Each allows your clients to remain involved in grantmaking as much or as little as they want to be. Their legacy, passion and pattern of charitable giving can continue impacting our community in perpetuity and making a difference forever.
Clients who already have a private foundation may find there are several benefits in converting it to a fund at Stark Community Foundation and avoiding some of the hassles (and costs) of private foundation management.
At Stark Community Foundation, we work with you to offer opportunities to meet your clients' charitable goals in a tax-wise way. Your clients have the freedom to give outright gifts and receive maximum tax benefits, all while helping the community now and forever. There are many ways to create and add to a charitable fund at Stark Community Foundation. The Foundation accepts a wide variety of gifts —from simple to complex.
“Working with Stark Community Foundation to accomplish the charitable goals of our clients has been a first-class experience. The quality of SCF’s staff combined with their knowledge, availability of resources and willingness to collaborate has made a huge impact on the community and with our clients.”
– Ryan A. Kuchmaner, Attorney and Partner, Black McCuskey Souers & Arbaugh, LPA
“In working with clients who want to leave a lasting and meaningful legacy, I encourage them to establish a donor advised fund with the Stark Community Foundation. By offering a streamlined set-up process, direct community impact, and flexibility in carrying out the wishes of donors, SCF is a convenient and economical way to plan gifts that support our passions, both now and beyond our lifetimes.”
– Jennifer Lile, Attorney, Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffith & Dougherty, Co., LPA
"Stark Community Foundation is a fantastic resource for me and our clients to provide input on the current needs within the community and to help clients accomplish their philanthropic goals."
– Brian C. Layman, JD, CPA, M.Tax, Principal, Layman Law Group
Special thanks to the following professional advisors who partner with Stark Community Foundation to help fulfill their clients' philanthropic goals.
Richard D. Allison, CPA
Allison, Ashbrook & Co, Inc.
Richard W. Arnold, Esq.
Arnold & Associates, Ltd.
Gerald L. Baker
Law Offices of Gerald L. Baker
Clark E. Battista, Esq.
Battista & Battista Company LPA
David T. Beule, CPA
Appalachian Basin Business Advisors & CPA
Dianne Blocker Braun, Esq.
Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA
Lindsay Bowman, CWS
Key Private Bank
Amanda Bridenstine, Esq.
Malone University
Steven J. Burger, CPA, MBA
Employers Health
Elizabeth A. Burick, Esq.
Elizabeth Burick Co., LPA
Christopher Burt, Esq.
Morgan Stanley
Mark V. Casper, Sr., CPA
M V Casper & Co.
Rachael Chandler-Head
Edward Jones
John D. Clark, Esq.
Law Office of John D. Clark
Susan Clark Chaddock
Clark Clark and Chaddock
Sandra Watkins Cleaver, Esq.
Cleaver & Sokolowski, LLC
Dennis R. Clunk, Esq.
Clunk Law Office
James F. Contini, II
Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA
David J. Cornet
Stifel Financial Corp.
Kim Cowgill, CEPA
Edward Jones
Richard Craig, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA, MAFF, CITP, MCP
415 Group
Mark P. Crawford
Maloney + Novotny, LLC
Richard E. Davis, II, Esq.
Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA
John Davis
Robert F. Fay, CPA, PFS, CGMA
Thomas V. Ferrero, Esq.
John C. Finnucan, CPA
Finnuncan & Associates, LLC
Dennis J. Fox, Esq.
Lesh Casner & Miller Co., LPA
Robert I. Friedman, Esq.
Black McCuskey
Dennis Fulmer, CFA
Beese Fulmer Private Wealth Management
Ryan Fulmer
Beese Fulmer Private Wealth Management
Daniel R. Griffith, Esq.
Huntington National Bank
Jeffrey A. Halm, Esq.
Buckingham, Doolittle, & Burroughs, LLC
Fred J. Haupt, Esq.
Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA
Paul J. Helmuth, CPA
Brian Hostettler, CFA PNC
Private Bank - Hawthorn
Susan Hulit Burns, Esq.
Marie Hull-Green
The Commercial and Savings Bank
Chad A. Immel
Edward Jones
Chad Isler
415 Group
John Julius
Huntington National Bank
James P. Kamerer, Esq.
Black McCuskey
Ryan A. Kuchmaner, Esq.
Black McCuskey
David L. Kuntzman, CLU
David L. Kuntzman Agency, Ltd.
Christina Laskovski, JD
Huntington National Bank
Brian C. Layman
Layman Law Group, LLC
Stephanie A. Lehota, Esq.
Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA
Jennifer Lile, Esq.
Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA
Ronald J. Manse
Thomas P. Moushey, Esq.
Robinson & McElwee PLLC
Michael A. Ogline, Esq.
Robinson & McElwee PLLC
David D. Paola
Merrill Lynch
Judge Dixilene N. Park
Stark County Probate Court
John M. Prelac, Esq.
Premier Bank
Roger D. Proper, Jr., Esq.
Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnston, Ltd.
Tim Rice
Merrill Lynch
Homer R. Richards, Esq.
Homer R. Richards Co., LPA
David M. Roberts
Farmers National Bank
Todd Ruggles, CPA
415 Group
Scott P. Sandrock, Esq.
Brennan, Manna & Diamond
Earl C. Sheehan
Sam O. Simmerman, Esq.
Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA
David J. Simmons, Esq.
David J. Simmons & Associates, LLC
Honorable Sean R. H. Smith
Carroll County Court of Common Pleas
James D. Snively, Esq.
Snively & Kimmins
Sue A. Sokolowski, Esq.
Cleaver & Sokolowski, LLC
Kathleen Allmon Stoneman, Esq.
Stoneman Law Office Co, LPA
Robert M. Sweeney, Esq.
Jennifer Thomas, Esq.
Thomas Law Firm, Inc.
John Tucker
Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA
Charles J. Tyburski, Esq.
Angela T. Vagotis, Esq.
Angela T. Vagotis Co., LPA
Scott T. Warburton, CPA/PFS
CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
John R. Werren, Esq.
Scott F. Whetstone, CPA
William G. Williams, Esq.
Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA
Joseph Wojcik
Huntington National Bank
Darrell W. Wright, CFP, ChFC
Raymond James
Larry A. Zink, Esq.
Zink, Zink & Zink Company LPA
Visit our Advisor Toolkit to access a growing library of charitable giving resources for professional advisors.
To learn more about how Stark Community Foundation can help you assist your charitable clients, contact Bridgette Neisel, vice president of advancement, at bneisel@starkcf.org or 330-454-7992.
