Set Up A Sailor Account

When you’re trying to raise money for a sailing campaign, it’s important to offer a way for potential contributors to claim their donations to your campaign as tax deductions. This will make them much more willing to help you. One way to do this is by setting up a designated campaign account with the Southport Sailing Foundation. Since the Foundation has 501c3 non-profit status, all donations made to this account are tax-deductible. These funds are then available for legitimate expenses of your campaign. Once you establish an account with SSF, potential donors make their checks out to “Southport Sailing Foundation” and designate these funds for your campaign by writing your name on the check. Or they can do the same thing by going to our online donation form, using their credit card and writing your name in the box marked “Designated campaign.”

We will keep your funds in the Foundation’s bank account, and send you a check whenever we receive a request for funds or expense receipt.

Some foundations charge a fee for this service by subtracting a small percentage of each donation (since maintaining your account has a cost). However, the Southport Sailing Foundation has decided not to charge for this service. In other words, we will donate the maintenance costs to your campaign and deposit 100% of any check you receive into your account. (The only time we will deduct money is when a donation is made by credit card. In that case we will deduct only enough to cover the credit card transaction.)

If you would like to set up a designated campaign account with the Southport sailing Foundation, please click here to send us an email with your name, email address, phone number and a description of your sailing campaign. We will get back in touch with more details about how to set up the account.

Donors: If you would like to make a donation to a specific sailor’s campaign, please go to our online donation form and enter the sailor’s name in the space for designated sailor accounts.