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Gracious Giving Circles
Many funds, one direction: families recommending grants to the same chosen ministries, at the same time.
A Gracious Giving Circle is a group of families who intend to seed the same ministries together. Each family keeps its own donor-advised fund at its own sponsor. Nothing is pooled. What the circle shares is direction and timing: a short list of carefully chosen ministries, and a season when every fund in the circle recommends its grant, so the ministry feels the whole circle arrive at once.
Made for Families Who
- Families who want their giving to land with more weight than one fund can carry alone
- Friends, church small groups, and business partners who share a heart for the same causes
- Donor-advisors who value giving in community and learning from how others give
Everything Gracious Giving Circles Covers
Circle formation
Who is in the circle, how decisions are made, and how often you give together.
Ministry selection
Choosing the circle’s ministries together, often starting from the Aqueducts directory.
Hand in Hand conversations
Talking with each ministry before the circle gives (see Scout Scripting).
A giving season
A shared window when each family’s fund recommends its grant.
The circle gathering
Coming together afterwards to hear from the ministry and to pray or reflect together.
Kingdom Seed Foundation alongside
Kingdom Seed Foundation may, at its sole discretion and subject to its sponsor’s approval, recommend grants to the same ministries in a circle’s season. It is never a feature of any package.
Step by Step
01 · Gather
Three or more families who share a heart for the same causes.
02 · Choose
Agree on one to three ministries and have Hand in Hand conversations with each.
03 · Consider
Each family decides privately whether and what its own fund will recommend. Grant recommendations are advisory, amounts are never pooled or required to match, and nothing is a pledge.
04 · Give in unison
In the agreed season, every fund recommends its grant through its own sponsor.
05 · Gather again
Hear back from the ministry together, and choose the next season.
Together, Without Pooling
Pooling gifts would mean someone holds everyone’s money. A Gracious Giving Circle keeps every fund exactly where it is, so there is no shared account, no treasurer, and nothing for Kingdom Portfolios to hold.
Each fund stays with its own sponsor
Every family remains the donor-advisor of its own fund.
Each amount stays private
The circle agrees on where and when, not how much.
Each grant is its own
Recommended by the family, approved by that family’s sponsor.
The ministry feels the circle
Grants arriving together, with a shared story behind them.
- Not a pooled fund, investment, or shared account of any kind.
- Not a way to give to Kingdom Portfolios: we never receive, hold, or direct charitable dollars.
- Not a requirement to give any amount, or to give at all in any season.
About Kingdom Seed Foundation
Kingdom Seed Foundation, a proposed donor-advised fund (application pending), may at its sole discretion and subject to its sponsor’s approval recommend grants alongside a circle. Learn more on its own site.
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Gracious Giving Circles coordinate the timing and direction of grant recommendations from separate donor-advised funds. No funds are pooled. Each grant is recommended by its own donor-advisor and approved by that fund’s sponsor. Kingdom Seed Foundation is a proposed donor-advised fund at a faith-based sponsor (application pending). Kingdom Portfolios LLC provides education, coaching, and process guidance; it is not a donor-advised fund sponsor and never receives, holds, or pools charitable dollars.