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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84375</law_id><section_number>64.2-1100</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-5205</reference><reference>15.2-5340.1</reference><reference>15.2-5374</reference><reference>2.2-2718</reference><reference>2.2-4343</reference><reference>2.2-4515</reference><reference>23.1-2210</reference><reference>23.1-2306</reference><reference>23.1-2604</reference><reference>23.1-2803</reference><reference>3.2-3104</reference><reference>32.1-361.1</reference><reference>51.5-63</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="64.2">Wills, Trusts, and Fiduciaries</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Trusts</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="11">Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In this chapter:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Charitable purpose</span>&#x201D; means the relief of poverty, the advancement of education or religion, the promotion of health, the promotion of a governmental or municipal purpose, or any other purpose the achievement of which is beneficial to the community.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Endowment fund</span>&#x201D; means an <span class="dictionary">institutional fund</span> or part thereof that, under the terms of a <span class="dictionary">gift instrument</span>, is not wholly expendable by the institution on a current basis. The term does not include <span class="dictionary">assets</span> that an institution designates as an <span class="dictionary">endowment fund</span> for its own use.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Gift instrument</span>&#x201D; means a <span class="dictionary">record</span> or <span class="dictionary">records</span>, including an institutional solicitation, under which property is granted to, transferred to, or held by an institution as an <span class="dictionary">institutional fund</span>.
		&#x201C;Institution&#x201D; means:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> A <span class="dictionary">person</span>, other than an individual, organized and operated exclusively for <span class="dictionary">charitable purposes</span>; <a id="paragraph-302380" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1100/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> A government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, to the extent that it holds funds exclusively for a <span class="dictionary">charitable purpose</span>; or <a id="paragraph-302381" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1100/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> A trust that had both charitable and noncharitable interests, after all noncharitable interests have terminated.
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Institutional fund</span>&#x201D; means a fund held by an institution exclusively for <span class="dictionary">charitable purposes</span>. The term does not include: <a id="paragraph-302382" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1100/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> <span class="dictionary">Program-related assets</span>; <a id="paragraph-302383" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1100/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> A fund held for an institution by a <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> that is not an institution, unless the fund is held by the <span class="dictionary">trustee</span> as a component trust of a community trust or foundation; or <a id="paragraph-302384" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1100/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> A fund in which a beneficiary that is not an institution has an interest, other than an interest that could arise upon violation or failure of the purposes of the fund.
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Person</span>&#x201D; means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Program-related asset</span>&#x201D; means an asset held by an institution primarily to accomplish a <span class="dictionary">charitable purpose</span> of the institution and not primarily for investment.
			&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Record</span>&#x201D; means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. <a id="paragraph-302385" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/64.2-1100/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1973, c. 167, &#xA7; 55-268.1; 1995, c. 199; 1997, c. 219; 2008, c. 184, &#xA7; 55-268.12; 2012, c. 614.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
