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Perpetual Care Funding

By establishing dedicated financial mechanisms such as endowments or trusts, organizations ensure long-term cemetery maintenance and dignified preservation of burial grounds, because sustained funding from earnings—without eroding principal—provides reliable resources for ongoing care in perpetuity. This strategy centers on creating financially self-sustaining models where endowed or trust-based funds generate consistent income to support permanent maintenance obligations. Unlike one-time fees or operational revenues, these structures are designed to last indefinitely, aligning with legal and ethical commitments to perpetual care. What distinguishes this approach is its focus on intergenerational financial responsibility rather than short-term revenue generation or volunteer labor.

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who runs it

Organizations running this strategy · 24

what it looks like in practice

Activities of orgs running this strategy

A sample of programmatic activities from the orgs above — what the strategy looks like on the ground.

  • Charge seasonal and service-related fees CEMETERY OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
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    Imposes a winter maintenance fee from December 1st through March 31st. Charges per linear inch for foundation work with a minimum of 24 linear inches ($396.00), and fees for lettering permits.
  • Conduct funeral and memorial services CEMETERY OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
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    Provides funeral and memorial services, including traditional and personalized options, with chapel use available for up to one hour. Offers celebrant services and memorialization without interment. Services are available on Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, with departures before or after 12:00 p.m.
  • Maintain permanent endowment for cemetery upkeep CEMETERY OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
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    Allocates a percentage of grave site and columbarium niche purchase prices to a Permanent Maintenance Fund, a permanently protected fund established to ensure long-term operation, care, and maintenance of the cemetery grounds.
  • Offer monument and memorialization options CEMETERY OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
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    Provides monument cleaning services for monuments up to 5 feet in height. Offers small and large pavers for the Veterans Memorial Walkway. Issues permits for lettering and provides bronze plaques for columbarium niches.
  • Operate and maintain a non-sectarian cemetery CEMETERY OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
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    Operates a historic, not-for-profit cemetery in Highland Mills, New York, providing burial and interment services for individuals of all faiths in accordance with New York State law. Maintains grounds to ensure a peaceful and beautiful environment for visitors.
  • Provide burial and interment services CEMETERY OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
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    Provides grave opening and foundation services for burial of deceased individuals. Offers interment services for adults, children, and infants, with or without vaults, and for cremated remains in graves or columbarium niches. Includes grave excavation, filling, re-grading, and seeding as part of service fees.
  • Provide disinterment and re-interment services CEMETERY OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
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    Offers disinterment and re-interment services for caskets and cremated remains, with or without vaults, including removal from or within the cemetery.
  • Sell burial plots and interment spaces CEMETERY OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
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    Offers for sale single graves, multiple grave lots, estate plots, Family Estate Columbaria, Community Columbarium, and cremation graves. Provides trench pour foundations for grave sites, including in designated sections such as Honey Locust Meadow.
  • Commemorating lives and preserving local history WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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    Commemorates lives and records deaths as part of its cemetery services. Creates permanent memorials that serve as sources of comfort for the living and maintains a perpetual record of individuals, contributing to the preservation of local history.
  • Hosting public education and community events WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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    Hosted the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit on August 8, 2021, to educate the public about honoring veterans and fallen service members.
  • Maintaining cemetery grounds and perpetual care WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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    Continuously maintains roads, plants trees, and cares for older sections of the cemetery to preserve the grounds. Provides permanent maintenance for burial sites as part of all burial rite purchases, ensuring lasting care and dignity.
  • Managing burial records and genealogy requests WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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    Maintains private and confidential burial records and provides online access to search by first and last name to find birth and death dates of interred individuals. Fulfills genealogy requests as time permits.
  • Offering pre-planning and pre-purchase services for final arrangements WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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    Provides pre-planning services that allow individuals to make decisions about burial and memorialization in advance, reducing uncertainty for families. Offers pre-purchase of internment rights and service fees to lock in current prices, with interest-free payment plans available for burial, mausoleum, and cremation services.
  • Providing above-ground entombment and mausoleum services WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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    Operates three mausoleums—Garden of Peace, Eternal Light, and Sunset Mausoleum Complex—offering outdoor granite crypts and indoor glass-front niches. Expanded the Eternal Light Mausoleum by adding 244 new crypts to meet demand for pre-planned arrangements.
  • Providing burial and interment services WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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    Offers traditional in-ground burial options and maintains landscaped burial lots with trees and shrubs to create a garden-like atmosphere. Operates designated sections including Memorial Park with flush markers only and the Green Garden with uniform monuments and a gazebo. Provides private burial areas for families, including options for custom memorials and private mausoleums.
  • Providing cremation services and memorialization options WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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    Operates a state-of-the-art, 7,300 square-foot on-site cremation center that provides cremation services with dignity and respect. The center includes a chapel for viewings and memorial services. Offers multiple memorialization options for cremated remains, including glass-front niches, traditional niches, in-ground burial, and mausoleum interment.
  • Providing public access and visitation services WOODLAWN CEMETERY
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    Operates daily from sunrise to sunset and maintains a park-like cemetery space for visitation and remembrance. Encourages public use for recreation and reflection, offering a sanctuary of peace and quiet for families to visit, reflect, and maintain intergenerational connections.
  • Hosts public events and educational programs THE PERPETUAL CARE FUND ADMINISTERED BY THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY AS TRUSTEE
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    Organizes public events such as themed walking and trolley tours, art installations, and seasonal events. Offers school programs and field trips for students from 3K through 12th grade, as well as death education programming to engage the community and support learning.