Funeral Consumers Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational and charitable organization. Your donations to the national organization are tax deductible* and support our work in counseling families at a time of need, monitoring state or federal legislation, and in assisting with consumer redress for funeral complaints. We serve as the umbrella group for 100 local affiliates and offer resources to those volunteers as well as encouraging new chapters. Join nearly 400,000 others supporting our mission to protect funeral consumer rights!
There are several ways to join or support FCA:
- Become a Sustaining Member. Your monthly, tax-deductible gift will help us bring objective, consumer-oriented advice to the thousands of people who call, write, and visit our site each year. Sustaining Membership supports our work to act as a watchdog for consumers, and helps us connect grieving families with the volunteers nationwide who offer end-of-life planning to their communities through our local chapters. Sustaining members receive the FCA Newsletter, and email confirmation of their monthly gift to FCA. We accept Visa or Mastercard on our secure processing system, and you can cancel any time. Please join today!
Friends of FCA is for those who want to support our national organization directly and receive our Before I Go, You Should Know funeral planning kit, a year's subscription to our newsletter, an invitation to our Biennial National Conference, and member discounts on books and DVDs. Friends of FCA is also a good choice for those not near a local FCA group. If you joined as a Friend because there's no local chapter, we can transfer your membership when one is started (maybe you'll be that special volunteer that starts one!). You can also make a one-time, fully tax-deductible donation on the Friends of FCA page if you want to donate to our cause without receiving our publications.
- Through one of our local affiliates — Our local chapters have the best information on funeral prices and practices in their communities. Some of our chapters have found funeral homes and crematories willing to give members substantial discounts. Even if your local FCA chapter hasn't negotiated discounts with such businesses, every chapter offers funeral planning forms, objective advice, and literature that will help you stretch your funeral dollars. To find out about local benefits of membership or to join a local group, contact them through our online directory. Note - membership donations to local affiliates may or may not be tax-deductible. Please check with the local association.
- Subscribe to our national newsletter, published three times per year. Just $15!
* Your initial Friends of FCA membership donation is not fully tax-deductible, although it does directly support our consumer education work. The IRS allows donors to deduct only what they contribute above the "fair market value" of the items they receive. Your newsletter and funeral planning kit have a fair market value of $27, so the remaining $8 is tax-deductible. Any other gift you make to support our work is fully tax-deductible. Thank you for your support!
