---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 101111"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "101111"
heading: "Purpose and establishment of Foundation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/101111"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1011 — Donations"
  - "Subchapter II — National Park Foundation"
---

# §101111. Purpose and establishment of Foundation


To encourage private gifts of real and personal property, or any income from, or other interest in, the property, for the benefit of, or in connection with, the [Service](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4), its activities, or its [services](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4), and thereby to further the conservation of natural, scenic, historic, scientific, educational, inspirational, or recreational resources for future generations of Americans, there is established a charitable and nonprofit corporation to be known as the National Park Foundation to accept and administer those gifts.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3120.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 101111 | 16 U.S.C. 19e. | Pub. L. 90–209, § 1, Dec. 18, 1967, 81 Stat. 656. |