To accept and hold in behalf of the State, if for the public interest, a grant, gift or legacy of money or property to the State of Illinois, to the Department, or to any facility of the Department made in trust for the maintenance or support of a recipient at a facility of the Department, or for any other legitimate purpose connected with such facility. The Department shall accept any donation for the board and treatment of any recipient. The Department also may accept and hold a grant, gift, or legacy of money or property made or given to a facility of the Department that is no longer operating or to a facility of the Department that is operating under a different name, provided that if the grant, gift or legacy was made for a particular purpose, the Department shall, to the extent practicable, use the grant, gift or legacy in a manner that carries out that purpose with regard to another facility operated by the Department for the same purpose, or in the latter case, with regard to that same facility of the Department that is operating under a different name. The Department shall cause each gift, grant or legacy to be kept as a distinct fund, and shall invest the same in the manner provided by the laws of this State as the same now exist, or shall hereafter be enacted, relating to securities in which the deposit in a savings bank may be invested. But the Department may, in its discretion, deposit in a proper trust company or savings bank, during the continuance of the trust, any fund so left in trust for the life of a person, and shall adopt rules and regulations governing the deposit, transfer, or withdrawal of such fund. The Department shall on the expiration of any trust as provided in any instrument creating the same, dispose of the fund thereby created in the manner provided in such instrument. Monies found on the recipients at the time of their admission, or accruing to them during their period of facility care, and monies deposited with the facility director by relatives, guardians or friends of recipients for the special comfort and pleasure of such recipients, shall remain in the custody of such facility director who shall act as trustee for disbursement to, in behalf of, or for the benefit of such recipients. All types of retirement and pension benefits from private and public sources may be paid directly to the director of the facility where the recipient is a resident, for deposit to the recipient’s trust fund account. Banks, trust companies, savings and loan companies and insurance carriers having in their possession funds of $1,000 or less belonging to a recipient in a facility of the Department shall release such funds to the director of the facility where the recipient is a resident, for deposit to the recipient’s trust fund account. The facility director shall provide a receipt to any bank, trust company, savings and loan company or insurance carrier for the amount received and such receipt shall constitute a valid and sufficient discharge and release of the obligation of such bank, trust company, savings and loan company or insurance carrier to the recipient for whom such payment was so made, to the extent of the payment made. Each facility director shall keep in a book an itemized account of all receipts and expenditures of funds described in the above proviso, which book shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Department.