Make a Difference for Generations to Come
Make a Difference for Generations to Come
Ways You Can Give to Make a Difference
Planned Giving
About Bequests
You may be looking for a way to make a significant gift to help further our mission. A bequest is a gift made through your will or trust. It is one of the most popular and flexible ways that you can support our cause.
IRA Charitable Rollover
An IRA rollover allows people age 70 1/2 and older to reduce their taxable income by making a gift directly from their IRA.
Beneficiary Designations
A beneficiary designation gift is a simple and affordable way to make a gift to support our cause. You can designate our organization as a beneficiary of a retirement, investment or bank account or your life insurance policy.
Charitable Gift Annuities
A charitable gift annuity is a great way you can make a gift to our organization and benefit. You transfer your cash or property to our organization and we promise to make fixed payments to you for life at a rate based on your age.
Donor Stories
Learn how others have made an impact through their acts of giving to our organization and others. Explore the many benefits of charitable gift planning.
Gift Options
Find out What to Give and learn about the best assets to make a planned gift. Learn about gifts of cash, securities and property. Learn How to Give and discover gift options that provide tax and income benefits. Discover the best planned gift to meet your goals.
Flexible Deferred Gift Annuity
Luis and his spouse, Maria, sold a vacation home earlier this year and are looking for a way to offset the capital gains tax owed from the sale. Luis enjoys the challenge and responsibility of his job and is not quite ready to retire. But, he is looking at planning options for retirement.
Luis: Maria and I were both in good health, and I still enjoyed working. We were living comfortably on my current salary but were looking for ways to plan for retirement. I wasn't quite certain when I would retire, so we wanted to find an option that would let me be flexible with my retirement date.
Maria: A gift planner from our favorite charity told us that a flexible deferred gift annuity would help us meet our goals. Instead of selling our appreciated stock and paying high capital gains tax, we could give it to them and receive an immediate charitable tax deduction to offset our current tax bill. The flexible deferred gift annuity would permit us to elect to begin taking payments for life when Luis was ready to retire.
Luis: We decided to set up the flexible deferred gift annuity. We received a charitable tax deduction in the year that the gift was made and experienced immediate tax savings. When I am ready to retire, we will contact our favorite charity to begin payments, giving me the flexibility to continue working as long as I would like. In addition, the flexible deferred gift annuity makes it possible for us to receive a large portion of each payment tax-free, and this is an attractive benefit!
Is a flexible deferred gift annuity right for you?
If you are interested in a charitable gift annuity but don't have a present need for the annuity payout, a flexible deferred annuity could be the right gift for you. You decide when you want to begin receiving the annuity payout. The longer you defer the payments, the higher the payout.
Contact us if you would like to learn more about flexible deferred annuities and how this gift could help you.
*Please note: The names and image above are representative of a typical donor and may or may not be an actual donor to our organization. Since your gift annuity benefits may be different, you may want to click here to view a color example of your benefits.