The overview of giving opportunities below will help you determine the method of giving to Wills Eye that best meets your goals and the benefits you gift will provide.
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Your Goal |
Ways to Give |
Benefits to You |
| Give a Gift Today |
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Support Wills Eye today. |
Write a check or use your credit card via our secure online giving site. |
Support Wills Eye today |
| Make a gift today and avoid capital gains taxes. |
Contribute long-term appreciated stock or other securities. |
An immediate charitable deduction in the year of your gift and no tax on your capital gains. |
| Leave a Legacy |
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Leave a legacy through your will. |
Name Wills Eye through a bequest in your will or estate plans. |
Donations through your estate are exempt from federal estate taxes. |
| Make a gift with little cost to you or your family. |
Contribute a life insurance policy you no longer need. |
Current and potential future income tax deductions. |
| Avoid the twofold taxation on your IRA or other employee benefit plan. |
Name Wills Eye as the beneficiary of the remainder of your retirement assets after your lifetime. |
Allows for other assets with less tax liability to be left to your heirs. |
| Avoid capital gains tax on the sale of a home or other real estate. |
Donate your real estate to Wills eye or sell it to us at a bargain price. |
Immediate income tax deduction and the reduction or elimination of capital gains tax. |
| Give your personal residence or farm, but retain life use. |
Create a charitable gift of future interest, called a retained life estate. |
Receive a charitable income tax deduction and lifetime use of the residence. |
| Give a Gift & Receive an Income |
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Receive a fixed annual payment to supplement your that is partially tax free.
| Establish a charitable gift annuity.
| A guaranteed fixed income for life, a charitable income tax deduction in the year of your gift, and a possible reduction on capital gains taxes.
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| Receive a fixed annual income and reduce market risk over the long-term.
| Create a charitable remainder annuity trust.
| Immediate income tax deduction and fixed income for life.
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| Make a gift, receive a variable income, continue to add to the gift, and hedge against inflation over the long term.
| Create a charitable remainder unitrust.
| Receive an immediate income tax deduction and a variable income for life.
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| Give income from an asset for a period of years but retain the asset for yourself or your heirs.
| Create a charitable lead trust.
| Reduce your taxable estate while keeping the property for your family.
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