Gifts

When you make a gift of appreciated stock to the Enhance Hamilton County Foundation, your gift of stock is reinvested in your community and it qualifies for an immediate tax deduction based on the full market value.

Life insurance provides a simple way for you to give a significant gift to charity with tax benefits that you can enjoy during your lifetime.

Retirement plans provide an opportunity for you to help plan for your community’s future and can be one of the most effective assets to transfer to your local community foundation because they produce taxable income. By naming your local community foundation as the beneficiary of your retirement plan, you could be eligible to receive a number of benefits.

Including a charitable bequest in your will is a simple way to make a lasting gift to your community. When you make a gift, the Enhance Hamilton County Foundation establishes a special fund that benefits the community forever, and becomes your personal legacy of giving.

Giving through a charitable gift annuity allows you to arrange a generous gift to your community, while providing yourself a new income source that you can count on for the rest of your life.

Charitable gift annuities are easy to establish, require no trust administration, incur no setup costs to the donor and provide partial a charitable income tax deduction for the donor. The donor escapes worries about managing the donated asset and keeping its value up with inflation.

Making a charitable gift of real estate through the Enhance Hamilton County Foundation can help you turn your property gains into community good. The value of your real estate may exceed that of any other asset you own. With the help of the Enhance Hamilton County Foundation, you can use it to fulfill your charitable interests and receive financial and tax benefits.

A charitable remainder trust allows you to receive income for the rest of your life, knowing that whatever remains will benefit your community.

A gift of grain is a unique and underutilized way to make a charitable gift. For farm operators, gifting grain directly, rather than selling the grain and making a gift from the proceeds, may provide significant tax savings. Contributing grain allows you to avoid recognizing the sale of the commodity as income, while the production costs may still be deductible. Reducing taxable income may provide advantages such as minimizing or eliminating self-employment tax and reducing adjusted gross income.

Keep Iowa Growing provides a commitment to retaining farmland and ensuring the land will stay in production as it has for generations. The farmland will continue to yield, while the causes you care about will benefit from your legacy of giving. Gifts of farmland are flexible and beneficial for both you and the causes you choose to support. For more information, click here.