Explore different ways to share your support using planned giving
Creative Ways to Give
There are many ways to make a donation that also take into consideration your personal circumstances and the needs of your heirs. Review the following options.
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Bequests
Learn how to help others and the Women’s Sports Foundation by using one of the most popular and simple ways to make a gift. A dollar amount or percent of your estate may provide for the Foundation or a donation to the Foundation may be made after other obligations of your estate have been met. By choosing to leave the Foundation in you will, trust or other estate plans, you will become a member of the Foundation's Championship Club. Please visit this area of the site if you would like to review the standard language for how to leave the Foundation in your will.
Life Insurance
Naming the Foundation as the beneficiary and/or assigning ownership of the policy to us may provide you with a valuable income tax charitable deduction. If you're thinking about making a planned gift to the Women's Sports Foundation, your life insurance or pension plan can be the most sensible way to do it. Your income isn't cut and your cash flow may actually increase. You may stop paying premiums and enjoy an increase in available cash. If you continue to pay premiums on a donated policy, you may claim the premium amount as an annual tax deduction. You life insurance or pension plan gift provides the Foundation with valuable options. The Foundation can cash it in, borrow against it, or convert it to a paid up policy. Your gift of a life insurance policy will go on to insure the life, continued growth and success of the Women's Sport Foundation.
Charitable Gift Annuities
A Charitable Gift Annuity is a planned gift from which you will receive a steady fixed income beginning when the annuity is created or on a future date that can be chosen by you. Read more about how to make a donation and, in turn receive a fixed annuity payment each year for life.
Charitable Remainder Trusts
In the right circumstances, this plan can increase your income, reduce your taxes, unlock appreciated investments, rid you of investment worries and ultimately provide very important support.
Memorials and Endowments
Discover a powerful way to make a gift to us in your name or in the name of a loved one while realizing tax benefits for your kindness.
Charitable Lead Trusts
Make a donation now while reducing tax costs for your future heirs. The Foundation welcomes donations as a result of inclusion in wills or trusts. Setting up a lead trust allows you to donate income to the Women's Sports Foundation from certain assets for a number of years and allows the principal to be returned to you or your family. You can create an annuity trust, have a lead trust set up after your lifetime, or create a lead trust now and enjoy valuable tax benefits without forfeiting the trust principal. Even more importantly, you will gain the personal satisfaction of supporting and ensuring a future of increased opportunities for girls and women in sport.