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Your Goals |
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Your Strategy |
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Your Benefits |
Maximize your deduction; minimize the gift details |
Use cash to make your gift to Gilman |
Claim your deduction against a larger portion of your adjusted gross income, and make an immediate impact on Gilman
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Afford a larger gift to Gilman – and avoid capital gains liability |
Give appreciated stock or bonds held over one year |
Buy low and give high – make a gift that costs you less than the benefit it delivers to us, while avoiding capital gains tax
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Make a gift for Gilman's future that doesn't affect your cash flow or portfolio now |
Put a bequest in your will (cash, specific property, or a share of the estate residue) |
Today – a gift that costs you and your family nothing
Tomorrow – an estate tax deduction
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Retain income benefits from the assets you give to Gilman – and thus afford a larger gift
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Make a contribution to a Gilman Pooled Income Fund, or create a charitable gift annuity or a charitable remainder trust |
Receive income for your lifetime; receive a charitable deduction; diversify your holdings |
Reduce high tax liability now; gain additional income later
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Establish a deferred gift annuity |
A larger deduction and a higher income rate than our other life-income gifts offer
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Tap one of the most valuable assets in your portfolio to make a gift to Gilman |
Use real estate to make your gift to Gilman |
Avoid capital gains tax, receive an income tax deduction – and have the option of a gift that doesn't affect your lifestyle
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Reduce gift and estate taxes and control the timing of passing assets to your children and grandchildren |
Create a charitable lead trust which supports programs at the Academy for a fixed, finite period with the principal going to your heirs.
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Reduce gift and estate taxes, and freeze the taxable value of growing assets before they pass to your family
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Locate an overlooked asset that you can easily give to Gilman |
Name Gilman as beneficiary of your retirement plan, leave other assets to family |
Eliminate income tax on retirement plan assets; free up other property to pass to your heirs
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Make an endowment gift from income rather than capital |
Create a new life insurance policy, or donate a paid-up policy whose coverage you no longer need
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Increase your ability to make a significant gift to Gilman |