Remembering Can Do Canines in your estate plan is an impactful way to help sustain and strengthen our services for many years to come. Extend your support of Can Do Canines and make a lasting impact on individuals in need of an assistance dog.
Our development staff welcomes the opportunity to work with you to create a plan that will help realize your needs and philanthropic intentions.
Listed below are descriptions of a variety of planned giving opportunities, such as bequests, beneficiary designations on retirement accounts and life insurance, charitable gift annuities and charitable trusts.
Legacy Club
The Legacy Club is a select group of donors who share the conviction of our mission now and in the future. They express that conviction by including Can Do Canines in their estate planning. Learn more about Legacy Club.
Bequests
A bequest to Can Do Canines is a meaningful way to support our work. Your bequest may be for a specific amount or a percentage of your estate. You may also create a bequest that helps us after you have provided for your family and friends, called a residual bequest.
Can Do Canines has partnered with FreeWill to make this quick and easy. FreeWill provides a free, intuitive, online tool to help you write your will. This tool is free, regardless of whether or not you choose to include a gift to Can Do Canines.
Get started at FreeWill's site.
If you’re ready to leave a bequest to us, it’s important to include our correct legal name and address and tax I.D.
Can Do Canines
9440 Science Center Drive
New Hope, MN 55428
Tax I.D.: 41-1594165
Charitable Gift Annuities
A charitable gift annuity is a gift of an asset in exchange for a flow of income. Today, the concept includes valuable tax benefits for donors. Perhaps even more valuable than the financial advantage is the satisfaction you’ll gain by helping us continue our vital work.
Retained Life Estates
One of your valued possessions—your home—can become a valued gift to Can Do Canines, even while you are still living in it, and even if you want your spouse or another survivor to continue living there for life. This arrangement is called a retained life estate.
Wealth Replacement Trusts
You can make a sizable contribution to Can Do Canines now to help meet our current needs, but without reducing the estate you will eventually pass to your family. A wealth replacement trust can accomplish this goal through the purchase of life insurance.
Charitable Remainder Trusts
A charitable remainder trust can help you achieve a number of personal and financial goals. Depending on your circumstances, this plan can increase your income, reduce your taxes, unlock appreciated investments, rid you of investment worries and ultimately provide very important support to our organization.
Charitable Lead Trusts
You can provide an inheritance for your children and also make a significant charitable gift to Can Do Canines through your estate. A charitable lead trust can help you meet both objectives.
Real Estate
If you own real estate that is fully paid off and has appreciated in value, an outright gift of that property to Can Do Canines may be the simplest solution to your giving objectives. You can deduct the fair market value of your gift, avoid all capital gains taxes and remove that asset from your taxable estate. You can transfer the deed of your home or farm to us now and keep the right to use the property for your lifetime and that of your spouse.
Life Insurance
You can donate a life insurance policy to Can Do Canines or simply name us as the beneficiary. For the gift of a paid-up policy, you receive an income tax deduction equal to the lesser of the cash value of the policy or the total premiums paid. To qualify for the federal charitable contribution deduction on a gift of an existing policy, you must name us as owner and beneficiary.
Retirement Plan Assets
People who have planned carefully for their retirement may find that the assets in their IRAs and other qualified plans exceed their needs. You can designate the assets remaining in the plan after your death to Can Do Canines. This strategy can be far more advantageous than having those assets included in your taxable estate or leaving them to heirs, which could be taxed at a cumulative rate of over 65%.
If you are 70.5 and have a traditional IRA, you are eligible to give a tax-free gift to Can Do Canines directly from your IRA. Get started now at Freewill's site!
Highlights
- No estate tax is due on the retirement plan assets that pass to Can Do Canines
- The gift will qualify your estate for a charitable deduction
- The funds may be used to establish a life income trust for a person of your choice
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