Donate Through Planned Giving
Gift plans create opportunities for both our donors and the Red Cross. Determining what gift is right for you is just as important as making the gift. There are many options from which you can choose. The correct plan for you balances what you wish to accomplish for yourself, your family, and your charitable interests in your overall estate and financial plans.
A planned gift to the Red Cross helps to ensure the future of the services and programs we provide in your community and worldwide. Learn about giving strategies that allow you to make a meaningful charitable gift while possibly enhancing your, and your family’s, future financial well being.
There are many types of Planned Gifts
- Bequest —
Many of our supporters make charitable gifts by naming the Red Cross as a beneficiary in their wills. - Life Income Gift —
You irrevocably transfer some assets to the Red Cross now, and in return, you (and a survivor, if you wish) receive income for life. - Gift of Life Insurance — Some of our supporters who no longer need their life insurance that was purchased years ago to provide for children or other family members donate the policy to the American Red Cross.
- Pooled Income Fund — Your gift of money, marketable securities, or both is invested together with similar gifts from other supporters.
- Charitable Lead Trust — Individuals with very large estates can use a charitable lead trust to benefit the American Red Cross and pass principal to family members with little or no tax penalty.
- Gifts of Retirement Plans — Your IRA assets will be transferred to a charitable remainder trust; the trust will provide life income to the beneficiary, and then an eventual gift to the Red Cross.
