Compare Gift Options
View and compare gift options to see which gift type best meets your personal and financial needs.

Gift Comparision Chart:

If You Would Like to:
  • Support the Sisters of St. Dominic today. 
  • Receive charitable income-tax deduction.
Then Consider:

An outright gift of cash.

How You May Benefit

Deduct 100% of the gift value for federal income-tax purposes.

If You Would Like to:
  • Support the Sisters of St. Dominic without depleting your cash reserves.
  • Avoid capital-gain tax.
Then Consider:

A gift of appreciated stock.

How You May Benefit

Provide support to the Sisters of St. Dominic while decreasing the out-of-pocket cost to you by avoiding capital-gain tax.

If You Would Like to:
  • Minimize taxes on the transfer of a business you own.
  • Provide support for the Sisters of St. Dominic.

 

Then Consider:

A gift of closely held business stock.

How You May Benefit

Receive an income tax deduction and avoid capital-gain tax.

If You Would Like to:
  • Leave assets to the Sisters of St. Dominic and your heirs upon your death but you are not sure what to leave to whom.
Then Consider:

Naming the Sisters of St. Dominic as a beneficiary of your retirement plan benefits.

How You May Benefit

Avoid estate tax on retirement plan assets while making other property available to pass on to your heirs.

If You Would Like to:
  • Make a significant gift to the Sisters of St. Dominic.
  • Retain an income for yourself.
Then Consider:
  1. A charitable gift annuity, or
  2. A charitable remainder unitrust, or
  3. A charitable remainder annuity trust.
How You May Benefit
  1. Receive a current income stream and an immediate income tax deduction.
  2. Receive a variable income stream and an immediate income tax deduction.
  3. Receive a fixed-income stream and an immediate income tax deduction and avoid capital gain tax. 
If You Would Like to:
  • Receive a charitable income-tax deduction now.
  • Receive income later.
Then Consider:

A deferred-payment gift annuity.

How You May Benefit

Receive an immediate income tax deduction and income to begin at a future date you choose.

If You Would Like to:
  • Use your assets to support the Sisters of St. Dominic today.
  • Retain control over the distribution of those assets to heirs.
Then Consider:

A nongrantor charitable lead trust.

How You May Benefit

Freeze the value of assets contributed for gift and estate tax purposes and avoid estate tax on future appreciation.