Many people choose to support the House to Home Foundation by making a provision in their estate plans to support the Foundation. Gifts from an estate to the House to Home Foundation are free of federal estate taxes. Certain types of gifts, such as charitable lead trusts, allow you to give property to the House to Home Foundation without being subject to gift taxation. Under this type of plan, the House to Home Foundation enjoys the benefit of your gift for a number of years before the gift passes to your heirs, free from the burden of estate taxes. Conversely, charitable remainder trusts also relieve you of federal gift and estate taxes, enabling the gift to pass to the House to Home Foundation at the end of your life. Other provisions include traditional bequests of property in a will or including the House to Home Foundation as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy.

Gifts of cash, securities, personal and real property - such as your home - are all possible under the plans described above. You may also choose to add the House to Home Foundation as a current or deferred beneficiary of an IRA or 401k. Planned gifts are a wonderful way to make a gift to the House to Home Foundation, but are complex provisions with legal and tax consequences. We advise you to contact your legal or tax advisor to create such gifts.