Ways to Give

• Bequest from Your Will: Including IAHD in your will or trust is a meaningful way to help us continue to serve animals in need. Many of our programs and services have benefited from people who had the foresight to include the IAHD in their estate plans.
• Retirement Assets: Retirement assets are one of the most beneficial gifts you can give to IAHD. These funds grow tax-free until the time of withdrawal. With the innovative use of these assets, you can contribute generously to IAHD as well as provide for your loved ones. Many taxes on these plans can be avoided or reduced through a carefully planned charitable gift.
• Life Insurance: Life insurance is often overlooked as an asset that you can use to make gifts to IAHD. There are several ways to support IAHD’s many programs with an insurance-related gift.
• Charitable Remainder Trust: A Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) is a life-income arrangement that provides you and/or other beneficiaries with a stream of income for life or for a period of years. After the trust terminates, the principal, or “remainder interest,” goes to IAHD. Unlike other life-income arrangements, CRTs are separately invested and managed trusts. Please note that IAHD does not manage these trusts for donors.

A gift of appreciated securities provides increased value to IAHD at a decreased cost to you. Other benefits include: A charitable income tax deduction for the fair market value of the gift securities. Elimination of the capital gains tax that would ordinarily become due if you had sold the appreciated securities on the open market and donated the proceeds of the sale to IAHD.

IAHD hosts two annual in-person events: an evening event in June to showcase IAHD’s programs and honor IAHD partners, and a heart-healthy community walk each September. Both events welcome individual, community, and corporate sponsorships.