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Giving Options

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Choose the gift option that matches your goals.

Your Goals	Your Gift	How to Make Your Gift	Your Benefits
Make a gift for Indian Hill Music's future that costs you nothing now.	Bequest in a will.	Include a bequest for us in your will (cash, specific property, or a share of the estate residue).	Today — a quick and easy, painless way to build our financial strength. Contribution is exempt from federal estate taxes. Tomorrow — resources that we will put to use.
Avoid capital gains liability and take an income tax deduction.	Outright gift of appreciated securities	Use appreciated securities, instead of cash, to make your gift.	Buy low and give high — while avoiding capital gains tax. Take advantage of income tax deductions.
Make a quick and easy gift.	Outright gift of cash.	Simply write a check or make a cash donation now.	Receive an immediate income tax deduction and possible estate tax savings.
Share your enjoyment of a collection or other personal item.	Outright gift of personal property.	Donate tangible personal property related to our exempt function.	Receive a charitable deduction based on the full fair market value.

Your Goals	Your Gift	How to Make Your Gift	Your Benefits
Leave more of your estate to your heirs.	Beneficiary of retirement plan.	Name Indian Hill Music as beneficiary of your retirement plan, leave less-taxed assets to family.	Eliminate income tax on retirement plan assets; free up less costly assets to pass to your heirs.
Tap one of the most valuable assets in your portfolio to make a gift to Indian Hill Music.	Real estate	Use real estate to make your gift to Indian Hill Music.	Avoid capital gains tax, receive an immediate income tax deduction; benefit from a reduction or elimination of capital gains tax— and have the option of a gift that doesn't affect your lifestyle.
Create a long-term gift that won't draw funds from your estate.	Life Insurance Gift	Create a new life insurance policy, or donate a paid-up policy whose coverage you no longer need.	Increase your ability to make a significant gift to Indian Hill Music. Receive a current income tax deduction and possible future deductions to pay policy premiums.
Supplement your income with a guaranteed fixed amount that is partially tax free.	Charitable Gift Annuity	Enter a charitable gift annuity contract with IHM that pays a guaranteed income annually.	Achieve current and future savings on income taxes with stable income for life.

Your Goals	Your Gift	How to Make Your Gift	Your Benefits
Get benefits back from the assets you give to Indian Hill Music — and thus afford a larger gift.	Charitable Remainder Unitrust	Create a life-income plan like a charitable gift annuity. Create a life income plan like a charitable remainder unitrust that pays a fixed percentage of the trust’s assets as revalued annually.	Receive income for your lifetime; receive a charitable tax deduction; diversify your holdings.
Reduce gift and estate taxes and leave more of your assets to your heirs.	Charitable Lead Trust	Create a charitable lead trust to pay income to Indian Hill Music for a fixed time, then pay the remainder to your heirs.	Reduce gift and estate taxes, and freeze the taxable value of growing assets before they pass to your family.
Reduce high tax liability now; gain additional income later.	Deferred gift annuity	Establish a deferred gift annuity.	A larger deduction and a higher income rate than our other life-income gifts offer.
Pass ownership of residence or farm, but continue to live there.	Retained life estate.	Designate the ownership of your home to us, but retain occupancy.	Charitable income tax deduction and lifetime use of your home.
Make a revocable gift during your lifetime.	Revocable Living Trust	Name IHM as the beneficiary of assets in the living trust.	Maintain control of the trust for your lifetime.

The materials contained herein are intended to show only some of the ways you can benefit IHM’s future and minimize your federal tax liability. Thus, you should not take any action without first consulting your attorney or accountant.

For more information, please contact: Susan Randazzo, Executive Director (978) 486-9524 x110.