Planned Gifts | Planning for Impact
Planning for Impact
Smart and Powerful Giving
Increase the Impact of Your Generosity Through Planned Gifts
Planned gifts offer you smart and powerful ways to increase the impact of your gifts to Highland Christian School – often while benefiting your family, too.
By understanding the available options, you can multiply the results of your generosity in ways that are simple, flexible, cost-effective and powerful.
Types of Planned Gifts
- Giving Stock, Real Estate or Other Assets
- Gifts From Your IRA
- Gifts in a Will
- Gifts That Pay You Income
- Donor-Advised Fund
Barnabas Foundation
Highland Christian School partners with Barnabas Foundation to offer our supporters complimentary planning services and assistance with complex gifts.
Since 1976, Barnabas Foundation has helped thousands of individuals and families maximize the effectiveness of their generosity through tax-wise charitable giving. They’ll help you develop a charitable plan that honors God, provides for your family and support the ministries close to your heart.
For more information, contact our Development Office.
Jodi Lineburg, Development Director
219-838-0356 x165
Association for Christian Instruction
(d/b/a Highland Christian School)
EIN: 35-0898393
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Qualified retirement plans provide several great ways to impact Highland Christian School. You can make a tax-free gift from your traditional IRA, designate remaining retirement plan assets to the Foundation, or designate remaining retirement plan assets for a life income plan.
Did you know that you can name Highland Christian School as a beneficiary of retirement assets? This simple action allows you to control the transfer of these assets at your death without changing your will or living trust. This also allows 100% of your funds to be used for charitable purposes without taxation at distribution. All you need to do is request (and complete) a new beneficiary designation form from your plan administrator. Charitable beneficiary designations also apply to life insurance policies, Commercial annuity contracts, bank and investment accounts.
Real estate investors often face a big challenge once they decide to sell their property. What seemed like substantial growth in value could be reduced by 20 to 30 percent – sometimes even more – by the tax bill. That’s where a real estate gift has significant benefits.
By giving the property to Highland Christian School, you will receive a charitable deduction and eliminate the tax bill you would have incurred had you sold the property outright. What’s more, if you donate the real estate toward a life income gift, you will secure a lifetime of payments for you or your loved ones.
When you name Highland Christian School or the HCS Foundation in your will, you model generosity and extend your impact beyond your lifetime! Use an attorney affiliated with Highland Christian School when you finalize your plan to receive $150 credit towards your legal fees.
Gifts of stock or real-estate can have enormous tax benefits and savings. Download this resource Gifting Securities for the Benefit of Highland Christian School to facilitate your contribution to Highland Christian School or the HCS Foundation.