Gift Guide Chart

Give and gifts will be given to you. -Luke 6:38

We are ready to help you find the gift that fits your situation. We’ll be glad to consult with you and/or your adviser and answer questions.

Whatever your objective – to create a secure income stream, increase your heirs’ inheritance or reduce taxes – the chart below shows a way to give that meets every goal.

Gift Guide Chart

If I want to:	I should:	How to Give:	Benefits to me:
Give quickly and easily	Make an outright gift	Donate cash, securities or real property	Income tax deduction this year; avoids any capital gains tax
Make a revocable gift during your lifetime	Make a bequest in your will or revocable trust or make a designated gift	Name the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph or any parish, school or other ministry	Lifetime control of assets; possible estate tax savings
Make a gift to honor or memorialize someone	Send a check or make a credit card payment at this link.	Follow prompts for your gift amount, identity and credit card	Achieve a secure and prompt honorary or memorial gift
Supplement your income with fixed annual payments	Establish a charitable gift annuity	Enter a contract with the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph for any of its ministries, under which we’ll pay you a fixed amount annually	Reduced income tax in the year of the gift, fixed guaranteed payments for life
Avoid double tax on retirement plan assets passed to heirs	Make a retirement plan gift	Name the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph or any of its ministries as a percentage beneficiary of the remainder of your retirement plan assets	Avoids heavy tax on gifts to heirs, allowing less costly gifts from other assets that are not taxed to heirs
Make a large gift at little to no cost to me	Make a life insurance gift	Give an existing policy or purchase a policy naming the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph or any of its ministries as owner & beneficiary	Income tax deduction in the year of the gift; possible future tax savings upon death

Gift Guide Chart

Gift Guide Chart

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