A Little Can Go a Long Way
If you want to give back to your community or contribute to a cause you support, a Charitable Gift Life Insurance Policy is a simple way to leverage your meaningful intentions. This form of giving will afford the donor (you or a trust) the opportunity to make a donation to a non-profit organization without reducing the inheritance you intend to leave to your heirs. It allows you to give a gift that is much larger than one you may have otherwise been able to make. In addition, this type of donation does not become a matter of public record and is gifted without the delays of probate.
Three Options to Charitably Gift Life Insurance
Transfer ownership of an existing life insurance policy to a charity.
- The charity will become the owner and beneficiary of the policy.
- The donor will receive an income tax deduction equal to the value of the policy.
- Offers an estate tax deduction for the proceeds collected by the charity upon death of the insured.
Purchase a new life insurance policy.
- The charity is the applicant, owner, and beneficiary of the policy.
- The donor receives income tax deductions for all premium payments.
- The death benefit proceeds will be excluded from the donor’s estate.
Maintain ownership of the policy and name the charity as the beneficiary.
- The donor retains the right to change the beneficiary at any time.
- This type of ownership does not provide the donor with an income tax deduction.
- Offers an estate tax deduction for the proceeds collected by the charity upon death of the insured.
Source:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/charitable-gift-life-insurance.asp
https://hmsia.com/sites/default/files/charitable_gift_of_life_insurance.pdf
https://www.endowdevelop.com/etech_pal/Content/other_gifts/charitable_gifts_of_life_insurance.htm
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