A Trusted Partner for
Financial Advisors
We work with you to help your clients fulfill their
charitable giving & tax savings goals
Offer Sustained Income
Make a Difference
Shared Partnership
You can partner with IHS Foundation without losing revenue derived from managing funds.
- We give our Donor Advised Fundholders with assets greater than $100,000 the option to retain the services of their preferred financial manager. Your client makes a charitable gift to IHS Foundation and we open a new investment account with you.
- What kind of client would make a great referral to IHS Foundation? Somebody with charitable intent, Christian faith, and an interest in our biblically responsible investing commitment.
- We prepare and administer long-term giving arrangements with your donors that provide your clients with income in their lifetime (along with significant tax savings) and funds the charity of their choice with the residual of the gift.
- Recommend to your clients popular planned giving options such as charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, and charitable lead trusts.
Charitable Gift Annuity
An arrangement between a donor and a nonprofit organization in which the donor receives regular payment from IHS Foundation for life, based on the value of assets transferred to us. After the donor’s death, the remaining assets are put into the designated nonprofit’s endowment fund.
Charitable Remainder Trust
An irrevocable trust that generates income for the donor (or other specified beneficiaries), with the remainder of the donated assets going into a nonprofit's endowment fund.
Charitable Lead Trust
An irrevocable trust designed to provide financial support to a nonprofit organization for a period of time right away, with the remaining assets eventually going to the donor’s family or other beneficiaries.
Leave a Legacy
The Joy of Giving
Carol and Jim are praying about how best to organize their estate plan to bless their children and grandchildren. In addition to some money and property, they wanted to give their family a greater gift: the joy of giving.
Carol and Jim left a portion of their estate to IHS Foundation and named their children as successors on their Donor Advised Fund. They left written instructions with IHS Foundation—on file forever—to ensure their values would guide and inspire giving priorities for generations to come.
Maximize Tax Benefits
Simplify Recordkeeping
Mike was ready to sell the family lake house for $600,000 and support the local pregnancy center with half the proceeds of the sale. Prior to selling, he gifted 50% ownership to IHS Foundation. This charitable donation significantly reduced his taxable income. After the sale, IHS Foundation credited Mike’s Donor Advised Fund with $300,000, and he received one simple charitable giving receipt.
Mike knew making a large, one-time gift would complicate the pregnancy center’s budget. Instead, IHS Foundation could make recurring, smaller gifts to the pregnancy center for years to come at Mike’s direction, while IHS Foundation handled all the record keeping.
Donate Property Assets
Substantial Tax Savings
Richard was planning to sell $20,000 in appreciated stock to make a sizable gift to his church’s building fund. A friend gave him a better idea: donate the stock to the church instead, that way Richard wouldn’t pay upwards of $4,000 in capital gains taxes from the sale. When the church secretary said she didn’t think the church was set up to receive a gift of stock, Richard laughed and said it was OK. He gifted the stock to IHS Foundation and the full value went to his Donor Advised Fund. At Richard’s direction, IHS Foundation mailed a check to the church for $20,000.
Help Your Clients Leave a Legacy
The next time a donor asks you about a complex charitable gift idea or calls with a legal question you don’t know the answer to, don’t sweat.