| Your Goals |
Your Strategy |
Your Benefits |
| Maximize your deduction; minimize the gift details |
Use cash to make your gift to the Museum of Science |
Claim your deduction against a larger portion of your adjusted gross income and make an immediate impact on the Museum of Science |
| Afford a larger gift to the Museum of Science — and avoid capital gains liability |
Give appreciated stock or bonds held over one year |
Buy low and give high — make a gift that costs you less than the benefit it delivers to us, while avoiding capital gains tax |
| Make a gift for the Museum of Science's future that doesn't affect your cash flow or portfolio now |
Put a bequest in your will (cash, specific property, or a share of the estate residue) |
Today: a gift that costs you and your family nothing. Tomorrow: an estate tax deduction |
| Retain income benefits from the assets you give to the Museum of Science — thus afford a larger gift |
Create a charitable gift annuity or a charitable remainder annuity trust or unitrust |
Receive income for your lifetime; receive a charitable deduction; diversify your holdings |
| Reduce high tax liability now; gain additional income later |
Establish a deferred gift annuity |
A larger deduction and a higher income rate than other life-income gifts offer |
| Tap one of the most valuable assets in your portfolio to make a gift to the Museum of Science |
Use real estate to make your gift to the Museum of Science |
Avoid capital gains tax, receive an income tax deduction—and have the option of a gift that doesn't affect your lifestyle |
| Reduce gift and estate taxes and control the timing of passing assets to your children and grandchildren |
Create a charitable lead trust that supports programs at the Museum of Science for a fixed, finite period with the principal going to your heirs. |
Reduce gift and estate taxes and freeze the taxable value of growing assets before they pass to your family |
| Avoid capital gains liability on the transfer of a business or partnership interest |
Contribute the partnership interest or closely-held stock to the Museum of Science |
Avoid capital gain liability, receive an income tax deduction, and utilize a gift asset you may have overlooked |
| Locate an overlooked asset that you can easily give to the Museum of Science |
Name the Museum of Science as beneficiary of your retirement plan; leave other assets to family |
Eliminate income tax on retirement plan assets; free up other property to pass to your heirs |
| Make an endowment gift from income rather than capital |
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 the Museum of Science |
