Gift Planning

Maximize your deduction; minimize the gift details.

Use cash to make your gift to the Zoological Society of San Diego.

Claim your deduction against a larger portion of your adjusted gross income and make an immediate impact on the Zoological Society of San Diego.

Afford a larger gift to the Zoological Society of San Diego – 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 Zoological Society of San Diego's future that doesn't affect your current cash flow or portfolio.

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 Zoological Society of San Diego – thus afford a larger gift.

Make a contribution to our pooled income fund. 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 Zoological Society of San Diego.

Use real estate to make your gift to the Zoological Society of San Diego.

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 which supports programs at the Zoological Society of San Diego 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 Zoological Society of San Diego.

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 Zoological Society of San Diego.

Name the Zoological Society of San Diego 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 Zoological Society of San Diego.