To learn more about the various ways you can make a gift, simply click on the following plans that interests you. Plan-A-Gift® will take you right to what you need to know.
Appreciated Securities
How to give appreciated stocks, bonds, or mutual fund shares and why it is advantageous from a tax standpoint.
Bequests
How to give a simple bequest through your will and why it can be advantageous.
Continuous Child Care Sponsorship Agreement
How to ensure your sponsored child will continue to receive the basics such as education, medical care, and clean water, to grow strong physically, mentally and spiritually for as long as the child remains in World Vision's Child Care Sponsorship Program.
Pooled Income Funds
How to give cash or appreciated securities, receive a charitable deduction, and provide variable income payments for life for up to two beneficiaries. The principal can be used by World Vision once payments cease.
Charitable Gift Annuities
How to give cash or appreciated securities, receive a charitable deduction, and provide immediate guaranteed annuity payments for life for up to two beneficiaries. Deferred gift annuities provide similar opportunities but defer the start of payments for a specified number of years. The remaining principal can be used by World Vision once payments cease.
Charitable Remainder Trusts
How to give almost any kind of appreciated property — including cash, appreciated securities, closely-held stock, real estate, partnership interests, or tangible personal property — receive a charitable deduction, and provide variable or fixed payments for life or a term of years for multiple beneficiaries. The trust principal can be used by World Vision when your beneficiaries die or the trust ends.
Charitable Lead Trusts
How to give appreciated property, provide fixed payments to World Vision for a term of years, and pass the principal to your heirs at a significant tax savings when the trust ends.
Retained Life Estate
How to transfer ownership of your home to World Vision while continuing to live in it rent free, for your lifetime or a period of years.
Charitable Bargain Sales
How to give a residence or other real estate to World Vision and achieve four distinct advantages: pay off your mortgage; qualify for a charitable deduction; receive income for a term of years; and make a significant gift to World Vision.
Charitable Vision Fund (a Donor Advised Fund)
How to set up a single gift fund that makes charitable grants to World Vision and to other charities, without the legal and tax complexities of a private foundation, or the expenses of a commercial donor advised fund.
Advisor-Managed Donor Advised Fund
How donors can have their own personal financial advisors serve as investment managers over their World Vision Donor Advised Fund.
Gifts of Other Assets
How to give other assets, such as: Retirement Plans, Real Estate, Closely-Held Stock, Partnership Interests, Tangible Personal Property, and Life Insurance.
