Planned Giving

PLANNED GIVING

By combining a current gift with a future gift, you can make a big impact on K-State student-athletes — both today and tomorrow. Your generosity will help us meet critical needs today and allow us to plan for the future with confidence.Sometimes when your budget is tight, it is difficult to be charitable. Your family comes first. But there is a way to make a significant gift that takes into account tax-saving strategies and income-producing assets. These types of gifts are called planned gifts.

Gift planning is thoughtfully selecting — from a menu of gift-giving opportunities — a charitable gift that is also favorable to you. While its primary purpose is to help the charitable cause of your choice, its secondary purpose may be for you to enjoy the personal financial or family benefits that certain plans can provide. Planned gifts can be made now, to immediately support the needs of K-State student-athletes, or they can be enacted upon your passing, as a final way to leave your K-State legacy.

CREATE YOUR WILDCAT LEGACY

You can get an idea of what gift options are available to you through gift planning — and their benefits — by reviewing the charts below. No matter which planned gift you choose, you get peace of mind knowing that your careful planning makes a big difference in the lives of those we serve.

If you have already made K-State Athletics a beneficiary of your assets, we encourage you to fill out a gift intent form and send to the KSU Foundation. Your gift information is a tremendous benefit to the university as it plans for the future. If the university is aware of all the components of their future funding, a plan can be developed to enhance both the short-term and the long-term objectives that are required to maintain the university’s leadership role for Kansas and higher education.

Future Gift Intent Form

CURRENT GIFT

A donation you make now can be used promptly to meet K-State Athletics urgent needs:

Gift Type	How It’s Done	Your Advantages
Securities or real estate	Give appreciated assets you have owned longer than one year.	You avoid capital gains taxes and are eligible to receive an income tax deduction.
Charitable lead trust	Fund a trust you create that provides payments to K-State Athletics for a term of years, then pays the remainder to family members or beneficiaries of your choice.	This is a smart way for anyone in high estate and gift tax brackets to benefit K-State Athletics and pass principal to others with reduced estate or gift taxes.

DEFERRED GIFT

A deferred gift is a planned contribution that you arranged to benefit K-State Athletics later - perhaps after your lifetime:

Gift Type	How It's Done	Your Advantages
A gift in your will or trust	Through your will or living trust, give K-State Athletics money, property or a share of your estate’s residue.	It is revocable at any time and allows you to keep your assets should you need them during your lifetime.
Retirement plan	Name K-State Athletics as primary beneficiary of a percentage or all of your retirement plan or IRA.	This gift eliminates income taxation on distributions after your lifetime and is revocable.
Life estate agreement	Deed K-State Athletics your personal residence or farm/ranch now, and retain the right to live there for life.	You avoid the hassles of selling, and you secure income tax savings when you itemize.

LIFE INCOME GIFT

This gift plan ensures you (or survivor) an income for life, as well as potential tax savings:

Gift Type	How It's Done	Your Advantages
Charitable remainder trust	The trust pays you or other beneficiaries income for life from assets you place in a trust. K-State Athletics through the KSU Foundation, receives the remainder.	You receive tax benefits and fixed or variable payments for life.
Charitable gift annuity (where available)	You agree to make a gift of cash or other assets and, in return, you receive lifetime payments.	You receive tax benefits and fixed payments for life.

To support K-State Athletics and K-State student-athletes through a planned gift, please contact Senior Associate Athletics Director for Development, Rob Heil, at 785-370-9787 or rheil@kstatesports.com.