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Farm animals are subject to unthinkable treatment in order to meet the needs of our growing global population.
| How You Can Help
Your Choices for Giving You have a number of choices for giving. Your first choice is to decide whether to give to an existing AACF Fund or to create your own fund with AACF. The AACF Funds include:
Or, if you decide to create your own fund, you can structure it to best meet your own needs. As an individual, a family, or a business owner, we can design a philanthropic fund that is customized to your interests and charitable giving goals. This fund is inclusive of Donor Advised Funds which enable the donor and others designated by the donor to be actively involved in choosing the specific organizations to receive support from the fund. You can choose to permanently endow the fund you create, to benefit the “animal community”, in your name, for purposes you specify, in perpetuity. Several generations can be involved in the grant-making decisions, and family members can be named as advisors to the fund. If the original purpose of the fund becomes obsolete, representatives of the fund or the AACF Board of Directors can redirect the fund, assuring that your basic intent will be fulfilled even if circumstances change. You can choose your level of involvement in the grant-making process. Some donors want to be active participants in each step of the process, while others designate specific charities or name particular areas of interest to receive grants from their named funds. Others establish unrestricted funds and direct the AACF Board of Directors to select appropriate grant recipients to help meet the most critical of needs for animals. |
| Assets to Contribute
AACF is a Tax Exempt 501 (C) (3) Charitable Organization that offers the highest level of tax benefits for charitable giving. Donors determine what assets to contribute. Some examples are listed below:
Contract All | Expand All • Cash  It's the stuff that makes the world go around. And 50% of your income is tax deductible with your donation to AACF!• Publicly-traded and privately held securities  Sure, it's only paper, but so is cash! (see above)• Real Estate and personal property  Even a modest home can help give shelter and comfort to needy creatures.• Bequests
The directive or statement in your will or trust document that directs specific assets or a percentage of your estate to establish a fund or add to an existing fund with AACF.
• Charitable Lead Trusts
Your income-producing asset funds a trust with a gift of the income flowing to a fund at the AACF during the term of years you choose for the trust. The asset then passes back to you or directly to your heirs (usually free of tax on the asset’s appreciation).
• Charitable Remainder Trusts
Using an irrevocable trust, you receive fixed or variable payments from an asset you place in this trust for your lifetime or a specified number of years. The asset then passes to AACF, creating a fund in your name to benefit the charitable cause that you had designated, or is used to establish a family foundation at AACF.
• Life Estates You contribute your primary residence, a vacation home or a farm to the All Animals Great & Small Community Foundation, but retain the right to use it during your lifetime. (You receive an immediate tax deduction, and the property is not included in your estate for estate tax purposes).
• Life Insurance
Naming AACF as the beneficiary of your Life Insurance policy. This will eliminate estate taxes on this account.
• Retirement Accounts, IRA's, Pension Fund Accounts
These accounts have income tax consequences when withdrawing from them and they may be includible in your estate when they are paid to your heirs. By gifting these accounts directly to AACF, the funds will pass to us at full value, without a tax cost since we are a non-profit organization.
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