Ways to Participate in Transforming Our World

Ways to Give

When you make a gift to the Animal Kingdom Foundation, you have tremendous flexibility in determining how the funds will be used, as well as many options for making your gift.

Directed gifts allow you to designate your gift to a specific program.  When you make a directed gift to AKFCCC, you enjoy the satisfaction of knowing you are supporting a program that is personally meaningful to you.

You also have the option of designating your gift for current use or for endowment. Current-use gifts provide funds and flexibility over the short term, whereas endowment gifts provide security over the long term by expanding the foundations’s permanent financial base and creating a predictable source of future income for such things as adoption program, endowed foundation positions, visiting vet scholarships or fellowships, broad-based interdisciplinary research projects, or even entire academic programs.

Types of Gifts

• Cash gifts — the simplest and easiest gifts you can make — can be made through credit/debit card transactions, outright cash, or personal checks, cashier’s checks, or money orders made payable to the Animal Kingdom Foundation. The university also has a wire account; please contact a development office for details about making a wire transfer to AKFCCC.
  
  
• Gifts of appreciated securities, stocks, and bonds also provide considerable tax advantages when transferred to AKFCCC before they are sold. If you have held your securities for more than one year, you may find that your gift will provide a twofold tax benefit, creating an income-tax deduction as well as helping avoid the capital-gains tax that would have been due on their sale. You also may make a gift of mutual funds, non-marketable stock, or closely held stock. Contact the AKFCCC Development Office for information about giving these types of securities.
  
  
• Gifts of real estate — including personal residences, second homes, income property, and vacant land — offer a wide variety of tax and other benefits. Whereas most people give their entire interest away, it is also possible to give only a portion of the property (an undivided percentage interest) while retaining the rest for other purposes.
  
  
• Gifts of personal property — including rare books, works of art, valuable collectibles, and tangible items of demonstrable value — in some cases may enable you to make a significant gift to support AKFCCC with outstanding tax benefits to you. Likewise, gifts of intangible personal property, such as copyrights, patents, and mineral rights, can generate income for the program of your choice on a continuing basis.

Planned Gifts
To learn about deferred or planned gifts, including bequests, life-income plans, and other options for your estate — and for information about increasing your income, earning valuable income-tax deductions, and reducing your estate taxes — please contact the Foundation Office.

Matching-Gift Programs
An easy way to double or even triple your donation to AKFCCC is to find out if your company has a matching-gift program. Such programs typically match all or a percentage of employee contributions to charitable organizations, making the employer a partner in employees’ personal philanthropy. Simply obtain a matching-gift form from your employer’s personnel office, fill it out, and provide it to AKFCCC with your contribution.

Gift Pledges
AKFCCC welcomes your gift through a pledge — a formal statement of intention to make a gift to the university. With a pledge, you may complete your gift by making regular payments over time, allowing you to give more generously than you originally may have considered. What is more, each payment on your pledge is eligible for an income-tax charitable deduction.