Start Planning For Tomorrow

Estate planning doesn’t have to be complex. Just like the care we provide to our patients, let us help provide the tools you need based on your personal wishes and goals. 

• Bequests

  Benefit: Reduce the burden of probate

  Designate Children’s Health as the beneficiary on your life insurance, retirement or bank account. One of the easiest and most flexible ways that you can leave a gift.

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• Beneficiary Designation Gifts

  Benefit: Simplify your planning support the causes you care about while your heirs can instead receive tax-advantaged assets from your estate.

  Donate part or all of your unused retirement assets, such as your IRA, 401(k), 403(b), pension or other tax-deferred plan.

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• Endowments

  Benefit: Invested for long-term growth and carefully managed to preserve capital, endowments provide a lasting legacy for donors and help secure the future for the fund’s designated purpose.

  Through the establishment of endowment funds, generous philanthropists ensure a reliable source of income will be available for Children's Health.

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• Charitable Gift Annuities

  Benefit: Receive a stable and secured income for life while receiving a charitable tax deduction for the charitable gift portion of the annuity

  You can make life better for children while providing a retirement income for your own life or that of another.

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• Charitable Remainder Trusts

  Benefit: Avoid capital gains tax on the sale of your appreciated assets to the trust and receive a charitable gift tax deduction

  The trust is invested to pay an income to you or any other trust beneficiaries you select based on a life, lives or a term of up to 20 years. Children’s Health benefits from what remains in the trust after all the trust payments have been made.

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• Charitable Lead Trusts

  Benefit: When you invest in a lead trust you may receive a tax deduction now and receive your asset back later

  Children’s Health benefits for a number of years without any further investment, and at the end of the term the asset will return to you or your beneficiaries.

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• Retained Real Estate

  Benefit: Preserve the use of the property for life and receive a significant tax deduction now

  Deed your home or farm to Children’s Medical Center Foundation. The deed will include a provision that gives you the right to use your home or farm for the rest of your life and that of any other life estate party named in the deed.

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• Life Insurance

  Benefit: A fully funded whole life insurance policy may offer an added tax benefit

  If you have a life insurance policy that has outlasted its original purpose, consider making a gift of your insurance policy to Children’s Medical Center Foundation.

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Looking for some inspiration? Read about how some of our donors were able to make their biggest impact.

Still need more information? Contact our team for additional insight into creating a plan that’s right for you.

Ready to leave a legacy? Let us know about your plans and become a member of our Bradford Society.