by [email protected] | Apr 29, 2025 | giving guide
While cash (after-tax dollars) and publicly traded stock (pre-tax dollars) are the simplest way to give, we are well into a season of tremendous wealth transfer via sales of closely held, privately owned family businesses. Such liquidity events can be a huge...
by [email protected] | Mar 31, 2025 | giving guide
90+% of gifts to Christian non-profits are made out of cash. Gifts of cash are made from after tax money. That makes cash gifts 65 cents on the dollar. Gifts of publicly traded stock can be made pre-tax, providing 100 cents on the dollar. Most donors who care would...
by [email protected] | Feb 21, 2025 | giving guide
Noncash gifts predict long-term fundraising growth. Non-profits raising over $1M between 2010 and 2015 and reporting only cash gifts on e-filed tax returns experienced an annual growth rate of 11% over five years, barely keeping up with an 8% inflation rate. In...
