When you make a gift of appreciated stock to the Odebolt Community Foundation, your gift of stock is reinvested in our community and it qualifies for an immediate tax deduction based on the full market value.

Including a charitable bequest in your will is a simple way to make a lasting gift to our community.

A gift of grain is a unique and underutilized way to make a charitable gift. For farm operators, gifting grain directly, rather than selling the grain and making a gift from the proceeds, may provide significant tax savings. Contributing grain allows you to avoid recognizing the sale of the commodity as income, while the production costs may still be deductible. Reducing taxable income may provide advantages such as minimizing or eliminating self-employment tax and reducing adjusted gross income.

Through the Odebolt Community Foundation, farmland can be sold or retained to benefit the community you care about. You may avoid capital gains tax and realize a deduction on the fair market value of the land. For more information, click here.

Donating depreciated farm equipment provides an opportunity to avoid recapturing the sale proceeds as ordinary income. To learn more, click here.

Life insurance provides a simple way for you to give a significant gift to charity with tax benefits that you can enjoy during your lifetime.

Retirement plans provide an opportunity for you to help plan for our community’s future and can be one of the most effective assets to transfer to our local community foundation because they produce taxable income. By naming our local community foundation as the beneficiary of your retirement plan, you could be eligible to receive a number of benefits.

Making a charitable gift of real estate through the Odebolt Community Foundation can help you turn your property gains into community good. The value of your real estate may exceed that of any other asset you own. With the help of the Odebolt Community Foundation, you can use it to fulfill your charitable interests and receive financial and tax benefits.

Giving through a charitable gift annuity allows you to arrange a generous gift to our community, while providing yourself a new income source that you can count on for the rest of your life.

Charitable gift annuities are easy to establish, require no trust administration, incur no setup costs to the donor, and provide a partial charitable income tax deduction for the donor. The donor escapes worries about managing the donated asset and keeping its value up with inflation.

A charitable remainder trust allows you to receive income for the rest of your life, knowing that whatever remains will benefit our community.