Create Your Legacy
At WMed

Your planned gift makes a difference at WMed, now and in the future. Learn how your support can have a transformative impact on the future of medical education while potentially receiving immediate or deferred tax benefits for you and your family.

Learn About Ways to Give

How to Give

Learn about gift options that provide tax and income benefits. Discover the best gift plan to meet your goals.

Gifts made from your estate

Gifts that support our cause and save you taxes

Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)

A Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD), also known as an IRA charitable rollover, allows individuals 70½ and older to reduce their taxable income by making a gift directly from their IRA.

Donor Advised Fund (DAF)

You can make gifts during your lifetime. When you pass away, your children can carry on your legacy of giving.

Blended Gift

There are many lifetime and estate gift options that can make your giving go farther than a simple gift of cash or property.

Endowment Gift

An endowment is a fund you can create now or in the future to achieve the impact you desire.

Life Estate Reserved

You give your property to our organization but retain the right to use the property during your lifetime. We receive the property when you pass away.

Charitable Lead Trust

You fund a trust that makes gifts to us for a number of years. Your family receives the trust remainder at substantial tax savings.

Gifts that provide our cause and save income and tax benefits

Gift Annuity

You transfer your cash or stock to our organization in exchange for our promise to pay you fixed payments (with rates based on your age) for the rest of your life.

Charitable Remainder Unitrust

You fund a charitable remainder unitrust with cash or appreciated property. The trust sells your property tax-free and provides you with income for life or a term of years.

Give It Twice Trust

You provide your children with a stream of income while making a gift to our organization.

Charitable Gift Annuity

You transfer your cash or appreciated property to WMed in exchange for our promise to pay you fixed payments (with rates based on your age) for the rest of your life.

IRA to Gift Annuity Rollover

If you are 70½ or older, you can make a one-time IRA rollover to fund a charitable gift annuity and receive fixed payments for life.

Deferred Gift Annuity

You may be looking for a way to support our cause today while creating a future payment stream for retirement or future income.