You can make a gift to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) through your estate plan that will help ensure aid to people who have been uprooted from their homes by conflict and crisis well into the future. Learn about how you can join the Rescue Collective as a Changemaker, the IRC’s community of legacy donors, through a gift in your will or other long-term plans.
Easy planned gifts
Become a Rescue Collective Changemaker
Changemakers are donors who make a legacy gift in their estate plans to sustain the IRC’s mission for generations. Learn more about becoming a Changemaker.
Gift in Your Will or Living Trust
You can leave money to the IRC in your will or living trust to help ensure that we continue our humanitarian mission for years to come.
Designate the IRC as a beneficiary
It is very simple to name the IRC as a beneficiary in your IRAs, retirement plans, life insurance policies, donor advised funds and commercial annuities.
Give to the IRC from your IRA
You can give any amount (up to a maximum of $100,000) per year from your IRA directly to a qualified charity such as the IRC without having to pay income taxes on the money.
Income gifts
Create a charitable gift annuity
With a charitable gift annuity, you agree to make a gift to the IRC and we, in return, agree to pay you a fixed amount each year. The balance supports our humanitarian work.
Create a charitable remainder trust
A charitable remainder trust provides you or a designee income each year for life or a period not exceeding 20 years from assets you give to the trust you create.
More ways to make a planned gift
Give appreciated securities
Making a gift of securities or mutual funds to the IRC offers you the chance to support our work worldwide while realizing important benefits for yourself.
Make a gift of real estate
Consider gifting the IRC real estate, such as a personal residence, vacation home or undeveloped land. You may qualify for a federal income tax charitable deduction.
Set up a Donor Advised Fund
A donor advised fund (DAF), like a charitable savings account, gives you the flexibility to recommend how much and how often money is granted to the IRC and other charities.
Create a memorial or tribute gift
Establish a memorial gift to honor a loved one or make a tribute gift to celebrate a special occasion, such as a birthday, while supporting the IRC's mission.
Make an endowment
An endowed gift to the IRC today provides a brighter picture for our future. Contact our Planned Giving team for more information on making this type of gift.
Set up a charitable lead trust
If you want to make an impact now for the IRC and also provide for your family later, consider setting up a charitable lead trust with cash or other assets.
Learn more
Join your fellow humanitarians in lending the IRC the future support we need to continue responding to the world's worst crises through your bequest.
Visit our Planned Giving website or contact us to learn more about any of the bequest options. Our Planned Giving team would be happy to speak with you in confidence, with no obligation.
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