Named Continuity Funds
With only $2,500, you can honor or memorialize a loved one or a special occasion, in a personally meaningful way. As your contribution continues to grow through prudent reinvestment, you choose the programs and services you care most about to receive your fund's annual distributions. To learn more, click here.

Donor Advised Funds
Worry, complications and paperwork are transferred to JFCS with the establishment of a Donor Advised Continuity Fund. You tell us the charities you want to support and we go to work on your behalf, gathering information and preparing checks and transmittal letters. For just $5,000 you establish yourself as a philanthropist - with your own "mini-foundation" - while we do all the work. To learn more, click here.

Retirement Plan Gifts
Government taxation of retirement plan bequests to heirs can wipe out much of your precious savings. Instead, a gift of your IRA, Keogh, 401(k) or 403(b) to JFCS can minimize the tax effect while preserving your assets to continue our tradition of caring for the next 150 years. To learn more, click here.

Charitable Bequests
You can't take it with you, but your memory can live on as a shining light. By including JFCS as a beneficiary of your will, trust or codicil, you ensure that your memory will live in perpetuity, both for those who will directly benefit from your generosity and for those who will be inspired by your example. To learn more, click here.

Life Insurance Gifts
If you no longer need it, deed it. By contributing an old, unneeded policy, or naming JFCS as the beneficiary, you leave a substantial legacy for future generations while receiving tax benefits. To learn more, click here.

Life Income Gifts
If you make an income producing gift to JFCS, it allows you to hold an interest in that gift for your lifetime or for a specified term of years. After that time, the funds become available for JFCS to use. JFCS has two types of income producing gifts:

• JFCS Gift Annuities
  The most popular life-income gift instrument among donors throughout the country . Exchange a minimum of $10,000 in cash or securities for a guaranteed, fixed income each year for the rest of your life.



• JFCS Pooled Income Fund
  With a minimum contribution of $5,000, you can join the JFCS Pooled Income Fund, ensuring that you and/or a designated beneficiary receive steady annual income for life. When you no longer need the income, your fund helps JFCS serve the next generation.
  
  
• JFCS Charitable Trust
  With a larger amount to invest, you may wish to consider the flexibility offered by a JFCS Charitable Trust. Whether it is to cover the cost of your child's tuition, to supplement your parents' fixed income or to ensure life income for yourself, these trusts can be designed to meet your needs now, as well as the future needs of the community.

To learn more about Life Income Gifts of all types, click here.