Achieve your goals while granting wishes through planned legacy gifts, stocks, donor advised funds, cryptocurrency and IRA distributions (QCDs). These gifts can help you balance your financial goals and your charitable interests - all while possibly achieving significant tax benefits. A planned gift, such as a bequest in your will or trust, life insurance designations, or stock donation ensures your support for the children we serve well into the future.

The information on this website is not intended as legal or tax advice. Please remember to seek the advice of your financial or legal advisor.

Gifts we accept include:

• Planned Giving - Bequests
• Donor Advised Funds
• Stock, Mutual Fund, And Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCD)
• Qualified Charitable Distribution (IRA Rollover)

Please notify us when you are planning to make one of the following gifts below:

Dual-Benefit Gifts:

• Charitable Remainder Trusts
• Charitable Gift Annuities
• Charitable Lead Trusts

After-Lifetime Gifts:

• Insurance
• Retirement Assets

SAMPLE BEQUEST LANGUAGE

For an unrestricted gift that allows Make-A-Wish to determine how to use the funds based on the most pressing needs, use the following language for your will and/or trust:

"I give the sum of $___ (or ___%) to Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana, Inc., 12625 Southwest Freeway, Stafford, TX 77477, Tax ID 76-0116615, to be used or disposed of as its Board of Directors deems appropriate in its sole discretion.”

For more information, contact:

Nicole Gabler

Director of Foundation Engagement

Phone: (979) 505-0263

[email protected] 

Legal name: Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana, Inc.
Legal address: 12625 Southwest Freeway, Stafford, TX 77477
Federal tax ID number: 76-0116615