This Year Put Stock in Something That Matters
This year give smart and save more by putting stock in something that matters – permanent land conservation in northern Wisconsin!
Did you know that when you donate appreciated stock, mutual funds, bonds and other publicly traded securities (held for more than 1 year), you can avoid capital gains tax? So don’t sell your investments and be taxed – donate it instead!
Charitable giving doesn’t always mean cash. By gifting appreciated securities, your support will have an even greater impact — without denting your pocketbook.
When you donate stock, we get to keep the proceeds that would have gone to pay taxes – it’s a win-win for you and us! You can also benefit if you itemize deductions on your income taxes. You can deduct 100% of the value of the contribution.
And now it’s fast, safe, and free to you to donate stock and securities to Northwoods Land Trust.
How you can donate stock:
ONLINE-
We have partnered with DonateStock.com to enable our supporters to make donations in 10 minutes or less.
By clicking on the button below, you can initiate a gift from your brokerage account through a secure portal in minutes at no cost to you. There is a 3.8% transaction fee to NWLT, similar to a credit card transaction.
Click here to initiate your gift to the Northwoods Land Trust! Donate Stock will make your giving easy, and transfer the sold securities to us in cash. Once you have this set up, it’s even easier to return next time to make your gift!
THROUGH YOUR BROKERAGE FIRM-
Prefer to talk directly to your broker or advisor?
If so, inform them that you’d like to make a gift of appreciated securities directly to the Northwoods Land Trust, a 501c3 non-profit.
They should direct you to a form to fill out to initiate the transfer. Contact us to get the information you need to complete their form.
This involves a few extra steps, but it saves NWLT transaction fees associated with the online option (to the left).
Contact Ted Anchor, Executive Director at (715) 479-2490 or email nwlt@northwoodslandtrust.org.
As illustrated below, you save on taxes while local land and water protection benefits from your pre-tax stock gift! In this example, a donor is gifting shares of Apple stock worth $2500.
