Our attorneys are highly experienced in structuring gifts to charitable organizations, which can significantly increase the effectiveness of both the contribution and the organization. We are very familiar with:
- Charitable gifts, contributions, and deductibility;
- Endowments: creation, use, and management and control of funds, creditor
protection and restrictions on use; - Donor gift instruments including restricted and outright gifts, donor advised
funds, and board designated funds; - Planned giving arrangements, bargain sales, charitable lead and remainder
trust gifts, gifts of appreciated property and other types of charitable gifts; - Legal aspects of benefit events and other fund raising activities;
- Advice to tax-exempt organizations with respect to federal and state
fundraising and solicitation registration, reporting, and other regulation
requirements; - Use of life insurance to support charity, including issues related to
charitable split-dollar arrangements, application of Section 170(f)(10),
insurable interest laws, and other special issues that impact a charity’s
ownership or interest in life insurance.