Planned Giving

How will you leave a legacy?

Learn how leaving a legacy with Catholic Central School can help support the causes you care about while continuing to meet your current financial needs.

Reach Your Philanthropic and Financial Goals with Planned Giving

A legacy gift enables you to support Catholic Central School, secures the financial needs of your loved ones, and provides you with tax benefits. Legacy gifts of all sizes combine to help us meet our current goals and reach further into the future.

By including Catholic Central School in your will or trust, naming Catholic Central as a beneficiary of all or part of a life insurance policy, or taking advantage of other giving opportunities, you can preserve your assets now and support for years to come. Your gift will have a real, lasting impact.

Let us help you make the gift that's right for you.

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Join Irish Legacy Society

When you make a gift to Catholic Central School from your will or trust, you'll be welcomed into Irish Legacy Society and join other supporters and friends of our important mission. Is Catholic Central School already in your plans? Please let us know so we can properly thank you and make sure your gift will be used as you've intended.

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Irish Legacy Society

How to Give

Not only do you have options for how your gift to Catholic Central School will be used, you also have options on what to give and how to give. There are gifts that cost you nothing now, gifts that pay you income, and gifts that allow you to decide what happens when.

General Bequest

Gifts from your will

Through a provision in your written and executed will, you can make a gift in the form of cash, securities, real estate or personal property. There are many types of bequests. Choose the one that best fits your needs and intentions.

Download Bequest Language
Charitable Gift Annuity

Gifts That Pay You

You can turn underperforming assets (stock, cash in a savings account, CDs, savings bonds, etc.) into a gift to Catholic Central that provides income to you. Your Charitable Gift Annuity will give you quarterly, fixed payments for life and tax benefits, too.

Download CGA Information
Donor Advised Funds

Beneficiary Designation and Grants

Designate Catholic Central as a beneficiary to receive all or a portion of the balance of your Donor Advised Fund (DAF) through your fund administrator. You also can make a grant to us at any time from your donor-advised fund.

Learn More about DAFs
Charitable IRA Rollover

Charitable IRA Rollover

If you're 70 ½ or older, you can make a gift directly from your IRA to Catholic Central. While there is no charitable deduction for a rollover gift, you do avoid the income tax on the donated portion of your required minimum distribution.

Download IRA Rollover Information
Gifts of Life Insurance

Beneficiary Designation and Paid-Up Policies

Name Catholic Central School as the beneficiary of an existing life insurance policy; donate an existing, paid-up life insurance policy you no longer need; or purchase a new life insurance policy and name Catholic Central School as the owner and beneficiary.

Learn More about Life Insurance
Gifts of Property

Real Estate and Other Valuables

Like stock, the fair market value of gifts of appreciated assets such as real estate, artwork, and other well curated collections, can be deducted from your income tax today and reduce your estate taxes in the future.

Download Real Estate Gift Information
Beneficiary Gifts

Retirement Accounts

Naming Catholic Central School as the beneficiary of a qualified retirement plan asset such as a 401(k), 403(b), IRA, Keogh, profit-sharing pension plan or other donor-advised funds, will accomplish a charitable goal while realizing significant tax savings.

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Gifts of Stock

Appreciated Stock

When you donate appreciated stocks, bonds, or mutual fund shares instead of cash, you'll receive charitable deductions at full, fair market value while reducing capital gains impact.

Download Stock Transfer Information
Other Options

Other Planned Giving Vehicles

There are many other ways to support Catholic Central School through a planned giving vehicle. Charitable Gift Annuities, Charitable Trusts, Life Insurance and more may be good options for you. We can show you creative ways to use your assets to benefit Catholic Central School, while at the same time preserving the benefits of those assets for you and your family.

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Let's get in touch

  • Mike Raiff

    President

    mraiff@ccirish.org

    1200 E High Street

    Springfield, OH 45505

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