Planned Giving Options
For more than 40 years, the Missouri Prairie Foundation has enjoyed strong support from members in various financial situations. Large contributions from single members or charitable foundations have allowed MPF to take significant steps forward in organizational development or increase its protected land. MPF would not have hired Prairie Operations Manager Richard Datema without the support of Jane T. Strandberg. Lattner Prairie was purchased with a generous gift from the Forrest C. Lattner Foundation. More recently, grants from the Edward K. Love Foundation and the William T. Kemper Foundation have helped MPF protect land in key grassland focus areas. These large grants help to supplement the vast majority of our gifts, which average $40. Without any of those, MPF would be limited.
When you make a gift to MPF, you can be confident that the funds will be spent to benefit local prairie projects, and less than five percent is used for general administration, according to MPF’s latest tax return. MPF is also maximizing the value of your donations through established endowments with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks. Please consider the giving options listed below. If you would like information on how your gift of cash, stock, land or other asset could help MPF for this and future generations, please contact MPF at info@moprairie.com or 816-363-4687.
Thank you for your support of MPF and our amazing prairie resources.
Use cash to make your gift to MPF. You will claim a deduction against a larger portion of your adjusted gross income and make an immediate impact on MPF.
Give appreciated stock or bonds held for more than one year. You will provide a larger give to MPF—and avoid capital gains liability.
Put a bequest in your will (cash, specific property or a share of the estate residue). You will make a gift for MPF’s future that doesn’t affect your cash flow or portfolio now, but will provide an eventual estate tax deduction.
Create a charitable gift annuity or a charitable remainder annuity trust. You will receive income for your lifetime, receive a charitable deduction and diversify your holdings.
Establish a deferred gift annuity. Your benefits will be a larger deduction and a higher income rate than other life-income gifts offer.
Use real estate to make your gift to MPF through a conservation easement or outright land donation. You will avoid capital gains tax, receive an income tax deduction—and maintain your community and family heritage.
Create a charitable lead trust, which supports programs at MPF for a fixed period with the principal going to your heirs. You will reduce gift and estate taxes, and freeze the taxable value of growing assets before they pass to your family.
Contribute the partnership interest or closely held stock from a transferred business to MPF. You will avoid capital gains liability, receive an income tax deduction and utilize a gift you may have overlooked.
Name MPF as the beneficiary of your retirement plan, leaving other assets to your family. You will eliminate income tax on your retirement plan assets.
Create a new life insurance policy or donate a paid-up policy whose coverage you no longer need. You will increase your ability to make a significant gift to MPF.