Create funds and security for your future through a charitable remainder trust. When you transfer cash or your assets to fund a charitable remainder trust, you can receive income for life or a number of years. If the assets in the trust grow, there is the potential for increased income over time. You also receive a charitable deduction which provides tax savings in the year you fund your trust. The remainder will help further COTA's mission.

You may be looking at ways to save more and maintain your cash reserves for future expenses. We want you to know there is a way you can support COTA's mission without using any of your current resources.

With a bequest, you promise to make a gift to us in the future through your will. Your attorney can draft language that leaves an amount, a specific asset or percentage of your estate to COTA. Your gift will help us continue our work to help transplant families in the future and will provide your estate with tax savings.

With capital gains tax rate increases, you may be concerned about the tax you will pay on the sale of your appreciated assets. If you own stock or real estate that has increased over time, you can transfer these assets to fund a charitable remainder trust and avoid capital gains taxes.

This special type of trust is tax exempt; and it can sell your assets tax free and then reinvest in a way that maximizes income for you. The trust will then use the investments to pay you income for life or a number of years depending upon your goals. The remainder will help further COTA's mission.