Your Legacy, Our Future

Your love for animals can create a lasting impact beyond your lifetime. By including Houston Humane Society in your estate plans, you ensure that vulnerable animals continue to receive lifesaving care for generations to come! A legacy gift provides a stable foundation for our mission, helping us rescue, heal, and find loving homes for Houston’s animals—just as your support does today.

 

Learn more below about how you can leave a legacy of compassion today and join our Legacy for Life Society.

 

 

• Charitable Bequest – Designate Houston Humane Society as a beneficiary in your will or Trust. Leave a specific amount, percentage, or property to ensure a lasting impact. Contact your attorney for more information.
• IRA Charitable Distributions – Designate Houston Humane Society as a beneficiary of your retirement account or make gifts from the account now. IRS rules allow charitable distributions in place of required minimum distributions for those 70 ½ years old or older. These donations from your account fulfill your distribution requirement, but incur NO tax! Contact your IRA institution for more information.
• Appreciated Stock – one of the best ways to benefit Houston Humane Society, and to save on taxes at the same time, is to donate highly-appreciated stock. If you are a “buy and hold” investor, you probably have seen some great gains. With the stock market testing record highs, those gains also come with a capital gains tax. Making your gift through a stock transfer avoids that tax! Instead of selling the stock, paying the tax, and then donating the remainder, just transfer a number of shares directly to Houston Humane Society, and you get a tax deduction for the full current value, PLUS avoid the capital gains tax!
• Insurance Gifts – you can also name Houston Humane Society as the beneficiary of your insurance policy. Or name us as the “contingent” beneficiary, which means if your other family beneficiaries aren’t around, you’d like it to come to us. This can be for an existing policy, or for a new policy. In fact, some donors set up a new policy to “insure” their annual gift continues after they are gone.