An invitation to help your community

The LCHS’s “The Pathway Home” campaign to build a new animal shelter provides local residents with an opportunity to significantly change the way dogs and cats are treated in our community. Your contribution will:

• Help reduce the need to euthanize adoptable dogs and cats.
• Increase the number of pets that end up in loving homes.
• Create a healthier and less stressful environment for pets that come to the shelter.
• Help the LCHS do more to prevent pet overpopulation and behavior problems, which cause people to abandon or relinquish their pets.
• It will create a vital community center for spay and neuter clinics, pet training, and public education programs on responsible pet ownership and the humane treatment of animals.

 

Gifts to the LCHS endowment may qualify for the Montana Endowment Tax Credit. The credit is equal to 40% of the charitable contribution and is limited to $10,000 per year per taxpayer ($20,000 for married filing jointly). Please contact your financial advisor.

Gift chart:

Below is a Chart of Gifts that indicates the level of gifts we will need to raise these funds. This is your invitation to make a generous three-year pledge as the highest level possible in support of the animals in our region. Please make your pledge today and help the LCHS find permanent residences for Helena-area dogs and cats by creating a healthy and humane “Pathway Home.”

 

How you can help pave the Pathway Home

There are several ways that you can support the Pathway Home Capital Campaign for the Lewis and Clark Humane Society. We hope you will consider both a current and a deferred gift. The following information is not exhaustive, but is designed to stimulate further thinking. If you have questions or would like to discuss these or any other ways to support the campaign, please call the LCHS Development Office.

CURRENT GIFTS

Cash Gifts

• Tax deductible (if donor itemizes deductions)
• Up to 50% of your adjusted gross income can be deducted in any one year, and the excess can be deducted over the next five years
• Actual savings from the deduction depends on tax rate

 

Pledges

• payable over three years
• Deductible in the year payment is paid

 

Company Matching Gifts

• Takes advantage of programs offered by many employers

 

Appreciated Stocks and Securities

• Can help avoid payment of capital gain on appreciated assets
• Should be given outright
• Receive deduction for full fair market value of asset at the time of the gift, limited to 30% of gross adjusted income

 

Depreciated Assets

• Sell assets that have lost value, take loss as a tax deduction and contribute the cash
• Receive a deduction for both the loss and the charitable gift

 

Real Estate

• By making an outright gift of a residence, farm or vacation home, avoid capital gains tax and receive a charitable deduction for the full fair market value of the property.

 

DEFERRED GIFTS

A variety of deferred gift options are available including:

• Charitable Gift Annuity
• Deferred Gift Annuity
• Life Income Trusts
• Charitable Lead Trust
• Life Insurance
• Bequests (estate gifts left in the will)
• Life Estate Arrangements

 

Lewis & Clark Humane Society
2112 E. Custer Avenue • P.O. Box 4455 • Helena, Montana 59604 • Phone: (406) 442-1660 • Fax: (406) 457-9446
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