Tax-Smart Ways to Give

Tax benefits for you can help create life-changing wishes for children right here in Middle Tennessee!

Giving stock, assets from your IRA, or cryptocurrency doesn’t just help the children we serve; it also helps you. These free online tools from our friends at FreeWill make it easy! Check out two tax-smart giving options below. 

Stock Donations

Many donors prefer to make gifts of appreciated stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or exchange traded funds because it can have a large impact on our mission, while maximizing potential tax benefits by avoiding paying tax on capital gains. Click here to make a stock donation or to learn more.

Give from your IRA

Donors 70.5 or older are eligible to give to Make-A-Wish of Middle Tennessee from their IRAs tax-free! These gifts are always tax-free, regardless of whether or not you itemize deductions on your tax return. Click here to make a QCD gift or to learn more.

Donate Cryptocurrency

As the cryptocurrency market grows, more donors are choosing to donate crypto to Make-A-Wish. In doing so, they make an immediate impact on wish kids and their families while maximizing tax benefits and bypassing capital gains tax on their crypto gains. Do you own crypto? Click here to donate crypto or to learn more.