Gift Planning

Wharton’s Office of Gift Planning provides philanthropic services to donors like you, for whom philanthropy is an important part of life. Our goal is to help you integrate your charitable intentions with your overall tax, estate and financial plans. While you don’t give just to save on taxes, it’s a welcome benefit. We collaborate with you and your advisers to ensure that your philanthropy not only maximizes the benefit of available tax incentives, but also creates a lasting legacy, helping you to make a difference in areas important to you both today and for future generations at Wharton.

Every new planned gift strengthens the programs in which you invest and ensures that the Wharton School remains the world’s preeminent business school — one prepared to tackle the pressing problems of the 21st century and to improve the lives of people around the globe.

Select a gift plan below to learn more.

Deferred Charitable Gift Annuity

Charitable Bequest

Charitable Gift Annuity

The Impact Annuity

Penn Donor Advised Fund

Charitable Lead Trust

Charitable Gifts Through Your IRA

Charitable Remainder Trust

 

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  • Gift Annuity: In exchange for your gift to charity, you or 1-2 other annuitants receive a fixed sum each year for life.
  • Deferred Gift Annuity: In exchange for your gift to charity, you or 1-2 other annuitants receive a fixed sum each year for life starting at the date of first payout.
  • Charitable Remainder Unitrust: Your unitrust pays a fixed percentage of its value, determined each year, to you or others you name for life or a term of years. The remaining assets then go to charity.
  • Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust: Your trust pays a fixed dollar amount each year to you or others you name for life or a term of years. The remaining assets then go to charity.
  • Pooled Income Fund: Your gift is pooled in a fund with gifts from other donors. You or others you name receive your gift’s share of the income the fund earns each year for life. Your gift’s share of the fund then goes to charity.
  • Retained Life Estate: You deed your home or farm to charity, but retain the right to live in it for the rest of your life, a term of years, or a combination of the two.
  • Charitable Lead Unitrust: Your unitrust pays a fixed percentage of its value, determined each year, to charity for a term of years or one or more lifetimes. The accumulated assets then go back to you or others you name.
  • Charitable Lead Annuity Trust: Your trust pays a fixed dollar amount each year to charity for a term of years or one or more lifetimes. The accumulated assets then go back to you or others you name.

Ways to Give

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The University's fiscal year is July 1 - June 30. Penn's Tax ID/EIN is 23-1352685.