Retirement Giving
If you’re 70-1/2 or older, you can donate up to $100,000 per year directly from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) to organizations like Mclean Community Foundation.
Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCD), otherwise known as IRA charitable rollovers or IRA gifts, are a great way to support the Mclean community by allowing your dollars to go further. QCD’s may be excluded from your taxable income and qualify towards your required minimum distribution (RMD).
How a QCD works:
Here’s how a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) works:
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You must be 70-1/2 or older at the time of gifting your IRA to charity.
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You may distribute an amount, up to $100,000 in a calendar year, to one or more public charities, so long as it is completed by December 31 of that year.
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Your IRA administrator must make the distribution directly to the charity, or you may write a check to the charity from your IRA checkbook. Funds that are withdrawn by you and then contributed do not qualify.
QCDs count toward your required minimum distribution for the year. If you have to take your required minimum distribution but you don't want or need the funds, QCDs are a good way to distribute the amount out of the IRA. As an added benefit, you'll avoid paying income tax on your gross income up to $100,000.
Steps to make a gift from your IRA:
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Contact your IRA administrator and instruct that person to transfer funds to the Mclean Community Foundation.
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Help us credit your gift and thank you by having your IRA administrator include your full name and mailing address on the gift. Also, have your administrator note that the transfer is an IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution.
If you'd like to make a QCD gift, your financial institution should make the check out to "Mclean Community Foundation” and identify you as the donor by name and address.
They can mail the check to:
Mclean Community Foundation
PO Box 75
Mclean VA 22101
Contact
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