Planned Giving

There are a number of ways to plan your gift to the Austen Riggs Center. Many of these could provide your estate with significant tax benefits and help meet other financial planning needs, while providing a generous gift to Riggs.

Any planned gift or bequest entitles you to membership in the Austen Riggs Legacy Society, a very special group of friends who have included Riggs in their estate plans. If you have already included Riggs in your estate plans, won’t you please let us know so that we can thank you personally? Among the most popular planned gifts:

Bequests
A bequest to the Austen Riggs Center can be made by inserting a specific provision in your will or as a codicil to your will. Bequests can be for a specific dollar amount or as a percentage of your estate. All such bequests are free of federal estate taxes.

Life Income Gifts
A donor can make a gift to Austen Riggs and receive immediate financial benefits including income for their lifetime and a charitable deduction. There are several options including charitable gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts. We would be pleased to provide further information to donors and their professional advisors.

Individual Retirement Account Gifts
New legislation allows donors who are 70.5 years or older to make gifts using funds from the individual retirement accounts (IRAs) without paying income tax.

For more options and further information, contact Susan Bronson, Director of Development, at 413-931-5333 or susan.bronson@austenriggs.net