Charitable Lead Trust

Protect Your Assets

If you want to make an impact now at St. Norbert College and also provide for your family later, consider setting up a charitable lead trust. You transfer cash or other assets to a trust that makes payments to St. Norbert College for a period of time. When the term is up, the remaining trust passes to your family or other beneficiaries you select.

There are two ways that charitable lead trusts make payments to St. Norbert College:

A charitable lead annuity trust pays a fixed amount each year to St. Norbert College and is more attractive when interest rates are low.

A charitable lead unitrust pays a variable amount each year to St. Norbert College based on the value of the assets in the trust. With a unitrust, if the trust's assets go up in value, for example, the payments to St. Norbert College go up as well.

An Example of How This Could Work

Campus photo George would like to support his alma mater and receive tax benefits. George received a windfall amount of income and needs a large income tax deduction to offset the income. Following his advisor’s recommendation, George funds a grantor charitable lead annuity trust with assets valued at $1,000,000. George’s trust pays $60,000 (6% of the initial fair market value) to his college each year for 15 years, which will total $900,000. After that, the balance in the trust reverts back to George. He receives an income tax charitable deduction of $614,445. Assuming the trust earns an average 8% annual rate of return, George receives approximately $1,600,286 at the end of the trust term.

*Based on a 5.2% charitable midterm federal rate. Deductions and calculations will vary depending on your personal circumstances.

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Next Steps

  1. Contact Amy McNeely at 920-403-3059 or amy.mcneely@snc.edu to talk about supporting St. Norbert College by setting up a charitable lead trust.
  2. Seek the advice of your financial or legal advisor.
  3. If you include St. Norbert College in your plans, please use our legal name and federal tax ID.

Legal name: St. Norbert College
Address: 100 Grant St., De Pere, WI 54115
Federal tax ID number: 39-1399196

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