For every dollar you give to Benetech, a full 85% goes directly to support our initiatives.
Your investment will enable us to continue our global programs and expand our work as we take on new challenges.

Our staff will work with you to design the right gift that matches your interests, timing and charitable giving strategy. To discuss your specific goals and needs, please contact Kate Wilson, Business Development, at 650-644-3421, or katew@benetech.org. You can find out more about Benetech at GuideStar.

• Making a Donation
• Types of Donations

Making a Donation

When making a donation to Benetech, you may choose to contribute to the Benetech New Initiatives Fund, or to the Benetech General Fund, or to specify a Project.

• Donate Online at My Benetech
   
• Donate by mail or fax
  Download our Mail or Fax Donation Instructions form.
   
  Then mail or fax to:
  Benetech
  Attn: Business Development
  480 California Ave., Suite 201
  Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609
   
  Fax: 650-475-1066
   
• Donate by phone
  To make a U.S. tax-deductible donation with your credit card by phone, please call Benetech’s Business Development Office at:
  (650) 644-3400
  Monday through Friday
  9am to 5pm - Pacific Time

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Types of Donations

• Gifts in honor or memorial
  Your gift will have additional significance and meaning if you choose to contribute in honor or in memory of someone. We will send a card to those you designate to receive notification of your honor or memorial gift. To make a gift in someone’s honor, please include the name and address of that person. To make a gift in someone’s memory, please include the name of that person and also the address of any individual (s), family, friends you would like us to notify.
   
• Gifts of stock and securities
  Benetech welcomes gifts of stock and securities. All donations are U.S. tax deductible, and it is possible that giving a gift of stock or securities may have the added benefit of helping the donor avoid capital gains tax on appreciated securities.
   
  To make a donation of stock or securities, please contact Teresa Throckmorton at 650-644-3430.
   
• Corporate matching gifts
  Your place of work may offer a matching gift program, which could double your donation to Benetech. By talking to your Human Resource Department you can find out if this is an option.
   
• Planned gifts
  Gifts made through your will, trusts, life insurance or retirement assets are some of the ways you can help to provide Benetech with an ongoing source of income that enables us to make the multiple-year investments required to create sustainable projects that will have long-lasting impact for generations to come.
   
  • Creating lasting benefit through your will
    You can retain your assets during your life and defer your charitable support until the donor’s death by naming Benetech in your Will.
     
  • Giving through your revocable living trust
    If, through a revocable living trust, you have chosen to pass your property to loved ones while minimizing probate costs, consider how you might add a charitable dimension to this plan as well. Similar to a charitable bequest through a will, such a gift is tax-deductible from estate taxes and can be delayed until all family members have been provided for.
     
  • Giving through your life insurance
    Life insurance is another way to donate to Benetech. There are a number of different ways to do this. You can name Benetech as a beneficiary to receive a certain percentage of your life insurance; donate a paid-up policy, which enables you to take a tax deduction in the amount of the replacement value of the policy; purchase a new policy and designate Benetech as owner and beneficiary ( all of the premiums are then tax-deductible); buy life insurance to replace a bequest ( this enables you to take the tax deduction now); or designate Benetech as a secondary or final beneficiary, which means that if your primary beneficiary(ies) predeceases you, Benetech is then the beneficiary and the amount we receive when the time comes is deducted from your estate taxes.
     
  • Creative gifts using retirement assets
    Whether you participate in a company pension plan or a fund you have established yourself, such as an IRA, you may accumulate funds beyond your needs for comfortable support of yourself and your loved ones. In such cases, you may wish to consider how you can use these “excess” funds to make charitable gifts in a tax-efficient way. You can also use your retirement assets to establish a charitable trust, designating Benetech as the final beneficiary. Your spouse or heirs will receive payments from the trust for the duration of their life, after which we receive the remainder, without estate or income taxes consequence.

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