Did You Know...

Over 75 percent of Americans who file income tax returns make charitable gifts each year.
SOURCE: NonProfit Times

Approximately five to six percent of Americans leave a charitable gift at death in their will or trust.
SOURCE: Planned Giving in the United States: a Survey of Donors, 1992

Over 77 percent of those donors who acknowledged that they had planned to make a charitable bequest, stated that they had done so on their own initiative without suggestion from the charities, or other professional advisors.
SOURCE: Planned Giving Today

Three out of four of us give generously throughout our lifetime, but only one in 20 of us choose to make a planned gift.
SOURCE: NonProfit Times

In 1996, the Columbus Foundation in Ohio received 13 bequests totaling about $10 million. After instituting LEAVE A LEGACY®, the number of bequests to the Columbus Foundation doubled to 26. Gifts in 1997 totaled $47 million - nearly a five-fold increase over the year before.
SOURCE: National Committee on Planned Giving

There are approximately 260 million Americans, of whom approximately two million die each year. In 1996, 79,346 estate forms were filed with the Federal government. These forms are required for estates in excess of $600,000. Eighteen percent of the forms listed a charitable gift. In other words, 82% of the nation's wealthiest individuals left nothing to charity.
SOURCE: National Committee on Planned Giving

About $41 trillion dollars is expected to be inherited by middle-aged children from their elderly parents in the United States by the year 2040; half in the next two decades alone.
SOURCE: Cornell University: 1999

More than 120 LEAVE A LEGACY® programs have been established throughout North America.