In addition to the ways to give to the University of North Texas at Dallas that are featured on other pages of this website, there are many other optionns to best meet your needs. Numerous other current, short-term, and long-term giving options are also covered briefly below. Some of the options listed elsewhere on this site are listed again on this page for your convenience.
Endowment Gifts
The foundation is committed to supporting the university’s mission by investing endowment assets and distributing funds to UNT Dallas for scholarships, fellowships, and other beneficial purposes. Endowments are valued by the university as a consistent source of perpetual funding that has multi-generational impact. Donors may choose to contribute to an existing endowment or create a new one.
Planned / Estate Gifts
Planned giving, also referred to as gift planning, may be defined as a method of supporting nonprofits and charities that enables philanthropic individuals or donors to make larger gifts than they could make from their income. While some planned gifts provide a lifelong income to the donor, others use estate and tax planning techniques to provide for charity and other heirs in ways that maximize the gift and/or minimize its impact on the donor's estate. Thus, by definition, a planned gift is any major gift made in lifetime or at death as part of a donor’s overall financial and/or estate planning.
Gifts of Cash
Cash gifts are the most common and popular means of supporting the UNT Dallas Foundation. Making a cash gift is quick and easy, and it helps provide needed funds immediately. You can make a gift online through our secure page by clicking the “Give Now” option on this site. Or you can make checks payable to "UNT Dallas Foundation." Please indicate on the memo line the specific program you wish to support. If no program is specified, your gift will support the foundation's areas of greatest need.
We provide the convenience of fulfilling a commitment over a period of time through recurring credit card payments or direct debits to your bank account. Please reach out to us anytime you have any questions pertaining to gifts of cash.
Matching Gifts
Many employers offer philanthropic matching gifts that can double or triple the impact of your original donation.
Gifts of Securities
Consider investing in the foundation through appreciated securities. Your gift of securities, especially appreciated stock, offers two tax-smart advantages: 1. a charitable income tax deduction and 2. the elimination of a capital gains tax.
Gifts through a Donor-Advised Fund
A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) is often referred to as a personal charitable savings account. A donor creates an account with a sponsoring organization, which can be a nonprofit or an investment company. The donor then makes a contribution of cash, stock, or other assets like real estate and artwork, and can take an immediate tax deduction for the gift. An adviser manages and invests the assets and works with the donor to identify charitable causes they wish to support.
If you have a donor-advised fund, you can direct funds from your account to the UNT Dallas Foundation to support a university cause in which you are passionate.
A gift directed from a DAF is subject to IRS charitable gift restrictions. Gifts that provide an incidental benefit to the donor will not be accepted. IRS restrictions also prohibit grants from donor-advised funds that will be used to pay a donor’s binding pledge.
Gifts of Stock
Donors transfer ownership of their securities to the foundation to create endowments or current project support at UNT Dallas. By transferring publicly traded stock to the foundation, donors may bypass all capital gains and receive a charitable deduction for the average of the high and low values of the security on the date of transfer. Please contact us for more information.
Gifts of Capital Assets
It may be to your financial advantage to give a gift of capital assets. Capital assets include real estate, art collections, insurance policies, antiques, jewelry, stamp/coin collections, etc. The advantage of a capital assets gift depends on your circumstances. For example, your estate assets may be distributed over your lifetime in order to reduce future estate taxes.
Charitable Gift Annuity
It may be to your financial advantage to give a gift of capital assets. Capital assets include real estate, art collections, insurance policies, antiques, jewelry, stamp/coin collections, etc. The advantage of a capital assets gift depends on your circumstances. For example, your estate assets may be distributed over your lifetime in order to reduce future estate taxes.
Charitable Lead Trust
A charitable lead trust is a managed trust that enables you to transfer assets to your heirs at reduced gift and estate tax costs and transfer the full appreciated value of assets to beneficiaries with no further gift and estate tax at the termination of the trust. A charitable lead trust pays an annuity or a fixed percentage of the assets to the foundation for a specified number of years. At the end of this period, the assets are passed on to the beneficiaries named by the donor.
Life Insurance
You may name the foundation as an irrevocable primary or contingent beneficiary (should the primary not survive you) of a new or fully paid life insurance policy. The policy’s cash value at the time of donation is deductible as a charitable contribution. You may also continue paying the premiums after donating a policy, in which case the premiums are tax deductible as well.
Bequests
Bequests often establish a named gift fund (scholarship, memorial fund, etc.) in your name or a loved one while assisting UNT Dallas with its programs in an area of your choosing. In addition to leaving a legacy at the University, naming the foundation as a beneficiary (or contingent beneficiary) in your will (or your spouse’s will) can reduce the amount of federal estate tax your heirs are assessed.
Gifts-in-Kind
The foundation may accept gifts of personal property, subject to a related use by UNT Dallas or an understanding that the assets may be liquidated for cash. Such gifts shall be used to further the core mission and priorities of the university and may include gifts of art, artifacts or other objects (including fractional interests).