Planned Giving Ideas and Model Language

A planned gift is one of the most impactful ways you can support Everytown’s life-saving work. You may be able to enjoy financial flexibility, receive tax benefits, and provide for your loved ones—all while helping to create a safer future for generations to come.

There are many ways for you to leave a planned gift to Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, including:

1. Naming Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund in Your Will

A gift from your will or trust, known as a bequest gift, is simple and flexible. It may be a specific dollar amount, a percentage of your estate, or the remainder after all other provisions are specified. When preparing your will, consider using language like the following to include Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund:

“I give, devise, and bequeath to Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund(Federal Tax ID: 26-1598353) or its successor, now or formerly at P.O. Box 4184, New York, NY 10163, a gift of ($_____ or _____ percent of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate), to be used for its general purposes.”

Working with a Professional

If you are working with an advisor or professional on creating or updating an estate plan, please visit our page for professional advisors, executors, and trustees for more information. 

Self-Guided Planning

Everytown partners with Giving Docs, a private, secure online platform that provides a full suite of estate planning tools where you can plan your legacy. Giving Docs can help you start your will, update an existing will, designate beneficiaries, and more.

2. Designating a beneficiary of your retirement plan

Make a flexible, tax-exempt gift without changing your will. To name Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund as a beneficiary of your retirement plan, you may be able to request a change-of-beneficiary form from your policy provider and name Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund as a full or partial beneficiary.

3. Giving from your IRA

Giving from your IRA*—known as a charitable rollover or qualified charitable distribution—allows you to make a planned gift that will be put to use now. If you meet eligibility requirements, you may be able to make gifts from your IRA directly to a qualified charity such as Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund without having to pay income taxes on the money.

* other than an ongoing SEP or SIMPLE IRA

Depending on the plan, Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund can be named as a full, partial, or contingent beneficiary. Include the following information:

4. Giving stocks, bonds, or other securities

If you own publicly-traded securities, such as stock, bonds, or mutual funds, you may be eligible to transfer shares to Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund without incurring capital gains tax.

If you have questions about your options or how to make a planned gift, please contact [email protected].