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Explore additional resources to help you with your tax planning and making a gift in support of our CMC mission. Your designation will determine use of your gift for operations or endowment with the CMC Foundation. Undesignated gifts will be used in the area of greatest need. Contact us for more information about ways you can support our organization or let us know if you have given to us in the past.

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Bequest

A bequest is a gift you can make to support Colorado Mountain Club's mission in your will or living trust or with a codicil.

A bequest allows you to continue to use the property you will leave to us during your life and make a lasting impact on our work after you are gone.

Benefits of a bequest

  • Receive an estate tax charitable deduction
  • Reduce the burden of taxes on your family
  • Leave a lasting legacy to our organization

Charitable bequest video

How a bequest works

A bequest is one of the easiest gifts to make. With the help of an attorney, you can include language in your will or trust specifying a gift to be made to family, friends or Colorado Mountain Club as part of your estate plan, or you can make a bequest using a beneficiary designation form.

Here are some of the ways to leave a bequest to Colorado Mountain Club

  • Include a bequest to Colorado Mountain Club in your will or revocable trust
  • Designate Colorado Mountain Club as a full, partial or contingent beneficiary of your retirement account (IRA, 401(k), 403(b) or pension)
  • Name Colorado Mountain Club as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy

A bequest may be made in several ways

  • Specific Bequest - A specific bequest involves making a gift of a specific asset such as real estate, a car, other property or a gift for a specific dollar amount. For example, you may wish to leave your home or $10,000 to Colorado Mountain Club.
  • Percentage Bequest - Another kind of bequest involves leaving a specific percentage of your overall estate to our organization. For example, you may wish to leave 10% of your estate to Colorado Mountain Club.
  • Residual Bequest - A residual bequest is made from the balance of an estate after the will or trust has given away each of the specific bequests. A common residual bequest involves leaving a percentage of the residue of the estate to our organization. For example, you may wish to leave 30% of the residue of your estate to Colorado Mountain Club.

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Contact Us

If you have any questions about leaving a bequest to us, please contact us. We would be happy to assist you. If you have been so generous as to include a bequest to Colorado Mountain Club as part of your estate plan, please take the time to let us know. We would like to recognize you and your family for your generosity.