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Donations from Retirement Accounts (IRA or DAF)

You can support trusted news, ideas and music in Eastern North Carolina directly from your IRA as a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) or from your Donor Advised Fund, DAF as a grant to Public Radio East.

Giving through your IRA as part of your Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)

  • Satisfy your required minimum distribution (RMD) for the year
  • Reduce your taxable income, even if you do not itemize deductions
  • Make a gift that is not subject to the deduction limits on charitable gifts
  • Help further the work and mission of our organization

How to make a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from your IRA:

  1. Contact your IRA plan administrator to make a gift from your IRA to us. You may use this sample letter: Sample Letter to IRA Administrator for QCD.pdf
  2. Your IRA funds will be directly transferred to our organization to help continue our important work.
  3. Please note that Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) do not qualify for a charitable deduction. Please talk with your tax advisor about other potential tax benefits.
  4. Include your name and address as the donor on record to ensure PRE can properly credit this donation. PRE’s tax identification number is 56-1802728.

Please see the IRS’s latest news release regarding Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/reminder-to-ira-owners-age-70-and-a-half-or-over-qualified-charitable-distributions-are-great-options-for-making-tax-free-gifts-to-charity

Giving Through Your Donor-Advised Fund (DAF)

Supporting Public Radio East with a gift from your donor-advised fund (DAF) is simple and impactful.

A DAF allows you to combine the tax benefits of giving with the flexibility to support the causes you care about most. If you have a DAF with Fidelity Charitable, DAFgiving360, Vanguard Charitable, or another provider, you can recommend a gift directly to Public Radio East.

How to make a gift from your DAF:

  1. Log in to your donor-advised fund account.
  2. Search for: Public Radio East Foundation (Tax ID/EIN: 56-1802728). **MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: For the benefit of Public Radio East
  3. Designate your gift to support Public Radio East’s trusted journalism and programming.
  4. Submit your recommendation.

Your generosity helps keep fact-based reporting and enriching stories available to everyone in our community.

Contact us
For questions or to notify us of your gift, please contact:

Andrea Miller, Fundraising Coordinator
amiller@publicradioeast.org
252-638-7270

Thank you for using your donor-advised fund / Individual Retirement Account to strengthen independent journalism at Public Radio East for Eastern North Carolina.

 

The information is not intended as legal or tax advice. For such advice, please consult an attorney or tax advisor.