Your Compassion Makes So Much Possible
As we move through the season of gratitude, we’re reflecting on all that caring people like you make possible for animals.
Your compassion helps bring food, shelter, and comfort to dogs left outside in bitter weather. It supports lifesaving rescues, helps provide nourishing vegan food to families and communities, and gives animals who have endured neglect or abuse the opportunity to heal. It also powers the determined advocacy needed to challenge cruelty wherever it occurs.
Because your commitment to animals matters so much, we want to share several ways you can help protect them, both today and for years to come. Whether you’re reviewing plans you already have in place or considering your options for the first time, these avenues can help you care for the people and causes closest to your heart. In fact, every third rescue or cruelty investigation PETA undertakes is made possible by someone who chose to leave a legacy gift to PETA.
Include PETA in Your Will or Living Trust
A gift in your will or living trust can help ensure that animals continue to have a powerful advocate well into the future. You can designate a specific amount, a percentage of your estate, or the remainder after gifts to loved ones have been fulfilled.
Your gift can help future PETA fieldworkers reach animals in urgent need, support investigations that expose cruelty, and fuel campaigns that persuade companies, policymakers, and individuals to make more compassionate choices.
Learn more about leaving a gift in your will
Name PETA as a Beneficiary
You can also name PETA as a beneficiary of a retirement account, life insurance policy, investment account, or bank account. Beneficiary designations generally allow you to decide what percentage will go to each person or organization you wish to remember.
This approach may not require a change to your will, and you can typically update your designations as your circumstances or wishes evolve. A financial or legal adviser can help you determine which option is most appropriate for you and your loved ones.
Create a Charitable Gift Annuity
A charitable gift annuity offers a way to help animals while receiving fixed payments for life. In exchange for your gift, you may also qualify for tax benefits, depending on your circumstances.
A gift annuity can be especially meaningful for those who want to make a lasting difference for animals while maintaining a dependable source of income. Ultimately, the remaining funds help fuel PETA’s work to protect animals and challenge cruelty.
See whether a charitable gift annuity may be right for you
Give Through Your IRA
If you are age 70½ or older, you may be eligible to make a qualified charitable distribution directly from your IRA to PETA. A qualified charitable distribution may provide tax advantages and, if applicable, can count toward all or part of your required minimum distribution.
For those who are eligible, an IRA gift can be a meaningful way to turn your commitment to animals into action before the end of the year, helping PETA reach more animals and advance changes that can spare countless others from suffering. And regardless of your age, you can name PETA as a beneficiary of all or a percentage of your IRA, helping protect animals through a gift that will take effect in the future.
Learn about charitable gifts from an IRA
Give Appreciated Stock or Securities
A gift of appreciated stock or other securities can support PETA’s work immediately. Depending on your circumstances, it may also allow you to avoid capital gains tax and receive a charitable deduction.
Your generosity could help provide animals with hands-on assistance, expose abuse hidden from public view, promote animal-free research and testing, or inspire more people to choose kindness in their everyday lives.
Your Kindness Can Keep Making a Difference
However you choose to help, we are deeply grateful for all that your commitment to animals makes possible. Every rescue, investigation, public-awareness campaign, and compassionate breakthrough begins with people who believe that animals deserve protection and respect.
By including PETA in your financial or estate plans, you can carry that commitment forward and help make sure animals continue to have strong, determined advocates for years to come.
If you would like to learn more, request complimentary estate-planning information, or let us know that you have already included PETA in your plans, we would be honored to hear from you. You can reach us directly at [email protected] or 757-962-8213.
Explore Ways to Help AnimalsThis information is not intended as legal, tax, or financial advice. Please consult your qualified advisers about your individual circumstances.
