"Planned gifts are deeply personal. They reflect a donor’s values and trust in MIT’s mission, and they leave a legacy that lives on in every student educated here and every innovation that emerges from our community."
You Can Strengthen MIT’s Future
Planned gifts help secure MIT’s financial future while offering the opportunity for donors to maximize the impact of their giving with options that fit their current stage in life. The resources that derive from planned gifts such as bequests and life-income gifts frequently focus on MIT’s core needs, providing flexible funds and supporting our community through scholarships, fellowships, and professorships.
Five Tips to Maximize Your Legacy
A good estate plan can support your goals for your family, community, and philanthropy—at any age. These five tips can help you maximize your legacy.
Use Your IRA QCD to Support MIT
If you are age 70½ or older, you can support MIT with a Qualified Charitable Distribution from your Individual Retirement Account, helping you reduce your taxable income.
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Giving Strategies That Generate Income
Gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts can be invested alongside the MIT endowment to provide income to you and/or your beneficiaries.
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Is an MIT DAF Right for You?
A Donor-Advised Fund can simplify your charitable giving while facilitating your strategic philanthropic goals.
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Discover the many ways you can make a planned gift—and the impact you can have.
We have worked with thousands of MIT community members and their advisors to create planned gifts that are personal, practical, and transformational for the donor and MIT. Start a conversation about your legacy today.
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- Use the gift calculator tool to help estimate how a charitable gift annuity or charitable remainder trust might benefit you.
- A bequest is a gift created now, in your will or living trust, and given at the end of your life. If you would like to inform MIT of your bequest, please fill out and send a completed Bequest Intention Form.
- In the long history of giving to MIT, planned gifts and bequests have been the largest source of income for MIT’s endowment. In 1994, MIT established the Katharine Dexter McCormick (1904) Society (KDMS) to honor donors who give in these ways.