If you’re 70½ or older, you can generally donate up to $108,000 per tax year directly from a tax-deferred Individual Retirement Account (IRA) such as a traditional IRA, inherited IRA, inactive SIMPLE IRA or inactive SEP IRA to charities like Center for Safety & Change as a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD).
QCDs, also known as IRA charitable rollovers or IRA gifts, may be excluded from your taxable income and qualify towards your required minimum distribution (RMD).
Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) rules:
QCDs count toward your required minimum distribution for the year. If you have to take your required minimum distribution but you don’t want or need the funds, QCDs are a good way to distribute the amount out of the IRA. As an added benefit, you’ll avoid paying income tax on your gross income up to $100,000.
QCDs cannot be made to a donor-advised fund (DAF), charitable remainder trust, or charitable gift annuity. A QCD can be made to your sponsoring 501(c)(3) organization if there are programs that you can fund outside of your DAF. Such purposes include general support for the charity or for other programs they may maintain outside of their role as a DAF sponsor.
For additional information on QCDs and DAFs, please contact your charitable sponsor.
How to make a QCD to Center for Safety & Change:
They can mail the check to:
Legal name: Center for Safety & Change Inc
Address: 9 Johnsons Lane, New City, NY 10956
Federal tax ID#: 13-2989233
Learn how your gift will be used:
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Programs
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General Administration
To learn more about how your gift will be used, read more about our work, our impact or view our financial information including our latest financial statements.
Questions?
Email [email protected] or call (845) 634-3391.
Donor Privacy Policy
Donor Privacy Policy
The Center for Safety & Change is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation. All contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent as allowable by law.(1)
Obtaining Information
The ability to contact individuals to support the Center for Safety & Change is critical to our work and mission. The Center collects and uses a donor’s personal information such as name, address, phone number, and email address when an individual/organization voluntarily provides it to us. We will not sell, trade or share a donor’s personal information with anyone outside the Center, nor send donor mailings on behalf of other organizations, without the specific permission of the donor. Contributing individuals and organizations are traditionally listed by name in publications such as our fundraising journals and annual report, but we honor requests from those who wish to be listed as anonymous.
Donor Bill of Rights
Ethical standards and principles are the foundation for maintaining public trust. To ensure this, the Center endorses the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Donor Bill of Rights, which provides all donors with the right:
I. To be informed of the organization’s mission, the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
II. To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization’s governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.
III. To have access to the organization’s most recent financial statements.
IV. To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
V. To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition.
VI. To be assured that information about their donation is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
VII. To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
VIII. To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers or employees of the organization, or hired solicitors.
IX. To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
X. To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.
To review or correct your personal contact information or to make changes to your recorded preferences (i.e. receipt of mailings and acknowledgements), please contact our Development Department [email protected] or call (845) 634-3391.
(1) Donors should always consult with their tax advisors regarding tax deductibility of cash and in-kind gifts.