Disability Rights Center of New Hampshire

Make a Bequest

It’s important to consult with a professional advisor, such as a wealth manager, estate planning attorney, and/or accountant to identify which gifting approach best suits your unique circumstances. Disability Rights Center – NH is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Why Make a Bequest?

Simplicity: All it takes is a couple sentences that:

  1. specify the gift you wish to make
  2. designate DRC-NH as the beneficiary of the gift

Flexibility: you can include a bequest where ever it makes the most sense:

  • you can include it in the initial draft of your estate planning documents including your Will or a Trust or,
  • you can modify an already existing document to add a bequest to the DRC-NH.  If you have estate planning documents already in place, changes often are easy to make.

Tax Savings: charitable giving may provide tax advantages to you and your loved ones.

Any gift you make helps DRC-NH achieve its mission to eliminate barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from enjoying full and equal rights in New Hampshire.

Close up of shaking hands with the following quote from a DRC-NH Client's mother: “I truly believe that without DRC, my son would not have maintained his current level of care. We don't know what we would do without the DRC. Thank you so very much.”

Simplicity & Flexibility

Including a gift or other bequest to DRC-NH under a Last Will and Testament or a Trust is a simple way to make a planned gift to support the organization’s mission.

Through a Last Will or Trust, you may specify that a certain amount of money or a specific item of property, like stocks or a vehicle, be given.  Alternatively, you may specify that DRC-NH receives a percentage of or the full amount remaining in your estate after other bequests are made and debts are satisfied (known as the “residuary estate”).

You also have the option to specify that certain conditions be met before DRC-NH benefits from your estate.  For example, if you identify an individual to receive a specific bequest under your Revocable Trust, you could also state that if the person has predeceased you, their share will be distributed to DRC-NH instead.

Leaving a Legacy by Beneficiary Form is as Simple as 1, 2, 3!

Designating DRC-NH as a primary or contingent beneficiary of all or of a percentage of your estate, including under life insurance policies, annuities, IRAs or other tax-deferred retirement assets is easy.  Beneficiaries on these financial assets may be changed simply by filling out a new beneficiary designation form.  You can do this without having to update other estate planning documents.

  1. Contact the custodian or administrator of your IRA, retirement plan, insurance policy, or annuity and request a beneficiary designation form (often, these forms are also available through a company’s website).
  2. Complete the beneficiary designation form and identify the percentage you wish to leave to DRC-NH, and identify whether the charity will receive assets as a primary or contingent beneficiary.
  3. Make a copy of the designation form for your records and send the updated form back to the financial institution managing the asset.
Contact Us

If You Would Like to Make a Donation

Call Stephanie at 603-228-0432 or visit our donation page make a gift or get more information.

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