Charitable Lead Trust

Protect Your Assets

If you want to make an impact now at MD Anderson and also provide for your family later, consider setting up a charitable lead trust. You transfer cash or other assets to a trust that makes payments to MD Anderson for a period of time. When the term is up, the remaining trust passes to your family or other beneficiaries you select.

There are two ways that charitable lead trusts make payments to MD Anderson:

A charitable lead annuity trust pays a fixed amount each year to MD Anderson and is more attractive when interest rates are low.

A charitable lead unitrust pays a variable amount each year to MD Anderson based on the value of the assets in the trust. With a unitrust, if the trust’s assets go up in value, for example, the payments to MD Anderson go up as well.

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An Example of How It Works

Father smiling with children George would like to support MD Anderson and receive tax benefits. George received a windfall amount of income and needs a large income tax deduction to offset the income. Following his advisor’s recommendation, George funds a grantor charitable lead annuity trust with assets valued at $1,000,000. George’s trust pays $60,000 (6% of the initial fair market value) to MD Anderson each year for 15 years, which will total $900,000. After that, the balance in the trust reverts back to George. He receives an income tax charitable deduction of $614,445. Assuming the trust earns an average 8% annual rate of return, George receives $1,600,286 at the end of the trust term.

*Based on a 5.2% charitable midterm federal rate. Deductions and calculations will vary depending on your personal circumstances.

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Next Steps

  1. Contact Cindy Atmar at 713-792-0596 or cwatmar@mdanderson.org to talk about supporting MD Anderson by setting up a charitable lead trust.
  2. Seek the advice of your financial or legal advisor.
  3. If you include MD Anderson in your plans, please use our legal name and federal tax ID number.

Legal name: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Physical Address: 7007 Bertner Ave., 1MC16N, Unit 1705, Houston, TX 77030
To mail a check: MD Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4486, Houston, TX 77210-4486
Federal tax ID number: 30-0710145

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