Planned Gift Details

Breast Friends is a 501(c)3 organization and our tax ID number of 93-1320871.

You can make a significant contribution to Breast Friends while attaining your own financial objectives through planned giving. We welcome planned gifts such as a specific bequest in your Will or Trust, gifts of stock or real estate, and life insurance or IRA beneficiary designations.  There are also effective ways to donate stock and/or real estate while continuing to realize income and receive a current income tax deduction.  Please talk with your tax and legal professionals, and let them know you would like to remember Breast Friends in your estate plan or are interested in learning how to make a planned gift now.  Please call the Breast Friends’ office (503-598-8048) or Aaron Traxton, CPA (503-926-7443) for more information.

Our Board of Directors encourages those planning their gifts to designate them as unrestricted gifts, which will help provide financial support to the general operating needs of the organization. You may also wish to designate a restricted gift to benefit a specific program or project of our organization.

Unrestricted Bequests

The following is suggested language for unrestricted bequests to be used for the greatest current need of Breast Friends. Please share this sample language below with your legal counsel.

I (we) give to Breast Friends, an Oregon non-profit corporation,

 

the sum of $_______________ or

 

____% of my estate or

 

All my right, title, and interest in the following described property:

______________________________________________________________ or

 

All the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate

 

to be used in such a manner as the board of directors of said corporation shall, in its sole discretion, determine.

 

Bequests for a Specific Purpose (Restricted Bequests)

I (we) give to Breast Friends, an Oregon non-profit corporation,

 

the sum of $_______________ or

 

____% of my estate or

 

All my right, title, and interest in the following described property:

______________________________________________________________ or

 

All the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate

to be used for (Program Name) or (state purpose).

In the event the purposes of the restriction, in the opinion of the Board of Directors of Breast Friends, can no longer be served, the Board may devote this bequest exclusively for charitable purposes that (a) are within the scope of the charitable purposes of Breast Friends and (b) most nearly approximate the original purpose of the gift.