Whether you want to maintain your family’s tradition of giving or ensure ongoing support for the charities you care about, your Fidelity Charitable Giving Account can carry on your legacy. Your donor-advised fund allows you to involve your family and children during your lifetime and ensure the giving tradition continues.
You’ve worked hard to establish your charitable legacy. Make sure to pass it on by nominating an individual, a charity or a combination of both as a successor for your Giving Account. Nominating a successor(s), is the simplest way to continue the legacy of your Giving Account after your passing.
What is a succession plan?
Fidelity Charitable offers three distinct successor options to allow Account Holders to continue their charitable legacies beyond their lifetime:
Account Holders can elect one successor option or a combination of the three.
Who can be my successor(s)?
Your successor(s) can be:
Why do I need a succession plan?
Your successor(s) become the new Account Holder, able to make contributions and recommend investments and grants. In turn, they can name their own successor(s). This option continues the tradition of giving for generations to come.
If Fidelity Charitable doesn’t have a successor on file, upon your passing, the balance of your Giving Account will be granted in accordance with the Fidelity Charitable Trustees’ Initiative.
You can establish a succession plan when you open a Giving Account, or you can nominate a successor(s) at any point by logging in to your Giving Account, clicking Your profile, and choosing the Successor tab.
More than simply naming a charity as a successor, the Endowed Giving Program lets you set up recurring grant recommendations to up to six charities for a minimum of five years. This lets your Giving Account remain open to donations from your estate (such as personal property or other assets), which can help offset estate taxes while also ensuring support for the causes you care about.
Minimum balance
$100,000 or more at activation1
Sources of funding
Beneficiaries
Up to six IRS-qualified charities
Frequency and duration of grants
Once or twice a year for five years or more, possibly into perpetuity1
1Minimum term for the Endowed Giving Program (“Program”) is five years. Funded and invested appropriately, Giving Accounts could continue in perpetuity. Under the terms of the Program, Fidelity Charitable may expend as much of the Giving Account’s income and principal as the Trustees deem appropriate. If the Giving Account balance drops below $5,000, Fidelity Charitable may distribute the balance, via lump-sum grants, to eligible charities, in the proportion recommended by the Account Holder.
There are several approaches you can take, and each one offers unique advantages, including helping you reduce or even eliminate the estate-tax burden for your loved ones.
Ready to get started?
Establishing your Giving Account is easy and only takes 5 minutes.
All you need is your Social Security number and, when you're ready, a $5,000 minimum donation.
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