Planned giving offers creative strategies for friends of RIT to make a gift to the university while also achieving some of their personal financial goals. The choice to support RIT is a personal one, unique to each individual, and the choice of planned giving options is the same. Your individual financial situation and goals, your family structure, and your interests at RIT can all be taken into account through one of several gift options.

Use a planned giving choice to support a scholarship, establish a faculty endowment, or support RIT’s endowment. In return, you can realize steady payments through your lifetime, support for a loved one after your lifetime, tax deductions now and in the future, or reduced capital gains. In all cases, you will know that your gift has supported excellence in higher education.

Contact RIT’s Office of Planned Giving to learn more about what planned gifts can do for both you and RIT. Below is a partial listing of planned giving options available through RIT. The Office of Planned Giving can help you with any of these, and work with you to determine which one is the best choice for you.

Charitable Gift Annuities – provide regular payments to your or a loved one for life, along with a tax deduction. Charitable Gift Annuities are easy to establish with gifts as low as $10,000, and a portion of the resulting payments may be tax free to the beneficiary. Click here for our current CGA rates.

Bequests - for people of modest means as well as the wealthy. Bequests offer one of the simplest ways to make a gift that supports RIT and our mission. Adding RIT to your Will affords you the opportunity to protect treasured assets by bequeathing them to a trusted organization and create a personal legacy of a commitment to education. Click here for a glossary of common bequest terms.

Retirement funds – one of the easiest ways to make a planned gift to RIT is to list the university as a beneficiary of your 401K, IRA, or other retirement or life insurance fund. RIT will receive the specified amount or percentage of your fund after your lifetime.

Real estate and valued property – you may give a gift of real estate or property of a unique value to the university. Please contact the Office of Planned Giving to discuss your gift and see if it is right for both you and RIT.