Legacy Associate Giving
Leave Your Legacy
Connect your love of animals with the WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital to leave your legacy. Legacy gifts are a way to manage your affairs, plan for the future, and make a meaningful difference. It is also a way to honor your pet’s caregivers.
Smart legacy gift planning has many benefits such as increased income, reduced taxes, and a chance to see your gift at work. Different types of assets can be gifted, including real estate, stock, retirement assets, and more. You can add the veterinary hospital to your will, revocable living trust, or as a beneficiary designation anytime, and you can also specify when and where you want your gift to be used.
Your legacy gift could:
- Save a beloved animal’s life from cancer
- Make school more affordable for a student
- Diagnose a patient to start treatment sooner
- Provide care to an animal in need
Let us show you how easy it is to create your legacy.
For more information about leaving your legacy call 509-335-4835 or email kayann@vetmed.wsu.edu or visit the WSU Foundation gift planning page.
—Russ Vance
Ways to Leave Your Legacy
Your Gift | Your Goal | How it Works | Your Benefits |
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Bequest |
| You designate WSUF as a beneficiary in your will, trust, or other instrument. |
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Charitable Gift Annuity |
| You transfer cash or appreciated property to WSUF in exchange for our promise to pay up to two individuals fixed income for life. What is left when the annuity matures will support WSU. |
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Charitable Remainder Trust |
| You transfer cash or appreciated property to fund a charitable trust. The trust provides you and/or others with income for life or a term of years. What is left when the trust matures will support WSU |
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Charitable Lead Trust |
| You transfer cash or property to fund a trust that makes a gift to WSU for a number of years. You receive a charitable deduction for the gift. Your heirs receive the remainder at substantial tax savings. |
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Life Insurance Policy |
| You make WSUF the owner and beneficiary of a new or existing policy. |
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Qualified Retirement Plan (IRA, 401(k), 403(b)) |
| You make WSUF the beneficiary of your retirement plan account(s). |
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Retained Life Estate |
| You transfer the title of your property to WSUF, but retain the right to use the property during your lifetime. |
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Meet Some of Our Legacy Associates
Michael Chamberlin
Anne Hensley
Ron Kilwein
Leslie Nichols
Dan and Kathy Schwartz
Dave and Eddylee Scott
Russell and Noel Vance