Alphabet Soup
Giving Basics
IRAs
Fund A
Planned Gift
Wills & Trusts
100

DAF

What is a Donor Advised Fund?

100

Planned gifts are given in the form of this when left in a will.

What is a bequest?

100

RMD 

What is a Required Minimum Distribution?

100

The most commonly used way to fund a gift.

What is cash?

100

This is a generic term for a gift to charity in one's will or estate. 

What is a Legacy Gift or Estate Gift?

200

QCD

What is a Qualified Charitable Distribution?

200

These types of planned gifts include “charitable remainder” and “charitable lead.”

What is a trust?

200

True or False: An RMD is a taxable event.

What is True?

200

For donors wishing to fund a larger planned gift without touching their cash, this alternative form of funding a gift can have a big impact and can also have positive capital gains tax implications. 

What is Real Estate or Appreciated Assets?

200

When leaving a gift in your will, some donors choose to leave a specific dollar amount while others choose to leave a _______ , of their estate.

What is a Percentage or Portion?

300

CGA

What is a Charitable Gift Annuity?

300

True or False: Estate Planning laws prevent planned gifts from being distributed in a proportional manner. Example: My Life Insurance Policy cannot list 50% to a family member and 50% to a charity.

What is False?

300

The IRS Term used to describe the process when a person puts their RMD back into a retirement account to avoid taxation?

What is Tax Fraud / IRS penalty / Illegal?

….Pick your violation.

300

Everyone knows they can name their spouse or children as a beneficiary on this, but you can also list a charity on this resource that most people purchase and pay on annually.

What is a Life Insurance Policy?

300

This type of bequest is when a donor in his/her will specifies a particular purpose toward which the bequest must go, such as a named endowment.

What is a Restricted Gift?

400

CRUT

What is a Charitable Remainder Unitrust?

400

Donors wishing to make a well-planned gift should consult with their attorney, financial advisor and this”professional who they meet with by April 15 of each year.

What is a Tax Advisor or Certified Public Accountant (CPA)?

400

True or False: The IRS requires RMDs be reinvested in a taxable account or spent within one year of receipt.

What is False?

400

Savings that you accumulate through your professional career, such as a 401K, are referred to as these types of assets.

What are Retirement Assets?

400

This type of bequest is made to LAJH when the decedent's beneficiaries are no longer alive or decline the bequest.

What is a contingent bequest?

500

NIMCRUT

What is a Net Income with Makeup Charitable Remainder Unitrust?

500

Donors who notify us that they have arranged for a planned gift to Los Angeles Jewish Health are included in what society?

What is the Legacy Circle?

500

The three primary requirements to make a charitable donation using your RMD?

What is be age 70-1/2 or older, donation transferred directly from the IRA to the charity, and completed prior to December 31?

500

An attractive tool for making a planned gift to a charity while earning income today is a trust. Name one of the two most popular types of charitable trusts. 

What is a Charitable Lead Trust or a Charitable Remainder Trust?

500

This type of gift is when a donor deeds their primary residence to LAJH but retains the right to live in it for their lifetime. 

What is a Retained Life Estate?

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