IRA Giving
Estate Planning FAQs
Lutheran Church of Webster Gardens
Estate Planning
Types of
Planned Gifts
100

The age a person born before 1960 must begin withdrawing Required Minimum Distributions from their IRA.

What is 73?

100

The average age when people make their first will.

What is 44?

100

Schneider, Constien, Brauer, Teuscher, Christiansen, McGinley

Who are the 5 senior pastors of LCWG?

100

This document gives your authorization to someone else to manage your property. 

What is a power of attorney?

100
The most common type of Planned Gift.
What is a bequest?
200

The age a person can begin making qualified charitable distributions from their IRA.

What is 70-1/2?

200

Every 5 years or when a major life event occurs such as a birth, death, marriage, or divorce.

How often you should review and update your estate plan?

200

March 18, 1949

What is the date LCWG was officially organized? (with 27 people)

200

Ensures that a person’s future health care wishes are met and can also relieve families from having to make difficult decisions at a time of great stress.

What is a health care directive/power of attorney?

200

A life income gift that provides both a fixed annual payment to the donor and a gift to the charity at the donor's death.

What is a Charitable Gift Annuity?

300

A benefit of making an estate gift from your IRA to a charitable organization.

What is a tax free transfer?

300

The average age a person makes their final will.

What is 82?

300

This was the location of the first worship service held on April 11, 1948.

What is Grant School?

300

Supercedes your will in estate distribution.

What is a beneficiary designation. 

300

How can someone make a ministry the recipient of their retirement account or life insurance plan.

What is a beneficiary designation form?

400

The distribution period of a non-spouse inherited IRA.

What is 10 years?

400

The percent of Americans who leave a bequest to a charitable organization.

What is 7-12%

400

On November 4, 1951 Webster Garden’s first building was dedicated at 8651 Watson Road which is now this business.

What is the Arsenal Credit Union?

400

$12.92 million for individuals and $25.84 million for married couples.

What is the current federal estate tax exemption?

400

This is an excellent gift someone can make to charity if they own a vacation home or rental property.

What is a gift of real estate?

500

A gift of up to $100,000 annually from your IRA directly to a charitable organization. 

What is a Qualified Charitable Distribution or an IRA rollover?

500

The first twenty thousand dollars in value of the estate, plus one-half of the balance of the estate, if there are surviving issue, all of whom are also issue of the surviving spouse.

What is estate distribution when you die intestate in Missouri?

500

The year that Webster Gardens begans its first school with one kindergarten class and six students.

What is 1952?

500

Picasso, Prince, Michael Jackson, Sonny Bono, Aretha Franklin, Aretha Franklin

Who are famous people that died without a will?

500

An investment account that is set up to support the charitable organizations you care about. You advise who to give to, how much and when.

What is a Donor Advised Fund?