If you want to make an impact now at World Wildlife Fund and also provide for your family later, consider establishing a charitable lead trust. You transfer cash or other assets to a trust that makes payments to World Wildlife Fund for a period of time. When the term is up, the remaining trust passes to your family or other beneficiaries you select.

There are two ways that charitable lead trusts make payments to WWF:

A charitable lead annuity trust pays a fixed amount each year to WWF and is more attractive when interest rates are low.

A charitable lead unitrust pays a variable amount each year to WWF based on the value of the assets in the trust. With a unitrust, if the trust's assets go up in value, for example, the payments to WWF go up as well.

Charitable Lead Trusts are complex gifts. In addition to contacting our gift planning office to discuss this option, we recommend you discuss this and any gift options with your financial/tax advisor. Our talented gift planning staff are more than willing to work with you, your advisors, and the trust company of your choice to establish this gift. Please contact us below.