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The DeKoven Center counts on your donations to help maintain and improve its historic buildings and grounds while serving the community with a diversity of programs and events. Your generous contribution allows DeKoven to continue welcoming people from across the country and around the world, who come to campus for spiritual reflection and celebration. We give thanks for those who have provided financial support over the past 170 years.
DeKoven’s regular activity provides for a majority of maintenance and capital improvements, but your gifts allow for so much more! Donations have provided support for beautifying the grounds, lighting the campus and increasing safety, maintaining and replacing key mechanical systems, preserving St. John’s Chapel, installing memorial benches on campus to enhance rest and reflection, keeping the DeKoven bell tower in operation, signage to make navigating easier, and even washing the windows!
If you would like to have a list of current needs, or desire to give for a specific purpose, please contact the Executive Director. DeKoven Center is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public charity, so your contribution is likely to be tax deductible as allowed by law.
Giving Opportunity
Memorial Benches
To enhance relaxation and reflection on the DeKoven campus, consider giving to allow for the installation of a Memorial Bench. With a gift of at least $5,000, you are able to have a bench installed at a site on campus you select. A placque may be added to remember a loved one or commemorate your time at DeKoven. A limited number are available. If interested, contact the Executive Director for additional information. Download a flyer here.
Additional Ways to Give
Stock or Other Securities Gift
Make a tax-deductible contribution using appreciated stock.
IRA Charitable Rollover
Those 70½ or older may make a contribution directly from an IRA by transfer of up to $100,000 a year to charities of your choice. The gift is not taxable income and counts toward minimal distribution requirements.
DeKoven In Your Will
Work with legal counsel to include DeKoven Center as a beneficiary of your estate. "I hereby give, devise and bequeath to DeKoven Center, a not-for-profit corporation with the present address of 2000 Wisconsin Avenue, Racine, Wisconsin 54303 and its successors $_______ and/or ______ percent of my estate, to be used in such manner as determined by its board."
Life Insurance Gift
Check with your agent for details on purchasing a new policy or donating a policy you no longer need.
Income For Life Gifts
Work with your financial planner to transfer capital and retain income for your lifetime and/or the lifetime of another person through Charitable Gift Annuities and Charitable Trusts.
Donor Advised Fund
Work with a financial planner to create a lasting legacy and provide funding through this increasingly popular vehicle. We recommend contacting the Racine Community Foundation.