Ways to Give
Your gift to the Jewish Federation of Howard County will strengthen and sustain our local Jewish community. We are a small, local 501 (c)(3) that is completely funded through donations from local community members like you. Gifts to our yearly annual campaign ensure we can address the most important community needs. For information about designated giving, please contact us at 410-730-4976 x106.
To make an online donation to our current Annual Campaign, click here.
If you’d prefer to mail a check, send an IRA distribution, or request a donation from your Donor Advised Fund, our address is:
Jewish Federation of Howard County
10630 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 400
Columbia, MD 21044
You may be asked for our EIN when your distribution requests are made: it is 23-7072654
To pay a pledge you’ve already made via phone, mail or email, click below.
Monthly giving is an easy way to ensure you don’t forget to make your donation!
Monthly donations:
Allow you to make a difference year-round with a budget-friendly, automatic payment option.
Helps reduce our cost for paper, postage, and printing, while also benefitting the environment!
Provides more reliable support for our organization and the people we serve in our community
You can set it up and forget about it (until your credit card expires!)
Click here to set up your monthly donations!
Tribute gifts are a powerful way to honor or remember a loved one or celebrate a special occasion. Your gift is the perfect way to let someone know you care. You can choose to have a Tribute Card mailed to the recipient acknowledging your gift.
Tribute gifts can be made here.
Your transfer of appreciated stocks give you an immediate income-tax deduction for the fair market value of the securities on the date of the transfer, no matter what you originally paid for them. Your gift of stock is valued, for tax purposes, at the mean of the high and low on the date of the transfer. You pay no capital gains tax on the transfer.
For information on how to transfer stock donations to the Jewish Federation of Howard County, click here.
The IRS requires owners of IRAs to begin annual withdrawals from these accounts when they turn 70 ½ years old. The amount you are required to withdraw is determined by your age, the amount you have saved in an IRA and your life expectancy. Distributions from an IRA are usually treated as taxable income. However, this can be avoided by making a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) which is a direct transfer of funds from your IRA trustee to a qualified charity such as the Jewish Federation of Howard County.
For more information on this process, click here.
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Have you considered how you could help those in need and enrich Jewish life into the future?
You can create a permanent legacy in your name or the name of a loved one while strengthening the Jewish community for your children, for your grandchildren, and for generations to come.
Legacy donors are the lifeline of our community. Because of the vision of donors like you, we will be prepared for whatever is ahead of us. We will be able to weather the ups and downs of the economy without compromising services to those in need. We will be able to support innovation in programming to reach more people and offer help when and where is it needed. When there is a crisis, like a pandemic, or an increase in Antisemitism, we will be able to ensure we can respond.
There are many ways to ensure your legacy, including options that offer tax benefits to you and/or your estate. To explore some basic information about some of these options, click here.
If you have already made the Federation part of your estate plan or would like more information on how to do so, please contact us. We look forward to talking with you.
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