Helping You Serve Your Clients

Are you looking for inspiration or research about charitable giving? These resources will help you discuss charitable options with your clients. Our highly trained staff would love to meet with you and your client to ensure their goals are reached.

About Community Foundations

• Community Foundation vs. Private Foundation
• What is a Community Foundation Brochure
• Heartland Legacy Society

Charitable Giving Resources for your Client

• Financial Advisor Program - The Ideal Donor
• Charitable Giving Discussions Starters
• Endowment Impact Sample
• Letter of Charitable Intent Sample
• Charitable Planning with Life Insurance

About Donor Advised Funds

• What is a Donor Advised Fund?
• Using Your Required Minimum Distribution to Avoid Income Tax
• Establishing a Donor Advised Fund
• Donor Advised Fund Instrument of Transfer Sample
• Benefits of Gifting Appreciated Stocks

Truman Heartland Community Foundation | Annual Reports

• Truman Heartland 2024 Annual Report (PDF)
• Truman Heartland 2025 Annual Report (PDF)

Need Help with Charitable Tax Laws?

We have a complete tax update service for CPAs, attorneys, CLUs, CFPs, ChFCs, trust officers, and other professional friends. The GiftLaw services are made available to all advisors as a free service. We can also assist you in providing clients with clear and understandable personalized gift illustrations.

• GiftLaw Pro – Charitable Tax References
• Gift Planning Calculator
• Case of the Week
• Washington News
• Article of the Month

Bequest Language

Bequest of cash
“I give, bequeath, and devise the sum of $250,000* to My Fund at Truman Heartland Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the State of Missouri, currently located at 4200 Little Blue Parkway, Suite 340, Independence, Missouri 64057 (EIN/Tax ID 43-1482136).”

Bequest of a percent of the estate
“I give, bequeath, and devise 50%* of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal and wherever located to My Fund at Truman Heartland Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the State of Missouri, currently located at 4200 Little Blue Parkway, Suite 340, Independence, Missouri 64057 (EIN/Tax ID 43-1482136).”

Contingent Bequest
“If my brother John Doe survives me, I give, bequeath, and devise 100%* of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal and wherever located to John Doe. If John Doe does not survive me, then I give, bequeath, and devise 100%* of my residuary estate, whether real or personal property and wherever located to My Fund at Truman Heartland Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the State of Missouri, currently located at 4200 Little Blue Parkway, Suite 340, Independence, Missouri 64057 (EIN/Tax ID 43-1482136).”

*Please feel free to change the numbers or percentages as you desire.

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