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2025 is almost here. Consider making your 2024 year-end gift TODAY!
If you have been thinking about making a planned gift in 2024, now is the time to discuss your year-end giving plan with your advisors and our office.
A timeline with pertinent details for different types of planned gifts can be found on our Donor & Advisor Resources webpage.
Plan for your future and MIT's with a planned gift.
Making a planned gift to MIT enables you to meet your financial goals while achieving your charitable aspirations. Join a community of supporters that are helping advance MIT's mission.
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Explore the following ways you can consider making a planned gift and join a community of donors who have established a legacy at MIT:
How do bequests work?
Learn how bequests focus your support on the exciting horizon of MIT education and research and provide MIT with essential resources. Learn more.
Explore cash, securities, and real estate
The MIT Office of Gift Planning welcomes many types of assets. Cash, securities, and real estate are just some of the ways you can fund your planned gift. Learn more.
Learn about life-income gifts
Discover how gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts can provide income for you and/or other beneficiaries and help MIT fulfill its mission. Learn more.
Personalize your gift
See how planned gifts can work for you. Our gift calculator can estimate how a charitable gift annuity or charitable remainder trust might benefit you and/or other beneficiaries. Learn more.
Hear from the MIT planned giving community
In our biannual newsletter, Corridor, read inspiring stories of donors who are using planned giving to accomplish their financial and philanthropic goals. Learn more.
Join the Katharine Dexter McCormick (1904) Giving Society
Planned giving donors to MIT become a member of the Katharine Dexter McCormick (1904) Society (KDMS), named for one of the most generous individual benefactors in MIT’s history, whose largest gift came as a bequest. Learn more.
“Because of my MIT education, I have never felt that I have been faced with a problem that was insurmountable. I consider it an obligation to make sure the door remains open for others, and a planned gift is one way to do that.”
Emerson Yearwood ’80