Help ensure that our work to promote healthy aquatic systems will remain available to explore, inspire, and encourage the protection of freshwater systems for years to come by making a gift to FI in your estate plan.

Include FI in your estate plan with a cash, appreciated securities, or real estate/property to recieve potential tax savings for estate tax, income tax or capital gains.

A gift through your retirement plan can help sustain FI’s work for generations, keeping our stories and resources available to inspire, educate, and encourage the protection of freshwater systems.

Include FI in your retirement plan as a beneficiary to provide a cash payment plan or withdrawals to recieve potential tax savings for estate tax or income tax.

A life insurance policy can be a meaningful way to support Freshwaters Illustrated and help protect freshwater ecosystems for generations to come. You can name FI as a beneficiary of a new or existing policy, or donate a policy you no longer need.

You can support Freshwaters Illustrated by donating appreciated stocks or other securities, helping sustain our freshwater films, educational resources, and conservation storytelling.

Giving appreciated stock directly to FI may allow you to avoid capital gains tax on the appreciation while potentially receiving a charitable deduction, subject to your individual circumstances.

If you are 70½ or older, you may be able to make a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) directly from your IRA to Freshwaters Illustrated. A QCD allows you to support FI’s work while potentially reducing the taxable income from your IRA distribution.

A QCD can support FI’s freshwater conservation work while potentially reducing taxable income and counting toward your required minimum distribution (RMD), subject to IRS rules and annual limits.

Because Freshwaters Illustrated is an approved Oregon Cultural Trust (OCT) nonprofit, you can support FI directly and then make a matching gift to the Oregon Cultural Trust, helping strengthen cultural programs throughout Oregon.

Oregon taxpayers may receive a state tax credit for the matching gift to the Cultural Trust—up to $500 for individuals or $1,000 for married couples filing jointly—subject to current requirements and tax liability.

A gift from your Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) is a simple way to support Freshwaters Illustrated’s films, educational programs, and freshwater conservation storytelling.

Contributions to a DAF may be eligible for an immediate charitable income-tax deduction when the contribution is made, while recommending grants to FI allows you to direct those charitable funds to support our work.