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Gifts to Dean promote the College's traditional emphasis on a personalized educational environment, academic achievement and future success for students.
Each year Dean College asks you to make a gift to its Annual Fund. Your gift to the Annual Fund supports scholarships for Dean students, technology upgrades, classroom enhancements, and more.
Did you know that you can double your gift if your company has a matching gift program?
Gifts of appreciated securities offer you the benefits of an income tax deduction and eliminate the capital gains tax. Depending on the size of your gift, you may deduct up to 30% of your gross income. Any unused deduction can be carried forward for up to five additional years.
How to Make a Gift of Securities
If you hold the securities, you should either mail (via certified mail) or hand-deliver the certificate(s) without any endorsement or assignment to:
Office of Institutional Advancement
Dean College
99 Main Street
Franklin, MA 02038-1994
Please enclose a letter stating the purpose of your gift. In a separate envelope, mail or deliver a stock or bond power for each security, left blank except for your signature. If your broker or bank holds your securities he or she can call the Office of Institutional Advancement at 1-888-711-3326 for transfer instructions.
This area includes both real estate and tangible personal property. You may make a gift to Dean of a personal residence, vacation home, farm, commercial property and land.
Here are a few ways these gifts may be made:
- An outright gift deeds the property to Dean with 100% of its appraised value deducted from income taxes. You may decide to give a fractional interest to Dean to fund an outright gift. This type of real estate gift provides a tax deduction that may offset a capital gain generated by the subsequent sale.
- You may decide to transfer property to Dean with retained life tenancy. This would allow you or your spouse to occupy the residence for the rest of your lives. The property must be a personal residence, farm or vacation home. Gifts of real estate generate a federal income tax charitable deduction for the appraised market value of the donated property. You may use your deduction up to 30% of your adjusted gross income. Any unused deduction can be carried forward for up to give additional years if necessary. No capital gains tax would apply and you may realize significant estate tax savings with a gift of appreciated real estate.
- Gifts of Tangible Personal Property such as works of art, antiques, stamp and coin collections and jewelry may be subject to estate taxes. You may wish to donate this type of property during your lifetime, reducing your taxable estate, as well as receiving an income tax deduction in the year of your gift. The income tax deduction is based on the fair market value of the property. The gift may eliminate potential capital gains taxes.
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