Give Now, Give Smart

Maximize Your Impact and Tax Benefits with Conservation Gifts in the Inland Northwest

As the year draws to a close, your generosity can do double duty: protect the lands and waters you love and reduce your 2025 tax bill. Timely, thoughtful giving makes a difference for conservation projects in Idaho and Washington — while creating smart tax advantages for you.

Conservation Where It Counts

Your year-end gift fuels real projects close to home:

• Coeur d’Alene River Corridor — safeguarding wetlands and tributaries that improve water quality and wildlife habitat.
• Mica Peak — protecting flowing streams shaded by forests as they feed into Lake Coeur d’Alene.
• Mt. Spokane foothills  — safeguarding homes for moose, elk, bears, and cougars and protecting clean water flowing into the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer.
• Hangman Creek  — protecting land along one of Washington’s most threatened waterways to reduce erosion and pollution for fish and wildlife.
• Channeled Scablands — securing natural lands for elk and bird migration and preserving unique shrub steppe ecosystems.
  

Tax-Smart Strategies

Here are proven ways to give wisely:

• Bundle gifts to itemize: Consider “bunching” several years of donations into 2025 to exceed the standard deduction.
• Give appreciated stock: Donate securities directly to INLC to avoid capital gains and deduct the full fair market value.
• Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs): If you’re 70½+, transfer up to $100,000 annually from your IRA to INLC. It counts toward your Required Minimum Distribution but isn’t taxable income.
• Retirement assets & legacy gifts: Name INLC as a beneficiary of your IRA, 401(k), life insurance policy, or will to extend your impact beyond your lifetime.
  

Why Now?

December gifts give INLC the agility to act quickly on land deals and leverage matching funds. Many properties won’t be available for long — your decision today helps tip the balance from “possible” to “protected.”

How to Give

• Request your IRA custodian to transfer directly to Inland Northwest Land Conservancy (EIN 91-1510539) for QCDs.
• Ask your broker to transfer stock gifts directly.
• Work with your estate planner to add INLC to your will or beneficiary designations.

Be sure all gifts are completed or postmarked by December 31 to count for 2025.

Closing Thought

Smart year-end giving means protecting the Coeur d’Alene River and Hangman Creek, Mica Peak and Mt. Spokane forests, and more — while taking care of your own financial future. Thank you for making conservation part of your legacy in the Inland Northwest.