With four major gift categories, there are many ways to tailor your Winthrop giving experience to best fit your personal preferences. Winthrop currently needs support for our students, our faculty, our facilities and our commitment to excellence.

If you need assistance determining the best way to make a gift, please call the Office of Development at 803.323.2150.

An outright gift Winthrop

An outright gift is just as its name implies: a gift transferred immediately from you to Winthrop. You can use your gift to benefit the unrestricted Winthrop Fund or to support a specific need. You can create a named endowment fund which will be invested in perpetuity, or you can have your gift expended for immediate use.

• Cash
• Publicly-traded Securities
• Real Property
• Closely-Held Stock
• Tangible Personal Property

A gift from your estate to Winthrop

A gift made through your estate or a beneficiary designation is a great way to make a future gift to Winthrop. These gifts not only provide the satisfaction of supporting Winthrop, but they can also provide potential estate tax savings.

• Bequests – through your will or living trust
• Retirement plan beneficiary designation(s)
• Life insurance beneficiary designation(s)

A gift to Winthrop that provides income to you now

A life income gift arrangement allows you to make a gift to Winthrop while providing yourself or others with income for life or a term of years.

• Charitable Gift Annuities
• Charitable Remainder Trust
• Pooled Income Fund

A gift that helps Winthrop now and your family later

Winthrop uses the income from a gift you make for a specified period of time, and then the assets are passed back to you or to your heirs. This plan is called a:

• Charitable Lead Trust