Gifts of Cash: Getting Started

The easiest, most common way for you to support The Foundations of Hawai'i Pacific Health is with cash gifts—typically gifts by check.

Main Benefits
When you make a cash gift by currency, credit card or check to The Foundations today, we both benefit. Your generosity enables us to meet our most urgent needs and carry out our mission on a daily basis. Your benefits include:

• The ability to choose how your gift is used.
• The opportunity to see the results of your generosity.
• An immediate charitable deduction on your federal income taxes, when you itemize.

If You Don't Usually Itemize...
If you have few itemized deductions, consider alternating between years in which you take the standard deduction and make few charitable gifts and years in which you give double your usual annual philanthropic support and shift to itemizing.

• The amount of cash contributed.
• Whether you received any goods or services in exchange for the gift.
• A description and good faith estimate of the value of any goods or services you received in return.