Bryan Cave’s Religious Organizations Team routinely assists organizations to achieve their missions by supporting their current and deferred fundraising efforts. Our lawyers are also highly experienced in structuring gifts to faith-based organizations that maximize the effectiveness of tax-advantaged giving strategies.

Our Experience

Our lawyers are very familiar with:

• Charitable gifts, contributions, and deductibility
• Endowments: creation, use, and control of funds, management and investment policies, creditor protection and restrictions on use
• Donor gift instruments including restricted and outright gifts, donor advised funds, and board designated funds
• Planned giving arrangements, bargain sales, pooled income funds, charitable lead and remainder trusts, gifts of appreciated property and other types of charitable gifts
• Charitable gift annuities and accompanying registration and compliance issues
• Legal aspects of benefit events and other fundraising activities
• Federal and state fundraising and solicitation registration, reporting and disclosure requirements
• Commercial co-ventures and related registrations
• Use of life insurance to support creative giving arrangements