Legacy gifts (also known as “planned gifts”) are a powerful way anyone can help make sure our beautiful open spaces remain open and beautiful. There is no greater gift you can give to future generations.
The Land Trust Alliance is committed to helping our nation's land trusts be strong and valued community organizations capable of conserving the land we need and love for generations to come. One of the Alliance’s core values is enduring conservation: ensuring the places we save today are protected forever.
Your will or living trust is an important way to provide for family and friends, plan the management and disposition of your estate and ensure that your passion for land conservation is permanently reflected in the beautiful places in communities across the country.
Join others with a gift through your will to ensure that the lands and water you love will be here for generations to come.
If you are interested in more information about the Land Trust Alliance’s Legacy Society, bequests or other ways to make a planned gift, please call Mindy Milby Tuttle, director of principal giving, at mtuttle@lta.org or 202-800-2212.
It’s always important to consult with your financial and legal advisors when making these decisions for the future.
Partnership with FreeWill
To aid your planning, the Alliance has partnered with FreeWill, which can help you create a basic will if you don’t have one already.
This online will-writing resource takes just 20 minutes to use and helps create your legal will and legacy gift at no immediate cost.
With their secure online tool, you can make your plan and designate a portion of your legacy to the Alliance to secure the future of the land trust community.
Write your willUse FreeWill’s online tool to log your assets, name the Land Trust Alliance as beneficiary and receive printable instructions on how to set each one up with your broker.
Sample wording
Tax ID number: 04-2751357
{I give, devise and bequeath to the Land Trust Alliance, Inc. (tax ID #04-2751357), a nonprofit, charitable corporation organized under Massachusetts law and currently having offices at 1250 H Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005, XX% of the residuary of my estate, after all other specific provisions have been fulfilled [OR a specific gift of $XX] [OR all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate] [OR XX% of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate] to further the purposes and objectives of the Land Trust Alliance as may be recommended by the president of the Alliance and approved by the board of directors of the Land Trust Alliance (landtrustalliance.org).}
Share your intention
Have you already named the Land Trust Alliance in your estate plan? Please fill out this form to record your planned gift so we can thank you for leaving a legacy to the land trust community!
