Give Real Estate

Put Your Assets to Their Best Use

A gift of real estate will provide similar benefits to a gift of securities. The capital gains tax that would be triggered by your sale of the property is avoided but the full value of your real estate will help our kids.

Second, you can deduct the full value of the property as a charitable contribution, for real estate held over a year. This saves you income tax and further lowers the effective cost of your gift.

Gifts of real estate can be very meaningful but they can also be complicated to complete. We would like to provide you with whatever assistance we can to help ensure your legacy.  Please contact us toll free at 1-866-COV-HOUSE (That's 1-866-268-4687), and ask for the Planned Giving Department or email plannedgiving@covenanthouse.org.

Bess's Story

Reality hit me…I was 15 and a runaway…When I ran to the streets, I made friends with a guy who was my age. He told me that he'd survived on the streets by turning tricks. I was so naive, I thought he was talking about juggling, like in the circus or something…I had a lot to learn."
— Bess, 15

Bess ran to the streets, where she found it only took a couple of days of being all alone and utterly homeless and lost to come to terms with the fact that life on the streets is a dead end. And that she could very well end up dead…

Read Bess's story.