CHARITABLE REMAINDER TRUSTS
A Gift That Pays You Back While Shaping the Future
Turn Appreciated Assets into Lasting Impact
What if you could support the future of theology, strengthen your own financial position, reduce taxes, and leave a legacy that will influence generations to come?
A Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) may allow you to do precisely that. A CRT provides income to you (or your family) during your lifetime while ultimately supporting a charitable cause you care deeply about. Appreciated stock, real estate, or other assets can be transferred into the trust, potentially avoiding immediate capital gains tax while creating a long-term stream of income and a future gift to charity.
Why CTI?
At the Center of Theological Inquiry, we believe theology matters for the future of the world. Since 1978, CTI has brought together many of the world's leading theologians, scientists, scholars, and public thinkers to explore the deepest questions facing humanity and to translate rigorous research into public wisdom. CTI's mission is not simply research, but ensuring that theological insight contributes to the renewal of church, university, culture, and society.
As one CTI supporter puts it:
"How a society understands God shapes what it builds."
Another writes:
"No conversations could be more important."
And that is exactly what your gift enables.
Your Assets. Your Income. Your Legacy.
A CRT can be particularly attractive if you hold highly appreciated assets. Rather than selling those assets and immediately losing a significant portion to taxes, a CRT may allow the full value to continue working while providing income and creating substantial charitable benefit. Depending on circumstances, donors may also receive a charitable income tax deduction and estate-planning advantages.
Imagine transforming an asset that has already blessed your family into a source of income for your retirement and, ultimately, into a gift that helps shape the intellectual, spiritual, and moral future of society.
The Opportunity
CTI stands at a pivotal moment as it approaches its fiftieth anniversary. The Institute is expanding its ability to bring theological research into public conversations about artificial intelligence, democracy, human dignity, conflict, hope, law, science, and the future of society. CTI's vision is clear:
Research leads to wisdom. Wisdom needs to become public. Public ideas renew institutions. Institutions shape society.
Your Charitable Remainder Trust can help ensure that this work continues not merely for the next few years, but for decades to come.
More Than a Donation
When you support CTI through a CRT, you are not simply funding an institution.
You are investing in:
Serious theology that strengthens the Church.
Research that enriches the University.
Ideas that influence culture and public life.
A theological renaissance for future generations. As one donor observed:
"CTI provides hope for real-world solutions to global issues by uniquely bringing together policymakers, scholars, scientists, and theologians."
A Legacy Beyond Yourself
Many charitable gifts make a difference.
A Charitable Remainder Trust can make a difference twice.
First, by supporting you and your family through a lifetime income stream.
Second, by ensuring that when your trust concludes, its remaining assets advance the work of bringing wisdom, faith, and intellectual leadership to a world desperately in need of all three.
Interested in Exploring a Charitable Remainder Trust?
CTI would be delighted to have a confidential conversation with you and your professional advisers about whether a Charitable Remainder Trust might fit your financial and philanthropic goals.
Some gifts do more than support a mission. They secure a legacy.
The Center of Theological Inquiry is a qualified 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Donors should consult their own legal, financial, and tax advisers regarding the suitability and tax consequences of any charitable planning strategy.