Continue Supporting Our Work After Your Lifetime

Beneficiary Designations

Passionate about supporting Eden II & Genesis Foundation with our mission even after your lifetime? It’s not only possible, it’s easy to do with a beneficiary designation. Just name the Foundation as a beneficiary to receive assets such as retirement plans and life insurance policies after you’re gone. You simply fill out a form that is entirely separate from your will—which makes this approach an easy way to give.

Not only is it an easy way to give, but it’s also flexible—you aren’t locked into the choices you make today. You can review and adjust beneficiary designations anytime you want.

Check Out This Potential Scenario

Robert and Carol treasure the financial help they’ve been able to give their children and the Foundation over the years. Now that their kids are grown, Robert and Carol changed their estate plan so it could work harder for the people and causes they love. The couple updated their will to leave stocks and real estate to their kids. And they left us a $75,000 IRA to be transferred after their death. Because the Foundation is tax-exempt, all $75,000 will help support our mission.

If Robert and Carol had left the IRA to their children, approximately $21,000* would have gone to pay federal income taxes—leaving only $54,000 for their family’s use. Robert and Carol are happy knowing they are making the most of their hard-earned money thanks to their updated estate plan.

*Based on an assumption of a 28 percent marginal income tax bracket.

Next Steps

  1. Contact Teresa Cirelli, Executive Director of the Eden II & Genesis Foundation, at tcirelli@eden2.org or 718-816-1422 x 1040 for additional information on beneficiary designations and how they can help support the Foundation with our mission.
  2. Talk to your financial or legal advisor to learn which assets will or will not trigger taxable income when paid to a beneficiary.
  3. If you name the Foundation in your plans, please use our legal name and federal tax ID.

Legal Name: Foundation for the Advancement of Autistic Persons
Address: 15 Beach Street, Staten Island, NY 10304
Federal Tax ID Number: 06-1277426