Make a lasting impact while planning your future.
Join the Golden-cheeked Warbler Society
Your legacy can make a lasting impact on this Hill Country land you love. Including Friends of Balcones in your will or as a beneficary in your retirement or insurance plans means that you will have a direct impact on saving more land and ensuring generations to come have the opportunity to spot ther first Golden-cheeked Warbler, enjoy the view at Sunset Deck and hike this special place.
What will your gift support!
Why support Friend of Balcones in your will? As someone who loves nature and this land - we know you want to join us in making an impact in ensuring this land and all its wildlife is protected for generations to come. Join us in our Golden-cheeked Warbler Society by including us in your will, or as a beneficiary in your estate plans. When you do, you join other committed
Friends
- who are a dedicated group of people who want to ensure the long term protection of the Golden-cheeked Warbler, Wildlife, Hills and Water that makes the Refuge such a special place.
Land Acquistion
Science Based Research and Action
Free Youth and Community Programing
New Trails and Refuge Improvements
How to Make Beneficiary Designation
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You can name the Friends of Balcones as the beneficiary of all or some percentage of a qualifying retirement plan through a beneficiary designation form. After your lifetime, the funds pass to Friends of Balcones, tax-free.
2.
Use the following information on the beneficiary designation form:
Friends of Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge Tax ID#: 01-0736021
Mailing Address:
Friends of Balcones
PO Box 4678
Lago Vista, TX 78645
3.
You can change or update your beneficiary designations at any time if your needs or goals change.
4.
You can also name Friends of Balcones as a contingent beneficiary, so that we only receive a gift if primary beneficiaries are not able to receive the assets.
How to leave Friends of Balcones in your Will.
Contact your attorney to request a change to your will or the creation of a codicil or use trusted free source like Freewill.
There are several ways to include a gift to Friends of Balcones in your will or living trust.
1. Make a flexible gift by leaving a percentage of your estate to Friends of Balcones.
2. Leave a fixed amount to Friends of Balcones.
3. Make your legacy gift a contingent, or backup bequest, that only takes effect if other beneficiaries are not able to receive their gifts in order to provide for your family before making a gift to Friends of Balcones.
Use the following language for your will or living trust:
"I give to Friends of Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, a Texas nonprofit that is recognized as exempt from tax under 501(c)(3), [all (or ________ percentage) of my residuary estate] or [the sum of $ _________] to be used for its general purposes."
Share the Tax ID number and the mailing address with your attorney.
Friends of Balcones Tax ID#: 01-0736021
Mailing Address:
Friends of Balcones
PO Box 4678
Lago Vista, TX 78645
