Your Land, Your Legacy allows you, as a landowner, to preserve your legacy and the land you love while creating a source of charitable good for your community and the causes you care about.

For landowners/donors: Contact the Community Foundation to learn about the process of donating land. Then, receive a tax deduction for the charitable portion of the gift, bypass associated capital gains taxes, create a stable revenue source for the remainder of your lifetime (in some cases), and support your favorite charities.

For tenants: Current tenants may continue renting the land to pursue their livelihood, keeping the wealth generated by the land working for local communities.

For the county: The Community Foundation continues paying property taxes on the land, maintaining the county tax base.

For the greater good: The Community Foundation retains ownership of the land, earns revenue from the farm income for charitable causes of the donor’s choice, and serves donors in a meaningful way.

Your Land. Your Legacy. provides a commitment to retaining farmland and ensuring the land will stay in production as it has for generations. The farmland will continue to yield, while the charities of your choice will benefit from your legacy of giving.

• Your farmland stays farmland with continued production by your tenant farmer of choice.
• Landowners receive a tax deduction for the charitable portion of the gift.
• Gifts may be eligible for the Endow Iowa 25% State Tax Credit.
• Capital gains taxes can be avoided or reduced.
• The asset of farmland is removed from the possibility of estate taxes.

• Your Land. Your Legacy. offers the flexibility to make a gift of farmland as:
  • Outright Gift: Rental payments flow through for charitable giving
  • Retained Life Interest (second to die): Donors retain rental income
  • Bequests: Land is given at death
• Retain the ability to live on the farm and/or retain the income for your lifetime.
• Receive maximum charitable benefits and make wise estate planning decisions.
• Provide a lasting legacy to the community and causes you love.