Ways to Give

Visit our Gift Planning website to discover opportunities to provide for your loved ones, plan for your retirement, increase your spendable income, avoid capital-gains taxes, and reduce or eliminate estate taxes — all while making a difference at Allegheny.

You can use a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) to make a gift to the College. DAFs are giving vehicles established through a local community foundation or by organizations such as Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, and Vanguard Charitable. Donors can make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction, allow assets to grow, and then recommend grants to qualified charities from the fund.

In order to direct a grant from your DAF to Allegheny College, request that the sponsoring organization make a grant to Allegheny College using their online portal or by contacting your advisor. If needed, the College’s Federal Tax ID is 25-0965212. Below, please find links to some of the most popular DAFs:

• American Endowment Foundation
• AYCO Charitable Foundation
• Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
• Fidelity Investments Charitable
• National Philanthropic Trust
• Renaissance Charitable Foundation
• Schwab Charitable Fund
• Cleveland Foundation
• Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
• Crawford Heritage Community Foundation
• The Pittsburgh Foundation

Interested in gifting your minimum required distribution from your IRA? To do so, the gift must come directly from your traditional IRA to an eligible nonprofit. Contact your IRA administrator and instruct that individual to transfer funds to the charity you designate. Please note:

• You will need Allegheny’s Tax ID: 25-0965212
• Let your administrator know that you would like them to include your name on the check and please let us know if you would like to designate your gift to a specific initiative (Annual Fund, scholarship, music department, athletics etc.) Checks often arrive with no donor identification and plan administrators will not give us that information!
• Gifts must pass through your account by December 31 of each year — please initiate your gifts as soon as possible so as to avoid a year-end bottleneck that may delay their timely arrival.

You may contact the Annual Giving Office at annualfund@allegheny.edu to alert the College about the donation. Checks should be made out to Allegheny College and should be mailed to:
Allegheny College Annual Fund
520 N Main Street
Meadville, PA 16335

To send a personal check (payable to “Allegheny College”) through the mail.

Allegheny College Annual Fund
520 N. Main St.
Box 44
Meadville, PA 16335

By phone toll-free (866) 332-3853

Multiply the amount of your gift! Many employers will match charitable contributions made by their employees. By taking advantage of a company’s matching gift benefit, you may be able to double or even triple the amount of your contribution. To find out if your employer, or your spouse’s/partner’s employer, has a matching gift program, please click here to use our searchable matching gift database, or ask your employer’s human resources department. Matching gift forms can be sent to:

Allegheny College Annual Fund
520 N. Main St.
Box 44
Meadville, PA 16335

You also may submit the form online through your company’s matching gift website. Allegheny will send you a confirmation when the form has been received.

Matching gifts count toward your total contribution to Allegheny.

This efficient way to support Allegheny lets you make your gift in regular monthly installments from a credit card or bank account. Some donors choose monthly giving because it enables them to make larger contributions by dividing their gift into manageable monthly increments. Others like the ease of the process and not having to mail a check.

For your convenience, here are examples of how monthly amounts add up to a generous annual contribution.

To choose monthly giving with a credit card, please visit our secure giving website and check the box “I’d like to make this a monthly or yearly recurring gift.”

To choose monthly giving through your bank account, please contact alumni@allegheny.edu for a downloadable monthly EFT form and then mail it, with a voided check or deposit slip for the account from which you wish to make the withdrawals, to:

Allegheny College Annual Fund
520 N. Main St.
Box 44
Meadville, PA 16335

To update your information or make changes to your recurring donation, please contact the Annual Giving office at (866) 332-3853 or email annualfund@allegheny.edu. Please note that recurring payments happen on or around the 15th of each month.

Allegheny College gratefully accepts stock transfers as a way for alumni and friends to support the College’s mission. To facilitate a stock transfer and to make sure you receive proper credit for tax-reporting purposes, it is important that you inform the College, as well as its broker, about the transfer. Please click on the link below to provide the necessary information to the College concerning your intended gift of stock, bonds or securities.

If you are considering a donation of securities, please speak with your broker and have her or him contact one of the brokers for the College. Also, when transferring stock via a broker’s website or in paperwork, please remember to check the box that says, “Release my information” so that the broker can share the gift details with the College. Here is a list of the College’s brokers:

Allegheny College’s TAX ID Number is 25-0965212.

Please then notify Allegheny College! To ensure that the College promptly recognizes and acknowledges your gift, notify Allegheny’s Financial Services Office by filling out this form or contact Margaret Crate by telephone at (814) 332-2948, via email at mcrate@allegheny.edu or by fax at (814) 332-2338. You can also call the Office of Institutional Advancement toll-free at (866) 332-3853. Allegheny will need details of the securities transfer, including your name, the name of the securities, the number of shares or approximate value, gift designation or purpose, date on which the transfer should occur, and your broker’s name and telephone number.

Thank you for supporting Allegheny College. Your gifts make a difference.

It is possible to wire funds directly from your account to Allegheny’s PNC Bank account for donation to the Annual Fund. Please call (866) 332-3853 for ABA routing and bank account numbers, as well as any additional information you might require.