Basil’s Legacy Society
Your lasting commitment to the cats of Santa Barbara County
The work we do at ASAP Cats is lifesaving, and Santa Barbara County will need ASAP Cats long after most of us are gone. Your legacy support can ensure that ASAP Cats continues providing lifesaving services into the future.
By generously including ASAP Cats in your estate planning, you enable us to continue serving as a beacon of hope for Santa Barbara County’s most vulnerable cats well into the next 30 years and beyond.
Knowing that your generosity and commitment will continue in the form of a legacy gift provides ASAP Cats the confidence to develop programs and services with a vision well into the future.
As with any planning, you should consult with your financial and estate advisors before committing to any gift. You may provide them with this information:
Name:
Animal Shelter Assistance Program of Santa Barbara
Address:
PO Box 357
Goleta, CA 93116-0357 USA
EIN:
77-0283500
Enrollment in Basil’s Legacy Society is easy. Our legacy members simply let us know that they have generously included ASAP Cats in their will or trust, or as a beneficiary in their planned giving.
ASAP Cats has been saving the lives of felines since 1989, and will be here serving Santa Barbara County for years to come. Between our monthly volunteer-run adoption events, lifesaving programs like Tiny Lions™ and Working Cats that socialize and rehabilitate cats in need, and our various medical offerings from our Wellness team, ASAP Cats stands as a pillar in the Santa Barbara community.
Through enrollment in Basil’s Legacy Society, you ensure we will continue these and other new programs, saving cats’ lives for decades to come.
Some details from PlannedGiving.com:
“Planned giving, sometimes referred to as gift planning, may be defined as a method of supporting non-profits and charities that enables philanthropic individuals or donors to make larger gifts than they could make from their income. While some planned gifts provide a life-long income to the donor, others use estate and tax planning techniques to provide for charity and other heirs in ways that maximize the gift and/or minimize its impact on the donor’s estate.
Thus, by definition, a planned gift is any major gift, made in lifetime or at death as part of a donor’s overall financial and/or estate planning.
By contrast, gifts to the annual fund or for membership dues are made from a donor’s discretionary income, and while they may be budgeted for, they are not planned.
Whether a donor uses cash, appreciated securities/stock, real estate, artwork, partnership interests, personal property, life insurance, a retirement plan, etc., the benefits of funding a planned gift can make this type of charitable giving very attractive to both donor and charity.