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The IRA Gift (QCD)

Your IRA can provide a tax-smart way to make an impact with Population Connection now. The Qualified Charitable Distribution or QCD (sometimes called an “IRA Charitable Rollover”) is a great way to make a tax-free gift now to Population Connection and satisfy your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD), too.

How Do I Qualify?

The Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) offers multiple benefits for making gifts from your IRA.

  • You must be 70½ years or older at the time of the gift.
  • Gifts must go directly from your IRA to Population Connection.
  • For 2026, total QCD gifts cannot exceed $111,000 per donor.

Benefits of Qualified Charitable Distribution

  • If you don’t itemize your income tax deductions, a QCD offers all of the benefits of an itemized income tax charitable deduction.
  • If you are age 73 or older and must take a Required Minimum Distribution RMD, a QCD gift can satisfy your RMD without increasing your income taxes.
  • You may direct your gift to a program or area of your choice.
  • It is a wonderful way to create an immediate impact on Population Connection.

How Can I Make an IRA Charitable Rollover?

Contact your IRA administrator to request a Qualified Charitable Distribution from your IRA to Population Connection.

Leave a Legacy with a Gift from Your IRA

You can also support Population Connection by naming us as a beneficiary of your traditional IRA. This is one of the most tax-efficient ways to make a legacy gift.

 

Environmental and socioeconomic benefits

Women who have reproductive autonomy generally choose to have smaller families. This slows population growth and creates opportunities for social, economic, and environmental improvements. Slower population growth reduces pressures on natural resources, habitats, and food systems. Within the context of climate change, slowing population growth is key to achieving greenhouse gas emissions targets, and the health, education, and economic benefits afforded through family planning help reduce climate vulnerability and increase resilience for communities around the world.

Low Section Of Women Taking Water From Tubewell In Village Area Of Haryana, India

Health benefits

When women and couples have access to the resources necessary to freely and intentionally choose the number, timing, and spacing of their births, a wide variety of health benefits ensue also, including reductions in maternal mortality and morbidity, infant and child mortality, and unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions.

People walking down main road in Jinka town, Naciones, Ethiopia, Africa

The powerful, neglected solution

Read more about how empowering women and girls to take charge of their bodies and lives is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in this blog post.

This one action could save the world—so why does no one talk about it?

Make a QCD: Give From Your IRA Today!

To make a gift now through your IRA, simply type in the name of your brokerage and click the button below to go to your login page.

 

Let us know if you don't see your brokerage.

Information that you may need for the QCD is provided below.

Legal name: Population Connection
Mailing address: 2120 L Street NW STE 500 Washington, DC 20037
Federal Tax ID number: 94-1703155

How Your Gift Helps

Your planned gift to Population Connection helps us educate young people and advocate progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s resources. Among many things, your support will help us:

 
develop K-12 and secondary education materials for teachers and professors so they can easily incorporate population studies into their classes;
 
 
advocate for reproductive health and lead grassroots outreach efforts to college students to motivate them to take action on behalf of marginalized communities and our beleaguered planet.
 
 
raise awareness of population issues and the need for empowering solutions through our extensive online and offline communications.