Charitable gift planning affords you opportunities to have an outsized impact on the causes that matter most to you with the possibility of reducing or eliminating current and future tax liabilities, creating income for you or your loved ones, and preserving wealth for future generations of your family.
Recent and pending changes to the tax code (Tax Cut and Jobs Act, CARES Act, CAA, and BBB) contain provisions incentivizing you to plan how, what, and when you give to charity. If you have recently experienced or are anticipating changes in your personal life or business, we encourage you to partner with us to ensure you're taking full advantage of these incentives.
UPMC Children’s Hospital Foundation's Planned Giving Office is a ready resource for you and your advisors. We welcome you to have a confidential, no-obligation conversation to align your personal financial situation with your philanthropic goals.
Because you give, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is here for every child
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Charitable gift planning affords you opportunities to have an outsized impact on the causes that matter most to you with the possibility of reducing or eliminating current and future tax liabilities, creating income for you or your loved ones, and preserving wealth for future generations of your family.
Recent and pending changes to the tax code (Tax Cut and Jobs Act, CARES Act, CAA, and BBB) contain provisions incentivizing you to plan how, what, and when you give to charity. If you have recently experienced or are anticipating changes in your personal life or business, we encourage you to partner with us to ensure you're taking full advantage of these incentives.
UPMC Children’s Hospital Foundation's Planned Giving Office is a ready resource for you and your advisors. We welcome you to have a confidential, no-obligation conversation to align your personal financial situation with your philanthropic goals.
A few words in your will can make all the difference to kids and families who need it most. We can provide you with language that meets your needs and creates the impact you envision.
Naming UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation as the beneficiary of a retirement account, life insurance policy, or donor advised fund is an easy way to change a child's life. This gift may also result in tax-savings for your loved ones.
You can turn underperforming assets (cash, stock, CDs, etc.) into a gift to The UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation that makes payments to you and a loved one. Your charitable gift annuity will return fixed, quarterly payments for life and provide tax benefits, too.
If you meet the age requirements, a gift directly from your IRA can make a real difference today for the kids and families we serve and provide tax benefits to you.
You can make a gift from your donor advised fund to impact change for kids in need now and help future generations by designating all or a portion of the fund balance to the Foundation.
Charitable remainder unitrusts with the remaining value passing to the Foundation. Charitable lead trusts provide payments to the foundation with the remaining value passing to your heirs. For the savvy donor, charitable trusts can provide tax-advantaged income, eliminate capital gains tax, or preserve assets for your heirs.
You can use a life insurance policy in several different ways, like naming the Foundation as a beneficiary or donating an existing policy that your loved ones don't need, to change the future for so many kids.
Nearly 130 years ago, the Pittsburgh community came together to establish the region's only children's hospital. In the time since, community members like you have continued to invest in this special institution.
We celebrate our friends who have thoughtfully provided for UPMC Children's with a gift in their will or other legacy gift through inclusion in the Jane Holmes Society. If you have included UPMC Children’s in your plans, we invite you to let us know so we can ensure your gift can be used as intended. A legacy gift means more to our kids and families than you know, and we look forward to thanking you for your thoughtfulness.
Without you, we wouldn't have 130 years of caring to commemorate - nor a world of possibility ahead.
The Story of Jane Holmes Jane Holmes was a person ahead of her time.
(Sources: Lowry, Patricia. “Remembering Jane(s): Two women who shared name and good works changed Pittsburgh,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 9, 2008. Baccelli Vondas, Laura. “A legacy of giving,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 17, 2005. The American Historical Society, Inc. History of Pittsburgh and Environs, Vol. III (New York, 1922), 586-588.)
Born in Ireland in 1805, Jane and her family relocated to the Pittsburgh area when Jane was only 2.
At the time, Pittsburgh was a different place - a small town with few houses, mostly unpaved streets, and air thick with the haze of burning coal fires.
It was here that Jane’s father started a grocery store - one that grew into a successful business, amassing significant wealth for the family. And with the financial success the Holmes family attained, Jane grew into something of an early philanthropist.
Known for her compassion and generosity, Jane spent much of her life helping the less fortunate. In the home she shared with her siblings near the intersection of Penn Avenue and Stanwix Street, Jane was frequently visited by the city’s suffering and poor.
One such visit was made by a little girl who was dying from tuberculosis. With no family and no place to turn, the child looked to Jane for help. Touched by the little girl’s story, Jane arranged for the child’s care until the day the child died.
Determined to make a difference in the lives of those facing serious illness, Jane converted her family’s summer home on Butler Street in Lawrenceville into the Protestant Home for Incurables, later known as Holmes House.
Jane championed many other causes throughout her life, and, even after her death in 1885, Jane’s story of generosity continued.
In her bequest, Jane left funding for various Pittsburgh organizations, including funds to establish a hospital to provide medical care for all children in need, no matter their circumstances. This bequest spurred the creation of the Pittsburgh Hospital for Children - what is now UPMC Children's.
Today, more than 130 years after her death, Jane’s story of giving lives on in a hospital that continues to care for every child in need regardless of a family’s ability to pay. It seems only fitting, then, that our planned giving society should be named for a person with such compassion and foresight.
Thank you for being a part of a tradition of caring more than a century and a quarter in the making. We are honored to share in your legacy.
Remains a top children’s hospital and nationally ranks in 11 specialties.
Provides free and uncompensated care to 35,000 kids annually
Sits on a 10-acre campus with 1.5 million square feet of research and clinical space
Offers the precious gift of hope to the children and families who make more than 1 million visits to our locations each year
Includes 313 beds and 9 floors of patient care areas
Features a state-of-the art 2,000-square-foot Creative and Expressive Arts Therapy space, with a Children's theater, two private therapy studios, a pottery nook, a maker space, and more
Gifts from Your Will
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A Gift in your Will to UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation
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Using a Beneficiary Designation to make a gift to UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation
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Beneficiaries of your Retirement Plan or IRA
You can designate the Foundation as a beneficiary of part or all of your qualified retirement plan or your IRA. The assets held in these plans are normally subject to both estate and income taxes when they pass to your loved ones. If you name UPMC Children's as a beneficiary of a percentage or all of your plan, that share will be transferred free of income or estate taxes.
Designate your bank account to be payable on death (POD) to the Foundation. There is no change in ownership, control, or benefit from this account while you're living. The POD designation causes whatever funds that remain in the account to go to the Foundation at your death.
Transfer on Death Brokerage or Investment Account Designation
Your brokerage or investment account can be designated to be transferred on death to the Foundation. You can designate a percentage or all of the account of the account to pass to UPMC Children's simply by contacting your investment advisor and providing those instructions.
The following material is provided for informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal, financial, or estate-planning advice. You should consult your personal attorney and/or tax adviser for specific guidance about your options.
Fixed Payments for Life
A charitable gift annuity allows you to gain the security of fixed payments for life, receive a tax deduction for a portion of your gift, and make a gift to UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation that you may not have thought possible.
How You Benefit from a Charitable Gift Annuity
Income for Life: An annuity is payable for life to one or two people age 60 or older, so you cannot outlive your annuity payments.
Eliminate Investment Risk: Your annuity payments, at a fixed amount, will remain constant regardless of market volatility.
Charitable Deduction: You’re entitled to a current charitable income tax deduction for a portion of your gift amount.
Capital Gains Benefits: If your annuity is funded with appreciated stock, you avoid paying capital gains tax on some of the appreciation, and spread the remaining capital gains over your anticipated life expectancy.
Tax-advantaged Income: Depending on the assets used to fund the annuity, each annuity payment typically includes a tax-free return of principal, capital gain, and ordinary income.
Secure Payments: Your annuity payments are guaranteed by all of the Foundation’s assets.
How the Foundation Benefits
At the death of your last income beneficiary, the remaining annuity assets are transferred to the Foundation to be used for a purpose you may designate or the Foundation’s greatest need.
If you don’t need income right away, you can obtain both a higher payout rate and a larger charitable deduction by establishing a deferred charitable gift annuity. A deferred gift annuity provides you with fixed payments for life that begin when you need them and an immediate tax deduction for a portion of your gift.
How You Benefit from a Flexible Gift Annuity
Income for Life: An annuity is payable for life to one or two people age 60 or older, so you cannot outlive your annuity payments.
You Control When Income Begins: Annuity payments are deferred until you choose to start them (at age 60 or older), with a minimum required deferral period of one year.
Charitable Deduction: You are entitled to a current charitable income tax deduction for a portion of your gift amount.
Capital Gains Benefits: If your annuity is funded with appreciated stock, you avoid paying capital gains tax on some of the appreciation, and spread the remaining capital gains over your anticipated life expectancy.
Tax-advantaged Income: Depending on the assets used to fund the annuity, each annuity payment typically consists of a tax-free return of principal, capital gain, and ordinary income.
Secure Payments: Your annuity payments are guaranteed by all of UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation’s assets.
How the Foundation Benefits
At the death of your last income beneficiary, the remaining annuity assets are transferred to the Foundation to be used for a purpose you may designate or for the Foundation’s greatest need.
Minimum Gift
The minimum for establishing a charitable gift annuity with the Foundation is $10,000.
Charitable remainder unitrusts allow you to make a gift of cash, stock, or real estate, receive a tax deduction for a portion of your gift, and receive variable payments from your unitrust for life or a term of years.
How You Benefit from a Charitable Remainder Unitrust
The income from a unitrust can grow over time, providing you with a potential hedge against inflation.
You can claim a charitable income tax deduction for a portion of your gift amount.
If you fund your trust with stock or real estate, you also avoid paying immediate capital gains taxes on the appreciation.
Unitrust income is taxed at favorable rates, since it usually consists of part ordinary income and part capital gains.
You can structure a trust to pay income to multiple people, either for their lifetimes (if they are age 50 or older) or for a specific number of years (up to 20).
How the Foundation Benefits
When the term of the trust concludes, the remaining trust assets are transferred to the Foundation to support the Foundation’s mission or for a purpose you designate.
Minimum Gift
The minimum for establishing a charitable remainder unitrust throughthe Foundation is $100,000. Future additions to the trust can be made in any amount.
The following material is provided for informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal, financial, or estate-planning advice. You should consult your personal attorney and/or tax adviser for specific guidance about your options.Download Securities Transfer Instructions
Gifts of Real Property
The following material is provided for informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal, financial, or estate-planning advice. You should consult your personal attorney and/or tax adviser for specific guidance about your options.
Gifts of Real Estate
Using real estate to make a gift allows you to turn an asset into support for The Children's Hospital Foundation, receive a charitable income tax deduction, and potentially avoid paying capital gains taxes.
Gifts of Real Estate
The real cost of your gift is reduced, since you’ll save on income and capital gains taxes by giving appreciated property to the Foundation. You can use real estate to make a variety of different types of gifts, including:
An outright gift that gives you a charitable deduction for the fair market value of the property while potentially avoiding capital gains taxes.
A gift that gives you income and an immediate tax deduction, while leaving the assets to the Foundation.
A gift that gives you income for a few years, then is passed on to your heirs at the time you specify with considerable estate and gift tax savings.
A gift that gives you a sizable tax deduction today and allows you to use the property for your lifetime, while leaving the property to the Foundation upon your death.
By contributing your home, while retaining the right to live in it for life, receive a tax deduction for a portion of your gift, and continue to use your property while you are living.
How You Benefit
You receive a charitable income tax deduction today for a gift that will help the Foundation in the future.
Your estate taxes may be reduced because the property is removed from your estate.
Your executor’s job is simplified, since your property will pass directly to the Foundation upon your death.
How the Foundation Benefits
At the end of your life, the Foundation can use the property or the proceeds from the sale of the property, either for the Foundation’s greatest need or for a purpose you specify.
Minimum Gift
The minimum gift for establishing a retained life estate with the Foundation is $100,000.
The following material is provided for informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal, financial, or estate-planning advice. You should consult your personal attorney and/or tax adviser for specific guidance about your options.
You can designate UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation as a primary or contingent beneficiary of your life insurance policy. You can also transfer ownership of a paid-up policy to UPMC Children's.
This is an especially smart way to use a policy that you and your loved ones may no longer need!
The following material is provided for informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal, financial, or estate-planning advice. You should consult your personal attorney and/or tax adviser for specific guidance about your options.
Donor Advised Funds
You can direct a gift from your Donor Advised Fund to the Foundation to make an immediate impact on the kids and families we serve here.
You may also be able to name the Foundation as a beneficiary to your account.
For your convenience, you may find this information helpful in using your donor advised fund to support UPMC Children's Hospital Pittsburgh:
UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation
4401 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Tax ID: 25-1865744
Gifts Through Trusts
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Charitable Remainder UniTrusts
A charitable remainder unitrust allows you to donate cash or appreciated assets and receive payments based upon a percentage of the trust’s annual value. When the value of the trust increases, so do your payments and your gift to UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation. Your donation qualifies for an immediate tax deduction, and you save capital gains taxes.
A grantor charitable lead trust allows you to claim an income tax deduction based on the present value of the future annual payments to the Foundation, and retain the principal when the trust’s term ends.
Family Trust
A family trust also is called a charitable lead trust because the charity takes the 'lead” in receiving payments for a period of time with the remaining assets, plus appreciation, going to members of the next generation when the term of the trust expires. The donors pass the trust assets to heirs at reduced transfer tax cost.
The following material is provided for informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal, financial, or estate-planning advice. You should consult your personal attorney and/or tax adviser for specific guidance about your options..
How to Make a Qualified Charitable Distribution to UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation in 3 Easy Steps:
Contact your IRA administrator to make a qualified charitable distribution
Provide them with UPMC Children's federal tax ID number (25-1865744) and mailing address
You must be 70 ½ years old when you make your gift
Your gift must be made directly from your IRA to UPMC Children's
Your gift of up to $100,000 qualifies for this treatment (talk to your advisor about the implications if you are contributing to your retirement account in the same year that you plan to make a qualified distribution)
When you reach the age of 73 or older* , your gifts will count toward your Required Minimum Distribution but do not count as income for federal income tax purposes.
As mentioned above, you can begin using Qualified Charitable Distributions at 70 ½ but those gifts will not count toward your Required Minimum Distribution until 73 or older* (for those individuals turning 70 ½ on January 1, 2020 or after).
*Note that under the Secure Act 2.0, the age at which you are required to make minimum distributions (RMD) was raised to age 73 for individuals born between 1951 and 1959, and age 75 for those born in 1960 or later.
How You Benefit
Make a difference in kids' lives today
Gifts made to charity are not included in your gross income, making this a tax-effective way to support UPMC Children's without affecting your current income.
You can use tax-free IRA rollovers to make any kind of outright gift, including:
Annual gifts
Pledge payments
Gifts to special programs or other endowed funds
Maximum Gift
An individual taxpayer's total charitable IRA rollover gift cannot exceed $100,000 per tax year.
Tax-Free IRA Rollover
The charitable IRA rollover allows donors to exclude certain transfers of Individual Retirement Account (IRA) assets that are made directly to public charities from their taxable income.
To qualify
You must be age 70 ½ or older at the time of gift.
Transfers must be made directly from a traditional IRA account by your IRA administrator to UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation. Funds that are withdrawn by you and then contributed do NOT qualify. Gifts from 401k, 403b, SEP and other plans do not qualify.
The gift must be completed during the applicable tax year.
The SECURE (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement) Act Makes Big Changes to Retirement Plans
The SECURE Act, which became law December 20, 2019 and effective as to most provisions on January 1, 2020, made dramatic changes to retirement plan rules. Some of the key changes which affect IRAs, 401(k) plans, and similar qualified plans are described below. These changes are expected to generate $16.4 billion in additional tax revenue over the next 10 years, so it is important that taxpayers understand the changes and talk to their tax and/or financial advisors about the personal impact of the new law.
This material is provided for informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal, financial, or estate-planning advice. You should consult your personal attorney and/or tax adviser for specific guidance about your options.
Some of the Significant Changes in the Law
An increase in the required minimum distribution starting age. The previous law required taxpayers to begin to take payments from their IRA by age 70 1/2; under the new law, the required starting age has been moved to age 73* (for those who have not reached 70 1/2 by January 1, 2020) giving individuals a bigger window to build for retirement. In addition, the new law removed limits on the contribution age, which was 70 1/2 under prior law.
*Note that under the Secure Act 2.0, the age at which you are required to make minimum distributions (RMD) was raised to age 73 for individuals born between 1951 and 1959, and age 75 for those born in 1960 or later.
More access to 401(k) plans. The SECURE Act allows part-time employees to participate in 401(k) plans. The Act defines eligible part-time workers as those who work 500 hours a year (lowered from 1,000 hours a year). The law also allows employers to automatically enroll employees in 401(k) plans unless they specifically opt out.
Withdrawals for birth and adoption expenses without penalty. Individuals may withdraw up to $5,000 ($10,000 for couples if they both have qualifying plans) from their IRA, 401(k), or similar retirement accounts for birth and adoption expenses without incurring a 10% early withdrawal penalty (although the withdrawals will still be taxed as income).
Non-traditional revenue is considered "compensation" for the purpose of allowing contributions to a retirement plans. Specifically, graduate students receiving grants and foster-care providers receiving "difficulty of care" payments may now treat those payments as compensation for the purpose of making IRA or 401(k) contributions.
Prohibition of loans through debit or credit cards. Previous law allowed taxpayers to use a special debit or credit card tied to a 401(k) plan to borrow money from their retirement funds up to the lesser of 50% of the account balance or $50,000 (higher limits for home purchases). Those loans are no longer permitted.
"Stretch IRAs" eliminated. Previous law allowed those who inherited an IRA, 401(k), or similar retirement plan to take required minimum distributions based on their life expectancy. This provision has been eliminated and replaced by a requirement that the recipient take distributions over a 10-year period. Exceptions to the new 10-year rule include surviving spouses, those not more than 10 years younger than the deceased retirement plan owner, and beneficiaries who are minors (although the 10-year rule is required once those minors reach the age of majority), disabled, or chronically ill. This provision, which alone is expected to generate $15.7 billion in new taxes over the next 10 years, will have the greatest impact on taxpayers.
What You Can Do
Check your retirement plan beneficiary designations and then check with your financial planner or accountant. It's a good idea to review beneficiary designations whenever you review your estate plans or whenever there is a significant change in the law, such as this one, so that if you wish, your estate plans can be structured to respond to the change and minimize the tax impact. The changes listed here are only summaries of the rules with the most wide-ranging impact. Your adviser can help you work through the details.
Consider ways to minimize the tax bite and maximize the benefits of your IRA. One of the most powerful ways to minimize taxes and leverage your assets is to use your IRA to do your charitable giving. Current law allows individuals age 70 1/2 or older to make transfers of up to $100,000 a year directly from an IRA to a qualified public charity. These provisions were not changed when the minimum RMD age was increased to 73*. Amounts transferred to charity (qualified charitable distributions, or QCDs) qualify as a required minimum distribution amount but are not included in the donor's gross income. This is a tax-effective way to give regardless of individual's tax bracket.
*Note that under the Secure Act 2.0, the age at which you are required to make minimum distributions (RMD) was raised to age 73 for individuals born between 1951 and 1959, and age 75 for those born in 1960 or later.
Consider a testamentary transfer of your IRA to a charitable remainder trust benefiting family members. One way to avoid the 10-year payout requirement for an inherited IRA is to name a 20-year charitable remainder trust as the beneficiary of the IRA/401(k)/retirement plan. The trust will then make annual trust distributions to designated family members for the twenty-year period and terminate to one or more charities of choice. This has the advantage of not only doubling the payout period and lessening the tax burden on heirs, but also allows the taxpayer to achieve charitable goals.
After his passing, his family discovered that Larry had kept a drawer filled with greeting cards and gifts so that he could, at a moment's notice, have a card and gift available for any occasion. Always thinking.
Larry recently passed away and left his entire estate to the Child Advocacy Center. His trust in UPMC Children's Hospital stems from the care provided to him when he contracted polio as a child. His family could not afford the treatment, but they were not turned away.
Planning ahead could allow you to make a gift that satisfies your charitable giving goals, won't affect your current cash flow, could provide income to yourself or others, and may relieve tax burdens. Larry planned ahead knowing that his gift will help provide care far into the future.
The forethought and generosity of donors like Larry is at the heart of what we do. Contact us to discuss opportunities to show your support of the children we help every day.
Dan Trozzi
In memory of his cousin, Dan is making a gift from his will to support UPMC Children’s greatest needs.
In 1965, Dan's cousin Lyda Roncher passed away at UPMC Children's from Leukemia. "She was 11 and I was 16. To see such a promising child lose her life was something I will never forget. I was one of her pall bearers.", Dan recalled. "I know that UPMC Children's has had many beautiful success stories and I want to do my small part to help other children...I have been living in Phoenix the past thirty plus years but my heart has always been in Pittsburgh and with UPMC Children's." With a few words in his will, Dan is remembering his cousin Lyda, expressing his values, and honoring his roots.
The Good Colonel: Jean Migliorino Piccione
Retired Colonel Jean Migliorino Piccione dedicated her life to the betterment of others. Her gift continues that legacy.
In 1998, Jean established an endowment at UPMC Children's to celebrate the care her great-nephew received at the hospital. In 2012, Jean made a significant gift to the endowment to honor her sister, Elma. Jean additionally made arrangements to add to the fund with a legacy contribution. Jean passed in 2021, but the Colonel Jean Migliorino Piccione and Elma Migliorino Cravotta Endowed Fund provides permanent support to ensure that all children receive the medical care they need, regardless of a family's ability to pay.
UPMC Children’s Hospital Foundation Receives Record $8 Million Gift
PITTSBURGH , Oct. 3, 2023 - UPMC Children’s Hospital Foundation has received its largest gift to date from an individual with a $8 million bequest from the estate of Mr. David V. Duchini to support UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Duchini passed away on March 23, 2007, at 84 years old, having planned for distribution of his assets to family and philanthropic organizations. Duchini personally selected these recipients with the guidance of his friends, estate trustee, and UBS financial advisor, Helene Naftali, who recommended the gift to the Foundation.
“For Mr. Duchini, he wanted to take care of his family, friends, and of course make a philanthropic impact. After our discussion of his values, we decided that UPMC Children’s was a clear choice. Nationally renowned, with innovations and breakthroughs, the overall care at UPMC Children’s is unparalleled. Mr. Duchini would be proud of this gift and the future it will create for countless children,” said Naftali.
“We’re thrilled and honored to receive such a generous gift from the Duchini estate,” said Rachel Petrucelli, president of UPMC Children’s Hospital Foundation. “Mr. Duchini had no connection to Pittsburgh or to UPMC Children’s, but Helene recognized that a gift to the Foundation meant helping children and families in their greatest time of need and he agreed. Her work reminds us of the important role professional advisors play in ensuring donors’ wishes are carried out and we are eternally grateful to be the recipient.”
A native of Queens, N.Y., Duchini was a graduate of the University of Miami and eventually ran Adolph Trucking Company Inc., in Manhattan. Duchini’s father, Adolph, immigrated to the United States and founded the company prior to turning it over to Mr. Duchini, which he then ran for 60 years.
For more information on UPMC Children’s Hospital Foundation, or to donate through estate planning, visit chpflegacy.org.
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Thank you for your interest in supporting UPMC Children's! There are many different ways that you can change children's lives for the better, and we are happy to help you make a gift that has the impact you envision. We also welcome the opportunity to work with your advisors to find the best way to meet your personal goals while making a real difference in the lives of kids in need.
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Rhonda Norman
Rhonda Norman of Ellwood City has been a loyal supporter of UPMC Children's for more than 20 years. Together with her late husband, Dennis, Rhonda has made the hospital not only a part of her annual charitable contributions, but also a beneficiary of her estate. Rhonda believes deeply in contributing to the health and well-being of children, and consequently gives to several charities benefitting local kids and families
Dan Trozzi
Phoenix-based management consultant Dan Trozzi plans to leave a portion of his estate to UPMC Children's to support the hospital's greatest needs.
"In 1966, my cousin Lyda Roncher passed away at UPMC Children's from Leukemia. She was 11 and I was 16. To see such a promising child lose her life was something I will never forget. I was one of her pall bearers. I know that UPMC Children's has had many beautiful success stories and I want to do my small part to help other children...I have been living in Phoenix the past thirty plus years but my heart has always been in Pittsburgh and with UPMC Children's."
Regis Windisch
Current donor Regis Windisch leaves a generous gift to UPMC Children's in his will.
"It is my pleasure to be able to honor my beloved daughter, Carolyn M. Windisch, through my philanthropy. With this gift, I hope to continue to support UPMC Childresn's Hospital's mission of giving kids a chance to be kids."
*Regis also gives very generously from his charitable gift account and is a member of our Frank LeMoyne Society.
Robert and Kathie Basehore
Greater Pittsburgh natives Kathie and Robert Basehore bequest gifts to several deserving charities including UPMG Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
"We believe children are the future of humanity. Humanity is defined not only as the continuation of the human race but also possessing such qualities as compassion, caring, and kindness. How better to teach our children the importance of developing these attributes than through the care, love, and support they receive at UPMC Children's?"
The Duffetts
"Andy wouldn't be here without the skill of the late Dr. Eugene Wiener and the care provided by UPMC Children's professionals," Karen and Bob Duffett affirm. In 1983, the couple walked through the doors of our hospital as scared first-time parents with a very sick 8-month-old baby. Today, Andy is a healthy adult living with his own little ones in California. Mr. and Ms. Duffett give to UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation so that other families may be granted the same opportunity they were given 35 years ago.
Born in Ireland in 1805, Jane and her family relocated to the Pittsburgh area when Jane was only 2.
At the time, Pittsburgh was a different place - a small town with few houses, mostly unpaved streets, and air thick with the haze of burning coal fires.
It was here that Jane’s father started a grocery store - one that grew into a successful business, amassing significant wealth for the family. And with the financial success the Holmes family attained, Jane grew into something of an early philanthropist.
Known for her compassion and generosity, Jane spent much of her life helping the less fortunate. In the home she shared with her siblings near the intersection of Penn Avenue and Stanwix Street, Jane was frequently visited by the city’s suffering and poor.
One such visit was made by a little girl who was dying from tuberculosis. With no family and no place to turn, the child looked to Jane for help. Touched by the little girl’s story, Jane arranged for the child’s care until the day the child died.
Determined to make a difference in the lives of those facing serious illness, Jane converted her family’s summer home on Butler Street in Lawrenceville into the Protestant Home for Incurables, later known as Holmes House.
Jane championed many other causes throughout her life, and, even after her death in 1885, Jane’s story of generosity continued.
In her bequest, Jane left funding for various Pittsburgh organizations, including funds to establish a hospital to provide medical care for all children in need, no matter their circumstances. This bequest spurred the creation of the Pittsburgh Hospital for Children - what is now UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Today, more than 130 years after her death, Jane’s story of giving lives on in a hospital that continues to care for every child in need regardless of a family’s ability to pay. It seems only fitting, then, that our planned giving society should be named for a person with such compassion and foresight.
Thank you for being a part of a tradition of caring more than a century and a quarter in the making. We are honored to share in your legacy.
(Sources: Lowry, Patricia. “Remembering Jane(s): Two women who shared name and good works changed Pittsburgh,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 9, 2008. Baccelli Vondas, Laura. “A legacy of giving,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 17, 2005. The American Historical Society, Inc. History of Pittsburgh and Environs, Vol. III (New York, 1922), 586-588.)
Everyone has their own reasons for giving.
Giving is a deeply personal matter. Perhaps you give to show your gratitude for care you have received, in honor of a loved one or care provider, or to help strengthen our community.
No matter your reason for giving, we thank you and are happy to help you explore your options. There are gifts of all types and sizes to satisfy your philanthropic goals while honoring your noble intentions. We invite you to read about some of them on our website, or contact us for assistance.
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UPMC Children's Hospital Foundation is the sole fundraising arm of UPMC Children's. The foundation exists to provide financial support for the hospital's mission of improving the health and well-being of children, teenagers, and young adults through excellence in patient care, teaching, research, and advocacy.
The foundation is a public charity under 501(c)(3) and 170(b)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.
All contributions are tax deductible to the limit of the law. Official registration and financial information may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free within Pennsylvania 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. The information presented is not intended as legal or tax advice. Please consult your advisor for more information.
