Planned Giving

Provide a gift that will help transform Dallas Animal Services programs and services, and save even more animal lives, by including Friends of DAS in your estate plan. Your will gives you the opportunity to communicate the values that are important to you via your legacy gift.

Sample Language for Bequests

Specific Bequest -- With a specific bequest, you stipulate that a certain percentage of your estate, a certain dollar amount, or particular assets be given to Friends of Dallas Animal Services. Examples specific bequest language include:

"I give $______ to Friends of Dallas Animal Services, a nonprofit corporation located at 2911 Turtle Creek Blvd.; Suite 300, Dallas, TX 75219, Federal Tax ID 83-4099633, for its general purposes."

"I give _____% of my estate to Friends of Dallas Animal Services, a nonprofit corporation located at 2911 Turtle Creek Blvd.; Suite 300, Dallas, TX 75219, Federal Tax ID 83-4099633, for its general purposes."

"I give the following described property to Friends of Dallas Animal Services, a nonprofit corporation located at 2911 Turtle Creek Blvd.; Suite 300, Dallas, TX 75219, Federal Tax ID 83-4099633, for its general purposes: [describe property]."

Residuary Bequest -- With a residuary bequest, you state that all, or a portion, of your estate be given to Friends of Dallas Animal Services after specific gifts are distributed to other beneficiaries. Examples residual bequest language may include:

"I give all of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate to Friends of Dallas Animal Services, a nonprofit corporation located at 2911 Turtle Creek Blvd.; Suite 300, Dallas, TX 75219, Federal Tax ID 83-4099633, for its general purposes."

"I give _____% of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate to Friends of Dallas Animal Services, a nonprofit corporation located at 2911 Turtle Creek Blvd.; Suite 300, Dallas, TX 75219, Federal Tax ID 83-4099633, for its general purposes.

Please contact us if you have any questions about how to make a bequest or to request any additional information that might be helpful to you and your attorney as you consider making a bequest to us.

If you have included a bequest in your estate plan, please let us know. We would like to thank you!