Special giving opportunities for supporters 70½ and older
Qualified charitable distribution
When you are 70½ or older, you are eligible to make a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) directly from your taxable IRA account to a tax-exempt charity like St. Jude, up to $108,000 annually.
Required minimum distribution
If you are 73 or older, the IRS generally requires a withdrawal from a traditional IRA each year, called a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD). If you transfer all or part of your RMD directly from your IRA to a qualified charity like St. Jude, the amount that is transferred to St. Jude may not be considered taxable income.
St Jude must receive your gift by Dec. 31 for your IRA charitable distribution to qualify for that tax year.
ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital does not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. This material is prepared and made available to you for informational purposes only and is not intended to provide or be relied upon for tax, legal or accounting advice. You should always consult a tax professional to determine your particular tax benefits that may result from any particular type of gift to charity.
Make a donation today and give toward a better future.
Make an impact through your IRA
Your support helps ensure that families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — so they can focus on helping their child live.
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$350 could provide one hour of physical therapy.
Physical therapists use exercise, play and special equipment to help patients become more independent and safe at home, school and in the community.
St. Jude patient Natalie
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$600 could help provide two walkers for St. Jude patients.
A walker can help patients move around and be more independent in their daily lives. Using a walker can take practice, and each type of walker can be a little different.
St. Jude patients Kyla and Chance
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$750 could help cover the cost of two chest X-rays for a St. Jude patient.
Doctors use X-rays to help diagnose and monitor a patient’s treatment.
St. Jude patient Hayden
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$1,000 could help cover the cost of a spinal tap for one St. Jude patient.
Doctors use a spinal tap to check a patient’s cerebrospinal fluid.
St. Jude patient Misheel
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$2,500 could help provide an ultrasound study to monitor and treat a patient's disease.
An ultrasound study is among the diagnostic imaging tests that doctors use to diagnose and monitor disease and treatment.
St. Jude patient Ava
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$5,000 could help provide two days of chemotherapy administered intravenously to leukemia or solid tumor patients.
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago. And we won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
St. Jude patient Hunter
*When you make a donation using this information, your donation will be used to provide breakthrough research, treatment and cures. Items listed here are representative of services and supplies that are part of the treatment and care of children at St. Jude. The cost of each item or service is an approximation, and will vary based on actual costs incurred and individual patient needs. Your donation will be used for the general operating needs of St. Jude.
Tax ID Number:
62-0646012
We are a tax-exempt, charitable institution listed in the Federal Internal Revenue Service Publication #78, "Cumulative List of Organizations," revised IRS Code 501(c)(3).
St. Jude patient James and his mom
St. Jude will always have a very special place in our heart. My great-grandfather had no idea the impact what he did in the 1960s would have here in the 2020s. It's people like him that make St. Jude what it is today.
Amy, mom of St. Jude patient James and great-granddaughter of an early fundraiser for St. Jude
Why choose St. Jude?
How much of $1 goes to patients and research?
82 cents of every dollar supports the treatment, research and future needs of St. Jude.
How does St. Jude help families?
St. Jude provides customized care for some of the world's sickest children. And your support allows St. Jude to provide treatments at no cost.
Is St. Jude a good charity?
St. Jude is consistently ranked as one of the best places to donate by Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator.
Our Gift Planning team can help answer any questions you have or help you prepare the right questions to ask your financial advisor to determine how you can support St. Jude through your IRA or retirement assets.
Email IRA@stjude.org, call (800) 395-4341 or fill out the form below, and a St. Jude representative will contact you.