Ways to Give
Your gift will advance the Youth Law Center’s work using the law to protect and enforce rights, and to affirm the inherent worth and potential of every young person.
You can make a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation by visiting our main donation page.
Following are additional ways to make a gift to the Youth Law Center.
Donate Residual Funds from Cy Pres Awards
As a highly regarded public interest law firm that has been a national leader in creating better futures for children for more than four decades, the Youth Law Center is a worthy beneficiary for unclaimed funds from class action lawsuits, and has been approved as a cy pres recipient in past class action litigation.
Gifts of Appreciated Stock
Contributions of appreciated securities, or stock, can help advance our work while providing a significant tax deduction to you.
To ensure proper processing and acknowledgment of your gift, we kindly ask that you notify us when you are making your transfer of appreciated stock by sending an email to Natalie Reynolds at info@ylc.org.
You may transfer your stock to the Youth Law Center via paper stock certificate or electronically.
Donor Advised Funds
If you want to make a gift to the Youth Law Center from your donor advised fund, please get in touch with your fund administrator to recommend a grant to the Youth Law Center.
Youth Law Center’s Federal Tax ID Number: 94-1715280
Clients of BNY Mellon, Fidelity Charitable and Schwab Charitable can make a designation through the DAF Direct widget on this page.
Qualified Charitable Distribution from an IRA
Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs), also known as IRA Charitable Rollovers, are the savviest way for individuals age 70½ or older to use their IRAs to maximize their charitable impact.
If you are under the age of 701/2, you can designate YLC as the beneficiary of all or a percentage of your IRA and it will pass to us tax-free after your lifetime. Please contact your IRA administrator for a change-of-beneficiary form or download a form from your provider’s website.
To ensure proper processing and acknowledgment of your QCD, we kindly ask that you notify us when you are making your QCD by sending an email to Natalie Reynolds at info@ylc.org.
To include YLC in your plans, please use our legal name, address, and tax identification number:
Legal Name: Youth Law Center
Legal Address: 832 Folsom Street, #700, San Francisco CA 94107
Youth Law Center’s Federal Tax ID Number: 94-1715280
Corporate Matching Gifts
Many companies match donations made by employees, and some companies even match gifts made by retirees and spouses.
OpenSecrets has a free database of employer matching gift programs, allowing you to search for your employer by name.
If your employer matches employee donations, please contact Natalie Reynolds at info@ylc.org to request any information required to confirm your company’s matching gift.
Youth Law Center’s Federal Tax ID Number: 94-1715280
Workplace Giving Campaigns
Many workplace giving campaigns, such as those coordinated through the United Way, give employees the option of designating specific charities for their workplace giving payroll deductions. If your employer has a workplace giving campaign with this option, please consider directing all or a portion of your workplace gift to the Youth Law Center.
Youth Law Center’s Federal Tax ID Number: 94-1715280
Legacy Gifts
Your support of the Youth Law Center reflects your commitment to advancing a vision where a child’s experience in foster care or juvenile justice is not a life sentence, but a brief moment on the path to a bright future. Leaving a gift to the Youth Law Center is a powerful way to ensure your commitment to this vision lives on beyond your lifetime.
The most common way to make a legacy gift is through leaving a gift in your will or trust to the Youth Law Center. You can donate a specific dollar amount or a percentage of your estate. Simply provide your attorney with our official name and tax identification number. Following is sample bequest intention language to the Youth Law Center:
“I give to the Youth Law Center, a state of California nonprofit corporation that is recognized as exempt from tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, with its principal offices at 832 Folsom Street, #700, San Francisco CA 94107, [all (or ____ percent) of my residuary estate] or [the sum of $_______ ] to be used for its general purposes.”
Youth Law Center’s Federal Tax ID Number: 94-1715280
Tax Note: An estate tax charitable deduction may not be relevant for people whose estates are worth less than the federal estate tax exemption amount. The federal exemption for 2025 is $13,990,000 for individuals and $27,980,000 for a married couple. Estate tax imposed at the state level (currently in CT, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, ME, MN, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA) may also be a consideration. You should consult your own qualified financial and legal advisors to learn how the laws apply in your particular circumstances.
To learn more about ways to make legacy gifts to the Youth Law Center, please send an email to Natalie Reynolds at info@ylc.org.
In-Kind Support
Donations of pro bono items and services ensure we may direct our funding to our core advocacy work. We are especially interested in the following types of in-kind services: photography, event and meeting space, and catering.
To receive a current wishlist of in-kind goods and services gifts to the Youth Law Center, please send an email to Natalie Reynolds at info@ylc.org.
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