End-of-Year Giving: Ways You Can Make an Impact Before the Year Ends

Published On: December 16th, 2024By Categories: Community Support, Must Read2.8 min read

The holiday season is incredibly busy for both our community and the team at Feeding San Diego. We work to ensure all of our neighbors can prepare festive meals that honor their family traditions. Now, with the end of the year approaching, we need to replenish our supplies for the new year. Fortunately, there are many options for end-of-year giving to maximize your gifts as the calendar year comes to a close!

A family holding food received at a Feeding San Diego school pantry

Donate Appreciated Stocks

One immediate way to make a big impact is to donate stock to Feeding San Diego. We partner with DonateStock.com to make gifting appreciated stocks safe, easy, and free. When you gift stock, you can:

  • Save money by avoiding capital gains tax
  • Deduct the total fair market value of your stock donation from your taxes
  • Maximize your impact with a pre-tax gift

Learn more about donating stock or make a gift today.

Include Feeding San Diego in Your Will or Trust

Planned giving is a way to make a lasting impact and extend your support for Feeding San Diego into the future. By including Feeding San Diego in your plans, you can invest in your community’s long-term health and well-being. There are various ways to include us in your legacy:

  • Add Feeding San Diego as a beneficiary in your will or trust
  • Bequest specific items of property to Feeding San Diego
  • Make a tax-free gift from your individual retirement account (IRA)

We partner with FreeWill.com to make planned giving easy. Whether you already have a will or are just beginning to think about legacy giving, FreeWill makes the process easy. Learn more about planned giving.

A little girl holding an apple

Donate Your Unwanted Vehicle

Have an unwanted vehicle? You can turn it into meals for your community! Feeding San Diego partners with Charitable Adult Rides & Services (CARS) to accept donations of vehicles in any condition, running or not. When you donate your car, truck, RV, motorcycle, or other vehicle, CARS arranges to have it picked up for free and sold. Then they send the money to Feeding San Diego, and those funds go straight into providing nutritious meals. Start your donation today!

Have Your Donation Matched

Typically, when you donate to Feeding San Diego, every dollar helps provide two meals to the community. Starting on December 26, all donations made before the end of the year will be matched by a generous donor. That means for the last few days of the year, your same dollar will help provide FOUR meals to your neighbors experiencing food insecurity. If you were planning on making one last gift of 2024, know your impact will go twice as far during our final match of the year. Double your impact.

The Impact of End-of-Year Giving

All year long, generous supporters from our community make it possible to distribute millions of meals to San Diegans facing hunger. These meals reach children, families, seniors, veterans, college students, and many more. We’re constantly amazed by the generosity of this community. As we reach the end of 2024, we’re looking ahead so we can help our neighbors start 2025 off on the right foot. There are many other ways to get involved in our mission to end hunger through food rescue. However you decide to give, know that your support makes a difference!