Every year in the fall we invite our friends to provide for the operational expenses of our retreat ministry that provides hope, healing and encounters with God. We are grateful for your gifts that are an expression of your love of God and neighbor. Your participation each year, at any gift amount, is a blessing and demonstrates your gratitude and passion for our mission. You may designate a gift in honor of a Jesuit or other person of faith who has helped you grow closer to God.
Bellarmine Jesuits and staff could not do what we do without the support of our friends. You are an integral part of our Jesuit mission, ensuring a life-changing impact on the people we serve. Through gifts, large and small, our donors make possible the daily miracles of retreat ministry in many ways.
Give to the Annual Appeal
Your gifts provide for mission and help us to achieve our strategic goals:
- Increase retreat attendance, study and respond to emerging needs, ensuring there is a seat for everyone;
- Encourage philanthropy, and increase the breadth and magnitude of financial support for the ministry;
- Identify priorities for sacred spaces (long term needs, environmental concerns, and retreatant desires.
Make a Gift
Donor Advised Fund
Donor-advised funds (DAF) are the fastest-growing charitable giving vehicle in the U.S. because they are one of the most straightforward and tax-advantageous ways to give. Making a gift to Bellarmine through your donor-advised fund (DAF) is easy. For the convenience of our friends who have donor-advised funds, please be sure to share our legal name, address and federal tax ID number with your DAF administrator: Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House, Inc., 420 W. County Line Rd, Barrington, IL 60010. FEIN: 46-3137120.
IRA QCD Gifts
If you are 70 ½ years or older, you can authorize your IRA administrator to directly make a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) of up to $105,000 from your IRA to a qualified charity (like Bellarmine) tax-free.
Stocks & Securities
A gift of long-term appreciated stocks or other securities may provide you with greater tax advantages than a gift of cash. You may deduct the current fair market value of the stock on the date of giving as a charitable gift and avoid any capital gains tax on the stock's appreciation value.
Legacy Gifts
Join the Heart of Bellarmine Society
There are many ways to plan for the future of ministry at Bellarmine. Bequests in your will or trust, establishing a charitable trust, or naming Bellarmine as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy or retirement plan proceeds are just a few ways that you can establish a living legacy for this ministry’s future generations of retreatants.
Memorial Gifts
You may send a memorial gift to remember a retreatant who has passed away. Also, by designating Bellarmine as a preferred charity when a loved one passes, your family and friends will have the ability to make gifts to Bellarmine in your memory.
Please call us when someone passes away so we can join you in prayer.
