The Salvation Army is a registered 501 (c)3 nonprofit organization.  As such, we are solely dependent on donations and money generated through fundraisers to help the needy in communities all across the state, and throughout the United States and the rest of the world.

Monetary Donations

Concerned individuals who want to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate entrust The Salvation Army with financial contributions, thereby allowing our organization to be their hands in the community.  As a result of generous charitable contributions, the Army is able to provide food for the hungry, offer shelter to single women and families without a home, supply quality early childhood education for low-income families, give a boy and girl a positive after-school environment, and much more.

Material Donations

When many people think about giving to The Salvation Army, they think of donating clothes and furniture they no longer use or need.  We truly appreciate these donations.  However, gifts of this type fully fund only one of our programs - resident substance abuse treatment at Adult Rehabilitation Centers.  The vast majority of Salvation Army programs and services must be funded by monetary donations. 

Red Kettle Donations

The most visible way to make a donation is through The Salvation Army Red Kettle effort.  Each year during the Holiday season, bell ringers at kettle stands seem to come out of the woodwork.  And after Christmas Eve, they disappear just as quickly.  The kettle drive lasts only a few weeks, and gives concerned individuals the opportunity to drop coins or a few bills into the container.  Money raised through the kettle program is dedicated to funding the year-round operation of the Central Kentucky Area Services.  Still, this funding only meets part of the total needs.

Additional Funding

Additional monetary donations are needed to help fund many other services, including:  disaster relief, food pantries, homeless shelters, clothing banks, Christmas assistance, after-school programs, child care, youth sports leagues, senior citizen programs, and summer camp programs.

Gifts of Stock
Donations of stock can be a benefit to you as well as to The Salvation Army. An outright gift of long-term securities (owned more than one year) to The Salvation Army is free of capital gains tax, no matter how much their value may have risen. Therefore, it is better to donate appreciated long-term stock outright than to sell it yourself and then donate the money to charity, in which case you would be responsible for the capital gains tax. A gift of stock also allows you to remove the appreciated asset from your taxable estate.  

When you make a gift of long-term appreciated stock, you can deduct the full fair market value of the gift from your taxable income when itemizing deductions in the year you make the gift as long as it does not exceed 30 percent of your adjusted gross income. In addition, you may “carryover” and deduct any remaining amount during the next five years, as long as it does not exceed 30 percent of your adjusted gross income in the year of deduction.

You can take pleasure in knowing that your generous gift provides immediate support for the programs and work of The Salvation Army.

Include a Gift for The Salvation Army in your Will

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You are planning for your future. Now consider helping us plan for ours. Your future comes first. Do you have a will? A will is a legal document that distributes your property and the assets of your estate to individuals and charities you wish. The Salvation Army would like to ask you to consider including us in your will to receive a future gift from your estate. 

Your will is an expression of the values, material and spiritual, you have acquired in your lifetime and wish to pass on to your heirs and to charities. It is rewarding to know that your will supports an organization that reflects the rules of your life - loving, caring, helping and sharing. 

The Salvation Army would like to give you more information in this area. We will be happy to send materials to you, or a personal visit can be arranged with no obligation on your part.

For more information

 contact us at:  (859) 252-7706  

or e-mail us at:  giving@salvationarmy-lex.org