Ways to Give

We'd like to invite you to join Faith Direct, our parish's electronic giving program. With every thing else on your to do list, Faith Direct's eGiving program will give you one less thing to remember each week – no more envelopes to find and checks to write before you go to Mass! Enroll today by visiting https://membership.faithdirect.net/MD30.

MEMORIAL & TRIBUTE GIFTS: Memorial gifts offer a wonderful way to remember deceased family members and friends. Tribute gifts provide a meaningful way to honor living family members and friends and/or to celebrate special occasions and anniversaries. Memorial and tribute gifts can be designated for one of the funds listed below. Before designating any memorial or tribute gifts, please contact Father Giese to discuss details.

IRA CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION: If you are age 70 ½ or older, you can transfer up to $100,000 each year directly from your traditional IRA account to St. Jane Frances de Chantal Parish. This smarter way to give may satisfy a portion or all of your annual required minimum distribution (RMD) and serve as a qualified charitable distribution for your IRA, which can save you on taxes even if you do not itemize! Contact your plan custodian to complete the IRA transfer. For IRA charitable distribution checks, please make sure the check stub lists the “donor” name and the fund the distribution should benefit (e.g., offertory, donation, St. Martin’s Cloak, School Endowment Fund, etc.).

DONOR ADVISED FUNDS: We accept donations from Donor Advised Funds for any of the parish and school giving opportunities at St. Jane de Chantal. Please make sure the Grant Description indicates the fund the grant should benefit (e.g., offertory, donation, St. Martin's Cloak, School Endowment Fund, etc.)

GIFTS OF STOCK: Gifts of appreciated stock or mutual fund shares are one means, besides gifts of cash, of making contributions to our parish.

Gifts of stock can be made with your broker's assistance by electronic transfer. This process works for all publicly traded shares of stock. Simply request that your broker transfer the number of shares of stock you wish to give electronically to the St. Jane Frances de Chantal account at Merrill Lynch in Bethesda, Maryland. The parish's primary account number is 5TL-02793, and the DTC number is 8862. (DTC stands for Depository Trust Company and is the mechanism that enables the quick and easy, and safe, transfer of stocks among its members banks and brokerages.)

Any questions regarding the transfer can be directed to Ben Jolly at Merrill Lynch at 1-800-637-7455.

To assure proper credit of your gift, please notify Mae Villa-Agustin at the parish office (301-530-1550) in advance, giving the name of the stock and the number of shares you are transferring.

If you have stock losses, sell the stock yourself to realize the loss and take the deduction for tax purposes. Then generate a charitable deduction by donating the cash proceeds of the sale to St. Jane Frances de Chantal Parish.