Are you over 70½ years old and need to take a required minimum distribution from your traditional IRA? It is simple to make a Qualified Charitable Distribution, or QCD, as a direct transfer from your IRA to MAPS. A QCD may help you avoid taxes and will support our animals at MAPS. Just ask your financial adviser for more information and their QCD request form. Our Federal ID# (EIN) is 45-3854527.

Gifts to the MAPS Endowment Fund with the Marshfield Area Community Foundation (MACF) last a lifetime and will ensure a permanent income stream for our mission. An endowment is a permanent investment that grows over time. Each year, a portion of the fund can be distributed to our cause. Rather than a one-time gift, an endowment continually generates resources that will be available forever.

Share the LOVE with MAPS and open a Charitable Money Market Account (CMMA) at Forward Bank! Specify our organization as your preferred charity, and at the end of the year, Forward Bank will make a donation on your behalf to us based on your average balance – no money is taken from your account.

To open a CMMA account online, go to www.forward.bank or visit a Forward Bank location near you.

Employee match programs are a benefit that companies offer to encourage and reward giving among their staff. Most companies will match an employee’s gift to a charity one-to-one, but others match gifts even more. This means that your gift to MAPS can be worth two to four times as much as you donate!

Not sure if your employer offers a charitable match? Check with your human resource office.

How Can You Donate?

Festival sells $5 and $10 donation cards at the front-end of the cashier registers. Give your card to the cashier, and your donation will be added to your grocery total.

Every 4 months, Festival notifies us with the amount donated. We can then shop for needed supplies for our animals at their store.

Thrivent Choice allows eligible members to designate where charitable funds go each year. MAPS is an enrolled charity. Designate YOUR FREE Thrivent Choice Dollars® to MAPS to help our animals!

Thrivent Action Teams starts with an idea and Thrivent will provide $250 'seed money' to get you started. Apply up to twice a year for things like a supply drive for our animals or pet food for our free pet supply pantry for the community.

We've partnered with Walmart.com! Now you can 'round up' your change and donate the remainder to us when you shop on Walmart.com or the Walmart app.

Designate MAPS as your favorite charity by clicking the Spark Good button below. Then simply check the round up box at checkout when shopping!

Take your aluminum cans and scrap metal to Shaw's Wrecking Yard and ask them to deposit the CA$H into our account!

A donor-advised fund, or DAF, allows you to make charitable contributions as you wish, receive an immediate tax benefit and then recommend grants from the fund over time. Please consult with your financial adviser to see if this may be a good solution for you, especially with recent tax changes related to charitable deductions.

IRAs, retirement plans, life insurance policies, and bank accounts allow you to name a beneficiary on those accounts. Naming MAPS as a beneficiary allows assets to pass directly to the shelter. You’ll decide what percentage (from 1% to 100%) you would like the shelter to receive. We can be a primary or contingent beneficiary and are grateful for any percentage you choose.

Make a larger impact by gifting stock and donating long-term appreciated securities, including stock, bonds, and mutual funds, directly to MAPS. Compared with donating cash, or selling your appreciated securities and contributing the after-tax proceeds, you may potentially increase your gift and tax donation.