Ways to give
One hundred and fifteen dollars is a season.
Not an estimate, and not a rounded-up example. It is what each of our twenty Mountain Home awards costs this year, and it is the number we would most like every person in Idaho to know.
Every figure on this page is a real cost from a real program. If we do not know what something costs, it is not on here.
What your gift buys
Every one of these is a thing, not a category.
Most giving pages tell you what tier you land in. This one tells you what the money does, because we know — and because a gift you can picture is worth more than a gift you cannot.
Every figure here also appears on the impact ledger or the program page it belongs to. If you ever find a number on this site that contradicts another one, tell us — that is a real error and we will want to fix it.
Monthly giving
Recurring gifts are the most useful money we receive.
Not because they add up — because of when they arrive. A girl’s registration closes in March. A grant we can only fund if the money shows up first is a grant we are guessing about. Monthly giving is what lets us tell a family yes in September.
About one funded season a year. Ten dollars is deliberate — an organization that argues cost should not decide who plays cannot then price its own giving out of reach.
Roughly one full IX Grant a year — fees, gear or travel for a girl who would otherwise sit the season out.
Roughly one Game On! camp scholarship a year. Tuition, gear, and the access supports that decide whether a girl comes back for a second summer.
Other ways
Some of these cost you less than writing a check.
Employer matching in particular. A meaningful share of Idaho employers will match a gift and most people never find out, which means a lot of money that could have been two gifts was only ever one.
Employer matching
Ask your HR team or search your company’s giving portal. Many employers match dollar for dollar, and some match at two to one. Here is everything the form will ask you for:
- Legal name
- The Taylor LEAD Foundation
- EIN
- 99-2465893
- Address
- P.O. Box 8744
Boise, ID 83707 - Status
- 501(c)(3) public charity
Donor advised funds
If you give through a DAF, you can recommend a grant to us using the legal name and EIN above. Most DAF platforms let you search by EIN, which is faster and avoids picking the wrong organization with a similar name.
Tell us it is coming and we will watch for it — DAF grants often arrive without donor details attached, and we would rather thank you properly.
IRA giving and required minimum distributions
If you are 70½ or older, you can give directly from a traditional IRA to a charity without the money ever counting as taxable income. It is called a qualified charitable distribution, and if you are taking required minimum distributions you do not especially need, it can be a considerably better outcome than giving the same money after tax.
The ages, the limit and how to send one Close
One thing worth knowing, because it costs people years. QCD eligibility starts at 70½. Required minimum distributions do not begin until 73. They are different ages, and plenty of people wait for the second one without realizing they qualified for the first.
- Who
- IRA owners aged 70½ or older, on the date of the transfer
- 2026 limit
- $111,000 per person · $222,000 for a couple, each from their own IRA
- Deadline
- December 31 for that tax year
- How
- Your custodian sends it directly to us. It cannot pass through your hands first
- Send to
- The Taylor LEAD Foundation, EIN 99-2465893
P.O. Box 8744, Boise, ID 83707
Please tell us it is coming. IRA custodians very often send the check with no donor name on it, which means we cannot thank you and cannot send you the right acknowledgment for your records. One email solves it. Let us know →
Applies to IRAs, not 401(k)s, and cannot go to a donor advised fund. The limit is indexed annually, so the figure above is for 2026. We are not your advisor and this is not tax advice — your advisor or plan administrator will confirm all of it in a short conversation.
Stock and securities
Giving appreciated stock directly is usually more tax-efficient than selling it and donating the proceeds, because you avoid the capital gains. We are not your advisor and this is not tax advice — but your advisor will know.
Email us and we will send transfer instructions.
In-kind gifts
Gear, uniforms, facility time, printing, professional services. Some of the most useful things we have received were never money — a gym for an afternoon solves a problem a check cannot.
Tell us what you have before you send it, so we can be sure we can use it well.
The endowed scholarship fund
A permanent fund for the Alice & Charles Taylor Scholar-Athlete LEAD Scholarship. It spends only what it earns, so the award repeats every year without anyone having to raise it again.
$25,000 endows one scholarship in your name, forever.
Planned and legacy giving
A bequest, a beneficiary designation, or a gift through your estate. This Foundation is named for two people who spent their lives on other people’s children, so the idea of a gift that outlasts the giver is not abstract here.
Start a conversation — there is no obligation and no pressure attached to it.
Idaho Gives
Idaho’s annual statewide giving campaign. Gifts made through it often unlock matching pools and prize incentives, which means the same dollar can go further on that one day than on any other.
For companies
Corporate partnership is a different conversation.
Partnership tiers run from a named IX Grant cohort through presenting sponsorship of the Change Make*Hers Gala, and they come with recognition, event access and quarterly reporting. If your company has a stated commitment to women’s advancement, this is the cheapest way to make it a demonstrated one.
Before you give
Two things you should know about where your money lands.
The founders paid first, for nine years
Before there was a Foundation, a board, or a tax deduction, the Taylor family funded these scholarships personally — more than $15,000 to 20 recipients between 2016 and 2025. Nobody here is asking you to fund something they have not already funded themselves.
We publish what we spent, and what we cannot claim
The impact ledger is republished every quarter, and it includes a list of things we do not yet know — no retention rate, no belonging data, no alumni tracking. A giving page is the easiest place in the world to overstate, so we would rather point you at the honest version.
The Taylor LEAD Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) public charity. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law, and you will receive a receipt for your records. We are not tax advisors, and for anything involving stock, a DAF or your estate, your own advisor should have the final word.
One season
Somebody’s daughter is deciding whether to sign up.
She is not deciding whether she wants to play. That part she already knows. She is waiting to find out whether it is affordable, and that is a question somebody else answers for her.
The Taylor LEAD Foundation · P.O. Box 8744, Boise, ID 83707 · 501(c)(3) · EIN 99-2465893