Ways to Give

Our Forever Promise

You are a vital part of our mission. Your support makes a real difference in helping to save the natural areas and farm and ranchlands in Solano County forever, and to inspire a love of the land. The rolling hills and wide open agricultural land help create the Solano County way of life. The lands we have protected will be protected forever. Together, we can ensure more of these special places will be here for future generations. Every donation supports programs that focus on clean water and clean air, connecting people with nature, and protecting critical habitat.

Your gifts help us buy land and agricultural conservation easements, connect people to nature, and improve our lands through management, research and restoration. Working together, we can protect and preserve the natural and agricultural heritage unique to Solano County.

Ways to Give

Tax Friendly Giving

• Donate appreciated securities, like stocks, to avoid capital gains tax.
• Make a qualified charitable distribution from your IRA account and reduce income tax on your required minimum distribution.
• Leave a bequest to Solano Land Trust using retirement accounts and give other assets to your heirs to avoid income tax on your retirement funds.
• Recommend a gift to Solano Land Trust from your donor-advised fund.
• Include a gift to Solano Land Trust in your will or living trust; to make your will or summarize your wishes before meeting with an attorney, use a free online tool, like freewill.com.
• Name Solano Land Trust as a beneficiary of your retirement plan, life insurance, or financial account. 
• Name Solano Land Trust as a successor in interest in your donor-advised fund.
• Donate non-cash assets such as real estate, including land, houses, or businesses. These donations can save you capital gain taxes, reduce your property liability, and significantly help us increase the pace of conservation here in Solano County.

Visit our Free Will Portal to learn more about Tax Friendly Giving.

Legacy League Program

Making a bequest can have a lasting impact on the beauty and character of Solano Land Trust while protecting its open space. Leaving a bequest with Solano Land Trust is a simple and powerful way to leave a legacy for our community’s future. Making a gift of land or other asset as part of your estate planning is a relatively simple matter. As a form of giving, charitable bequests provide flexibility and can be modified or updated at any time during your lifetime. Bequests can also be made in memory of loved ones, which provide a meaningful way to create a memorial that lives on in service to others.

Your gift will help future generations enjoy the quality of life that comes from beautiful, protected open spaces for kids and families to explore, clean air and water that results from preserved habitat and watershed lands, and fresh food grown on our local farms and ranches. This is a wonderful opportunity to support the important work of Solano Land Trust. There are so many beautiful places in Solano County still to preserve. We look forward to continuing our important work and partnering with community members like you that want to leave your own legacy by helping to preserve the Solano County way of life so that future generations will have this important land to enjoy and care for.

Donations may also be sent by mail:

Would you like to mail a check or donate over the phone?

To mail a check, make it payable to Solano Land Trust and mail it to 198 Dobbins St. Ste A, Vacaville, CA 95688.

Feel free to call our development team at 707-718-4444 or email laura@solanolandtrust.org.