Year-End Giving

Receipts for gifts made through our online giving form are issued automatically via email once a gift has been completed. To ensure that your online gift is receipted for the 2025 calendar year, please complete it by Dec. 31, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Complete your gift through this form.

If you are looking to make a credit card gift over the phone, please call 740-587-6292 by noon EST on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, to ensure timely processing. After noon EST on Dec. 19, 2025, please complete your gift through our online giving form.

Your gift should be received by Dec. 15, 2025, to ensure it will be processed for the 2025 tax year. (Regardless of your postmark date, it must be received by Denison by Dec. 15, 2025, to ensure it’s processed in the 2025 calendar year). If you are not able to meet this deadline, please complete your gift through our online giving form.

A gift made by check and received by Denison in the mail will be processed as a 2025 gift if it is postmarked on or before Dec. 31, 2025, AND the check is dated on or before Dec. 31, 2025. If the check OR the postmark is dated after Dec. 31, 2025, the gift will be processed as a 2026 gift. (However, see below for details related to an IRA qualified charitable distribution - “QCD” - gifted from a checkbook.)

To mail your gift, please make your check payable to “Denison University”, include any applicable designation(s) in your check’s memo line, and send it to the university’s secure Park National Bank lockbox located in nearby Mount Vernon, Ohio:

Denison University
PO Box 2007
Mount Vernon, OH 43050-7207

IRA QCDs: If you have check-writing privileges from your IRA and are looking to have a related check counted as a QCD in 2025, your check must clear the bank and be presented to your IRA custodian in time for it to transfer funds out of your IRA account by Dec. 31, 2025. It is not enough to sign and mail Denison your check by Dec. 31. QCDs from IRAs with check-writing privileges need to arrive at Denison in time for them to clear the banking system and your custodian’s accounting system by Dec. 31, 2025. Please consult your IRA custodian and tax advisor for further information.

Securities with large unrealized profits (long-term capital gains) make great gift options to benefit Denison. We will process a DTC transfer as a 2025 donation if it is received in Denison’s account by Dec. 31, 2025. Transfers arriving after Dec. 31, 2025, will be receipted as a 2026 gift. To make a gift of publicly traded stocks or mutual funds via electronic transfer, contact Abigail Schmitt with Denison’s Office of Gifts and Records (330-690-2599 or gifts@denison.edu) for delivery instructions. (Note that Denison does not publish these delivery instructions in an effort to ensure, prior to transfer, proper identification of the donor transferring the gift, verification of the name of the securities, verification of the appropriate number of shares to be received, and determination of the designation of the gift.)

Like with gifts via a personal check, a donor-advised fund grant sent through the mail will be processed as a 2025 gift if it is postmarked on or before Dec. 31, 2025, AND the check is dated on or before Dec. 31, 2025.

If you already have a fund, benefiting Denison is now faster and easier. Open our online giving page, select “DAFpay”, and recommend your grant in just a few minutes. (DAFpay is compatible with hundreds of providers, including Fidelity Charitable, Schwab DAFGiving360, and Vanguard Charitable.)

Please plan to make your donor-advised fund grant recommendation early enough to allow time for it to be processed by your fund’s sponsoring organization and then received by Denison in advance of the Dec. 31, 2025, deadline.

Like with gifts via a personal check, an IRA-qualified charitable distribution (“QCD”) sent through the mail from a plan custodian will be processed as a 2025 gift if it is postmarked on or before Dec. 31, 2025, AND the check is dated on or before Dec. 31, 2025. Please plan to request your IRA QCD early enough to allow time for it to be processed by your plan’s custodian and then received by Denison in advance of the Dec. 31, 2025, deadline. (Also remember that you cannot cash an IRA QCD check and then gift the resulting funds. Under IRS regulations, doing so will disqualify your gift from any potential QCD benefits.)