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Give the gift of good health

There are many ways you can invest in the health of the thousands of children and families we serve at The Floating Hospital. You can make a donation, give a gift of stocks or securities, honor or memorialize someone important to you, contribute from your IRA, and/or include The Floating Hospital in your long-term financial planning.

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Join the Tugboat Society with a monthly donation
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  • You can help The Floating Hospital help children and their families year round by joining The Tugboat Society, our association of sustaining monthly donors.

  • Giving to The Floating Hospital is a meaningful way to pay tribute to someone special in your life. When you fill out our online donation form above, please check where it asks you if you’d like to dedicate your gift. We will then follow up with a letter to the name and address you specify.

  • A Donor Advised Fund (DAF) is a simple way to manage your charitable giving and help save lives by recommending gifts to The Floating Hospital for use in its programs and services.

    The Floating Hospital does not directly manage donor-advised funds; however, DAFs can be established at many financial institutions or community foundations. The Floating Hospital doesn’t give individual tax advice, so please always consult your professional tax advisor on how a Donor Advised Fund might impact you specifically.

    You can choose to have any DAF funds distributed to The Floating Hospital after your lifetime by naming The Floating Hospital Foundation as a beneficiary of all or a portion of the remaining funds. If you choose to do so, please use the following legal name and tax identification:

    The Floating Hospital Foundation, Inc.
    EIN #: 30-0102842

    When you make a Donor Advised Fund gift, it’s possible that the sponsoring organization will not share your information with us.

    Please send a note to Ann-Louise Lipman alipman@thefloatinghospital.org for more information or if you’ve made a gift so we can thank you and ensure your gift gets to where it’s intended.

  • A gift of stock is an easy and impactful way to support The Floating Hospital. It also offers you several financial benefits:

    • You can easily donate appreciated stocks, bonds, or mutual funds

    • The total value of the stock upon transfer is tax-deductible

    • There is no obligation to pay any capital gains taxes on the appreciation

  • If you’re 70-1/2 or older, you can donate up to $100,000 per tax year directly from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) to charities like The Floating Hospital.

    Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCD), otherwise known as IRA charitable rollovers or IRA gifts, are a great way to support our work by allowing your dollars to go further: QCDs may be excluded from your taxable income and qualify towards your required minimum distribution (RMD).

    If you’d like to make a QCD gift, contact your financial institution and ask them to make the gift out to The Floating Hospital Foundation, and be sure to identify you as the donor by name and address (we want to thank you!).

    The gift can be mailed to:

    THE FLOATING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION

    Attn: Samantha LaMont
    Grand Central Station
    P.O. Box 3391
    New York, NY 10163-3391

  • A planned gift is a lasting investment in advancing our mission and ensuring our ability to provide healthcare and other necessities to children and families living with homelessness, as we have done for 160 years. The Floating Hospital offers tax-deductible giving options designed to fit with your personal estate and financial plans.

  • In-kind donations provide our families with necessities and represent some of our most important relief work. We accept new donations ranging from disposable toiletries, toys, and books to new clothes, shoes and outerwear. For safety reasons, we cannot accept used items, food or personal care items in opened packages. We cannot accept home-cooked/prepared food. For more information or questions regarding acceptable donations, email donategoods@thefloatinghospital.org.

  • The Floating Hospital Foundation was created to continue a legacy of giving and close the significant gap between the Hospital’s operating expenses and revenue from government and insurance sources. Consider joining this dynamic and generous group of philanthropists today. Contact Kevin Douglas at kdouglas@thefloatinghosptial.org

Three smiling girls from one of the families we help
Three smiling girls from one of the families we help

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Transform a child’s summer — and their life, with a gift to Camp Rise Up today.

For most kids, summer is about going on vacation, enjoying the outdoors and being with friends. But for the one in eight New York City public-school children living in temporary housing, summer doesn’t come with these simple pleasures.

At Camp Rise Up, unhoused youth can experience all the joys of summer: outdoor recreation, creative activities and making new friends in a beautiful rural environment. At the same time, they’re learning essential life skills that promote self-care, self-reliance and self-confidence.

A respite from the challenges of being homeless, Camp Rise Up provides a care-free week for kids to be kids—an unencumbered opportunity for them to learn about the natural world and themselves.  Camp may only last a week, but the effects can last a lifetime.

Your donation today ensures that campers will have everything they need this summer to fully participate in this one-of-a-kind experience.

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