2025 Year-End Gifts
Help us support more scholars in 2026
2026 Tax Law Changes Accelerating 2025 Year-End Giving
Your 2025 Year-End Gift supports future students like Emily Garcia who are seeking the unique, life-transforming benefits of Catholic schools. Every need-based scholarship the Aim Higher Foundation awards shines a light that reaches far beyond one student. It brightens opportunity for families, schools, and communities, creating ripples of hope that last for generations.
In the current school year, nearly 3,000 Aim Higher Scholars are learning and growing in the 80 Catholic schools we serve across the Twin Cities. Yet thousands more children are still waiting for the chance to begin their journey.
Your 2025 Year-End Gift will help us support more scholars 2026.
Federal tax law changes taking effect in 2026 are altering current charitable deductions. Depending on your financial situation and philanthropic intent, accelerating your gifting before the end of calendar year 2025 may maximize your tax benefits and your charitable impact. The Aim Higher Foundation does not provide financial or tax advice; we encourage you to connect soon with your financial and tax advisors.
You may also find this informational video helpful. In it, FreeWill Co-CEO, Patrick Schmitt, interviews Dr. Russell James III, Ph.D., J.D., CF, who serves as professor in the School of Financial Planning at Texas Tech University and a nationally recognized expert on charitable giving, about some of the strategic ways to maximize tax benefits and giving before the close of calendar year 2025.