Fillable Schedule G - Illinois Voluntary Charitable Donations

Illinois Department of Revenue

Schedule G

IL-1040 Instructions

General Information

What is the purpose of Schedule G?

Assistance to the Homeless Fund - Your contribution supports

local agencies that provide shelter, meals, and services needed

Schedule G, Voluntary Charitable Donations, allows you to figure

by homeless families and individuals. The assistance given

the amount of donations that you wish to make to one or more of the

by the local not-for-profit organizations enables homeless

eligible funds. You may contribute any whole-dollar amount of $1 or

people to regain residence in the community and maintain their

more.

independence.

Once you designate the funds to which you wish to contribute

Penny Severns Breast, Cervical, and Ovarian Cancer

and the amount of your contribution, you may not file an amended

Research Fund - Breast, cervical, and ovarian cancers account

return to make changes to the designated funds or the contribution

for more than one-third of all cancers diagnosed in women in

amounts.

Illinois. Your contribution will help support research to find ways to

What are the qualified contribution funds?

prevent these cancers, as well as to improve early detection and

treatment.

Wildlife Preservation Fund - Help ensure the survival of native

plants and animals with your contribution. Conservation of wildlife

Military Family Relief Fund - Thousands of members of the

and their habitats is an ever-growing challenge. Your donation

National Guard and Reserves have been called to active duty

will pay for “on-the-ground” projects to restore habitat, conduct

since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Your contribution

needed research on rare and endangered species, rehabilitate

will help members and their families defray expenses that

injured wildlife, and educate Illinoisans about the value of our

become difficult to afford when a wage-earner leaves civilian

native wildlife. Please visit the Illinois Department of Natural

employment for active military duty. This fund also provides grants

Resources (IDNR) Facebook page or the IDNR website at

for Active Duty, National Guard, and Reservists injured while

for more information.

performing such duty.

Child Abuse Prevention Fund - Help ensure safe, loving homes

Diabetes Research Fund - More than 1 million Illinois residents

and brighter futures for children in your community. Across Illinois,

have diabetes and that number is expected to increase

one in five children is abused or neglected before age 18, but

25 percent by 2020. Diabetes can cause serious health

local programs supported by contributions from people just like

complications, including heart disease, blindness, and kidney

you are proven to stop abuse and neglect. Join your neighbors

failure, and is the eighth leading cause of death. Contributions

by giving to the Child Abuse Prevention Fund today.

will be used to support research on the detection, prevention,

screening, management, and treatment of diabetes. One-half the

Alzheimer’s Disease Research Fund - An estimated 210,000

funds will be dedicated to juvenile diabetes research efforts.

Illinois residents suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. Grants from

this fund will help support important research to find a cure and

treatment for this progressive and fatal brain disorder, which is

the fifth leading cause of death in Illinois for people 65 and older.

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