Instructions For Form 540 2ez - California Resident Income Tax Return

Voluntary Contribution Fund Descriptions

You may make voluntary contributions of $1 or more in whole dollar amounts to the following funds. The amount you contribute either

reduces your overpaid tax or increases your tax due. You may contribute only to the funds listed and cannot change the amount you

contributed after you file your return.

Enter the amount you want to contribute on the line for the fund on Form 540 2EZ, Side 2.

Code

Fund Name and Description

Code

Fund Name and Description

California Seniors Special Fund

California Firefighters’ Memorial Fund.

If you and/or your spouse are 65 years of age* or

Contributions will be used to construct a memorial

older and claim the Senior Exemption Credit on line

on the grounds of the State Capitol honoring

15, you may make a combined total contribution of

hundreds of firefighters who have died protecting

up to $164 or $82 per spouse. Contributions entered

our communities, our families, and our dreams.

to this fund will be distributed to the Area Agency of

When the alarm sounded, these brave men and

Aging Councils (TACC) to provide advice on and

women answered the call with their lives. Their

sponsorship of Senior Citizens issues. Any excess

sacrifices, and the sacrifices of their families,

contributions not required by TACC will be distrib-

deserve to be honored.

uted to senior citizen service organizations through-

Emergency Food Assistance Program Fund.

out California for meals, adult day care, and

Contributions will be used to help local food banks

transportation.

feed California’s hungry. Your contribution will fund

*If your 65th birthday is on January 1, 2004, you are

the purchase of much-needed food for delivery to

considered to be age 65 on December 31, 2003.

food banks, pantries, and soup kitchens throughout

the state. The State Department of Social Services

Alzheimer’s Disease/Related Disorders Fund.

will monitor its distribution to ensure the food is

Contributions will be used to conduct a program for

given to those most in need.

researching the cause and cure of Alzheimer’s

California Peace Officer Memorial Foundation

disease and related disorders and research into the

Fund. Contributions will be used to preserve the

care and treatment of persons suffering from

memory of California’s fallen peace officers and

dementing illnesses.

assist the families they left behind. Since statehood,

California Fund for Senior Citizens. Contributions

over 1,300 courageous California peace officers have

will provide support for the California Senior

made the ultimate sacrifice while protecting law-

Legislature (CSL). The CSL are volunteers who

abiding citizens. The non-profit charitable

prioritize statewide senior related legislative

organization, California Peace Officers’ Memorial

proposals in areas of health, housing, transportation,

Foundation, has accepted the privilege and

and community services. Any excess contributions

responsibility of maintaining a memorial for fallen

not required by the CSL will be distributed to senior

officers on the State Capitol grounds. Each May, the

citizen service organizations throughout California.

Memorial Foundation conducts a dignified ceremony

honoring fallen officers and their surviving families

Rare and Endangered Species Preservation

by offering moral support, crisis counseling, and

Program. Contributions will be used to help protect

financial support that includes academic

and conserve California’s many threatened and

scholarships for the children of those officers who

endangered species and the wild lands that they

have made the supreme sacrifice. On behalf of all of

need to survive, for the enjoyment and benefit of you

us and the law-abiding citizens of California, thank

and future generations of Californians.

you for your participation.

State Children’s Trust Fund for the Prevention of

Asthma and Lung Disease Research Fund.

Child Abuse. Contributions will be used to fund

Contributions will support the American Lung

programs for the prevention, intervention, and

Association of California's scientific peer-reviewed

treatment of child abuse and neglect.

research program that provide grants to develop and

advance the understanding of the causes of lung

California Breast Cancer Research Fund.

disease, the third leading cause of death. Find out

Contributions will fund research toward preventing

more at

and curing breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most

common cancer to strike women in California. It kills

California Missions Foundation Fund

4,000 California women each year. Contributions

Contributions will be used to restore and repair the

also fund research on prevention and better

Spanish colonial and mission-era missions in this

treatment, and keep doctors up to date on research

state and to preserve the artworks and artifacts of

progress. For more about the research your

these missions.

contributions support, please go to Website

Your contribution

can help make breast cancer a disease of the past.

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