Purple Heart Car Donation
Jun 22nd, 2009 | By alex | Category: CharityI am considering donating my used car to Purple Heart Veteran Car Donation program. Can you give me more information about Purple Heart Car Donation?
Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation was established by Congress over 75 years ago to help causes dedicated to American veterans who have been injured in combat and thus received a Purple Heart. Purple Heart Car Donations help fun programs that are completely free to veterans focused on giving them assistance.
Purple Heart car donations fund regional offices around the county to provide expertise and advice to veterans, their dependants, and families regarding their benefits. Purple Heart also helps veterans and their families process their compensation claims, find housing, work through death or burial benfits, and find employment or training. Purple Heart car donations also fund efforts at finding, identifying, and helping homeless veterans.
Purple Heart car donations also helps provide advocacy for veterans on local and national fronts. Purple Heart also has outreach programs to help those veterans that are disabled or unable to visit their offices themselves. Purple Heart car donations help provide education to veterans for educating them about their benefits and entitlements as veterans.
Purple Heart car donations also fund many other programs and efforts all designed to help the American veteran in the end. All the programs and services provided by Purple Heart that is funded through car donations are all provided free of cost to the veterans and their families being helped.
What is great about the Purple Heart vehicle donation and car donation program?
- Purple Heart car donations will accept your car in any condition whether running or not.
- As a 501(C)(3) non profit organization registered with the IRS, Purple Heart will provide you with receipts and documentations for your 100% tax deduction for the value of the car.
- Purple Heart will pick up or tow away your vehicle to be donated for free, and this service is available 24 hours a day. Purple Heart also maintains many convenient drop off locations for your car to be donated.
- Purple Heart maintains a helpful team of customer service representative who can help guide you through the entire car donation process. The service office for Purple Heart car donation is open Monday through Saturday each week.
- By donating your car or vehicle to Purple Heart, you are helping a worthy cause of helping veterans and their families with their lives and benefits.
- With a car donation to Purple Heart, you avoid the hassle of makign expensive repairs, selling your used car, or dealing with potential buyers or brokers.
What types of a vehicles are accepted by Purple Heart as vehicle donations?
Purple Heart Car donation will accept just about any type of vehicle including regular cars, boats, RVs, vans, trucks, trailers, buses, or motorcycles. These vehicles are usually accepted by Purple Heart as vehicle donations in any running condition as long as their value exceeds the cost by Purple Heart car donation for picking up and processing the donation.
Can I still donate to Purple Heart if I do not have my car’s title?
Yes, Purple Heart can accept your car donation as long as its has a clear title and is free of liens. If there are any liens, you will need to provide documentation of clearing the lien with the lien holder before Purple Heart can accept your car donation.
What kind of a tax deduction do I get with a car donation to Purple Heart?
According to the rules of the IRS, you can claim the fair market value of your car up to $500 with your vehicle donation to Purple Heart. If the value of your Purple Heart car donation is more than $500, you can claim the sale price of the car when it is sold by Purple Heart; you will receive receipt and documentation of the price for your tax returns when it has been sold by Purple Heart.
