Leave a Legacy for the Orangutans
Your compassion can protect orangutans and their forests for generations to come.
Safeguarding Orangutans for the Future
Making a legacy gift to Orangutan Outreach is a meaningful way to ensure your values live on. Through thoughtful estate planning, you can help protect orangutans, preserve rainforest habitat, and provide lifelong care for those who cannot return to the wild.
Make a Gift in Your Estate Plan
Including Orangutan Outreach in your Will or Living Trust is a simple way to create a lasting legacy. You may choose to leave a fixed dollar amount, a percentage of your estate, or designate Orangutan Outreach as a residuary beneficiary.
Charitable bequests to Orangutan Outreach are fully deductible for estate tax purposes.
Orangutan Outreach is a registered 501(c)(3) U.S. charity.
EIN: 26-0521285
Sample Bequest Language
“I give to Orangutan Outreach, a New York not-for-profit corporation, at P.O. Box 833, Hudson, NY 12534, [the sum of $_________ or percentage of the estate], to be applied in its discretion for its general uses and purposes.”
Designate Orangutan Outreach as a Beneficiary
You may also choose to name Orangutan Outreach as the beneficiary of all or part of your retirement account, such as a 401(k) or IRA.
Because Orangutan Outreach is tax-exempt, gifts from retirement accounts are not subject to estate or income taxes, potentially allowing you to preserve other assets for loved ones.
Thinking Long Term for Orangutans
Many rescued orangutans will never be able to return to the forest due to illness, trauma, or disability. These gentle individuals require permanent sanctuary care — sometimes for decades.
Orangutans can live into their 50s. Sanctuary spaces and lifelong care require significant, sustained resources. Legacy gifts make it possible to plan responsibly for their future, ensuring lives of dignity, safety, and peace.
Your Legacy in Action
Manisha’s story shows what sustained care and long-term commitment can achieve. Rescued as a young orangutan in 2000, she spent nearly 14 years in rehabilitation with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation before being released into Bukit Batikap Forest in 2013.
In 2018, Manisha gave birth to her son, Meteor — born wild and free. Today, she is a devoted mother, providing her baby with everything she herself once lost. Their story is a powerful reminder of what legacy gifts make possible.
A gift in your will promised now can help sustain the orangutans’ future…
If you are considering leaving Orangutan Outreach a legacy, please contact us.
Thank you so much for considering the orangutans in your legacy…
Richard Zimmerman
Executive Director, Orangutan Outreach
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