Donate your Boat to the Sailing to Health Program.
Donate your Boat to the Sailing to Health Program. Your donation is 100% tax deductable and will contribute to healthy people, healthy communities, healthy boats and healthy waterways.
Sailing Supports Healthy People
Our goal is to see your boat being sailed and cared for. Sailing is an activity that promotes the health and well being of all who participate.
Building Bridges Programs Create Healthy Communities
Boat donations help us to fund programs that build positive social relationships in our community through the arts, music and sailing: Building Bridges programs support multi-cultural public events, music and arts in our schools, and benefit many non-profit organizations who contribute to our community.
We Educate New Owners to Care for Healthy Boats
Boat donations help us supoort and promote organizations that educate new boat owners on the safe operation of their boats and environmentally safe disposal of waste.
We Preserve Healthy Waterways
Boat donations help us support organizations and agencies that help us maintain healthy waterways. Our waterways provide beautiful scenery, transportation for vessels and sustenance for wildlife, fish, birds and marine mammals.
How To Donate Your Boat
Donar signs donation papers to give his boat Taipan to the Sailing to Health Program. Photography by Kendall Ross Bean.
Contact Us with the Details on your Boat.
The more information you can give us initially the better. At the very minimum, we need to know the manufacturer of the boat, the model, the hull no., length overall, license number, current location and if you have any deadlines that the donation needs to be completed by. Email is the preferred way to contact us bb@buildingbridges.bbnonprofits.org. If you don't have computer access, you can call Karen Lile at 925-360-3527.
Paperwork
If Building Bridges is interested in accepting your boat donation, we will need the following paperwork on the day of donation:
- Title of Ownership: When the transaction is complete, you will sign the title and give it to us.
- Letter signed by you stating that you are donating the boat to Building Bridges, and that it is free and clear of all liens and encumbrances. We will give you the wording the State Board of Equalization requires.
- DMV registration.
- Proof of Insurance.
- Past paperwork. We would appreciate having maintenance and repair records, manuals, past titles and registrations and any other history you can give us about the boat.
Establishing a Fair Market Value:
Nov. 3, 2008. The donation process for Taipan was completed easily and without hassle. surveyor, on left. Karen Lile, Building Bridges, in center. Boat donor, on right. Photography by Kendall Ross Bean.
The IRS will give you a tax deduction equal to 100% of the fair market value of the boat. This is the price that a knowledgeable buyer would purchase it from a seller in the current market. A Marine Surveyor or Boat Broker can sign IRS paperwork establishing values claimed over $5,000.
The paperwork only takes a brief time to complete and a transaction can be done as soon as the Building Bridges has accepted your donation.