Monthly donated unrestricted funds adds to the “affordability” of a DePaul Catholic education by allowing the administration to keep tuition at a reasonable level.

Tuition alone does not fully cover the cost of educating a DePaul Catholic student. To ensure that DePaul Catholic has the best possible teachers and administrators to educate and guide its students, DePaul Catholic needs monthly donated unrestricted funds to support its operating budget beyond tuition.

Giving to the DePaul Catholic Fund, which is the cornerstone of fundraising at DePaul Catholic, is easy online through the website and monthly giving program.

DePaul Catholic accepts payment of donations in various forms.

Please ask your employer if they have a Matching Gift Program.

Often individuals or organizations have the opportunity to enhance the DePaul Catholic student experience through gifts-in-kind rather than a strictly monetary gift.  If you are interested in giving a gift-in-kind, please contact the Advancement Team at advancement@dpchs.org.

Simply stated, we believe "Many Hands Make Light Work!"  We value direct financial support through donations of all types:  Time, Talent, and Treasure.  If you have a business that can offer products and services in the form of a Gift-In-Kind (printing, signage, painting/decor, apparel, etc.), we would be happy to discuss your "talent" further.  Volunteers are always needed for many school activities and events.  Your "time" is greatly appreciated, as well.

We are better together than we are apart………
 

The term planned giving is commonly used to describe gifts legally provided for by a donor as part of his/her overall estate plan. Such contributions are generally made in the form of a will, insurance policy, retirement account, or trust.

A planned gift (also called a "deferred gift") is a charitable contribution that takes into account the donor’s personal tax, financial, and estate circumstances and goals. It can be made during the donor’s life or after one's death.

Through a bequest or trust, one would be leaving a “legacy” gift ensuring that DePaul Catholic High School is able to continue to educate and minister to young men and women of the future. 

There are many ways you can make a contribution to our DePaul Catholic mission!  Some Planned Giving vehicles can be a creative tool for making a gift to DePaul Catholic High School while also maximizing benefits both to you and your loved ones. Check with your trusted Financial Advisors, as they will often  know that Planned Giving can offer great tax advantages and may even provide an income flow to you for life. Scholarships, financial aid, operating funds, facilities funds—all are part of the DePaul Advancement Plan, and you can help us continue and strengthen our mission through various strategies of estate planning.  Our Advancement Team can be a great resource to begin a meaningful conversation to Planned Giving.

Give a Charitable Bequest
Include a provision in your will or trust for the benefit of DePaul Catholic to ensure that its mission continues for years to come. A bequest is easy to arrange, reduces your taxable estate, and allows you to retain your assets throughout your lifetime. The flexibility of a bequest permits you to designate a specific dollar amount, percentage of your estate, or a parcel of property. If you are considering a bequest to DePaul Catholic, we recommend that you consult a lawyer who specializes in trusts and estates.

Life Insurance
Name DePaul Catholic as the beneficiary of all or part of your life insurance policy or policies. When you designate DePaul as a beneficiary of the policy, you may be eligible for an income-tax charitable deduction. Proceeds from the policy are completely removed from the taxable estate of the donor.

Charitable Remainder Trusts
This is a flexible plan allowing you to receive immediate income tax deduction. Gifts to a Charitable Remainder Trust are usually in the form of appreciated stock or property, the sale of which would incur a capital gains tax. A Charitable Remainder Trust is established when a donor places cash, stock, real estate, or art valued over $100,000 into a trust. The trust pays you or your beneficiaries a percentage based on the value of the assets. The remaining assets pass to DePaul when the trust ends.

Charitable Lead Trusts
A Lead Trust works quite differently than a Charitable Remainder Trust. There is a current tax deduction for the gift based on the parameters of the trust. The benefits include transferring assets to your heirs and maximizing tax savings advantages. You place a gift in a “lead” trust, which makes payments to DePaul Catholic for a specific period of time. When the trust ends, remaining assets go to you or your beneficiaries with reduced tax liabilities. It is particularly effective when donors are in very high income tax circumstances, such as a large severance payment or significant qualified distribution!

Create a Permanent Honor Gift or Memorial
Create a Permanent Honor or Memorial for a loved one by making a gift of $5,000 or more in their honor or memory. The names of those enrolled will be listed each year in the Annual Report.

When you include a provision in your will or trust for the benefit of DePaul Catholic High School, you provide essential resources that will shape the future of the school and ensure its excellence for generations to come. If one of these strategies seems right for you, contact the Advancement Office or reach out by email at advancement@dpchs.org, attention Roger DeBonis, Development Officer.

The DePaul Catholic Fund is the cornerstone of fundraising at DePaul Catholic High School. The Annual Appeal which runs from October 1 – April 30 is the primary source of funding for the DePaul Catholic Fund.  The appeal provides supplemental funding that is needed to enable the school to award merit scholarships, grant financial aid, support its co-curricular programs, and plan and pay for needed capital investments.

The DePaul Catholic Fund is the primary way for parents, alumni, and friends to support the school and directly impact a student’s current experience at DePaul Catholic. Funds raised during the appeal are put to immediate use, allowing the school’s administration to offset costs in real time and invest in priorities that otherwise would not be possible. Your generous gifts ensure that DePaul Catholic students have an extraordinary experience rooted in our Roman Catholic and Vincentian traditions, rich in academic excellence, co-curricular activities, faith formation and community service.

The core values at DePaul Catholic are “Faith, Family, Community, Tradition and Excellence” and the administration believes that supporting our annual appeal is consistent with these core values.  

We are extremely grateful for your willingness to join with us in advancing and fulfilling our mission and helping us help our students become the young men and women and servant leaders we know that they can be.

Approximately 80% of DePaul Catholic’s student body receives some form of financial assistance in the form of an academic merit scholarship or need based financial aid. Providing financial assistance to our school families aligns well with the mission and core values of DePaul Catholic High School and our patron saints St. Vincent DePaul and Elizabeth Ann Seton.

The DePaul Catholic administration is committed to help all students that have the capacity to meet the academic rigor of DePaul Catholic High School to attend the school.  

Academic Merit Scholarships are awarded based on High School Entrance Exam results, middle school academic performance and coursework, recommendations and student interviews.

Financial aid is awarded based on need. DePaul Catholic has a long-standing "Adopt-A-Student" program that is the backbone of the funding for the school’s financial aid program.  Adopting a student is a fantastic way to make a DePaul Catholic education affordable to a deserving student. Financial aid is also made possible through unrestricted giving.

The DePaul Catholic Administration believes strongly that a DePaul Catholic education should be affordable and available to all qualified deserving students. The core values at DePaul Catholic are “Faith, Family, Community, Excellence, and Tradition” and the administration believes the desire to keep tuition affordable is consistent with these values.

Tuition alone does not fully cover the cost of educating a DePaul Catholic student. To ensure that DePaul Catholic has the best possible teachers and administrators to educate and guide its students, DePaul Catholic needs parents to give beyond tuition, with time, talent, and/or treasure. 

Every parental gift supports the people and programs that make our faith-based, college preparatory school unique. This support results in small classes taught by experienced and talented teachers; clubs run by teachers and professional volunteers; athletic teams coached by experienced coaches who prepare our student-athletes to compete at a very high level in a highly competitive athletic conference. 

While attending DePaul Catholic your child will receive more personal attention, discipline, and academic rigor. Gifts of every kind are necessary to give your child access to more than what is covered by tuition. This is why DePaul Catholic needs monthly donors, endowed scholarships, ancillary money-making activities such as summer camps, and, yes, fund-raising and volunteerism.

DePaul Catholic is supported by parents, grandparents, alumni, faculty & staff, corporations, foundations, and friends of DePaul Catholic.

The Athletic Booster Club fundraising goes directly to the athletic teams that each club is affiliated with, however, by making a gift to the DePaul Catholic Fund for Athletics, you will be providing funds beyond the booster club donations to support the purchase of uniforms, travel gear and equipment, pay the stipends for coaches, pay for our sports medicine and training staff as well as contribute to offset the costs of transporting our student athletes to and from the various competitive sporting events.