The parcel numbers
From the county tax bill.
Donate hunting and recreational land to charity
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Donate Hunting Land to Charity
Hunting and recreational land is often bought with friends or family, used hard for twenty years and then left idle when the group stops going. The taxes keep coming and the cabin needs a roof. Real Estate with Causes accepts donated hunting land, fishing and camp property nationwide, including tracts with a cabin, a pond, food plots or an existing hunting lease.
Tell us about the land
Every property gets a look. Name, phone and email are the only required fields.
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Leases, cabins and co-owners
An existing lease to a hunting club transfers with the land, and the income it produces supports the appraised value. A cabin, pole barn or pond adds value too, as long as it is sound.
Land owned by a group
When several friends or relatives own the land together, every owner has to sign to donate the whole tract. Each deducts their own share.
Why recreational land suits a donation
Recreational buyers are a small market, especially for remote tracts, and they often want seller financing. A donation skips the wait and the listing.
For land held more than a year, the deduction is generally appraised fair market value, limited to 30% of AGI with a five-year carryforward. Keeping the right to hunt the land after donating it would be a partial interest and generally undermines the deduction.
What to have ready when you call
Hunting land rarely comes with much paperwork, and that is fine.
Any lease or club agreement
Written or handshake, tell us who hunts the land now and on what terms.
A list of co-owners
Everyone on the deed and whether they agree.
Hunting land donation questions, answered
Can I keep hunting the land after I donate it? +
Not if you want a deduction. Reserving hunting rights makes the gift a partial interest, which generally does not qualify. You could lease hunting rights from the new owner at a fair rent, but that is a separate arrangement.
There is a cabin on the land. Do I need to clean it out? +
Take what you want. Cleanout is usually the donor’s responsibility, but items left behind do not stop a donation.
A hunting club leases the land. What happens to them? +
The lease transfers with the land and stays in force for its term. We become the landlord.
Four of us bought the land together. Can one of us donate? +
One owner can donate their own share, but that is a fractional gift with its own rules. Donating the whole tract requires everyone to sign.
Is remote land with a rough access road still worth donating? +
Often, yes. Remote recreational land is exactly the kind that takes years to sell. Tell us how it is reached and we will review it.
We do not provide tax or legal advice. See IRS Publication 526, Publication 561 and the Form 8283 instructions, and consult your own advisor.
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Tell us about the land and we will review it
Send the county, the acreage and anything built on it, and we will tell you plainly whether a donation works.