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Development Update
Provide a Student with a Saint Viator Education and Reduce Your Illinois Income Tax
Saint Viator continues to work with both Empower Illinois and the Big Shoulders Scholarship Granting Organization to provide Tax Credit Scholarships for qualified and deserving students. Qualifying families receive a scholarship to attend Saint Viator, while generous donors receive a 75% credit on their Illinois State Income Tax.
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This year, over 60 Saint Viator families qualified to receive a Tax Credit Scholarship. Our hope is to provide as many scholarships as possible through this program as we continue to promote this opportunity to deserving families.
See the diagram to the right to understand how it works.
For more information, please contact Tom Ramsden at tramsden@saintviator.com or visit www.empowerillinois.org or www.bigshouldersfundsgo.org.
TESTIMONIALS
“After both of our kids graduated, we wanted to stay connected to the school and make a meaningful contribution. Invest in Kids has allowed us to support Saint Viator and makes it possible for some students to attend Saint Viator that otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend. Invest in Kids is an unusual tax incentive in that it is a direct reduction of your Illinois State taxes as opposed to an income tax deduction. We are pleased to be able to see what would have been our Illinois State taxes instead go directly to Saint Viator and help support Saint Viator students.” - Mark ’85 and Carla Spanier
“The Invest in Kids Act has allowed us the opportunity to provide a deserving family the choice to provide a Catholic education for their child. Our children benefited greatly from Saint Viator, and they experienced success in college and now in their professional lives because of Saint Viator. The 75% credit on our state income tax allowed us to make a bigger donation to the school via the scholarship granting organization than if we had made a straight cash gift. The school’s admin team has called it a win-win for the donor and a deserving student - it really is!” - Anonymous past parents of two Saint Viator alumni