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Year-End Giving Deadlines To Know

Thank you for supporting WUNC! Because our business office will be closed December 24 through January 1, we wanted to share some important year-end giving deadlines with you.

Mailing a Donation Check

WUNC’s address is 120 Friday Center Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27517.

ALERT: The USPS has changed the way postmarked mail is handled.Effective December 24, machine postmarks will be applied at regional processing centers, not the local drop-off point. As a result, the date of the machine postmark can be several days later than when a piece of mail was handed over to the USPS. To ensure timely delivery of a gift for the 2025 tax year, please consider mailing a check on or before December 24 or make your gift online by credit card here until 11:59 pm on December 31.

Some suggestions for ensuring your mailed gift is postmarked before the end of the year:

  • Mail any year-end gifts on or before December 23.
  • Request a Manual Postmark: Customers may present a mail piece at a retail counter and request a "manual (local) postmark". This postmark is applied at the time of acceptance, so the date aligns with the date the USPS took possession.
  • Postage Validation Imprint (PVI): When a customer pays for postage at a retail counter, the PVI label applied by the employee also indicates the date of acceptance.
  • Certificates of Mailing: Customers may purchase a Certificate of Mailing, or use Registered or Certified Mail, to obtain a receipt that serves as evidence of the date the item was presented for mailing.

NOTE: If you are using an IRA checkbook, please mail it by December 15 to ensure your gift arrives and is deposited before the end of the year.

Credit Card Donations

Gifts for the current calendar year can be made online at WUNC.org until 11:59 p.m. on December 31. You can also call 800-962-9862 to make a credit card donation by phone. Your gift must be charged by 11:59 p.m. to count in the current calendar year, so please call or start the online donation form with plenty of time for your gift to be charged before the new year begins at midnight!

If you want to mail in a credit card gift, please make sure it arrives by December 17. The postmark date does not apply for credit card gifts received by mail. Your credit card must be charged by December 31 to count as a gift in this tax year.

Donating Stock and Other Securities

Electronic transfers must be out of your control and received by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Wells Fargo Advisors brokerage account by 3:30 p.m. on December 31. Please email Jennifer Fusco (jfusco@wunc.org) with your name, the number of shares, and the name of stock(s) transferred as a gift to WUNC. For stock transfer instructions please click here: [More Information]

IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution Gift

IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution Gifts can be sent directly to WUNC by your IRA Administrator with the same postmark requirements as mailed checks. (Please see the alert about new USPS postmark rules above.)

PLEASE NOTE: If you are using an IRA checkbook to send a gift, IRS requirements dictate these checks must be debited from your account by December 31 to qualify in the current tax year’s distributions. To help ensure that WUNC receives and deposits your gift before the end of the year, please mail your check by December 15. [More Information]

Cash Gifts by Wire Transfer

Gifts of cash to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s cash account must be received by 4 p.m. on December 31. Please alert UNC that your gift is coming and that it is designated to WUNC by calling 919-537-3818 or emailing giving@unc.edu. [Click here for transfer instructions]

Donor Advised Fund Gifts

WUNC is an associated entity of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and falls under the same EIN/tax ID number, which is 56-6001393. Please request that your gift is sent either directly to WUNC’s address – 120 Friday Center Dr., Chapel Hill, NC 27517 – or to UNC Chapel Hill with a note that it is designated for WUNC.

Please do not send your DAF gift to the North Carolina Public Radio Association. This is a separate, private non-profit set up by WUNC and other NC public radio stations to facilitate collaborative work, but it does not solicit individual donations, and it does not distribute donations to WUNC or other public radio stations.