Here are important year-end gift deadlines and reminders to receive tax benefits for calendar 2025.

Gifts by Mail

If you mail a gift, the envelope must be postmarked by Dec. 31, 2025 to qualify as a tax-deductible gift for 2025.

Gifts Made Online

Credit card gifts must be completed before midnight Dec. 31, 2025 to qualify as tax deductible gift in 2025. To make your credit card gift online go to foundation.missouriwestern.edu/give/.

Gifts by Stock Transfer

Shares must be deposited in the MWSU Foundation brokerage account before 3 p.m. central time on Dec. 29, 2025. 

Please contact Michele Chambers at mchambers5@missouriwestern.edu or (816) 273-7710 or Kim Weddle at weddle@missouriwestern.edu or (816) 387-6834 for stock transfer instructions. 

The MWSU Campus and Foundation offices will be closed December 22, 2025-January 2, 2026 for Winter Break and will reopen on Monday January 5, 2026.