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Does the program offer an e-gifting platform for receiving gift contributions?

Yes. Account owner has option to set up a gifting page once an account is established. They can share this page with friends and family and anyone can contribute by debit card, ach or paper check.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers the GoTuition online gifting platform to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan offers the GoTuition® gifting portal, an online tool that allows your family and friends to contribute to your child's college savings plan in lieu of traditional gifts for celebrations like graduations, holidays, and birthdays. GoTuition is a trademark of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

Yes, Gift givers can either contribute online through a one-time or recurring EFT or by mailing in a gift contribution coupon with a check made payable to Ugift.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

CalABLE

California

Gifts may be made by family and friends via two channels: (1) Paper Forms with a check; or (2) Online via your bank account or a debit card. To make a paper contribution, simply download the gift form from the CalABLE.ca.gov website and attach a check. To make an online gift you must be invited to make the contribution by the account owner. Fees may be assessed for online gifting.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

DC College Savings Plan

District of Columbia

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

KY Saves 529

Kentucky

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends., For federal gift tax purposes, contributions to an account are considered a gift from the contributor to the Beneficiary that is eligible for the gift tax annual exclusion. For 2021, the annual exclusion was $15,000 per donee ($30,000 for a married couple that elects on a federal gift tax return to “split” gifts). Effective January 1, 2022, the annual exclusion is $16,000 per donee ($32,000 for a married couple that elects on a federal gift tax return to “split” gifts)

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends., For federal gift tax purposes, contributions to an account are considered a gift from the contributor to the Beneficiary that is eligible for the gift tax annual exclusion. For 2021, the annual exclusion was $15,000 per donee ($30,000 for a married couple that elects on a federal gift tax return to "split" gifts). Effective January 1, 2022, the annual exclusion is $16,000 per donee ($32,000 for a married couple that elects on a federal gift tax return to "split" gifts).

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends., For federal gift tax purposes, contributions to an account are considered a gift from the contributor to the Beneficiary that is eligible for the gift tax annual exclusion. For 2021, the annual exclusion was $15,000 per donee ($30,000 for a married couple that elects on a federal gift tax return to “split” gifts). Effective January 1, 2022, the annual exclusion is $16,000 per donee ($32,000 for a married couple that elects on a federal gift tax return to “split” gifts).

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends., For federal gift tax purposes, contributions to an account are considered a gift from the contributor to the Beneficiary that is eligible for the gift tax annual exclusion. For 2021, the annual exclusion was $15,000 per donee ($30,000 for a married couple that elects on a federal gift tax return to "split" gifts). Effective January 1, 2022, the annual exclusion is $16,000 per donee ($32,000 for a married couple that elects on a federal gift tax return to "split" gifts).

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions through Ugift.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends., Designed exclusively for Franklin Templeton College Savings Plan account owners, Spryng is a personal crowdfunding tool designed to encourage family and friends to make contributions toward an education savings plan.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends., Designed exclusively for Franklin Templeton College Savings Plan account owners, Spryng is a personal crowdfunding tool designed to encourage family and friends to make contributions toward an education savings plan.

Scholar's Edge

New Mexico

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

NY ABLE

New York

UGIFT makes it easy for family and friends to help.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

NC 529 Plan

North Carolina

By end of year 2022, the Plan will offer an online and mobile app gifting platform in partnership with Backer.com. The new robust gifting platform provides a unique gifting link for account owners to share with friends and family and allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions. Account owners and gifters can make contributions using credit cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

Oklahoma 529

Oklahoma

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers an online gifting portal that allows for easy gifting by friends and family.

Yes. Account owners can set up a customized gifting page which creates a URL link that can be shared with family and friends. This URL link can then be used to make digital contributions to an account.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

We have designed a special gifting tool that makes it easy for family and friends to make gifts into your account. From your online account, you can create an eGift event. You will add the email addresses of your friends and family members. We will send out an email to them with a unique link and a personalized message, instructing them on how to make a gift to your account.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

my529

Utah

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.

Invest529

Virginia

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.

Online gifting can be performed if the account owner or the beneficiary creates an online gifting page for the account

SMART529 Select

West Virginia

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

Edvest 529

Wisconsin

This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.

This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.