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Compare 529 Plans by Features
Plan
Does the program offer an e-gifting platform for receiving gift contributions?
Alabama
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.
Alabama
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.
Alaska
This plan offers the GoTuition online gifting platform to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.
Alaska
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.
Arizona
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.
Arkansas
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
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.
California
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.
CHET Advisor 529 College Savings Program
Connecticut
This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.
Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET)
Connecticut
This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.
Delaware
This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.
District of Columbia
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
Florida
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.
Kansas
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.
Kentucky
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
Louisiana
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.
Massachusetts
This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.
Michigan
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.
Minnesota College Savings Plan
Minnesota
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.
Montana
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).
Nebraska
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).
Nevada
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
Nevada
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.
New Hampshire
This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.
New Hampshire
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.
NJBEST 529 College Savings Plan
New Jersey
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.
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.
Morgan Stanley National Advisory 529 Plan
North Carolina
This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.
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.
North Dakota
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
North Dakota
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
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
Oklahoma
This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.
Oregon
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.
Pennsylvania 529 Investment Plan
Pennsylvania
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
CollegeBound 529 (Advisor-sold)
Rhode Island
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
CollegeBound Saver (Direct-sold)
Rhode Island
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
Future Scholar 529 College Savings Plan (Advisor-sold)
South Carolina
This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.
Future Scholar 529 College Savings Plan (Direct-sold)
South Carolina
This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.
CollegeAccess 529 (Advisor-sold)
South Dakota
This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.
CollegeAccess 529 (Direct-sold)
South Dakota
This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.
TNStars College Savings 529 Program
Tennessee
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
Texas
This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.
Texas
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.
This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.
Virginia
This plan does not offer an online gifting portal allowing for easy sharing but may offer gift certificates or allow mail-in gift contributions.
Virginia
This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.
DreamAhead College Investment Plan
Washington
Online gifting can be performed if the account owner or the beneficiary creates an online gifting page for the account
West Virginia
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
SMART529 WV Direct College Savings Plan
West Virginia
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
West Virginia
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
Wisconsin
This plan offers a robust gifting platform that allows gift-givers to save their own profile for recurring or future contributions.
Wisconsin
This plan offers an online tool to share a gift contribution link with family and friends.