Exceeding 100 Partner Donation Recipients! Offering "100 Options" for the Third Inheritance: "Legacy Giving"

The NPO Inheritance & Real Estate Support Center (Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Daiki Miyagawa; hereinafter "our organization"), which supports the popularization of "legacy giving"—entrusting assets to organizations aiming to solve social issues—is pleased to announce that the number of partner donation recipients serving as the repositories for these legacies reached 100 organizations as of March 2026. Our organization acts as an "intermediary support organization" that stands between potential donors and active organizations, handling everything from accepting assets such as "real estate," which requires specialized knowledge, to their liquidation and subsequent transfer to appropriate organizations. To address challenges such as "I have the desire to donate, but I don't know where to donate" or "Donations of real estate are refused," our organization has built a highly effective donation infrastructure by serving as a practical hub. With this milestone of 100 partner organizations, we aim to expand to a 200-organization system in the next fiscal year. Through this, we will further promote a "social redistribution mechanism" where regional assets, including real estate, are reliably circulated to address even more nuanced local issues across the country. ■ Surpassing 100 Organizations: Providing Reliable "Donation Exits" When considering legacy giving, many people face anxieties about whether their assets will truly be useful, as well as practical hurdles regarding how to handle real estate such as homes and land. Through partnerships with local governments and social welfare councils, our organization has built a network of 100 donation recipient organizations (NPOs, civic groups, etc.) that have confirmed continuous activity records and reliability based on our standards. With these 100 organizations, donors can now smoothly entrust their assets (cash, real estate, securities, etc.) to "100 options" that respond to personal desires, such as "I want to support my hometown" or "I want to support children because of my own hardships," through trustworthy organizations in diverse fields. [Check the list of partner donation organizations here] https://sfs-npo.org/corporation.html [Donation recipient categories and composition ratio (breakdown of 100 organizations)] The activity fields of the 100 organizations are diverse and cover the issues modern society faces. - Children/Education/Youth Support: approx. 35% (child welfare facilities, children's cafeterias, learning support, support for school non-attendance, scholarship organizations, etc.) - Regional Welfare/Medical/Coexistence: approx. 30% (elderly support, employment for persons with disabilities, intractable disease support, multicultural coexistence, local community, etc.) - Environment/Animals/Cultural Heritage: approx. 20% (Satoyama conservation, rescue cats/dogs, traditional performing arts, international exchange, disaster support, etc.) - Local Governments/Intermediary Support/Other: approx. 15% (social welfare councils, civic activity support centers, specific project funds, etc.) ■ Driving the Unexplored "Donation by Will" Market In recent years, interest in legacy giving has been growing rapidly. According to materials from the National Tax Agency (*1), the actual amount of donations related to inherited property in 2023 was 64.3 billion yen (a 200% increase from the previous year). However, the majority of this consists of "donations from inherited property" (55.7 billion yen) decided by the heirs, while the actual amount of "legacy giving" (donations by will), where the deceased entrusts their intentions during their lifetime, remains at 8.1 billion yen. On the other hand, it is estimated that the "potential legacy donation amount" that is stated in wills but has not yet been executed is at least 300 billion yen nationwide. Behind the inactivity of this huge potential market are high hurdles such as the difficulty of creating a will and complex asset procedures such as real estate. Amidst this, our organization, which was launched in August 2024, has accumulated the following track record in just about a year and a half as an "intermediary support organization" capable of handling real estate. - Number of gift consultations: 70 - Number of wills created: 8 - Property listed in wills: Approx. 1.6 billion yen (Financial assets approx. 930 million yen + Real estate approx. 670 million yen) - Number of partner donation organizations: 100 - Partnerships with local governments/social welfare councils, etc.: 3 (Kawasaki City, Yokohama City Council of Social Welfare, Japan Women's Organizations Council) Against the total legacy donation execution amount of 8.1 billion yen and an estimated potential market of 300 billion yen in Japan, the fact that our new organization has already secured a transaction volume of 1.6 billion yen (including prospects such as completed wills) confirms the market's trust in our practical capabilities. In particular, the fact that real estate accounts for about 40% of the transaction volume indicates that our mechanism, which transforms "negative real estate" that is difficult to liquidate into a driving force for social contribution, is becoming an important infrastructure for opening up the legacy giving market. *1 Source: Data obtained by the Legacy Giving Promotion Organization Co., Ltd. from a request for disclosure of administrative documents to the National Tax Agency. ■ Future Outlook Our organization has a roadmap to double the number of partner donation recipients to 200 within fiscal year 2026. By expanding to 200 partners, we will further refine our support network, comprehensively covering fields for diversified social issues such as support for specific diseases, countermeasures against solitary deaths, and community-based environmental conservation. As an intermediary support organization, we aim to build an infrastructure that optimally connects "wishes" and "activities" to eliminate issues that tend to be left behind in the cracks of society. At the same time, we are also considering the use of technology to further improve the convenience of donations. Development of "AI matching" that proposes the optimal donation destination from simple questions is also planned. By fusing digital technology with practical support from professionals such as judicial scriveners and tax accountants, we will transform legacy giving into a more familiar option. ■ Representative Director Comment When I lost my father, I experienced legacy giving as a way to carry on his wishes. My father had a strong desire during his lifetime to "make Japan better" and "be a force for the promising younger generation," and I still remember how seriously our family faced the question of how we should leave those thoughts to society. However, in reality, there were challenges such as "where should I donate?", "will that wish really be used correctly?", and "how should I handle assets like real estate?", and I strongly felt the difficulty of turning wishes into reality. From this experience, I came to think that inheritance is not just the succession of assets, but the "succession of wishes," and that a mechanism is needed to reliably connect those wishes to society. Currently in Japan, while interest in legacy giving is rising, many wishes remain unrealized because people are troubled by the handling of assets including real estate and the selection of donation recipients. As an intermediary support organization, we stand between donors and organizations, taking charge from the acceptance of assets and liquidation to the reliable delivery of funds, thereby making legacy giving, which was difficult to realize in the past, a reality. Surpassing 100 partner organizations is not just an achievement in number, but proof that a "mechanism that can deliver wishes to society regardless of the type of asset" has been established. In the future, we will further evolve this network and mechanism to realize a society where each individual's important intentions are reliably connected to the next generation. And we would like to work on its popularization so that legacy giving is not something special, but an "obvious option to entrust one's wishes to the future by one's own will." ■ What is Legacy Giving? It is the transfer of a part or all of one's property to a specific person or organization after the testator's death by will. Donating to public organizations such as local governments, NPOs, and school corporations through legacy is called "legacy giving." Recently, it is attracting attention as a "new inheritance option" due to the rise in social contribution awareness and preparation for "single-person inheritance." However, there are high hurdles for the donation of "real estate," which accounts for about half of Japan's inheritance composition. Most NPO organizations do not have the know-how to accept, manage, and sell real estate as is, and until now, cases where they "could only accept cash donations" have been the majority. By having an "intermediary support organization" like ours stand between the donor and the organization, this issue is resolved. Legacy giving becomes possible including "real estate," which requires specialized knowledge for sale, such as a home or regional land. Since professionals take on the execution of the will, you can reliably turn your wishes into reality. Since our organization delivers the funds after "liquidating" legacy donation cases of real estate, etc., which they would otherwise have had to refuse, it becomes possible to effectively "receive all kinds of assets as donations." In this way, by our organization serving as a practical "hub," we are building a mechanism to convert sleeping regional assets into a driving force for solving social issues. ■ About NPO Inheritance & Real Estate Support Center Our center is a support organization that connects "wishes" and "assets" to the next generation through the popularization of legacy giving. Our greatest strength is that we have established the nation's first one-stop system that specializes in supporting legacy donations of real estate (negative real estate), which tend to be barriers to donation. We cooperate with a network of experts such as lawyers, tax accountants, and real estate appraisers to consistently handle everything from consultation to execution support. We are building a mechanism of "new public" that eliminates the risks of owning real estate and transforms inheritance issues into social contribution.