Important information regarding end-of-year donations.
If a donor mails an end-of-year check to you directly, please be sure to save the envelope and send it in with the check. The donor's envelope must be included with any checks mailed to Reliant by the missionary. If the envelope is postmarked in December 2024, we can count the donation as a 2024 gift. If the check is dated 2024, but the postmark on the envelope is 2025, we will process the donation as a 2025 gift.
Please check your mailboxes early in the new year for these types of gifts and send them to Reliant as soon as you can. All 2024 gifts must be received by January 10, 2025, to be included in 2024 donations.
November 30, 2024
- Gifts received in the Reliant office for expiring backpay. This is the last business day for gifts to be received by Reliant to help pay your December 13 payroll, including any 2022 backpay, which will expire after December payroll is completed.
December 24 & 25, 2024
- No gift processing. Reliant office closed.
December 26, 27, 30, 2024
- Limited Reliant Office personnel is available. Please make sure that you leave a message with your name and phone number if you call the office and are sent to voicemail.
- Reminder: for Gift Services, please have donors call 877-614-4600 (Gift Services' direct line) or email: gift.services@reliant.org
- December 30 will be the last business day the Reliant office is open in 2024.
December 31, 2024
- No gift processing. Reliant office closed. (Calls will go to voicemail and be returned as the Gift Services team is able, but possibly not until January).
- December 31 - Final day for 2024 tax year gifts. Check donors who want to count their gift as a tax deduction in 2024 need to mail their check, so it's postmarked by December 31, 2024. Please see the pink information box at the top of this page for additional requirements for 2024 checks to be received by Reliant and counted towards 2024 giving statements.
- December 31 - Final day for online giving to count for 2024 (deadline Midnight EST).
January 1, 2025
- No gift processing. Reliant office closed. (Calls will go to voicemail and be returned as the Gift Services team is able).
January 2, 2025
- Deadline for Reliant to receive 2024 check donations to be used to pay your paycheck on January 15. December 2024 check gifts received after this cutoff (but received by the January 10 deadline) will still be counted as December gifts, but they will be reserved and used toward the balance available to pay your February 14, 2025 paycheck.
January 10, 2025
- All December gifts sent directly to you by donors must be received in the Reliant office by January 10. This is the final accounting deadline for 2024 "late checks" to be recorded as 2024 giving for tax-deduction purposes. This only counts for checks which were postmarked in 2024. (Our auditors check the postmark date on the envelope to prove the donation was mailed in 2024, so please save the envelope and mail it with the check!) Please check your mailboxes early in the new year for these types of gifts and immediately send them to Reliant to be received by the January 10 deadline.
- If you are mailing checks using a guaranteed delivery service for delivery on January 10 - please make sure you select the delivery option for early AM delivery or guaranteed delivery by 1:00 PM. To allow for sufficient processing time by our Gift Services team, Reliant will be unable to guarantee a 2024 gift date for packages containing 2024 checks received after 1:00 PM EST on January 10.
- Deadline for any remaining 2024 reimbursements must be submitted to Reliant by 11:59 PM Eastern time. You must submit any remaining October, November, or December 2024 reimbursements by this date. The standard three-month submission window does not apply during this time of year.
January 17, 2025
- Reimbursements paid. Reimbursements submitted in December will be eligible for payment on this date.
January 31, 2025
- Reimbursements paid. Any 2024 reimbursements submitted in January will be paid on this date. We will use the full MTD account balance available for payment, which includes any additional December 2024 gifts which were received by January 10. Please keep in mind Reliant may only pay reimbursements once a missionary has received all outstanding backpay.
