Idea Transcript
Campaign for the
Antique Boat Museum
Photograph by Ian Coristine - www.1000islandsphotoart.com
Building on the Past
Vision for the Future The mission of the Antique Boat Museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret boats and other objects related to the history of boating in North America and to enhance public understanding and appreciation of the contributions of the St. Lawrence River region to North America’s boating history. The goal of this Museum is to be an engaged and vital cultural institution with strong links to other educational and cultural communities. We keep faith with our mission by not only caring for our collections but by interpreting the historical, cultural, economic and technical contexts of these artifacts for a broad range of audiences. In so doing we enrich the social and economic fabric of North America. To meet these goals, the Museum’s Long Range Planning Committee identified four key areas of its operation in which strategic initiatives need to be undertaken: public programming, endowment, annual revenues, and infrastructure.
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING As well as preserving our artifacts the Museum’s other core responsibility is to enhance public understanding of what these collections represent. To fulfill this educational mission, the Museum must continue to develop public programming which appeals to a broad audience and is of high intellectual and historical quality. Our new exhibits exemplify this as do its partnerships with other educational institutions including regional elementary schools, institutions of higher learning, and other museums.
The noted educator and maritime historian John Gardner once wrote, “It is not enough to preserve historic boats merely as boats and to store them away for posterity. Storage vaults are more likely to become burial vaults.” The Museum’s antique boats are not kept in vaults, and many of them are in the water and on the river transporting our visitors across time and water. --
ENDOWMENT Relative to other institutions of our size and responsibilities, our $2.8 million endowment is not sufficient as it contributes less than 8% of operating income. At comparable institutions, endowment income makes up nearly half of operating budgets. Because our endowment contributes only a small percentage of current operations revenue, the Museum must make every effort to increase its endowment and build our annual revenue sources. Incorporating both efforts into the Comprehensive Campaign was a conscious effort to do just that.
Photograph by George Fischer
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When the Fred L. Emerson Foundation made its grant to the Campaign for the Antique Boat Museum, one of its board members commented:
"there may be three or four times in a life-time, if you are lucky, that one has the opportunity to be involved in an institution that is on the verge of becoming great. My father was involved with Hobart. I have been involved with only a few, but I believe the Antique Boat Museum, at this moment in history, is right on the cusp of something great and I hope our grant will help it achieve that greatness,"
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Annual Giving The Museum generates nearly 40% of its annual revenue stream through Friends of the Museum Annual Giving and general membership. Because Annual Giving sustains this Museum we must make every effort to nurture and expand its membership and Annual Giving which fund its Chief Curator, Educator, Assistant Registrar and Facilities Supervisor.
Photograph by James P. Blair
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INFRASTRUCTURE The Museum must provide adequate infrastructure for our unique watercraft collection. The Long Range Planning Committee has identified the Yacht House and Shoreline Improvement Project, adequate storage facilities for our collection not on display, as well as strategic acquisitions for campus expansion as our top three capital priorities. These projects will accommodate and care for our collection, in particular La Duchesse, our largest and most significant artifact and an essential part of our plans to increase revenue through broadening audience appeal.
Our antique boats, artifacts and manuscripts have drifted timelessly into our care with unarticulated truths and the Museum’s responsibility as is to articulate those truths -and to preserve these objects.
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The Museum retained Carrie Ahlborn of Works in Progress, Inc. to conduct a feasibility study concerning these strategic needs. After eightyfive personal interviews and a collation of over five hundred questionnaires, Ms. Ahlborn recommended that the Museum create a Development Office and launch a Comprehensive Campaign. The Museum has accepted these recommendations. It has established a Development Office which will provide depth, continuity, and longevity for our membership, Annual Giving, and Planned Giving programs. It has also launched the $7.2 Million Campaign for the Antique Boat Museum that will address these specific strategic needs:
Public Programming And Endowment
$1 million to Endow Public Programming and In-Water Collection
$1 million for Unrestricted Endowment ($600,000 can be future gifts) Infrastructure
$2.5 million for Yacht House and Shoreline Improvement Project $450,000 for Collections Storage $400,000 for Strategic Acquisitions Annual Revenues $1.5 million in Annual Giving $250,000 to fund the creation of a Development Office $100,000 to fund Campaign Costs $7.2 Million Comprehensive Campaign Goal
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CAMPAIGN FOR THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM
THE CASE STATEMENT
In the silent phase of The Campaign for the Antique Boat Museum our staff and volunteers have raised $5 million and must raise the final $2.2 million in the next 18 months. In announcing the public phase of the campaign Teddy McNally spoke about stewardship. “It has been often noted by many of us at this Museum that stewardship means taking care of something that we don’t own, but that we care deeply about. That’s an apt definition for both this Museum and the generosity of our community of donors who support us. As we face the challenge of raising the final $2.2 million in the next eighteen months, we look to our community of members and friends for their abiding stewardship." The Museum respectfully invites you to consider a three-to-five year pledge towards this Campaign. Nothing will have a greater impact on the Museum’s long term mission than your thoughtful commitment. Thank you!
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PUBLIC PROGRAMMING Public Programming and Endowment
$2 Million
The noted educator and maritime historian John Gardner once wrote that, “It is not enough to preserve historic boats merely as boats and to store them away for posterity. Storage vaults are more likely to become burial vaults.” The Museum’s antique boats are not kept in vaults, and many of them are in the water and on the river transporting our visitors across time and water. The Museum serves a broad spectrum of the population from families to public school students, tourists, boat collectors and scholars. With our immediacy to the St. Lawrence River, we have created an experiential learning environment where visitors not only can view antique boats, but they can tour a gilded age houseboat, take a speed boat ride, row a skiff, learn to sail, build a boat or view our new evocative exhibits. Our exhibits invite viewers to experience history viscerally just as the narrator does in Billy Collin’s poem The Brooklyn Museum, when he steps over the soft velvet rope and walks directly into a massive Hudson River painting. The Museum has identified the creation of exhibits and programs with broad appeal and strong narrative themes as a strategic priority under Public Programming. The history, boats and people of Clayton and its character as a River Community feature strongly in these exhibits which present a sense of place as well as interpreting the larger themes of pleasure-boating history.
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PUBLIC PROGRAMMING The exhibits in the Haxall Building - such as Glimpses of St. Lawrence Summer Life: Souvenirs from the Robert and Prudence Matthews Collection - established the esthetic for future exhibits. In 2005 the Museum opened Currents: The River Life of Homer Dodge which explores how rivers flowed through one man’s life. This exhibit forms an enduring setting for complementary exhibits. The Museum has opened five new exhibits in 2006. John Henry Rushton: Boatbuilder and Businessman is the new complementary exhibit in the Homer Dodge Gallery. Outboards! has been installed on the mezzanine of the Dodge Launch Building. This long-term exhibit explores the technological and social impacts of the outboard motor and features boats, engines and archival material relating to outboard boating from the Museum’s outstanding collection. On the north wall of the Haxall Building’s Center Hall Gallery is an exhibit about women and boating culled from the rich visual history of MotorBoating magazine. On the south Side of the Gallery is a reprise of Ian Coristine’s 2005 Exhibit Aerial Perspectives with new images. It should also be noted that the Museum worked closely with the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery of Queens University of Kingston, Ontario in developing and showing Ah Wilderness! Resort Architecture in the Thousand Islands. We have had a two year exhibit at the Arthur Childs Heritage Center in Gananoque, Ontario, and a long-term exhibit of our antique boats at the Boldt Castle Yacht House on Wellesley Island, New York. And finally, we have developed the John Henry Rushton: Boatbuilder and Businessman exhibit in conjunction with the Adirondack Museum, Traditional Arts in Upstate New York and the St. Lawrence County Historical Association.
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PUBLIC PROGRAMMING New Exhibits scheduled to open in 2007-2008 include: Made in Clayton an exhibit that will explore two unique products of the 1000 Islands that were made in Clayton: souvenir paddles painted by Adelphus Keech and fishing lures made by the Skinner Spoon Company. Historic Toy Boats will work with collector Louis Natenshon and others to develop an exhibit of toy and model boats. Duck Stamps, developed in conjunction with John Marsellus and the Everson Museum of Syracuse, will display the original artwork and printed stamps from the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation program. The exhibit will include decoys and related material. The Museum continues to host our "Living Exhibit" in the Edward John Noble Historic Stone Building. Over the last three summers Aaron Turner has built a beautiful reproduction of the 24' 1903 launch Katz and is now at work on a turn of the century skiff putt. The Museum will continue its loan program with the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Seattle. For 2006, Miss Thriftway will be returned to Seattle and the HRM will loan the Museum another of its post-war Gold Cup Boats. As John Gardner demands of us, this Museum has become more than a collection of varnished mahogany skiffs and power boats secured in vaults. Our exhibits provide a lens through which the past is brought into focus, helping us understand the present with a clearer perspective of our place in this world. The Education Program continues to meet community needs by initiating collaborations with other organizations; nurturing relationships with the local community through expanding in-school and on-site visits with local schools and by implementing a formal docent program.
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PUBLIC PROGRAMMING Our programs include youth activities, a school partnership, sailing lessons, family projects, boatbuilding and restoration courses, and boating and seamanship classes. We work with students from ages four through eighty-plus and encourage hands-on learning for all. The majority of our programs run from June through September, with the Empire State Partnership occurring during the school year. Programs are taught by museum educators, and skilled artisans or specialists. Tuition fees for programs are set as low as possible to allow as many people as possible to participate. In 1996 the Museum founded the Community Connections Project, which evolved into the Empire State Partnership Program. Its objective is to improve the delivery and assessment of the State’s Learning Standards. The selection process “follows a highly competitive review, and those selected exhibit a strong potential for succeeding.” In one of the Museum’s most successful Empire State Partnership projects, a class of local alternative high school students worked with a fourth generation boat builder, to build a reproduction of the 88 Class St. Lawrence Racing Skiff. A sister 88 was constructed by students at the Alexandria Seaport Foundation in Virginia, with generous funding provided by Friends of the Museum. The completed skiffs were then special displays at the No-Octane Regatta at Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks, the Wooden Boat Show in Mystic, Connecticut, and the Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival in St. Michaels, Maryland. The 88s highlight the Museum’s commitment to teach today’s students lifelong skills and values through the boat building craftsmanship of yesterday.
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Annual Giving Annual Revenues
$1.85 Million
The Museum generates nearly 40% of its annual revenue stream through Friends of the Museum Annual Giving and General Membership. Because Annual Giving sustains this Museum, we must make every effort to expand our membership and Annual Giving which fund our Chief Curator, Educator, Assistant Registrar and Facilities Supervisor. Following the recommendation of Works in Progress, the Museum has established a full time Development Office to sustain and nurture Annual Giving and to administer the Campaign for the Antique Boat Museum. The goal of the Campaign is to raise $1.5 million in Annual Giving from 2004 through 2007. The funding needed to establish the Development Office and to administer the campaign is $350,000. In 2004 the Museum received a ground-breaking grant of $250,000 from the Emerson Foundation to establish a full time Development Office. The creation of the Development Office has given the Campaign depth, continuity and longevity. Besides having a positive impact on the Campaign, it has also had an impact on Annual Giving, Planned Giving and Good Governance. Besides its focus on fund raising, the Development Office is also working closely with the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees to build a strong and diverse Board of Trustees to carry on the Museum’s mandate. Two years ago the Board made a commitment to embark on the American Association of Museums (AAM) Museum Assessment Program (MAP) as a first step towards seeking AAM accreditation. With the support of the Development Office, the Board is undertaking a MAP Governance Assessment. Once completed, the Museum will undertake a second Museum Assessment Program module which deals with Public Programming. At the conclusion of this process, the Museum will have a clear indication of its strengths and will address its weaknesses and be ready to pursue AAM accreditation.
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INFRASTRUCTURE Infrastructure Needs
$3.35 Million
That which survives the passage of time is the exception and it is this quality which imbues our collection with wonderment and meaning. Our antique boats, artifacts and manuscripts have drifted timelessly into our care with unarticulated truths and the Museum’s responsibility is to articulate those truths and to preserve these objects. The Museum has identified the Yacht House and Shoreline Improvement Project, adequate storage facilities for our collection not on display, and strategic acquisitions for campus expansion as our top three capital priorities. In the last eighteen months the Museum has purchased two strategically important abutting properties for $400,000. Both properties expand the Museum’s waterfront. In the fall of 2001 the hundred year old gilded-age houseboat La Duchesse was bequeathed to the Museum. Preservation is a challenge. Museums face a difficult task as they endeavor to keep artifacts for future generations. Many of the items in our collections are now well beyond their designed life-spans, and have lived far longer than their creators intended. For example the famed Chris-Craft runabout was sold as a perishable consumer product whose builders intended it to last no longer than six years before major repairs. Photograph by Bruce Duncan
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INFRASTRUCTURE In some ways, La Duchesse is just one of the Museum’s in-water vessels, and in others she is utterly unique and has her own special needs. Maritime preservation issues become more acute when the boat in question is 110'. As a historic preservationist wrote about the importance of the Yacht House project:
"I am just not all that concerned about small boats. Because they are small, they easily fit in garages and are usually preserved by individuals. The larger boats . . . are more troublesome because they are too large for easy transport and therefore require constant storage and maintenance. The number of these boats that have disappeared in the last decade is staggering . . . yet they represent the golden age of American pleasure boating. Thus I am very supportive of your efforts to raise an endowment and to build a Yacht House for larger vessels. The Museum has accepted a considerable challenge in taking on an artifact as large and complex as La Duchesse. The good news is that the construction of the Yacht House as winter accommodation for La Duchesse will do more than any other single action the Museum could take to ensure her continued survival, and will represent the highest and best stewardship that we can offer this unique and irreplaceable artifact.
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INFRASTRUCTURE The Yacht House and Shoreline Improvement Project
$2.5 Million
The Long Range Planning Committee worked diligently to develop an infrastructure to display this vessel in the summers and to protect her in the winter from heavy snows, ice, and arctic winds. In the process the Committee made the following observations concerning the Museum’s antiquated boathouse. Over the years its westernmost seawall had slid ten feet eastward and its superstructure was exhibiting several instances of fatigue and damage due to overloading. The seawall at the back of the boathouse had been badly damaged by a series of storms and requires repairs and the gabions supporting the seawall to its east are toppling into the river and need replacement. As the Committee wrestled with these problems, the concept of a multi-use boathouse and shoreline improvement project emerged. This multi-use Yacht House and Shoreline Improvement Project had to provide two remedies. First, it had to preserve the Museum’s waterfront from erosion. Second, it needed to house La Duchesse during the winter and to shelter our in-water fleet during the summer with a capacity to lift them for emergency service. Grater Architects has designed a Yacht House reminiscent of such wonderful river landmarks such as Boldt Yacht House and the Peacock Yacht House. An esthetically balanced building, which reflects many of the indigenous St. Lawrence motifs inscribed in the Skiff Livery and Gold Cup Building, the Yacht House has a thirty foot wide center slip large enough to accommodate La Duchesse in the winter, Sinbad in the summer, with two side slips wide enough to accommodate Zipper, Corsair, Teal, Gadfly, Pardon Me, Sinbad and other boats from the Museum’s in-water fleet.
Photograph by George Fischer
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INFRASTRUCTURE Inspired by Andrew McNally’s gift of La Duchesse and the Museum’s commitment to construct a Yacht House, Linda Gordon Kendall gave the Museum an extraordinary gift. She donated the exquisitely preserved 64’ motor-yacht Sinbad and a wonderful gift of $500,000 to honor her parents Fred and Virginia Gordon in perpetuity. One of the last wooden yachts built by Trumpy, Sinbad has the unique history of being owned by only one family. Designed with a standing-seam green roof, shakes and clapboards with a raised roof over the center slip, the Yacht House creates a balance with the Haxall Building’s river façade, its stone faced porches and the limestone of the Edward John Noble Historic Stone Building. The ridgeline of the Yacht House will be in line with the ridge line of the Dodge Launch Building so that no one structure unduly dominates the profile of the campus. Last summer the Museum completed Phase I of the Shoreline Improvement project with construction cost of $504,223. Phase I included the demolition of the western slip of the antiquated boat house, the excavation of 120 feet of collapsed western seawall, the blasting and dredging of the new slip to three feet below the mean low water level and the construction of a new western seawall. Completion of Phase I has already had a profound impact on the Museum. It has stabilized the Museum’s peninsula, provided a needed berth for La Duchesse both in the summer and winter, and allowed this unique houseboat to come to the Museum and be on display. Docent tours of La Duchesse increased the Museum’s Admissions revenue for 2005 by 66%. Phase II of the Yacht House and Shoreline Improvement project will begin September, 2006 and includes continued improvement of the shoreline and construction of the 13,124 square foot Yacht House with two exterior 10' by 130' piers and two interior 8' by 140' piers. In the winter La Duchesse will be safely moored in the center slip, with her wooden superstructure and vulnerable asphalt covered wooden roof protected from blizzards, freezing rain, and harsh winds. In late spring she will emerge from hibernation, her flags and awnings unfurled, her gangplanks lowered, and once again made available to the public at the new pier. With soft costs and contingencies the total for Phase I and II of the Yacht House and Shoreline Improvement project is projected to be $2.5 million. All components of the projects are sustainable. The seawalls are sheet metal with a life span of fifty years. The piers are ecologically friendly and have been designed to be on pipe pile construction which allows for maximum water flow for fish and animal life.
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INFRASTRUCTURE Collection Storage Facility
$450,000
For the last fifteen years the Museum has utilized four pole barns, which provide 13,000 square feet of storage for our antique boat collection on five acres of undulating land. The barns, which have dirt floors and cannot be made animal-proof, are in need of major repairs and upgrading to achieve an appropriate standard of collections care. The Museum also needs more storage capacity and for the last three years has had to lease additional space for its growing watercraft collection. Last year the Museum purchased 10 acres of flat, well-drained land and began the process of designing and building the Collection Storage Facility. The facility, which will be completed in the summer of 2006, is named for former trustee and benefactor Don Doebler. This 20,000 square foot pre-engineered metal building has a poured concrete floor and is vented and insulated but neither heated nor cooled. The insulation moderates daily and seasonal temperature change and substantially improve the storage climate for wooden boats. Because of the building’s height, boats will be able to be stacked in special cradles to maximize the utilization of floor space. There will also be a loft area for small boat and engine storage. The net increase in storage space from the older pole barns is over a hundred percent. Notwithstanding John Gardner’s admonition to use our collection to increase public understanding, the Museum’s primary responsibility is to preserve the artifacts for future generations. The restoration of our shoreline and the construction of the Yacht House and Don Doebler Collection Storage Facility provide for the appropriate stewardship of this Museum and our irreplaceable collection.
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The trustees and staff of the Antique Boat Museum respectfully invite you to consider a three-to-five year pledge towards the Campaign for the Antique Boat Museum. Nothing will have a greater impact on the Museum’s long term mission than your thoughtful commitment. Thank you for the generous consideration of your gift.
SCALE OF GIFTS The Antique Boat Museum Scale of Gifts to raise $7,200,000
In the range of
# gifts
Totaling
Cumulative Total
Leadership Gifts
1
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
1
$ 500,000
$ 500,000
$1,500,000
8
$ 250,000
$2,000,000
$3,500,000
Major Gifts
7
$ 100,000
$ 700,000
$4,200,000
10
$
50,000
$ 500,000
$4,700,000
10
$
25,000
$ 250,000
$4,950,000
Special Gifts
40
$
10,000
$ 400,000
$5,350,000
60
$
5,000
$ 300,000
$5,650,000
300 (Friends)
$
1,000 x 5 years
$1,500,000
$7,150,000
200
under $1000 (avg. $250)
$
$7,200,000
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50,000
"You should be very proud of what you have built (and are continuing to build) - a wonderful institution that beyond the River itself, is definitely its finest asset." Ian Coristine
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NAMING OPPORTUNITIES
Yacht House (named) McNally Yacht House
$ 1,000,000
Named Endowment
$ 1,000,000
Orientation Gallery (named) Virginia & Fred Gordon
$ 500,000
Builder-in-Residence Program
$ 400,000
Collection Storage Facility (named)
$ 350,000
Don Doebler Collection Storage Facility
New 260’ Pier and Infrastructure
$ 250,000
Concourse Gallery and Exhibit
$ 250,000
Administrative Offices
$ 250,000
Sailing Program
$ 250,000
Community Parking Lot
$ 100,000
Breakwater Pier
$ 100,000
Exhibition Sponsors
$ 100,000
Annual Educational Forums
$ 100,000
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10 Ways to Give to the Antique Boat Museum There is a culture of philanthropy at the Antique Boat Museum. In the last eight years, over $6 million has been given for endowment and capital projects. It is imperative that throughout the next five years we continue to grow our membership while concurrently raising the needed funds for our strategic initiatives and building the endowment.
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CASH - Cash gifts are an easy way to give. Cash gifts of any size can have an immediate impact on the Museum. Mail a check, call us or make a gift using your credit card. SECURITIES - Gifts of stock, bonds, treasuries, and mutual funds that have increased in value are a win-win opportunity for you and the Museum. Under current tax laws you get a tax deduction based on the market value and don’t pay capital gains tax.
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MATCHING GIFTS - Thousands of companies and corporate foundations in the United States currently match their employees’ gifts to nonprofit organizations such as museums. Under a corporate matching gift program, gifts made by a company’s eligible employee or employee’s spouse are matched with company or corporate foundation funds. To initiate a matching gift, ask your benefits/personnel office for the company’s matching gift form and send it along with your donation to the Museum.
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Bequests - Planned Gifts through Wills - A gift through one’s will is perhaps the most popular form of a planned gift. Such gifts may enable persons to make significant contributions to their favorite causes that may not have been possible during life. A bequest in a will can take various forms: A specific bequest may benefit the Museum with a specific dollar amount or item. A percentage bequest may benefit the Museum with a percentage of the estate rather than a specific dollar amount or item. A residual bequest could give the Antique Boat Museum all or a portion of the estate after all debts, taxes, expenses and all other bequests have been paid. A restricted bequest could benefit a special purpose, such as to endow a collection or artifact in memory of a loved one.
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Charitable Remainder Unitrusts These are separately invested trusts that provide an income to the donor (and a survivor) equaling the current market value of the trust, refigured annually, multiplied by an agreed-upon percentage. Again, there is an immediate income tax deduction and avoidance of capital gains taxes when appreciated property is given.
Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts - Annuity trusts are similar to unitrusts except that a fixed annuity is paid to the donor. The amount is determined at the outset as an agreed-upon percentage of the initial market value. Charitable Lead Trusts - These can be unitrusts or annuity trusts, with the income paid to the Museum for a fixed period of time at the end of which it is distributed to children or grandchildren. Lead trusts make sense chiefly for those with large incomes who want to pass property to the next generation free of estate tax.
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Gift of Real Estate with Retained Life Tenancy - A residence, summer house, or farm may be the largest single asset possessed by a person who would like to make a major gift someday. It is possible to make a gift of a remainder interest in the residence and retain the right to live there for as long as one wishes. It is also possible to make the same kind of gift of a farm and continue to operate the farm without disruption. In either case there may be very substantial income tax and estate tax benefits.
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Completed Gifts of Life Insurance - The donor makes an unrestricted gift to the Museum and the Museum, who is both the owner and beneficiary of the policy, chooses to pay the premium on a whole life insurance policy on the donor. The annual premium payment is a tax deductible gift.
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IRAs and Retirement Plans - The law requires that some IRAs and qualified retirement plan assets be taxed as income when they are distributed to you. If you leave these assets to anyone other than your spouse, they are taxed as income at your death. Add the income tax rate to your possible estate tax rate, and your retirement money may be taxed 75 to 100 percent! It is possible that your children or loved ones would have to sell the property you left them in order to pay the tax. This information is not intended to provide legal advice. Please consult with your own financial counsel for specific information regarding your personal circumstances. Further information on stock transfer is available on our website: www.abm.org. Or please call Rebecca Hopfinger at (315) 686-4104 x230.
Please fill out and mail to the Antique Boat Museum: 750 Mary Street Clayton, NY 13624
Mr. Edward C. McNally, Chairman Board of Trustees, Antique Boat Museum 750 Mary Street Clayton, New York 13624
Dear Mr. McNally, In appreciation of the goals and accomplishments of the Antique Boat Museum and to ensure that the Museum continues its mission of preservation, interpretation, research, and public programming, I/we pledge a total capital gift of $___________ for the Campaign for the Antique Boat Museum to be paid over the next five years. In addition, I/we pledge $__________ for our annual membership and/or Friends of the Museum Annual Giving over the next five years as part of the Campaign. We understand that this pledge may be paid in cash, appreciated securities and/or property and, if necessary, may be completed through my/our estate (checks payable to the Antique Boat Museum). My/our personal gift will be matched by
Sincerely yours,
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