The Geneva Music Festival depends upon the support of individuals, foundations, and corporations. Ticket sales account for approximately a fifth of the Festival’s annual operating revenue. Your generosity helps keep ticket prices modest and helps fund educational and outreach programs for area school children and the broader community. With your support, the Festival brings together talented musicians from across the country in imaginative collaborations, creating a musical event of quality and substance.
There are three ways an individual can support the Festival: with an individual gift to the Festival’s Annual Appeal to help cover the Festival’s annual expenses, with a gift to the Festival’s endowment to help secure the Festival’s future, and by including the Festival in your estate planning. Additionally, businesses and corporations can sponsor the Festival annually at various levels. And, importantly, you can volunteer your time and talents. Your gift makes the music happen!
The Annual Appeal helps support the Festival’s annual operating expenses. These include artists’ fees, travel, and housing; administrative expenses and professional compensation; venue expenses; publicity and print materials; and educational programs and community outreach events. You may donate to the Annual Appeal in a variety of ways. You may make a one-time cash gift or you may become a sustaining supporter by arranging an automatic gift on an annual, quarterly, or monthly basis and receive a $5 discount on every ticket or $40 on every season pass you purchase for yourself. You may designate the GMF to receive a donation through your company’s Matching Gift Program. Or you may make a donation through your IRA or give a gift of appreciated stocks or other assets in consultation with your financial advisor. You may also consider giving a gift in memoriam. However you chose to support the Festival, it matters, whatever the size!
An endowment is an investment fund that provides a foundation of annual support on an ongoing basis. In 2022, the Festival concluded its first endowment campaign by raising $100,000 to match 2:1 a generous supporter’s contribution of $50,000, for a total of $150,000, demonstrating the Festival’s strong support among its loyal and appreciative patrons. Building upon this foundation in the future will enable the Festival to sustain ongoing administrative expense and provide a base of support for each season’s artists and programs.
You may contribute to this effort and help secure the future of the Geneva Music Festival by making a gift today or by including the Festival in your estate planning. All planned gifts and charitable bequests are directed toward endowment unless the donor specifies otherwise and can be made in a variety of ways, as decided by you in consultation with your financial advisor.
By supporting the Geneva Music Festival, businesses and corporations receive valuable recognition and help maintain the rich cultural life of our community that, in part, makes the Finger Lakes such an attractive place in which to live, work, and play. Patron surveys show that the Festival draws attendees from the Finger Lakes region broadly, including both the Rochester and Syracuse media markets, and increasingly draws summer visitors as well. Festival sponsors receive an ad and recognition in concert programs and the GMF website, as well as additional benefits. A list of sponsorship levels – from $5,000 to $250 – is found below.
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The Geneva Music Festival is recognized by the U.S. IRS as a non-profit organization under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Festival’s business address is P.O. Box 543, Geneva, NY 14456, (315) 326-1951, info@genevamusicfestival.com. Download festival’s form 990
