It’s been 30 years since our founding! We’ve built a best-practice performing arts organization for Central and Upstate New York, making us one of very few cities that can boast of having this vital cultural and economic resource. We don’t want our good work to stop. How will we create longevity and permanency for our organization? We certainly can’t do it alone.

CNY Jazz has mounted a 5-year Major Gifts Campaign – the CNY Jazz Future Fund – with a $1.2 million dollar goal. Your collective multi-year pledges in cash or assets will give us the platform we need to build a sustainable revenue stream to ensure that we can continue to transform lives for our families and communities for generations.

Please give us just 5 minutes of your time to start! No one knows all about our programs and their immense positive impact. Click play for a comprehensive look at everything we do, every year, across our extended region:

We all want to create opportunity, build young lives, provide employment, enhance quality of life, and create pride of place. YOU can make CNY Jazz YOUR positive change agent by investing in us. Your donation will enable us to keep delivering dramatic outcomes and make a targeted investment in the future of our entire region. With your support, we’ll be able to pursue our mission for another 30 years – and beyond.

Reach out to us now – we’ll show you our theater and education center and talk over coffee about how to team up.

Here are some of the ways that you can donate to us AND receive tax benefits! Call us at 315-479-5299 to talk about this more – our financial advisors will gladly go into detail with you! We can recognize your kindness in many ways.

Stocks and Appreciated Assets

Donating stocks, bonds, or other appreciated securities is a valuable way to give charitably while avoiding tax liability. You may receive a double tax benefit: in addition to a charitable deduction for the full fair market value AND escape the capital gains tax on the appreciated portion.

Qualified Charitable Distributions

If you are 73 years old or older, you can make a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from your Individual Retirement Account (IRA). A QCD is a direct transfer of funds from your IRA to our 501c3. Amounts donated in this way can count towards satisfying your required minimum distributions for the year, while excluding the donation from your taxable income. This can be a significant tax advantage, even if you don’t itemize deductions on your tax returns.

A Donor Advised Fund

A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) allows you to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction, and then keep recommending grants from the fund over time. You can advise a grant directly from your DAF, which is an excellent way to simplify your charitable giving. It also lets you to strategically plan your contributions and also grow your personal fund free from capital gains tax, resulting in larger gifts over time.

Estate Planning

By naming us 1. in your will or 2. as a beneficiary of a qualified insurance policy, retirement plan or trust, you reduce or even eliminate the burden of estate tax for your heirs.