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Please take a moment and reflect on the joys music has brought to you over the years, whether you were composing, singing, playing or listening to it. You know that music can enhance the moment – it can also change a life. Please join us in our efforts to operate and support music education and professional programs that propel emerging creators to the next level. Your generosity will help music creators realize their dreams. It will also help keep music in our schools and communities throughout the country.

There are many ways to give a gift:

Honor a friend, relative, or role model with any amount of gift to The ASCAP Foundation and/or give an unrestricted gift to be used where it is needed most.
Donation Form

Give by credit card
Fill out and mail. Use this to pay by check or money order

Many donors have used this website justgive.org to make a credit card donation. Cut and paste the following if the link isn't working.
https://www.justgive.org/basket?acton=donate&ein=51-0181769
 
Designate a portion of your ASCAP royalties to be paid directly to The ASCAP Foundation.
Royalty Designation Form Fill out and mail
 
Establish a named or endowed fund to honor a friend, relative or role model.
Naming Opportunities View and print
 
Planned Giving
  • Leave a bequest in your Will designating a specific program to benefit from your generosity.
  • Designate a portion of your estate to be used at the discretion of The ASCAP Foundation & its Board of Trustees.
  • Designate a portion of your estate as an endowment to ensure the continued work of The ASCAP Foundation.
Planned Giving Information
with sample bequest language

Estate Planning
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Guidestar.org link to our IRS form 990 (guidestar requires you to be registered & logged in for this link to work)

When you choose to make a financial donation to The ASCAP Foundation, you join a community of people who support to our mission to nurture the music talent of tomorrow, while preserving the legacy of the past and sustaining the incentive for today's creators. We are a non-profit organization and your contribution is essential. Whether your gift is $25,000 or $25, every dollar allows us to continue to serve the entire music community through scholarships, awards, grants, talent development and music education programs.

The ASCAP Foundation is a publicly supported charitable organization exempt from federal taxation under IRC Section 501(c)(3). We welcome your contributions which are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

Major Donors to The ASCAP Foundation for 2009

The ASCAP Foundation relies on contributions and bequests from ASCAP members, the general public, and grants from other foundations, to fulfill our mission of supporting music education and talent development programs. Contributions, both large and small, are all gratefully accepted. Contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. The ASCAP Foundation would like to thank all of our supporters who make it possible for us to fulfill our mission of supporting music education and talent development programs. Major contributors to The ASCAP Foundation in 2008 include:
Patty K. Allen
Ms. Eleanor Anderson and the Eric R. Anderson Trust
The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc.
Mary Ellin Barrett
Irving Berlin Charitable Fund, Inc.
Irving Burgie
Al Byron
Irving Caesar Estate
Tita Cahn
Cherry Lane Music Foundation Inc.
Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc. & Music Alive! Magazine
Shelby Coleman
Lloyd F. Crisfield
Eunice & Hal David
Charles Gates Dawes Estate
Mitchell B. DeGroot, Jr. Trust
Jamie deRoy Charitable Trust of the Jewish Communal Fund
Josef Freudenthal Estate
Ira and Leonore Gershwin Designated Philanthropic Fund
Gibson Foundation, Inc.
Mary Rodgers and Henry Guettel
Joe Henry
James Newton Howard
Eleanor Kaplan-Jurist
Estate of Johnny Lange
Jerry Leiber
Live Wire Media Relations
John & Barbara LoFrumento
Ginny Mancini
Joseph & Rosalie Meyer Estate
National Endowment for the Arts
The Nelson Trust
Jack & Amy Norworth Estate
John Powell
The Hanna Russell Family Trust
James Royce Shannon Estate
1989 Sheinbaum Trust
Sibelius USA, Inc.
Larry Stock Estate
Mike and Corky Hale Stoller
Albert J. Trace