Endowed Gifts
Your Gift Can Last Forever
An endowment gift to the Houston Symphony Endowment today provides a brighter picture for our future. When you make a donation to our endowment, you give a gift with both immediate and long-term benefits.
Endowment donations are invested. A portion of the annual income from the investment is used to address immediate needs at the Houston Symphony Endowment. The remaining funds are reinvested to ensure indefinite support.
Gifts to the endowment, whether direct or via a planned gift, may also be made to support a specific funding need, such as the “Classical Fund” or the “Audience Development Fund.” Endowment gifts may also be used to establish an Endowed Chair in the orchestra of the donor’s choice. Should you choose to endow a fund or orchestral chair, your legacy will be honored, and you will support a specific program or a position of the orchestra in perpetuity.
A chair can be named as directed by the donor, such as, for example, the Mr. and Mrs. Jones Chair. Should you elect to participate at this meaningful level, you will join a group of especially discerning and generous patrons who have chosen to invest in the future of the Symphony.
Current funding opportunities can be found here.
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Longtime supporters Susan and Charlie have two goals: First, they want to make sure the Houston Symphony Endowment continues to receive support after they're gone. Second, they want to memorialize Charlie's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jones.
Susan and Charlie make a $250,000 donation to the Houston Symphony Endowment to create a named fund in honor of “Mr. and Mrs. Jones”, which we invest, and each year, a portion of the income from the invested money will be used to support our mission in honor of the Joneses. Plus, Susan and Charlie qualify for a federal income tax charitable deduction on their taxes.
While there is a $250,000 minimum to establish a named endowed fund in perpetuity, memorial gifts can be recognized during the lifetime of the donor in Legacy Society listings on the website and in the monthly InTune magazine