“One of the world’s greatest art museums.”
–John Maizels, Editor of Raw Visions magazine
Regardless of the size of your estate, a legacy gift can secure the museum for future generations. We can share gift planning ideas that will benefit you and your family, while creating a lasting impact at our national museum. The different types of gifts include outright bequests, life income plans (charitable gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts), charitable lead trusts, gifts of life insurance policies, and gifts of tangible personal property and art.
“Call them not
your children.
Call them your builders.”
—Talmud
sample language
If you choose to include AVAM in your will or living trust, Please use “The American Visionary Art Museum, Inc.” Your advisor or attorney may find the following language of help:
“I, hereby give, devise, and bequeath ___________ (a dollar amount or a percentage of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate) to The American Visionary Art Museum, Inc., 800 Key Highway, located in the City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland, 21230, for its general purposes.” The I.R.S. recognizes The American Visionary Art Museum, Inc. as a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. AVAM’s federal tax ID number is: #52-1608934.
Heavenly Choir of Blessed Memory
Lane Berk, Humanitarian and Activist
John Bourne
Dr. Irene Jakab, Art & Psychiatry Scholar
Seska Peck Ramberg, Clinical Social Worker & Community Activist
Ellis Rosen, AVAM Volunteer
Phoebe Stanton, Architect, City Planner
Eric Stein, Lawyer
Very Much Alive Legacy Founders
Anonymous
Betty Cooke and Bill Steinmetz, Artists and Philanthropists
Bev Eisenberg, Architect
Lois Feinblatt
John and Berthe Ford
Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia
Pat and Peter Handal, AVAM Board Member and Philanthropists
Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, AVAM Founder/Director
Pam Horowitz and the late Julian Bond, Human Rights Activists
Elizabeth Moser
Amalie R. Rothschild
Holly Gudelsky Stone
Frank and Jan Warren, Founder and Family of PostSecret Project
Rachel Wetherill and Yvette Webster
Karen M. Whaley