Commemorative Benches & Bricks

Members of our community have celebrated important milestones at Marin Art and Garden for generations.  Favorite views and vista through this green oasis offer opportunities to rest, reflect, and honor special people while enjoying the beauty of the gardens and grounds.  

We welcome you to celebrate a loved one, friend, or organization with a commemorative bench or brick at Marin Art and Garden Center.  

BENCHES 

Benches are available for placement through the Center’s 11-acre grounds. Benches are offered for renewable 10-year terms and may be sponsored by individuals, groups, or organizations. Each bench features a bronze plaque with your chosen inscription mounted to the backrest.  Our bench style is complementary to our architecture and constructed from long lasting hardwood.  It provides comfortable seating for three people. 

Bench locations include the Magnolia Circle, near the Studio gallery, overlooking the Gazebo Lawn, and in the natural area of the Habitat Garden.  

The 10-year term includes installation, maintenance and personalized bronze plaque for $10,000. 

A view of a red brick pathway from above with a large spreading oak in the distance.BRICKS 

Bricks are available on a winding pathway in the Habitat Garden and around the English Oak. Like a secret garden, this special pathway draws visitors into one of the most magical parts of the garden, past monarch butterflies in Milkweed Meadow, along the winding Kittle Creek and around the English Oak, one of the oldest trees on the property.  

Each brick allows for a special inscription, commemoration of a special event, or memorializing a beloved friend or family member.  

Bricks are available for $500 each and include inscription, installation and maintenance.  

For more information, contact Kelly Miller, Director of Development:

IRS Guidelines for Gifts from Donor Advised Funds to Support MAGC Events

Thank you for your interest in giving to the Marin Art & Garden Center events from your Donor Advised Fund (DAF) or Family Foundation.

We sincerely appreciate your generosity and support!

To ensure your gift follows the current IRS guidelines for DAF/Family Foundation support of an event, we would like to share the below guidelines with you.

  • Raffle tickets, tickets to galas and other special events, auction items, and benefits conferred in connection with a DAF/foundation grant are not permitted.
    • IRS has specifically ruled that fair market value associated with fundraising events cannot be separated, a practice known as “bifurcation.”
      • For example, with Edible Garden, if the price of the ticket is $200 and the FMV fair market value (non-tax-deductible amount) is designated to be $50, the donor must pay from sources other than her DAF/foundation for the full value of the ticket ($200) and not just for the non-tax-deductible amount ($50).
    • We recommend you confer with your financial advisor to confirm if any of these examples of how donors may still use their DAF to support an event would work for you:
      • A donor could sponsor the event, and not attend, and pay fully out of the DAF/foundation.
      • A donor could sponsor the event using DAF/foundation funds and attend by purchasing an individual ticket through non-DAF/foundation funds.
      • A donor could sponsor the event, join the event as a guest of another donor/table guest, and pay fully out of the DAF/foundation.
      • A donor could sponsor the event and host the afforded number of people at their chosen level as long as they pay for the seats at the lowest ticket price ($200 for Edible Garden) outside of their DAF.
        • As an example, a $1,500 sponsor that covers 2 guests, could pay for their sponsorship with $400 from a different source of funds, and then give an additional gift of $1,100 out of their DAF.

 

Please email Tod Thorpe, Director of Development at tod.thorpe@maringarden.org to discuss your gift to Marin Art and Garden Center