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Business Sponsorship Opportunities

Marin Art and Garden Center invites you to become a Friend of the Garden Business Sponsor through one of our Signature Events—Summer Concerts, Edible Garden and Winter Wonderland. These Signature Events are a fantastic way to support the Garden, while also promoting your business to a vibrant, engaged local community.

Business Sponsors help underwrite the costs of our events, keeping them affordable and accessible to the entire community. 

Click on any of the event logos below for more information.

June 27–August 29, 2024

September 15, 2024

December 6–15, 2024

Marin Art and Garden Center is an independent non-profit organization. We don’t receive any support from city, county or state taxes.  Your sponsorship will help us to maintain our 11 acres of gardens, historic buildings and educational programming and keep our doors open from sunrise to sunset 365 days a year. 

If you have any questions about becoming a Friend of the Garden Business Sponsor, please contact us at friends@maringarden.org.  

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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