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Oceanic Society
Website: oceanicsociety.org
Phone: (415) 256-9604

Since 1969, Oceanic Society has carried on the original spirit of our founders and their dream to create a more oceanic society. Its mission is to improve ocean health by deepening the connections between people and nature to address the root cause of its decline—human behavior.

 

Pixie Park
Website: pixiepark.org

Pixie Park was established in 1952 as a volunteer-run cooperative playground for children age six and younger.  The park has play structures and swings for small children and trellises that shade picnic tables. The park is keyed and gated, thereby ensuring that children will not leave without their parents’ knowledge. Families fulfill their membership by volunteering their time for Pixie’s various events and fundraisers.

 

Ross Valley Players
Website: rossvalleyplayers.com
Phone: (415) 456-9555

Ross Valley Players was founded by a small group of women in 1930 as a way to escape the hardships of the Depression. After first performing in various indoor and outdoor venues, in 1939 the group was offered the large red barn in what is now Marin Art and Garden Center for their performance space. Ross Valley Players now offers a main stage season with six plays, plus a bi-annual Ross Alternative Works (RAW) program for a total of 34 weeks of live theatre annually.

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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