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Sowing the Seeds:

Investing in the Future of Marin Art and Garden Center

The Campaign

How do I participate?

Marin Art and Garden Center is actively raising funds for our $7.5 million Sowing the Seeds campaign.

As of January 2025, we have raised over $2 million towards our goal.

Friends of the Garden is the overarching program that recognizes the individuals, families and organizations who provide sustaining financial support to Marin Art and Garden Center. Among our most cherished friends are those supporting the Sowing the Seeds Capital Campaign.

Please invest in the future of Marin Art and Garden Center by supporting Sowing the Seeds through a onetime gift or multiyear pledge.  

Download the full brochure

Download the sponsorship map

To learn more about the Sowing the Seeds Capital Campaign, to arrange a site tour of the project or to consider sponsorship opportunities, please contact:

Iris Lax

Executive Director

415 577 2787

Kelly Miller

Director of Development

415 455 5260

The Need

The Project

The Campaign

Project Milestones

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30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd | PO Box 437 | Ross, CA 94957

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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