Align your passion with a purpose and bring choral music to life for arts lovers in Washington, D.C. and beyond! There are many ways you can make a gift and have a significant impact on The Washington Chorus and our programs.
Support our Programs
Ticket revenue covers less than 40% of our overall expenses, and we depend most especially on donations from individuals to keep our innovative and world-class productions and community engagement programs alive. When you contribute to the Annual Fund or make a Planned Gift, your donation allows us to produce choral music of the highest quality that you and our audience have come to expect.
Monthly Giving
The Washington Chorus’ monthly giving program is a convenient and affordable way to express your passion for great choral music and meaningful community impact. By making a recurring monthly gift, you contribute to making The Washington Chorus a sustainable and ground-breaking organization, both onstage and off. Your monthly gift will continue automatically until you ask us to stop.
Employer Matching
Make your gift go farther! Increase the value and impact of your gift by taking advantage of your employer’s matching gift program.
More than 1,000 companies and foundations in the United States currently match their employees’ gifts to non-profit organizations such as The Washington Chorus. Under a corporate matching gift program, cash gifts, or gifts of volunteer time from a company’s eligible employees, are matched with company or corporate foundation funds.
Contact your Human Resources office about making a matching gift to benefit The Washington Chorus.
Gifts of Stock
Gifts of securities can be made directly from your broker to TWC’s brokerage account. To make a gift of stock, please contact your broker and provide the account information provided below.
Stock Transfer Information
Federal Tax ID Number: 52-6054269
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DTC: 0443
Incoming brokerage: Pershing
Brokerage Account Number: JGH765252
Memo: [Please indicate your full name in the Memo field of your stock transfer form for The Washington Chorus to properly acknowledge your gift.]
If you're sending stock, please let us know! Contact our Deputy Director Emma Moores at (202) 342-6221 or [email protected] with your broker's name and phone number, the name and number of shares you are donating, and the fund to which you are contributing.
The tax advantage of a stock gift is that, under current tax laws, the full fair market value of stock and bonds may be deducted. The value of your gift is the value upon transfer to TWC’s brokerage account.
We encourage you to speak with your financial advisor about how to manage your stock gifts.
Donor Advised Funds
Make The Washington Chorus your charity of choice through a donor-advised fund. Donor-Advised Funds (DAF) are an excellent way to simplify your charitable giving and direct your support to TWC. We are a 501(c)(3) charitable tax-exempt nonprofit, and our Federal Tax ID number is 52-6054269. Please contact your financial advisor to initiate a gift, or you can also consider naming “The Washington Chorus” as a remainder beneficiary of your donor-advised fund. Please let us know if you do so we can welcome you as a member of our legacy giving community.
IRA Charitable Rollover
Individuals may begin taking distributions from their Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) as early as age 59½ but are required to begin taking them at age 72 (73 if you reach age 72 after Dec. 31, 2022). Normally, these distributions are subject to income taxes, but an IRA Charitable Rollover allows individuals age 70½ and older to donate up to $100,000 to The Washington Chorus and other charitable organizations directly from their IRA, without treating the distribution as taxable income. To qualify, contributions must go directly to a public charity. Please contact your financial advisor to initiate a gift, and we recommend that you contact your tax advisor, as we cannot provide individual tax recommendations.
Tributary Gifts
Pay tribute to your loved ones with an honorary or memorial gift. The Washington Chorus accepts gifts in honor or memory at any time through our convenient online donation form. Simply select the amount you would like to donate and continue to the "Dedication" section to tell us who you would like to celebrate through your gift. If you provide an address in the “Note” section, we will be happy to notify the honoree or their family of your gift.
To make a tributary gift, please contact our Development team at (202) 342-6221 or [email protected].