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The Frank Melville Park is privately owned and open for public enjoyment – yours! We use your tax deductible donations to make the park as wonderful and welcoming as we can. We depend on your generosity.
Support Beyond Donations
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Bring music to the heart of the community by sponsoring a concert at the Frank Melville Memorial Park.
Your support helps us host free, high-quality performances that everyone can enjoy. Sponsorships can be made in your name, your business’s name, or in honor of someone special and they make a visible, positive impact. We’ll recognize your generosity at the event and in our promotional materials.
If you’re interested in sponsoring a concert, please click here and be sure and add a nite at checkout that you are sponsoring a concert. If you have a logo you would like us to included in our promotional materials, please email it to frankmelvilleparkinfo@gmail.com with your name and order number thank you!
Better than cash! Gifts of stocks, Mutual Funds, or other appreciated assets.
- Giving appreciated stock/mutual funds you’ve held for more than a year is better than giving cash.
- You can take a charitable deduction for the stock’s fair market value on the day you give it away.
- You’ll also avoid all capital-gains taxes on the increase in value, which you would have had to pay if you sold the stock then gave us the cash proceeds.
- Your tax preparer may want to help you time things to maximize your tax benefit.
Our broker is a little shy about putting our account information on the website, so please email frankmelvilleparkinfo@gmail.com to get the information you need make the transfer.
Make a gift from your IRA and you may enjoy tax benefits
If you are age 70 1/2, you can donate up to $100,000 a year from your IRA without treating the money as taxable income. These gifts count towards your minimum required distribution.
To make a gift, speak with your IRA’s administrator and request a direct distribution to:
Frank Melville Memorial Foundation
P.O. Box 2967
Setauket, New York, 11733
Sometimes, gifts like this arrive without a name, so please also ask your IRA’s administrator to let us know the identity of such a generous person, or just talk to us about it directly. Contact frankmelvilleparkinfo@gmail.com.
Remember, you can also list us as a beneficiary on your IRA. Again, just talk to your IRA administrator. (Note: the IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution provision applies to traditional and Roth IRA’s but not SEP or SIMPLE IRAs
Including the Frank Melville Memorial Foundation in your will is a meaningful way to support the park for generations to come. It’s simple to do, and there are several ways to structure your gift.
Here’s an example of language you can share with your attorney or estate planner:
“I give, devise, and bequeath $___ (or ___% of my estate) to the Frank Melville Memorial Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization located in Setauket, New York.”
We’re here to help. If you have questions or would like to discuss options, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
DAFs are a great way to support the park and enjoy immediate tax benefits. We are a qualified 501(c)(3) charitable organization and it’s easy to make a distribution to the park (or we can even work with you to help set one up).
To recommend a distribution from your DAF to the Park, you’ll need the following information:
Name of charity: the Frank Melville Memorial Foundation
Tax Id Number: 11-6036411
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2967, Setauket, NY 11733
Contact person: Gregory Ferguson
email: frankmelvilleparkinfo@gmail.com
Feel free to contact us and we will get you the information you need.