Leaving Your Legacy: Planned Giving

There are many ways to leave your legacy through the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. When you choose to include the KSO in your estate planning, you become a member of the Leta Snow Legacy Society. The members of our legacy society care deeply about keeping music alive in our community for future generations.

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Ways you can support the Symphony in the future:

  • Name the Symphony in your will (bequest) to receive a percentage or fixed amount of your remaining estate. 
  • Name the Symphony as owner or beneficiary of your retirement instrument or life insurance policy (existing or new policies).
  • Set up a Charitable Remainder Trust so that you and your beneficiaries can receive life income payments while making a future provision for the Symphony (Unitrusts – variable income, Annuity Trusts – fixed income).
  • Start a Charitable Gift Annuity, which is owned by the KSO but pays a fixed income to the donor for life.
  • Participate in a Pooled Income Trust whereby the assets of several donors are combined into a single fund.

Ways you can support the Symphony in the future:

  • Name the Symphony in your will (bequest) to receive a percentage or fixed amount of your remaining estate. 
  • Name the Symphony as owner or beneficiary of your retirement instrument or life insurance policy (existing or new policies).
  • Set up a Charitable Remainder Trust so that you and your beneficiaries can receive life income payments while making a future provision for the Symphony (Unitrusts – variable income, Annuity Trusts – fixed income).
  • Start a Charitable Gift Annuity, which is owned by the KSO but pays a fixed income to the donor for life.
  • Participate in a Pooled Income Trust whereby the assets of several donors are combined into a single fund.

Leave a Legacy

Please contact the Symphony office at 269.349.7759 to learn more about leaving a legacy gift to the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. Because there are many ways to make a legacy gift, we encourage you to consult your financial advisor to determine which is right for you.

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