Consider yourself a crucial component of 7,000 parents, alumni, alumni parents, grandparents, and friends who we ask to share their resources with the school each and every year. I'm usually asked to increase my gift. Annual operating costs at Idyllwild Arts increase just like food and gasoline prices. As a result, tuition goes up each year, and so does the Annual Fund goal. The important thing is that you do give.
Every gift is important.
It really depends on how much you choose to stretch your own resources to make a gift. Leadership gifts are vital to the success of our Annual Fund program. This circumstance is not unique to Idyllwild Arts, rather it follows the pattern of giving established at most independent schools. Although gifts are usually in the form of checks, giving appreciated securities can be a tax-wise alternative. Take a charitable deduction for their full market value and save the capital gains tax that you would incur if you sold them.