Call the PSO at (609) 497-0020 to make a tax-deductible contribution today!

BECOME A FRIEND

When you make a fully tax-deductible contribution to the PSO, you help support an essential art form and one of Princeton’s major cultural institutions. Many concertgoers are unaware that ticket purchases cover less than one-third of the cost to produce this extraordinary music.

The Classical, POPS! and Chamber Series concerts, along with the acclaimed education program, BRAVO!, rely primarily on the vision and support of music lovers. Please help the PSO sustain its rich programming and consider a generous contribution. Together, we will keep the music playing!

Maestro’s Circle $40,000+
President’s Circle $20,000+
Trustees’ Circle $10,000+
Guarantor $5,000+
Sponsor $2,500+
Benefactor $1,000+
Patron $500+
Donor $250+
Supporter $125+

Matching Gifts

Does your company have a matching gift program? Matching gifts are a great way for your donation to double its impact!

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges more than 500 individual donors, as well as these organizations and corporations listed below, whose contributions support our music and mission.

Foundations and Government Partners

Betty Wold Johnson; Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust; The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; J. Seward Johnson, Sr. 1963 Charitable Trust; The Edward T. Cone Foundation; New Jersey State Council on the Arts; The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation; The Bunbury Foundation; The Curtis W. McGraw Foundation; The David Mathey Foundation; Integra Foundation

Corporate Partners

Bloomberg; Glenmede Investment and Wealth Management; Fidelity Investments; Wilmington Trust; Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies; The Bank of Princeton; Verizon Wireless; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Cardinal Partners; Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Church & Dwight; Tyco International; Goldman Sachs & Co.; PNC Wealth Management; U.S. Trust/Bank of America Private Wealth Management; WithumSmith + Brown; Princeton University; Wells Fargo Advisors

Endowment Fund

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra is committed to enhancing its value to the community and maintaining the highest level of musical excellence. As part of that mission, an Endowment Fund was established to guarantee the orchestra’s long-term success and ongoing financial health. The fund’s objectives are:

• To ensure the future growth and artistic excellence of the orchestra.
• To expand educational outreach initiatives in order to reach a greater number of schoolchildren, introducing them to and encouraging their knowledge of the orchestral experience.
• To expand offerings of alternative types of concert programming, and to increase audience exposure to such programming as pops, family concerts, ethnic and community tributes, and new music concerts, among others.
• To maintain long-term fiscal stability.

The orchestra is also enrolled in LEAVE A LEGACY New Jersey, an organization that promotes charitable giving as part of individuals’ estate plans. (More than 70% of Americans make charitable gifts during their lifetime, while the percentage of those making charitable bequests, or lifetime transfers that are given to the charity when a donor dies, is less than 8%.)

The most efficient way to help your favorite charity (i.e., the least costly to you, the donor) is through planned giving. The list of planned giving vehicles includes Charitable Remainder Trusts, Charitable Lead Trusts, Pooled Income Funds, Charitable Gift Annuities, and Donor Advised Funds administered by organizations such as the Princeton Area Community Foundation. To learn more about any of these forms of charitable giving, please call the PSO office at (609) 497-0020.