Keystone Endowment Fund

You can provide long-term stability, supporting the arts now and for future generations. By leaving your legacy at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, you are securing the arts for yourself, your family and more than 160,000 patrons who attend world-class performing arts events at the Fox Cities P.A.C. each year. Endowment giving through the Center’s Keystone Campaign ensures the ability to continue making the arts accessible for all in our community well into the future.

Explore endowment and planned giving options to make a lasting impact. By choosing to invest in our future, you help ensure continued excellence in our programs and initiatives. Your generous support will create opportunities for generations to come, leaving a meaningful legacy in the community.

Financial estate gifts allow your legacy to live on by making charitable gifts now that have an impact after your lifetime while enjoying financial benefits today. You can designate the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center as a beneficiary of your will or retirement plan. Share your pledge of support with the Center Development Team for recognition of your Legacy Intent Pledge beginning immediately.

Gifts include but are not limited to:
• IRA funds/accounts
• Will/living trusts
• Charitable trusts
• Life insurance policies
• Cash and Financial Estate Gifts
• Stock Gifts

Some donors prefer to make their contribution in installments over several years. With a completed gift form, multi-year donations are recognized for the total amount of their pledged gifts. For example, you could be recognized at the $25,000 giving level, but enjoy the flexibility of $5,000 installments over five consecutive years.

A direct way to support the Keystone Fund is by making a one-time donation. Gifts can take the form of a personal check, credit card payment or even a gift of stock.

Making a gift through a transfer of appreciated stocks or securities can often provide tax benefits for you. Please note that securities must be transferred directly to the Fox Cities P.A.C. to be eligible for tax benefits.

Step 1: Please notify the Center’s Development team that you plan to give via securities by contacting at [email protected] or (920) 730-3782. This will ensure the gift is correctly attributed to you.
Step 2: Instruct your broker to transfer shares to:

Thrivent Investment Management, clearing through National Financial Services (NFS)
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Inc. Brokerage Account #TY9-152689
DTC Participant #0226
Tax ID #39-1977839

Please contact Chris Schumacher, Financial Consultant at (920)-268-1908 or [email protected] to coordinate all transfers. Please provide your name, the name of the stock and the quantity of shares.

Do you want to learn more?

To make a gift or learn more about how you can support the arts and provide financial stability for your Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, contact the Development Team at [email protected] or (920) 730-3782.

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Recognition

Gifts to the Keystone Fund are recognized in the Community Impact Report and on the Keystone Donor Wall located on Dress Circle Lobby at the Center. Keystone Wall recognition is determined by the following giving levels:

• $5,000-$9,999 Small zinc insert
• $10,000-$24,999 Large zinc insert
• $25,000-$49,999 Wall glass panel, smallest font. Each level up the font increases accordingly:
xxxxx• $50,000-$99,999
xxxxx• $100,000-$249,999
xxxxx• $250,000-$499,999
xxxxx• $500,000-$999,999
xxxxx• $1,000,000-$9,000,000
xxxxx• $10,000,000+

Visionary Circle Donors

Thank you to the Visionary Circle Donors who have generously contributed $250,000 or more in support of the Center’s Keystone Fund (as of June 30, 2024):

Appvion, Inc.
Jan C. Bax, M.D., Ph.D.^
Jim and Sue Beré
Bergstrom Automotive
Margaret Boldt Anderson Trust
The Boldt Company
O.C. and Pat Boldt^
Renee and Tom Boldt Family^
Broadway Across America
Community First Credit Union
Suzanne and Wayne Deitrich^
Robert and Cheri Di Renzo^
Dan and Beth Flaherty^
John and Marilyn Gilbert^
Corinne Graber^
William F. Heckrodt+

Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Menasha Corporation Foundation
Chuck and Barb Merry^
John and Sally Mielke
Ken and Peggy Philippi^
Plexus Corp.
Schmerein Heaney Family*^
Seifert Family Fund*^
Frank C. Shattuck Community Fund*
Becky and Jon Stellmacher^
Susan Stockton and Bill Garvin^
Mary A. Strange^
Thrivent Financial
Catherine Tierney and Maurice Dresang^
Toussaint Family Fund*^

*Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc.
+ of blessed memory
^ includes Legacy Intent pledge