Create a Lasting Legacy! Planned Giving and Bequests

We hope the joy that Apollo’s Fire brings to you will inspire you to join in preserving this musical jewel for the future. Including Apollo’s Fire in your Estate Plan will help the music you love endure for future generations. We will be pleased to work with you, your family and your professional advisors to create a vehicle that fits with your needs.
 
Apollo’s Fire has built an outstanding reputation not only for artistic excellence, but also for bringing new audiences to classical music. Legacy gifts of any size help Apollo’s Fire continue to make our music possible long into the future and to bring the community together.

Please contact Managing Director David Walker at 216.320.0012 x 2 or dwalker@apollosfire.org; or contact Development Manager Rees Taylor Roberts at 216.320.0012 x 3 or rroberts@apollosfire.org for more information or to discuss making a legacy gift.

Gifts After Your Lifetime

  • Retirement Accounts – Beneficiary Designations for retirement accounts (IRAs, 401k, etc.) are the easiest way to make a gift from your estate without a revision to your will. It is as simple as completing a beneficiary form designating a non-profit as the beneficiary and the percentage of the asset you wish to give.
  • Bequests – Gifts through your will can help reduce your estate taxes while ensuring that Apollo’s Fire will continue to fulfill its mission for years to come.
  • Charitable Gift Annuities, Life Insurance Policies, Charitable Remainder Trusts, Charitable Lead Trusts – With expertise from your trusted advisors, we are happy to help with these and other bequest vehicles that are part of your estate plan.

 

How to Name Apollo’s Fire in Your Estate Plan:

Legal name: Apollo’s Fire Baroque
Address: 3091 Mayfield Rd. # 217 Cleveland Hts. OH 44118
Federal Tax ID#: 34-1696842

Sample Language: “I give and bequeath to Apollo’s Fire Baroque 3091 Mayfield Rd. # 217 Cleveland Hts. OH 44118 [the sum of __________ Dollars ($____)] [ _______ % of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate], to be used for its general charitable purposes.”


Apollo’s Fire Legacy Circle

The Legacy Circle is a group of supporters who have included Apollo’s Fire as a beneficiary in their estate planning. If you have named AF in your will and would like to be listed in our Legacy Circle, please inform David Walker at dwalker@apollosfire.org or Rees Taylor Roberts at rroberts@apollosfire.org.

Thank you to the following individuals for joining our Legacy Circle!

Fred & Mary Behm
Chuck & Christie Bittenbender
Doug & Barbara Bletcher
Ann Fairhurst & Mark Cipra
Elizabeth & Byron Hays
Jane N. Richmond
Saundra Stemen
David & Charlotte Wildermuth
… and others who are ensuring the future of Apollo’s Fire by including us in their wills.

Past bequests from such esteemed benefactors as Ruth Turvy Bowman, Art Brooks, Thomas J. Froelich, Dr. Shattuck Hartwell, Sheldon & Marilyn MacLeod, Donald W. Morrison, Earl Russell, Janice L. Greene, and Ruth Toth have made AF’s artistic successes possible.

“The U.S.A.’s hottest baroque band.” –CLASSICAL MUSIC MAGAZINE (UK)

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