Year-End Giving
Give to the Annual Fund Today— Receive a 2023 Tax Deduction In this season of giving, a contribution to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation is one of the most meaningful gifts you can make. Your tax-deductible donation for 2023 will help the Foundation provide essential support services for our 13 partner institutions. However you give, these payment notes will assist you in meeting the December 31, 2023, deadline:
T-shirts by exhibition contributor Kono Junya. Attractive, colorful displays boosted sales of local and world art across the shop. Limited-edition Willard Clark prints were top-selling items at the Rosalie D. and Steven J. Harris Shop at the New Mexico Museum of Art. These restrikes were created by Clark’s grandson and student, Kevin Ryan, and are priced to appeal to a range of buyers. Gustave Baumann-related merchandise continued to sell well; even after a retrospective of the artist’s work ended in February, Baumann calendars, matted prints, posters and a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle flew off the shelves. Other popular shop products included custom printed cards and posters based on the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary Southwestern art. Hopi artist Gregory Lomayesva’s carved wooden dolls, animal figures and masks were among the best-selling goods at the Spielberg Shop at the New Mexico History Museum. His works are among the 85 percent of shop products made by New Mexico-based artists and businesses. An extraordinary 16 of the shop’s top 20 vendors are from New Mexico. The Spielberg Shop also remained a top destination for books by New Mexico authors about New Mexico subjects, including history, photography and literature. This year’s best-sellers included No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morely Cleveland, 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant and American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Finally, the top-selling book across all four Museum Shops was Santa Fe: Sense of Place by Jane Smith, a coffeetable book featuring photographs of some of the City Different’s most beautiful homes.
Check: Envelopes must be postmarked by December 31, 2023, to qualify as a 2023 gift. The legal date is the date your gift is postmarked, not the check date. Credit Card: The date the charge clears is the legal gift date, not the date the charge is submitted. Stock: In the case of a direct transfer, the legal gift date is the transfer date, not the date a broker is requested to make the transfer. IRA Charitable Rollover: If you are 70½ years of age or older, you may direct up to $100,000 annually from your required minimum distribution to support the Foundation without being taxed on the income. Donor Advised Fund (DAF): You may establish a DAF at a financial institution of your choice and receive a tax deduction. You may then make annual distributions from that fund. For suggested ways to give, see page 29. To make a gift, visit museumfoundation.org or call 505.982.6366 ext. 100. Below: Robert and Ellen Vladem. Photo © Jane Phillips.
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