Gift & Estate Planning
Amadeus Society
The Amadeus Society is LPO’s planned giving society formed to recognize the generosity and vision of individuals whose thoughtful estate planning will ensure that the LPO continues to provide the best orchestral music to our audiences and the highest quality education programs to students, families, and teachers throughout the region for years to come. Join those who have ensured the future of the LPO for generations to come. Please consider including a bequest to the LPO in your estate plans.
The LPO would like to thank the following individuals for the generosity, vision, and thoughtful planning that will help to ensure that the LPO continues to provide the best orchestral music to our audiences throughout the region for years to come.
Mr. John S. Batson
Mrs. Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin
Larry Blake
Drs. Andrea S. and Archie W. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Chotin
Ms. Nancy L. Claypool
George Dansker
Dr. Jane Eyrich
Dr. Phillip F. Fuselier
Larry and Joanne Gay
Robert and Valborg Gross
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Hales
Dr. Edward D. Levy, Jr.
Hugh W. Long and Susan L. Krinsky
Ellen and Stephen Manshel
Drs. R. Ranney and Emel Songu Mize
Ms. Babs Mollere
Peter Rogers
Ms. Courtney-Anne Sarpy
Lillian Eyrich and Rosemary Vines
Ms. Lizbeth A. Turner
The LPO Musicians, Trustees, and Staff would like to also gratefully acknowledge bequests received from those who have supported the future of the LPO in their estate gifts:
Betty Weston Atkinson
Benjamin S. Brupbacher, Jr. and Lois Weil Brupbacher Family Foundation
Olga Ravitsh Braunstein
Harold H. Burns
Abby Ray Catledge
Robert R. Casey
Carol Haik Eyrich
Darwin Schriever Fenner
Betty A Fishman and Raymond S Fishman
Norma Eyrich Gross
Peter and Doris Hansen
Byrde Berenson Haspel
Karl Heinz Hasselbach
Robert Z. Hirsch
Rosemarie Jernigan
Mr. and Mrs. C. Palmer Jones
Virginia D. Kock
Louise L. Levy
Elizabeth E. MacConnell
Berthe Mangin
John A. Marque
Suzanne Motion
Leroy R. Nolan
Dr. Guillermo Náñez-Falcón
Felicien Gus Perrin
Francoise Billion Richardson
Carolyn J. Ross
Rachel Sainton
Edward Schlotter
Katherine E. Siebel
Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau
Lynette Askin Stilwell
Doris Zemurray Stone
Kathleen Moore Vick
Lorraine Halse Vines
Hugo Wedemeyer
Nellie H. Weekley
Rosetta and Harold Weil
Mr. Clarence D. Wolbrette
Jerry Zachary
Plan for Your Future and Ours
The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra offers a variety of gift options that fulfill your personal and financial goals while furthering the LPO’s mission. When you include a gift in your estate plan, you are enabling the LPO to perform at the highest level of artistic excellence and continue to expand our robust education and community engagement programming.
Planned giving is a way to make a gift to your charity of choice through thoughtful estate planning. A planned gift as part of an overall estate plan takes your needs as well as the needs of your loved ones into consideration, while helping support a cause or a charity that is personally meaningful to you.
A planned gift can also create potential savings on capital gains taxes or estate taxes, lessening the financial burden on your family and loved ones. For instance, a planned gift can reduce your estate tax liability. The assets that you transfer to LPO remain outside of your taxable estate.
I give (___ dollars/ __ percentage or all of the residue of my estate) to the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, for the benefit of __________ (name of designation).
To make this gift, you simply notify your plan or policy administrator of your wish to change the beneficiary. A “change of beneficiary” form may be required, and your spouse may need to sign consent to the change of designation.
If your spouse and children are currently the beneficiaries of your retirement plan or life insurance policy, you can continue to keep them as beneficiaries, and also include LPO as the beneficiary of a portion of your plan or policy. Upon your death, the plan administrator can “cash out” LPO’s share without affecting your family’s portion, so that LPO, and your heirs, benefit from your financial planning and your generosity
Tax Information
The tax ID to identify the LPO as a designated beneficiary is: 72-1189023.