Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

Planned Giving

Create a Legacy that recognizes how rock and roll enriched your life.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs.

To do this work we rely on the generosity of donors like you.  Annual contributions, grants, membership support and other gifts contribute to our annual operations and programming.  But individuals planning their estates frequently want to do something more lasting and ask if we can help them leave legacies that permanently recognize how rock and roll enriched their lives.  We are happy to help them do so through our planned giving program.

Planned gifts benefit you the donor by:

Planned gifts benefit the Museum by:

Examples of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Planned Gifts
Bequests
One of the simplest ways to provide enduring support to the Museum is to include a bequest in your will or trust.  A bequest is not subject to Federal or state estate or inheritance taxes and is deductible in calculating your taxable estate.

Tangible Personal Property
Gifts of tangible personal property, such as artifacts and memorabilia, are generally eligible for the same tax benefits as gifts of securities.  But, there are special procedures.  Please contact the Development department if you are considering such a gift.

Retirement Fund Accounts
Retirement account assets may be subject to very high taxation if left to anyone other than a spouse.  Moreover, retirement account distributions are generally taxed when paid out to recipients during their lifetimes.  Designating the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to receive any benefits remaining in your retirement plan or using them during your lifetime to fund a charitable gift to the Museum may effectively reduce the taxes that will otherwise be imposed on those accounts.

Life Income Plans
This type of gift is very simple.  You make an irrevocable contribution of case or marketable securities and in return are paid an income for life.  After your death, the remaining principal will pass to the Museum to be used as you have instructed.  These gift annuities result in an immediate tax deduction for a portion of the value of the gift.

Trusts
If you establish a trust to make regular lifetime payments to you and others, you can designate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum to receive the remainder, realizing lifetime security and an immediate tax deduction for a portion of the value of the trust.

Contact Information

Greg Harris
VP of Development
216.515.8404
gharris@rockhall.org