Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo is ranked as the "Number One Zoo in the U.S." because of the increase in support of friends like you. Your charitable gifts directly benefit the Zoo by providing care for more than 2,000 animals and provides education programs that reach more than 140,000 school-age children in the Bay Area and beyond.
There are many ways you can make a gift to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo. By "sharing the care" with an annual fund gift, participating as a corporate sponsor or naming Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo in your estate. Read about our programs by clicking on a link below.
There are tax benefits for you for your 2009 gift to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo. This year you can write off up to 100% of your gift to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo.
Click here for more info.
For More Information
If you have any questions, contact the Office of Development:
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo -
Office of Development
1101 W. Sligh Ave.
Tampa, FL 33604
813-935-8552, ext 376 or email
A Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo Partner:
Annual Gifts
Support Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo with an Annual Gift
When you support Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo with your online gift today, you help to "share the care" for more than 2,000 animals safeguarded here including West Indian manatees, the Florida panther, African penguins, African elephants, Indian rhinos, chimpanzees, Bornean orangutans, and more than 30 other species at risk of extinction.
You also help to provide unique, up-close experiences with animals for more than 1.2 million visitors and more than 137,000 school-age children each year.
Your gift today helps to make sure that Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo - celebrating its 20th year - will continue to be an enjoyable, affordable experience for everyone in our community, and the number one family-friendly zoo in the U.S. for generations to enjoy.
Ways to Make an Annual Gift:
Gifts of Cash by check payable to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo or Online
Gifts of Stock
Gifts of Life Income/ Charitable Annuities
"Your contribution this year to the Annual Fund at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo will make a big difference. You will help to provide education programs for children of all ages and essential care for animals. Your gift will truly make a difference."
Pat Sullivan
Board Member, Lowry Park Zoological Society
Chair, Annual Fund for Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo
Endowment Foundation
A Bright Future Depends
On A Strong
Foundation!
The Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo Endowment Foundation exists
to ensure excellence in conservation and education programs, and
meaningful
recreational experiences with wildlife accessible
to everyone.
There are many ways to give to the Endowment Foundation.
Here's how you
can help.
You May:
Contribute an outright gift of cash or securities
Make a pledge, typically fulfilled over 1 to 3 years
Donate stock or other appreciated property
Provide a long-range contribution through a wide variety of estate plans to name a fund
Name Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo in your will, as the beneficiary of life insurance, as part of a trust, or in your Individual Retirement Accounts
Because estate taxes can be substantial, planned gifts may be a way for you to enjoy providing maximum benefits to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo and your community now.
You can make a difference!
For more information call (813) 935-8552, Ext. 251
DIRECTORS
Susan Lykes Mueller, Chair
Pat Sullivan, Vice Chair
Elizabeth Snyder, Treasurer
Elizabeth Krystyn, Secretary
Richard L. Stohler, Fifth Officer
If you have questions please e-mail Craig Pugh, Deputy Director.
Tax Benefits - Write Off Up To 100%
Temporary Changes to Rules
Governing Deductions for Charitable Contributions
Tax law enacted September 23, 2005, has modified rules governing tax deductions for charitable contributions by both individual and corporate taxpayers. The changes for these two groups of taxpayers are not the same, however. Impacted are those gifts made after August 27, 2005, and before January 1, 2006. A very brief explanation of the changes follows.
Individual Charitable Giving
The new tax law suspends both the 50 percent limitation and the phase-out rules for cash contributions made to any charitable organization during the time period noted above. Individuals can write off up to 100 percent of adjusted gross income for gifts made in 2005 to charities benefiting Katrina victims, as well as other qualified organizations that are not providing hurricane relief.
Corporate Charitable Giving
Under the new law, the general 10 percent limitation is suspended for Hurricane Katrina cash contributions made by corporations before January 1, 2006. Unlike the tax break provided to individuals, the corporate tax break is only available for Katrina-related cash contributions.
These temporary changes may benefit taxpayers whose tax deductions might have been limited by existing law. Any donor/taxpayer wanting to take advantage of the new law should contact a tax professional for competent advice related to their individual situation, as the new law is more complicated than outlined above.
Information provided courtesy of Carter, Belcourt & Atkinson, P.A., Certified Public Accountants (offices in Tampa and Lakeland, Florida) and should not be construed as a substitute for professional tax services nor as legal, accounting, tax, investment or other professional advice
