endowment Levels

Legacy Circle
President's Circle - $15,000
Director's Circle - $10,000
Gold Circle - $5,000
Silver Circle - $2,500
Bronze Circle - $1,000
Member's Circle - up to $1,000

SAQA Endowment Fund

The SAQA Endowment Fund is a permanent fund established to support the future growth and activities of our organization. Such a fund provides stability and security, helping to ensure our mission over the long term. Endowment funds are permanently set aside and invested to generate future earnings. Expenditures are then made from the earnings while the principal remains intact.

The Finance Committee oversees the Endowment Fund, which is invested through Charles Schwab in an account that includes a variety of bond and equity mutual funds, with a conservative balance of 35% bond funds and 65% equity funds.

Your gift to the Endowment Fund will ensure a vibrant and strong organization for decades to come, enabling SAQA to allocate more financial resources in support of our mission: to promote quilt art through education, exhibitions, and professional development of our members.  The impact of your generosity will touch every aspect of SAQA’s activities: our exhibitions, catalogs, the SAQA Journal, conferences, and regional programs. 

Legacy donations are especially appropriate for an endowment fund. If you wish to include SAQA in your will or as a beneficiary, please contact our Executive Director, Martha Sielman: [email protected].

Any amount would be greatly appreciated and may be pledged once or over a period of time. 

Named Funds

As a donor to the endowment fund with a commitment of $10,000 or more, you may wish to associate your name, or the name of someone who has played an important role in your life, with Studio Art Quilt Associates in perpetuity by establishing a Named Fund. That fund will be credited whenever earnings from it are used for any purpose, in perpetuity.

We will be pleased to provide you and your advisors with samples of our endowment agreements and to discuss in detail our endowment investment policies.  Moreover, we will provide you with annual updates on the impact of your fund within our organization.

Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation. Your donation to SAQA may be tax deductible.

Endowment Donors
Legacy Circle -- SAQA is remembered in our wills

Christi Beckmann
Judith Content
John J. "Butch" Davies, III
Linda Gass
John and Maureen Hendricks
Wendy Huhn
Beth Schillig
Sandra Sider
Martha Sielman
Teri Springer
Judith Trager
Nelda Warkentin
Ruth A. White
Dr. Kenneth and Shelly Zegart
 

President’s Circle   $15,000 and up
   Mary Anhaltzer Memorial Fund*
   Lisa Ellis * in memory of Judith House 
   Shirley Neary*
   Cathy Shanahan 

Director’s Circle    $10,000 - $14,999
   Ralph and Janice James  
   Jean Ray Laury Memorial Fund (Karey Bresenhan)*


Gold Circle            $5,000 - $9,999
   Robert and Ardis James Trust
   Teri Springer in honor of all SAQA members who have had breast or ovarian cancer

Silver Circle           $2,500 - $4,999
   Nancy Bavor
   Barbara Daly Blanchard in memory of her mother, Doris Louise Peck Daly
   Carol A. Churchill
   Marvin Fletcher in memory of Hilary Fletcher
   John M. Walsh III*

Bronze Circle         $1,000 - $2,499
   Anonymous (3)
   Anonymous in memory of Francisco Bautista
   Jacqueline Atkins
   Eliza Brewster  
   Linda Colsh  
   Ann Johnston
   LaPierre Studios
   Cat Larrea & Mark McDermott
   Jeanne Marklin
   Margaret Moon & Butch Davies  
   Mary Pal*
   Julie Scott*
   Sandra Sider* in memory of Jean Ray Laury
   Priscilla Stultz
   Judith Trager*
   Nelda Warkentin*
   Judy Warner
   Adrienne Yorinks

Members’ Circle     up to $1,000

* Contributed to the $50,000 matching funds