Grantor Information

Background
Seagle Music Colony was founded in 1915. Seagle Music Colony, Inc., was certified in New York State in 1928. The organization has 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service as a tax exempt entity.

2009 Young Artists Elizabeth Westerman in Hotel CasablancaSupport for Seagle Music Colony comes in multiple ways:
     Cash Gifts
     Memberships
     Sponsorships   
     Deferred giving/Legacy Society
     Gifts-in-kind
     Grants
     Capital gifts

Grants
Two major grants were received from the New York State Music Fund to support the work-shopping of the operas Morning Star (2006) and Séance on a Wet Afternoon (2007). General operating support was received from the New York State Council on the Arts for 2008. The National Endowment for the Arts gave a Challenge America grant to workshop a new opera by Thomas Pasatieri in 2008.

Capital Gifts
Major gifts were made in the past ten years to construct the Frank and Dorothy Shames Rehearsal Studio and to build two housing units, Allegro and Libretto. Seagle Music Colony anticipates staging a capital campaign before its Centennial in 2015 for further improvements to the campus.

A History of Careful Management
From its founding, the Seagle Music Colony has paid careful attention to budgeting. The current annual budget of $425,000 is planned and spent with fiscal discipline. Seagle Music Colony is a member of the Adirondack Community Trust.

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