Support Cantate

Fresh off our monumental 40th anniversary season, Cantate’s 2025–2026 season will witness our fierce persistence in doing what we have always done: building community across cultural boundaries, uplifting less-heard voices, and sharing affordable world-class musical experiences with all our neighbors. But to do this, Cantate needs your help. We are threatened by cuts to public funding for the arts and to provide access to the arts to those with greatest need. And because only a small portion of our overall revenue comes from ticket sales, Cantate’s organizational success is possible only thanks to generous donations of time, talent, and resources by our singers, patrons, donors, and institutional supporters.

Gifts of all sizes from our supporters are what make Cantate’s work possible—gifts bring more income than ticket sales, grant funding, or any other income source. With profound gratitude, we invite you to continue to journey with us into our next 40 years of building community through choral music.

DONATE TO CANTATE

Thank you for making our community possible.

More Ways to Support Cantate

Cantate welcomes gifts of any size at any time to enable our meaningful programming and ambitious mission. Donations can be made in support of the organization in general, to a specific program such as Lift Every Voice, and more.

One-Time and Recurring Gifts

Make a one-time and/or recurring gift to Canatate by credit card through our online donations portal.

Make checks payable to “Cantate” and deliver by hand to a staff member, or mail them to us at

Cantate
P.O. Box 11433
Takoma Park, MD 20913

Sponsor a Concert

You may designate funds to specifically support a particular concert. Please contact Executive Director Cara Schaefer at exec@cantate.org to discuss underwriting a concert of particular meaning to you.

Donor-Advised Funds

Make Cantate your charity of choice through a donor-advised fund. Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are an excellent way to simplify your charitable giving and direct your support to Cantate. Cantate is a 501(c)(3) charitable tax-exempt nonprofit. Our Federal Tax ID number is 52-1447309. Please contact your financial advisor to initiate a gift. Please also consider naming “Cantate” as a remainder beneficiary of your donor-advised fund.

Gifts of Stock

Gifts of stock or securities can be made directly from your broker to Cantate’s brokerage account. The tax advantage of a stock gift is that, under current tax laws, the full fair market value of stock and bonds may be deducted. The value of your gift is the value upon transfer to Cantate’s brokerage account.

To make a gift of stock, please contact your broker and provide the account information provided next. We encourage you to speak with your financial advisor about how to manage your stock gifts.

Stock Transfer Information:

Federal Tax ID Number: 52-1447309
DTC: 0141
Incoming brokerage: Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC
One North Jefferson Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63103
Brokerage Account Number: 5059-5868
Memo: [Please indicate your full name in the Memo field of your stock transfer form for Cantate to properly acknowledge your gift.]

If you’re sending stock, please let us know! Contact our Executive Director Cara Schaefer at exec@cantate.org with your broker’s name and phone number and the name and number of shares you are donating.

IRA Charitable Rollover (QCD)

Individuals may begin taking distributions from their Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) as early as age 59½ but are required to begin taking them at age 72 (73 if you reached age 72 after Dec. 31, 2022). Normally, these distributions are subject to income taxes, but an IRA charitable rollover allows individuals age 70½ and older to donate up to $100,000 to Cantate and other charitable organizations directly from their IRA, without treating the distribution as taxable income. To qualify, contributions must go directly to a public charity. Please contact your financial advisor to initiate a gift. We recommend that you contact your tax advisor, as we cannot provide individual tax recommendations.

Thank You to Our Supporters

Cantate, a nonprofit corporation under §501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, is supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County government, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, the Maryland State Arts Council, and The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts. Cantate also thanks all its tireless volunteers, singers, board members, publicity and outreach team, and concert box office and ushers.

We are grateful to all the individuals and institutions that have sustained Cantate for 40 years—and those who do so in the future!

For more information on how you can support Cantate, please contact Cara Schaefer, Executive Director, at exec@cantate.org.

Cantate extends its deep gratitude to those who have given in the past 12 months:

Underwriters ($5,000 and above)

Lawrence Deyton and Jeffrey Levi
The Estate of Marilynn Flood
Carol B. Goldberg and Robert H. Gerard
Bert Ifill ‡
Mary and Chris Mahle
Kent and Karen Mikkelsen
Deborah Silberman
John Wiecking, in memory of Nancy Wiecking

Benefactors ($1,000 to $4,999)

Anonymous
Philip and Annette Anfinrud
Ellen L. Beard
Carolyn A. Chuhta
Judith Davis
Rena D’Souza
Marianne Ekernas
Chip and Joan Filson
Phyllis Fong
Karen Garlick
Janet Garry
Elizabeth and Darren Gemoets
Bruce and Sarah Gilchrist
Anne Hall
Stacey Henning
Martha and Chris Hersman
Jean and James Hochron
William W. and Sara M. Josey
David A. Klaus
Melissa and Eliot Lieberman
Lori Minasian and Doug Throckmorton ‡
Susan E. and James L. Murray
William Newhouse
Elizabeth Edwards and David O’Dette
Alison and David Ottenbreit
Philip Padgett
Elzbieta and George Vande Sande
Jonathan G. Willen

Patrons ($500 to $999)

Kathleen Corbett
Sandra Daughton
Richard Feehan
Victoria Gau
Bob and Carol Hall
David Minier
Mary Monsma and Dennis Vander Tuig
Thomas Nessinger
Joan Reinthaler
John and Sallie Roberts
Elizabeth Rogers
Lisa Rovin
Frederick Shoup
Emily and Benjamin Tsai
Cathlin Tully

Donors ($250 to $499)

Anne Aarnes
Fred and Helen Altman‡
Marietta Balaan
Maria Cornelius
Lizbeth Francisco
Ronald and Camille Frezzo
Piotr Gajewski
Thad Garrett †
Caitlin Garry
William and Sue Garry
Donna Guarino
Roma and Tom Hart
Ronald Isaacson
Michael Karam
Sarah Kerr
Susan Krys
Eleanor Lynch
Jane Maryott
Joaquim Nassar
Gabriella Newes-Adeyi
Laurel Ohlson
Paul Robie
Mimi Shultz
Eric Wagner

Contributors ($50 to $99)

Karen Beck
Diane Bild
Cahoon Solutions LLC
Ann Cook
Jan Dash
Shannon Finnegan
Deborah Helfeld
Kathleen Henry
Sara Henry
Eleanor Howe
Claire Kurs
Elizabeth Mailey
Monica Meerbaum
Emma Moores
Jeanne Morin
Lorna Neill
Mark Ohnmacht, in honor of John Wiecking
Nancy Osgood
Simona Patange
Jean Phyllis
Nathan Pollard
Patricia Rodgers
Katherine Roye
Richard Smith
David Steigerwald
James Tubbs
Margot Townsend Young
Sharon Zweig