Rare Book School is educating the present and future stewards of the historical record. We instruct the librarians and archivists, teach the educators and scholars, and inform the booksellers and collectors, fostering an unparalleled and global community of learning.
Your support will provide students with training and expertise that is essential for the responsible curation of our shared cultural heritage—skills not taught in formal degree programs. A gift to Rare Book School is thus a gift to libraries, museums, and educational institutions around the world and to the communities they serve.
Rare Book School / The Book Arts Press Inc.
Rare Book School/The Book Arts Press Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and your donation is fully tax deductible as allowed by law.
Location: Charlottesville, VA, United States
EIN: 54-1667557
Tax status: 501(c)(3) Public Charity
For assistance or questions, please contact Rare Book School at 434-924-8851 or rbsdevelopment@virginia.edu.
Give Online or by Mail
You can make a one-time or recurring donation using our secure online form, or mail a check (payable to Rare Book School) to:
Rare Book School
University of Virginia
Box 400103
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Donor Advised Funds
A donor advised fund (DAF) gives you the flexibility to recommend how much and how often money is granted to Rare Book School and other qualified charities. You can recommend a grant or recurring grants now to make an immediate impact or use your fund as a tool for future charitable gifts.
Recommending a gift through your DAF is simple. You can donate directly to RBS by providing the following information to the sponsoring organization of your fund. Each organization will have the appropriate forms to complete these donations, which you can usually access through an online portal or working with your fund adviser.
Rare Book School
University of Virginia
Box 400103
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Rare Book School’s tax ID number is: 54-1667557.
Qualified Charitable Distributions
If you are at least 70½ years old, you are eligible to make a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from a traditional or Roth IRA directly to Rare Book School, up to $100,000 per year, and exclude it from taxable income. When making your distribution, please designate Rare Book School, tax ID #54-1667557.
Distributions must be made from an IRA, including inactive SEP and SIMPLE plans. Distributions from any other type of retirement plan (401(k), 403(b), 457, Keogh, and active SEP and SIMPLE plans) do not qualify. Your plan administrator must transfer the funds directly—you may not receive the distribution first and then transfer it to the charity. Distribution must be received by RBS on or before 31 December to be counted in the current tax year. Each distribution will be excluded from federal taxable income. Note that QCDs typically count toward your required minimum distribution (RMD) if you are required to take one. Using a QCD to make charitable gifts will reduce the value of your IRA and taxable RMDs in future years.
For a more complete description of the IRS regulations, please see the most recent version of Publication 590-B, Distributions from Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs).
Planned Giving
A planned gift is just one way to give a future donation to Rare Book School while meeting your current financial, personal, and philanthropic goals. While an outright contribution—of cash, securities, rare books, or other tangible items—offers immediate support for RBS, a planned gift provides a future stream of income that allows RBS to plan with confidence for tomorrow’s programs and projects. As with all gifts to RBS, the future benefit of your planned gift would be applied to the program you select and for the purposes you define. With your help, we can secure a legacy of learning at RBS for many years to come. Additionally, a planned gift often offers you and your family significant tax benefits, greater financial flexibility, and even access to instruments that give lifetime income. Regardless of the form it takes, your planned gift would help provide a solid foundation for Rare Book School’s future.
Planned giving arrangements could offer you and your family significant tax benefits or lifetime income, while also providing much-needed resources for important causes, including Rare Book School. These future gifts enable the School to run its programs and projects with confidence and will help ensure that future students have the opportunity to study at RBS.
The most common way of making a planned gift is through a bequest. You can make a gift through your will or living trust by including specific language outlining your support for Rare Book School. Our standard unrestricted bequest language is as follows:
I give to the Book Arts Press (doing business as Rare Book School), an educational non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation located at 2023 Ivy Road, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, [a dollar amount, property described herein, or a percentage of the rest of my estate] to be used by Rare Book School for its general purposes.
Other simple ways to include RBS in your legacy plans that do not require changing your will include naming the School as a beneficiary of your retirement savings plan or life insurance policy, or setting up a charitable gift annuity. Regardless of its form or size, your planned gift helps to provide a secure foundation for our School’s future.
To learn more about making a gift to Rare Book School, please contact us at 434-924-8851 or rbsdevelopment@virginia.edu.
The Malkin Society
The Malkin Society is a group of exceptional friends who have made arrangements for Rare Book School to receive future gifts, through wills, living trusts, or retirement plan assets; gifts of life insurance; charitable gift annuities; and charitable remainder trusts or lead trusts. Members of the Malkin Society allow Rare Book School to pursue and expand its mission well into the future.
Please let us know if you have already included Rare Book School in your estate plans. We would like to thank you and invite you to become a member of the Malkin Society. Your planned gift helps us with our future needs, and, as a member of the Malkin Society, you set an example for others who are considering including Rare Book School in their estate plans.
The Malkin Society was created to honor Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin (1913–2005), a longtime supporter and generous benefactor of Rare Book School. Her donations to Rare Book School during her lifetime were substantial, and her bequest to the School of half her residual estate distinguishes her as an extraordinarily committed patron.
Stock Transfers
Gifts of appreciated securities not only support our courses and programs, but could also offer you significant tax benefits. Please follow the directions below to make a stock transfer.
Stock Transfer Instruction for DTC eligible securities and mutual funds:
Clearing Broker: Davenport & Company LLC
DTC Participant #: 0443 (Pershing)
Account Number: #DA4004978
Credit: University of Virginia Fund
Reference: {Your Name}, gift to Rare Book School
Physical securities should be sent to:
University of Virginia
University Advancement Services
Box 400807
Charlottesville, VA 22904
University of Virginia
University Advancement Services
2420 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Transferring marketable securities via DTC (the Depository Trust Company, a securities clearing house) may be accomplished only through the cooperation of your broker. Otherwise, if you have the shares in physical form, you may send us the securities and, under separate cover, send us an originally signed stock power for each security gifted. Please note that donors must have their signature medallion-guaranteed by a bank or broker.
Please contact UVA’s Advancement Services if you have questions:
University Advancement Services
uas@virginia.edu
Phone: 434-924-7018
Employer’s Matching Gifts
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