Donate to The Foundation
Why Give to the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Foundation?
Your gift to the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Foundation helps ensure the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra’s continued excellence and its permanence as an institution. Annual grants from the Foundation help students do what they love, advance as musicians, and build lifelong friendships. Our annual grants to the HRO fund retreats, special concerts, private lessons, instrument and music rentals, the orchestra’s international tours, and other general administrative needs. Your gifts also help to fund events and projects to connect HRO alumni to the HRO and to each other.
Over the past 15 academic years, the Foundation has provided in excess of $700,000 directly to the HRO. In the 2022-2023 academic year, funds provided to the HRO supported our free Harvard student ticket initiative, the HRO’s annual retreat, and the HRO’s performance of Verdi's Requiem in conjunction with the Harvard choruses.
To view details about our alumni, donations, and grants, visit our Impact page.
Ways to Give
There are a variety of ways you can give to the Foundation including by credit card and check. Please note that all contributions are directed to the Foundation’s annual fund unless otherwise specified.
We have also established The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Endowment Fund whereby you can direct gifts to Harvard University with funds disbursed to the HRO by the Office of the Arts and the HRO’s Music Director. Gifts to the Endowment fund are intended to support the long-term financial goals of the HRO. Please click on the link below to learn more about the Endowment Fund.
We also expect to be able to accept gifts of appreciated securities, distributions from donor-advised funds, or by designating the Foundation as a beneficiary on IRA’s.
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and all gifts are fully tax-deductible. The Foundation's EIN is 04-2444738.
Click below to make a donation or to learn more about other ways to give to The Foundation.
Donor Honor Roll
The Foundation would like to acknowledge and celebrate the generosity of our donors for the last two Academic Years (2020-2022). Your contributions allow us to continue providing for the HRO, help students achieve their musical and tour goals, and support new community-building initiatives for HRO alumni.
2021-2022 Academic Year and beyond
(8/1/21 - 10/31/22)
Donations to Harvard College Fund Supporting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Endowment
$500,000 or greater
Young Jin Lee and Young Ju Rhee
$200,000 to $499,000
Anonymous
Brian Koh and Catherine Shih
$100,000 to $199,999
The Letvin Family
Anonymous
Rachel E. Dobrow Stone
Jay R. Girotto
Donations to the Mexican Tour and Annual Operating Support
Benefactor $5,000 or greater
Jay R. Girotto
Christine Ausnit Hood
Monica Kohler
Park and Taylor Family Fund
Sustainer $1,000 to $4,999
Drs. Mary Mullen and Harold Burstein
Maryellen Henry Gleason
Caroline Choi Kim & Howard Kim
Mary Ellen Hoke Moir
Carl H. Pforzheimer III
Eugene Lee and Sally Park
Minsok Pak
Stephanie Ruth Hurder
Xiaodong Yu
Ohchul Park
Thomas Charles Terwilliger
John Ho
Cathy Barbash
George Ansbach Goldberg MD
Sarah Kim
Associate $300 to $999
Alvin Frank Wen
Scott Yoo
Andrew Jay Frackman
Frederick and Allison Henle
Wei Tsuen Fang
Elizabeth Stanton
Paul T. Nghiem
Antoinette Therese DeCamp
Alison Wheeler Lahnston
Simonida Thurber
Michael Victor Gisser
Lijian Chen
Nancy H. Fryberger
Wei Tsuen Fang
David Duane Oakes MD
Marion C. S. Letvin MD
Krysten Alysandre Keches
Minsok Pak
Qi Li
Robert Hwang
Anonymous
Sponsor $100 to $299
Brian P. Lee
Steven Neal Graff
Pang-Dian Fan
Robert D Levin
Paul T. Nghiem
Michael Victor Gisser
Paul Jinkyu Chung MD
Victoria Aschheim
William LaPiana
Owen K. Allen
Daniel S. Freed
Dennis S. Lee
Lili A. Barouch MD
Jeremy C. Hwang
Christina Wolf
Sydney Sawyer
Bliss Burdett
Gabriel Benjamin Walker
Andrew M. Popper
Geoffrey C. Cook
Xiangping Chen
Jae H. Park MD
Frederick William Klein IV
Steven Neil Machtinger
Stephanie Misono MD
Anna Ackerberg Garsten
David Mark Hutt
Robert Dale Mawhinney
Linda Coffman Dindzans MD
John Arthur Lithgow
William Arnold Shapiro
Gabriel Benjamin Walker
Dalya Khan
Scott Smith
Main Violin
Barbara Sorenson Hulka MD
John L. Whitlock Esq.
Julene Maree Stellato
Michael Luskin
Prof. Lionel S. Shapiro
Tor Shwayder
Peter John Bedrossian PhD
George Ansbach Goldberg MD
Sandra Kim Yuh
April Salomon
Lili A. Barouch MD
Dr. Lydia Ko Chiang MD
Lili A. Barouch MD
Dr. Daniel Y. Sze
Lee Ann Song
Channing A. Paluck
Alexis Lee Medina
Christina Wenshin Li
Raymond Seth Rosenbaum
Loran Morris
Anne Shreffler
Thom Buster Thurston
Mr. Jason C. Gelles
C Michael Lederer
Marvin Alvert Hightower
Lijian Chen
Harold I. Litt
Walter Cyril Foreman Jr.
John Chawluk
Elizabeth L Mathieson
Stephen Hyun Cho
Johnathan Frank Adair
Alice Fan
Jianhua Zhao
Takao & Naoko Ishidate
John W. Smith
Tor Shwayder
Daniel Altman
Sara Kantor
David Epstein
Robert Hartshorne
Fang-Dian Fan
Lydia Ko Chiang MD
Ariel Shwayder
Michael Brenner
Walter Cyril Foreman Jr.
Edward Kang
Elizabeth D. Ames MD
Jonathan A. Cohler
Albert Mao Li
Friend $50 to $100
David Michael Sogg
Mary Cutler Wagner
Mary Ellen Mulholland
Gillian Benet Sella
Prof. Robert David Levin
David Michael Sogg
Hannah Woods Stallman
Joel Reynolds
Jeffrey Bernard Smith MD
Natasha Elena Smalky
Kyle Sebastian Adler
Matheson Macdonald
Eric James Hintsa
Michael Weinrich MD
Eleanor Susan Pollak
Leonard Sheffer Gettes
Sophie Ballard Bilezikian
Rita A. Hao
Teddy Yang-Fu Tong MD
Michael A. Bamberger Esq.
Mary Cutler Wagner
Jean C. Park
Peter Samuel Nickerson
Prof. David Allan Wirth
Stephen David Senturia
Steven Gerard Ekert Jr.
Rachel Berger
Eugene H. Chung
Rosanne Perez Sterne
Nancy Adams Drye
David Epstein
Karl Lawrence Singer MD
Judith Bonnie Robinson
Clifford Webber
Steven Jones
Jianhua Zhao
Didier Alain Mandelbrot
Col. Jonathan Newmark MD
Katharine Flanders Mukherji
John W. Smith
Adam Birnbaum
John MacFarlane
Alfred Yen
Sara Kantor
Margaret H. Baron
Sophia C. Macris
Mather Brown Pfeiffenberger
Alfredo Alberto Ok
Lawrence B Li MD
Marilyn Heins
Linda Koenig
Ann-hao Chao Miyashiro
Linda Koenig
Rev. Ernest William Cockrell
James H. Bergman
Rita A. Hao
Iris Lan
Ellen Karen Snyder
Arpi Tavil-Shatelyan
Rachel Berger
Michael L. Tabak
Peter Pesic
Robert Alan Steinberg
Lee Ann Song
Thomas Vance Yates
Peter Albert Belmont
Ursula Kerzel Oppens
Juliana Grace Serafin
Wallace Finley Dailey
Devon Leal Bridgewater PhD
Michael L. Nieland MD
Family Other Amounts
Rebecca Gruskin
Isaac David Hurwitz
Wan Vivian Tang
Hyekyung Kim
Xiaoxue Yang
Scott Stone
Kathy Hellgren
Rebecca Hirschfeld
Melissa Struck
Susanne Warner Melbye
NaYoung Yang
Juhyun Kwon
Sheldon Scott Nicholl
2020-2021 Academic Year
(8/1/20 - 7/31/21)
$10,000+
Bernard and Mildred Kayden Fund
Ty and Felicia Kim*
The Andrew B. Kim and Wan Kyun Rha Kim Family Foundation
$5,000+
Christine Ausnit Hood*
Keches Family Fund
Marilyn Malpass
Carl and Betty Pforzheimer
Anonymous
$1,000+
Barbash Family Fund
Eugene Lee and Sally Park*
Byram Karanjia*
Caroline Choi Kim and Howard Kim*
Mary Ellen Moir*
Ning Tien and Leonard van der Kuijp
Min Wang and Xiaohong Yu
$500+
Marcia Belvin
The Benevity Community Impact Fund
Gary Berger
Caitlin Donovan*
Andrew Frackman
Richard and Nancy Fryberger
Maryellen Gleason*
Frederick and Allison Henle*
Alison Lahnston
Marion Letvin*
David and Agatha Moll Charitable Fund
Network for Good
Harvey Weiss
Alvin Wen and Alexandra Moellmann
Patrick and Phaedra Yachimski
$250+
Victoria Aschheim*
Laurence Berman
Martina Cricker
Thomas Crowell
Rachel Dobrow and Scott Stone
Caroline and Michael Flexer
Jason Gelles
Corey and Kristin Haugland
Jeremy Hwang
Eleanore Kim
Frederick Klein
William LaPiana
C. Michael and Christina Lederer
Judith and Michael Luskin
Robert Mawhinney
Misono-Liu Family Fund
Network for Good
David Oakes
Anonymous
$100+
Susan Abrams
Kyle and Mary Adler Foundation
Michael Bamberger
Lili Barouch
Marcia Belvin
John and Helen Bethell
John and Sophie Bilezikian
Caroline and Matthew Boch
Richard Bogomolny
Michael Brenner
Andrew Calkins
David Chavolla
Liza Ching
Eugene Chung
Karen Cohen
James Collins
Geoffrey Cook
David Davis
Brent de Chene
Steven Ekert
Pang-Dian Fan
Ellen Feingold
Jonathan Feng
Anna Garsten
Leonard Gettes
George Goldberg
Rolf and Nancy Goodwin
Steven Graff
Ethan Gray
Luda Grossman
Peter Haas
Eric Hailman
Audrey Han
Stephen Hinkle
Eric Hintsa
Mike Ho
Daniel and Kelly Horwitz Charitable Fund
Barbara Hulka
David Hutt
Jeremy Hwang
Haewon Hwang
Jane Hwangbo
Sei Iwai
Buell Jannuzi
Li-Wen Kang
Bruce Karlin
Kesselman-Goldberg Benevolent Fund
Brian Lee
Paul Lehrer
Albert Li
John and Mary Lithgow
Jonathan Lurie
Steven Machtiger
Sophia Macris
Robert Madden and Cynthia Chazotte
Elizabeth Mathieson
Jonathan McPhie
Kwan-Hong Min
Mark Mulligan
Jonathan Newmark
Paul Nghiem
Glenn Noreen
Channing Paluck
Park and Taylor Family Fund
Katherine Plummer
Nicholas Pyle
Dorothy Rhoades
Grant Riew
William Roberts
Stephen Senturia
Tatsuo Shirane
Anne Shreffler
Tor Shwayder
Karl Singer
Natasha Smalky
Scott Smith
John Smith
Jeffrey and Tam Smith
David Sogg
Hannah Stallman
Julene Stellato
Alan Stern
Daniel Sze
Thom Thurston
Tishler Family Fund
Teddy Tong
Heidi Vanderbilt-Brown and Andrew Popper
Joseph Venzon
Allan Vogel
Mary Wagner
Gabriel Walker*
Michael Weinrich
John Whitlock
David Wirth
Scott Yoo*
Sandra Yuh
Sarah Zaslaw
Shoshana Zax
Anonymous (3)
$50+
Michael Bamberger
Jonathan Bernard
Albert Briggs
Dixon Butler
Tere Carrion
Stephen Cho
Bryan Choi
Ernest Cockrell
Wallace Dailey
Edgar Engleman
David Forman
Judith Grand
Luda Grossman
Jon Gudeman
Charles Hefling
Marilyn Heins
Vivian Ho
Takatoshi Ito
Sara Kantor
Donna Kim
Beong-Soo Kim
Jane Kim
Kim-Wongtrakool Giving Fund
Robert Levin
Lawrence Li
Christine Liu
Katharine and Rajat Mukherji
Ursula Oppens
Peter Pesic
Mather Pfeiffenberger
Carl Rogers
Maria Roglieri
Lee Ann Song*
Arpi Tavil-Shatelyan*
Douglas Wilkins
Thomas Yates
Jeffrianne Young
Anonymous (4)
Other Donors
The Blackbaud Giving Fund / Your Cause
David Creighton
Frances Dickey
Walter Foreman
Herbert Gardner
Enid Ginsburg
Iris Lan
James Lichtenberg
Timothy Lipman
Kilmer McCully
Susanne Melbye
Network for Good
Sheldon Nicholl
Carl Riskin
Gabriel and Melissa Struck
Michael Tabak
NaYoung Yang*
* Board Member
Other Ways to Donate
Gifts of Securities
Donating appreciated securities – such as stock or mutual funds – is an extremely efficient way to give to the Foundation due to the associated tax advantages. When you transfer ownership of long-term holdings, you receive a charitable deduction for their full market value at the time of transfer (up to 30% of your adjusted gross income). If your deduction is greater than 30%, you are eligible to carry any unused deduction forward for up to five years subject to the same annual limit until it has been fully used.
When a gift of securities is made, the donor benefits by not having to sell the securities and therefore avoids realizing capital gains, and the Foundation benefits from a gifted amount that may greatly exceed your cost basis.
If you would like to donate a gift of appreciated securities, please contact us. We recommend that you first consult your financial planner for any gifts of securities.
Planned Gifts
For many people, the most practical way to make a significant gift to the Foundation is through their estate.
Please consider gifting to the Foundation through:
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a codicil to your will
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an amendment to your revocable trust
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a retirement plan beneficiary designation
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naming the Foundation as the beneficiary of your life insurance plan
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a donor advised fund or private foundation succession plan
Estate plans should be prepared by and with the advice of an estate planning professional (lawyer, accountant, financial advisor, etc.) to ensure that your intentions are carried out. The Foundation is not able to provide legal advice or counsel on matters pertaining to gift planning. Contact us if you are interested in a Planned Gift.
Sample Bequest Language
A general bequest, unrestricted as to purpose:
“I give (____ dollars) or (____ percent of my estate) to the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Foundation, Inc., a Massachusetts charitable corporation, for the purpose of [state purpose of gift].”
A bequest for a specific purpose:
“I give (____ dollars) or (____ percent of my estate) to the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra Foundation, Inc., a Massachusetts charitable corporation, for the purpose of [state purpose]. If, in the future, in the opinion of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra board members, all or part of this gift cannot be usefully applied to the above purpose (or in the above manner), it may be used for any purpose within the corporate powers of the University that will most nearly accomplish my wishes and purposes.”
Please note, gifts designated for specific purposes must be approved by the Foundation’s Board of Directors. Please check with us before designating a special purpose bequest.
Donor-Advised Funds
Since assets in a donor-advised fund are invested tax-free, making a distribution from such a fund to the Foundation allows you to combine tax benefits with the flexibility to support multiple causes. If you are using a donor-advised fund to make charitable contributions, please consider including the Foundation as one of your causes. If you would like to make a gift to the Foundation through a donor-advised fund, please contact us.
IRA Charitable Contribution
Designating the Foundation as a beneficiary of your retirement plan is another tax-efficient way to show your support. Retirement assets are often subject to income tax when distributed and estate taxes – but when you make an IRA Charitable Contribution, the Foundation will receive all or a part of the plan assets undiminished by estate and gift taxes.
Any individual who is 70 ½ or older can transfer tax-free gifts (up to an annual maximum of $100,000) directly from their IRA to the Foundation using the IRA Charitable Rollover.
If you would like to make an IRA Charitable Contribution to the Foundation, please contact us. To start, you can request a beneficiary designation form from your plan’s administrator (or change the designation online), naming the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Foundation, Inc. as the beneficiary.