Endowment

An Endowment to Secure the Future

No one knows where our world is headed. In just six short decades, at the very moment the survivors and eyewitnesses are leaving us, antisemitism and Holocaust denial are on the rise. Genocide and ethnic hatred are not in the past tense. And studies report fewer teens than ever know even the basic facts about the Holocaust.

What we do know is that your commitment to endow the work of the United States Holocaust Museum can help shape the future.

While the federal government guarantees the Museum's permanent place on the National Mall, only your tax-deductible gift to the Museum Endowment can ensure that its life-changing programs will continue to educate and motivate future generations; extending the Museum's reach and impact.

As the principal amount of your endowed gift is invested, your legacy will grow into a permanent, self-sustaining source of income to support the Museum's vital work in communities across America and throughout the troubled world.

You can fund your endowment through a gift during your lifetime or a gift through your estate plans. A bequest in your will to the Museum's endowment — a gift that costs nothing today — is the easiest way to create an enduring legacy.

Your generosity has transformed the survivors' promise into a Museum that has become the world's most powerful intersection of memory, meaning and action. Act today to secure that promise…because no one will ever care as much as you do.

Have you already left the Museum a bequest? Please let us recognize your generosity as a member of the Legacy of Light Society.

If you have made a bequest, but would like to learn more about designating your gift for the Museum's Endowment, please contact the Planned Giving Office.