2023-11-13T15:02:49-06:00 2022-12-31 873231666 PKF O'Connor Davies Advisory LLC 32 Fostertown Road Newburgh NY 12550 990 2022-01-01 135643627 Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc CARA 9142328425 PO Box 816 Katonah NY 10536 Edward J Lewis III CEO 9142328425 2023-11-09 1 Edward Lewis III XXX-XX-XXXX 1 Garrett M Higgins P00543209 8455655400 2023-11-13 3 AAL1 IAL1 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Edward J Lewis III PO Box 816 Katonah NY 10536 23996558 0 X www.caramoor.org X 1945 NY See Schedule O 28 28 129 138 -19973 0 6494552 4487236 728192 1155031 2421585 300683 204711 -263982 9849040 5678968 0 0 0 0 2909083 3361202 0 0 1198094 3762420 5107942 6671503 8469144 3177537 -2790176 54142403 45359034 972116 605567 53170287 44753467 X Caramoor's mission is to enrich the lives of audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentor young professional musicians, and engage children through interactive educational experiences that deepen their relationship to and understanding of music. These three fundamentals - music performance, musician mentoring, and music education - infuse everything we do. 0 0 3989657 858309 Musical Performances - See Schedule O 1326760 283587 Rosen House, Gardens and Estate - See Schedule OThe Rosen House is a Mediterranean revival villa at the center of the Caramoor campus. In recognition of the unsurpassed quality and great quantity of European period rooms incorporated in the house, Caramoor was recognized as nationally significant on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. Built in the 1930s, the Rosen House now serves as a concert venue, museum, and archive. In 2021, we updated and modified many of the rooms in the southwest wing of the Rosen House. We added signage, updated lighting and displays, and relocated some of the art to help our visitors have a sense of the foundations of Caramoor and of the Rosens as patrons of music and the arts. We also redesigned some of the rooms in the New Wing, the area that was added by the Rosens' daughter, Anne Bigelow Rosen, in 1968, after Lucie Rosen died. These rooms now display Lucie's theremin, along with signage describing Lucie's influence and support for the electronic instrument. 743165 15087 Mentoring and Arts-In-Education - See Schedule OThe 81-acre Caramoor campus is comprised of four primary buildings today known as the Rosen House, the Administration Building, the Gifford Residence, and the Diane Moss Education Center as well as ancillary buildings and landscape features, gardens, lawns, and woodland areas. A central focus of the campus is the Venetian Theater, a tented, 1,500-seat venue.Forty-five acres of the campus is deer-fenced and open to the visiting public, including the Sunken Garden, established in 1912; a Mediterranean Revival pavilion; an alley of cedar trees; and a number of gardens designed in the 1930s by landscape architect and Katonah resident Robert Ludlow Fowler, Jr. 6059582 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 165 0 129 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 28 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 NY X X X Tammy Belanger CFO 9142328425 Caramoor Center 149 Girdle Ridge Rd Katonah NY 10536 James A Attwood Jr Chairman 8.00 X X 0 0 0 Peter Kend Vice Chairman 4.00 X X 0 0 0 Paul S Bird Treasurer 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Angela Haines Secretary 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Judy Evnin Chairman Emeritas 4.00 X 0 0 0 Barry J Alperin Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 James L Amine Trustee 2.00 X 0 0 0 David Barber Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jon Bauer Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Gail A Binderman Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 William Cordiano Trustee 8.00 X 0 0 0 Ian Cook Trustee 3.00 X 0 0 0 Jane Phillips Donaldson Trustee 2.00 X 0 0 0 Lawrence Elow Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Susan W Freund Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Francis Goldwyn Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Sandra S Joys Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Floy B Kaminski Trustee 2.00 X 0 0 0 Deborah Stiles Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jim Lee Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Stephen Limpe Trustee 2.00 X 0 0 0 Nancy Offit Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Richard H O'Leary Trustee 2.00 X 0 0 0 Lawerence Rothenberg Trustee, thru Oct. 2022 1.00 X 0 0 0 Mrs Andrew Saul Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Lisa Welch Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Ian Winchester Trustee 2.00 X 0 0 0 Nina Stanton Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Richard Zinman Trustee 2.00 X 0 0 0 Edward Lewis III President & CEO 65.00 X 328282 0 12923 Nina Curley Chief Development Officer, thru Jan. 2022 60.00 X 40832 0 29941 Tracy Tajbl Chief Development Officer 60.00 X 114338 0 4001 Katherine Schuman Artistic Director 60.00 X 203915 0 21323 Tammy Belanger VP, CFO 50.00 X 163603 0 28833 Tahra Delfin VP, Chief Marketing Officer 50.00 X 146388 0 32227 997358 0 129248 5 0 1 0 Opus 3 Artists LLC 470 Park Avenue South 9th Fl Nort New York NY 10016 Independent Artists Management Firm 236000 Orchestra of St Luke's 450 West 37th Street Ste 502 New York NY 10018 Resident Orchestra 192076 Great Performances 2417 Third Ave Bronx NY 10451 Food services 165473 Progressive Computing Inc 51 Smart Avenue Ste 200 Yonkers NY 10704 Technological services 164372 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC 1 New York Plaza 40th Floor New York NY 10004 Investment management fees 158178 7 1624766 155000 2707470 410068 4487236 Ticket Sales 711190 1155031 1155031 1155031 820394 -19948 840342 230290 53289 177001 177001 177001 17170089 17689800 -519711 -519711 -25 -519686 114985 1624766 561864 -446879 -446879 14589 12637 1952 1952 Reimbursements 900099 3944 3944 3944 5678968 1156983 -19973 54722 965852 361720 294798 309334 1907307 1361768 239851 305688 45924 28182 8833 8909 233515 172327 55509 5679 208604 133210 33928 41466 10056 10056 48000 48000 158178 158178 20061 20061 360198 337764 159 22275 186701 99834 28693 58174 255091 129109 37302 88680 155519 135376 6783 13360 49975 47635 2294 46 5808 3458 2231 119 957478 670235 95748 191495 178453 150556 19453 8444 Fees: Artist/tech, etc. 1474268 1311147 116537 46584 Equip Rntl Rpr & Maint 646007 602078 17190 26739 Donated Items 215647 196920 6184 12543 Brochures & Programs 134299 105643 0 28656 252203 212620 9680 29903 8469144 6059582 1211468 1198094 331344 140812 2181174 1914498 444895 291879 87266 102768 69509 71286 22821450 10602198 12811312 12219252 27924987 22302334 9485253 7804835 806663 511370 54142403 45359034 119998 164892 93154 90675 750000 350000 8964 0 972116 605567 X 15996009 16940361 37174278 27813106 53170287 44753467 54142403 45359034 X -2790176 -5596644 -30000 X X 0 1 X 1 0 X 9716960 7919521 5343180 6494552 4487236 33961449 9716960 7919521 5343180 6494552 4487236 33961449 5263711 28697738 753984 873345 616212 1392314 1070632 4706487 3938 4429 4529 3201 3944 20041 38687977 4040838 0.74180 0.64570 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10, Explanation of Other Income: Reimbursements - 2018 Amount: $ 3,815. 2019 Amount: $ 4,281. 2020 Amount: $ 3,404. 2021 Amount: $ 1,678. 2022 Amount: $ 3,944. 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One example is the documentation relating to the Rosens' patronage of Leon Theremin and championing of his early electronic music instrument. This material has been a source of study for theremin researchers, including Robert Moog, who began building theremins in the 1950s as a high school student and later went on to design the Moog synthesizer and Albert Glinsky, Theremin's biographer and the author of Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage. The Rosen House collection demonstrates a tremendous breadth of art objects, furniture, and archival material. The art and furniture encompass over 1,000 cataloged objects, including European furniture from the 16th-19th centuries; European medieval and Renaissance paintings, sculpture, textiles, and decorative objects; and Asian statuary. There are also approximately 100 light fixtures and decorative elements by Edward F. Caldwell and Company dating from the 1930s. Other categories include photographs, textiles, early 20th-century costumes, and musical instruments. In addition, there is a wealth of ephemeral material relating to the Rosens, the development of the Caramoor campus, and the establishment of public performances. Objects from the collection displayed in the Music Room of the Rosen House, including a wooden 16th-century Italian ceiling, French and Swiss 16th-century stained glass, Renaissance tapestries, and 17th-century furniture, create an incomparable setting for chamber music performances. The collection also provides primary material for Caramoor's arts-in-education programs. In programs such as The Renaissance and The Middle Ages at Caramoor and Chinese Arts & Culture, students participate in guided tours and are encouraged to use the collection as inspiration for their own writing, drawing, and music-making. Part V, Line 4: Caramoor maintains various donor-restricted endowment funds and board designated quasi-endowment funds whose purpose is to provide long term support for its charitable programs. Part X, Line 2: Caramoor recognizes the effect of income tax positions only if those positions are more likely than not to be sustained. Management has determined that Caramoor had no uncertain tax positions that would require financial statement recognition and/or disclosure. Part XI, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Cost of goods sold reported on Part VIII, Line 10B - $12,637 Rental expenses reported on Part VIII, Line 6B - $53,289 Special event expense reported on Part VIII, Line 8B - $561,864 Part XII, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Cost of goods sold reported on Part VIII, Line 10B - $12,637 Rental expenses reported on Part VIII, Line 6B - $53,289 Special event expense reported on Part VIII, Line 8B - $561,864 Write-off of uncollectible pledge reported on Part XI, Line 9 - $30,000 Central America and the Caribbean 0 0 Investments 2593554 Europe (Including Iceland & Greenland) 0 0 Investments 2471878 0 0 0 0 0 0 5065432 0 5065432 1 0 1 0 0 0 Part III Accounting Method: Part IV, Foreign Forms Line 1: The Organization is required to file Form 926 because it does meet the applicable reporting threshold. Part IV, Foreign Forms Line 3: The Organization is not required to file Form 5471 because it does meet the applicable threshold ownership or other filing requirements. June Gala 1292983 1211257 81726 130042 229230 Wine Dinner 256609 244359 12250 19376 111962 2 190159 169150 21009 10639 60615 1739751 1624766 114985 160057 401807 561864 -446879 1 X X X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edward Lewis III President & CEO 328282 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12923 0 341205 0 0 0 Katherine Schuman Artistic Director 203915 0 0 0 0 0 8172 0 13151 0 225238 0 0 0 Tammy Belanger VP, CFO 163603 0 0 0 0 0 6710 0 22123 0 192436 0 0 0 Tahra Delfin VP, Chief Marketing Officer 146388 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32227 0 178615 0 0 0 X 18 268181 Avg. High/Low Value X 43 140487 Cost@Donation Date X Flowers 3 1400 Cost@Donation Date 0 0 1 1 Part I, Column (b): Column (b) reports the number of contributors. Part I, Line 32b: The organization used a third party to process proceeds from a silent auction at the Wine Dinner Benefit. Form 990, Part I, Line 1: Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is a destination for exceptional music, captivating programs, spectacular gardens, intriguing sound art, and historical perspective. Located on an 81-acre campus in Katonah, NY, Caramoor annually presents approximately 70 live music performances in a wide range of genres. Audiences are invited to explore the lush grounds, tour the historic Rosen House, enjoy a pre-concert picnic, and discover beautiful music in the relaxed settings of the Venetian Theater, Spanish Courtyard, Music Room, Friends Field, and magnificent gardens. Caramoor also trains the next generation of classical musicians and provides music-based arts education to local schoolchildren. The organization, founded by Lucie and Walter Rosen, was established as a 501c3 non-profit arts center in 1946 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2022, 33,414 people visited Caramoor's campus to enjoy the grounds and listen to music. In addition, approximately 9,800 people used the campus through facility rentals, special events, and administrative functions. In 2022, audiences were thrilled by live performances including Yo-Yo Ma and the Knights, Rhiannon Giddens and the Silkroad Ensemble, the Brentano String Quartet, Metropolitan Opera star J'Nai Bridges, and much more. Molly Tuttle headlined our acclaimed American Roots Music Festival. Jazz lovers enjoyed a full-day festival featuring Camille Thurman and the Darrell Green Quartet, among other performers. We also offered tours of our historic Rosen House and gardens, including our collection of sound art, Sonic Innovations. Caramoor's free community days included Dia de Los Muertos, a celebration of the Mexican Day of the Dead; Soundscapes, an event focused on our sound art collection, and "Field of Vision," a large-scale, immersive new work by composer Michael Gordon featuring the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble and So Percussion Summer Institute. We also partnered with the Town of Bedford for a Juneteenth celebration that attracted approximately 1,300 visitors on June 19, 2022. Form 990, Schedule O Narratives: The information contained in the return is relevant through December 31, 2022 and does not reflect any activity in 2023. Form 990, Part III, Line 4a: Caramoor's 2022 Summer Season included 38 live, in-person concerts, held outdoors from June 1 through August 19. Several concerts featured post-concert conversations with the artists, hosted by Helga Davis. Concert Theater Works presented The Chevalier, a concert-theater work based on the life of Joseph Bolonge, Chavalier de Saint-Georges, featuring the Harlem Chamber Players.Other highlights included: the Imani Winds; the Kronos and Thalea quartets; The Silkroad Ensemble with artistic director Rhiannon Giddens; Pianist Lara Downes presenting American Tapestry, a program that included works by Scott Joplin and others; a recital by mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges; new works and improvisations by composers Caroline Shaw, Angelica Negron, and Raquel Acevedo Klein; On Site Opera with vocalists Stephanie Blythe and Laquita Mitchell performing Rachel J. Peters' Lesson Plan; Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano String Quartet performing Dido Reimagined with music from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and a new work by composer Melinda Wagner; the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street presenting Handel's Theodora. Caramoor's resident orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL), and conductor Gemma New led a performance of works by Jessie Montgomery, Mozart, and Brahms with violinist Karen Gomyo. Later in the season, an all-Beethoven OSL concert featured conductor Xian Zhang and pianist Marc Andre Hamlin. Caramoor's annual Jazz Festival featured Camille Thurman and the Darrell Green Quartet, among others. Percussionist Pedrito Martinez and pianist Matthew Whitaker performed in two additional jazz concerts. Caramoor's American Roots Music Festival featured headliner Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, and more. Other concerts featured Las Cafeteras; Shemekia Copeland; and LADAMA. Other concerts featured Angelique Kidjo; Rachael & Vilray; Boyd Meets Girl; Inon Barnatan; Les Arts Florissants; VOCES8; Brian Stokes Mitchell; and the Westchester Symphonic Winds. Our spring and fall seasons, held in the Music Room of our historic Rosen House, featured performances by young artists from Caramoor's Evnin Rising Stars and Schwab Vocal Rising Stars programs. Other artists included countertenor Iestyn Davies along with lutenist Thomas Dunford; chamber music from the Takacs Quartet; Baroque violinist Rachel Podger; guitarist Yasmin Williams; singer-songwriter Kat Wright; Broadway star Sierra Boggess; jazz from the Melissa Aldana Quartet and Sean Mason Quintet; Florence Price champion pianist Michelle Cann; jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau; Grammy-nominated Danish String Quartet; singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell, and Grammy Award-winning children's performer Dan Zanes and his wife, jazz vocalist Claudia Zanes. Form 990, Part III, Line 4a Mentoring The development of emerging artists is central to Caramoor's mission and woven into much of our programming. Through our mentoring programs, we identify, train, and promote the next generation of vocal and instrumental artists. This year's Schwab Vocal Rising Stars program featured four young singers and a pianist selected for a weeklong residency at Caramoor. After a week of daily coaching, rehearsals, and workshops, the group performed love songs from Spain, Germany, France, and America. Developed in collaboration with the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), and led by Artistic Director Steven Blier and associate director Benedicte Jourdois, the concert featured Meredith Wohlgemuth, soprano; Natalie Lewis, mezzo-soprano; Cesar Andres Parreo, tenor; Seonho Yu, baritone; and Francesco Barfoed, piano. The Evnin Rising Stars pairs distinguished artists with emerging instrumentalists for a week-long residency. Activities include rehearsals, coaching, and performances in the Music Room. This year, guest Guest Artistic Director Marcy Rosen, a longtime member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, was joined by Joseph Lin, violin; and Steven Tenenbom, viola, to mentor Claire Bourg, violin; Geneva Lewis, violin; Stephanie Zyzak, violin; Njord Krason Fossnes, viola; Tanner Menees, viola; Nathan Chan, cello; Sterling Elliott, cello; and Zhu Wang, piano. Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence In 1999, with the support of The Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation, Caramoor established a residency program for young string ensembles. Each year a quartet is selected and given opportunities throughout the year to develop as an ensemble, to work with a young composer, to perform for Caramoor's audiences, and to engage local schoolchildren in arts outreach. Our Student Strings program connects Caramoor's Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence with middle and high school students. This year the Callisto Quartet (spring 2022) and the Ivalas Quartet (fall 2022) visited 10 schools to teach a hands-on, clinic-style master class for string students and perform an assembly-style program for the general student population. Other community engagement efforts included a visit to an over-55 condominium community. Arts-in-Education Since 1974, Caramoor has provided students with arts enrichment opportunities that use our exceptional facilities, visiting artists, and dedicated staff while meeting New York State education standards. Caramoor's arts-in-education program features on-campus workshops that bring students to Caramoor and a music literacy unit that sends our musicians to local schools. This year marked the full launch of our new research-based curriculum, Caramoor Kids, which was introduced as a pilot program with select groups in 2021. Of the approximately 582 children who participated in our on-campus field trips during the 2022-23 academic year, roughly half were from Title 1 schools that serve children from low-income households. Caramoor offers its arts-in-education programs free of charge. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The prepared Form 990 is reviewed by senior management, the members of the Audit Committee, and then provided to the Board of Trustees prior to filing. Management, the Audit Committee members, and the independent auditors review and discuss the return. If necessary, the independent auditors submit an updated Form 990 to the CFO. The CFO confirms that the updates are accurate and posts the final draft to Drop Box. The URL address for the Drop Box file is circulated to the Board. Comments from the Board are collected and reviewed by the Audit Committee. Final edits, if any, are made and the Form 990 is filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Caramoor followed its conflict of interest policy. A conflict of interest disclosure statement is required to be furnished annually by each trustee and each covered employee disclosing any anticipated or possible conflict situations. Covered employees are senior employees and other employees who have a decision making role in hiring or contracting. Each new trustee is advised of the policy and furnished a disclosure statement upon undertaking the duties of such office. When any conflict of interest may be involved in a transaction requiring action by the Board of Trustees or committee of the Board, the interested person shall call it to the attention of the Board of Trustees or such committee and the trustee concerned shall not vote on the matter. Moreover, the person having a conflict shall retire from the room in which the Board or committee is meeting and may not participate in the final deliberation or decisions regarding the matter under consideration. However, that person may provide the Board or committee with any and all relevant information before retiring. The minutes of the meeting of the Board or committee shall reflect that the conflict of interest was disclosed and that the interested person was not present during the final discussion or vote and did not vote. When there is a doubt as to whether a conflict of interest exists, the matter shall be resolved by the Board of Trustees excluding the person whose situation will be discussed. When any conflict of interest may be involved in a matter involving an employee, such employee shall notify the Board of Trustees and the Chief Executive Officer of Caramoor. The Board of Trustees may waive any disclosed conflict if it determines such waiver to be in the best interests of Caramoor. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 Caramoor has a formal Compensation Committee which annually reviews salaries, bonuses, and benefits for all Caramoor employees. The Committee pays special attention to the positions of CEO, AD, CDO, CFO, and CMO. Annual reviews include an assessment by the employee, the employee's supervisor, and recommendations from the CEO. The CEO also receives a review from the Compensation Committee. Trustees that sit on the Compensation Committee have all signed "conflict of interest" declarations, and do so annually. One of the Co-Chairs of the Committee is one of the leading non-profit recruiters and as such provides meaningful insights on compensation benchmarks. The Committee reviews salaries and compensation for similarly sized arts organizations in the New York area, and nationally, and uses this information in their decision making. Minutes of the Committee's deliberations and decisions are forwarded to the CFO to be carried out and filed. The last meeting of the Compensation Committee took place on December 17, 2021. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 18 Caramoor makes its Form 990 and Form 1023 available for public inspection as required under Section 6104 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Form 990 is also posted on guidestar.org and other similar types of websites, as well as on Caramoor's website. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 Caramoor's governing documents are made available to the public upon request and are available for inspection at the finance office. Caramoor's conflict of interest policy is made available to the public upon request and is available for inspection at the finance office. Caramoor's financial statements are made available to the public upon request and are available for inspection at the finance office and on the Caramoor website. Form 990, Part XI, line 9: Write off of Uncollectible Pledge -30,000. Form 990, Part XII, Line 2c: Caramoor has a committee that assumes responsibility for the oversight of the audit of its financial statements and selection of an independent accountant. This process did not change from the prior year. Form 990, Part I, Line 6: Staffing Tracy Tajbl joined as Vice President and Chief Development Officer. Prior to joining Caramoor, she served as assistant dean for advancement for the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Prior to Syracuse University, Tracy held leadership positions in development for a variety of arts and cultural organizations, including the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, the Colorado Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony. She was a vice president at Community Counselling Service (CCS,) a national fundraising consultancy. Caramoor welcomed a new Director of Interpretation, Collections, and Archives for the Rosen House, Jessa J. Krick. For more than a decade she served as Associate Director of Collections for Historic Hudson Valley, a network of sites spanning centuries of history in lower Westchester County and was part of a team that received numerous grants for making interpretive and archival content available onsite and online. She also held positions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volunteers Through their generous commitment of time, enthusiasm, and expertise, Caramoor benefits from the contributions of volunteers throughout the year. In a typical year, the number is determined by the scope of Caramoor's presenting activities and educational programs, in addition to the availability of the volunteers themselves. The majority of volunteers act as ushers at Caramoor's year-round music presentations. They are often the public face of Caramoor, acting as greeters, helping audience members to their seats, and helping to ensure the visiting public's safety and comfort. They also provide guidance during public tours of the Rosen House as well as performing clerical duties and undertaking cataloging projects. Board of Trustees Caramoor's Board of Trustees is responsible for the organization's governance, long-term strategy, and fiduciary oversight, while the senior staff is responsible for the day-to-day operation of Caramoor, including management and recommending annual budgets to the board. The board and staff work collaboratively in setting priorities for the organization's future. Caramoor's 29 board members come from diverse backgrounds and bring a wide range of professional expertise. By serving on various committees, including Finance, Building, Marketing, Development, and more, our board members act as fully engaged stewards of Caramoor's mission. One hundred percent of the board participates personally by making major contributions to support annual operating costs as well as fundraising for Caramoor. Additionally, individual board members support the organization through the establishment of endowment funds and contributions toward capital purchases. Advisory Council Established in 2013, the Advisory Council is comprised of members who have demonstrated a deep commitment to furthering Caramoor's mission and impact. The group, comprised of 22 members in 2022, formally meets twice a year, once with the Board of Trustees for Caramoor's Annual Meeting, and once on their own. Members also serve as members of committees of the organization, are involved in special initiatives/projects, and in advisory roles to various staff members. Individuals are selected by the Governance Committee from among our dedicated ticket buyers and donors for renewable terms of three years. Some Advisory Council members have moved up to serve on the Board of Trustees after service on the Advisory Council. The engagement of the Advisory Council continues to be an important element of Caramoor's success in engaging the broader community and undertaking a larger volume of initiatives with success.