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Annual Reports :
2003 : Donor Support
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Cash
contributions to the annual Colonial Williamsburg Fund grew to more than $12
million in 2003, a record, and a 3.4 percent increase over 2002. Aggregate
gifts, grants, and pledge payments to the foundation during the year totaled
$39 million, extending a steady upward trend in core support.
For the second year in a row, contributions came from more
than 100,000 individuals. Gifts averaged $118, an increase of 2.6 percent from
2002's $115.
Contributions to
the fund underwrite almost every aspect of the foundation's operations. They
help provide costumes for Historic Area interpreters, books for the John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library, firewood for the shoemaker's shop, quill pens for
children's programming, and fifes for the Fife and Drum Corps.
Such generosity
helped maintain the Historic Area, build the barn at Great Hopes Plantation,
and broadcast electronic field trips to classrooms across the nation.
Donor support is
particularly important to a nonprofit institution like Colonial Williamsburg, which
funds
only a portion of its annual budget through ticket sales.
All of Colonial
Williamsburg's donor societies grew in membership as well as giving. In 2003,
membership in the Raleigh Tavern Society, a group of donors who give $5,000 or
more annually, grew 3.5 percent to 358. Giving increased 3.3 percent to
$2,553,558, up from $2,470,952 in 2002.
Membership in the
Colonial Williamsburg Associates, for individuals who give $2,500 or more
annually, grew 1.8 percent to 168. Giving by these donors reached $448,329 in
2003, an increase of 6.6 percent from 2002.
Membership in the
Colonial Williamsburg Burgesses, for individuals who give $1,000 or more, grew
by 115 in 2003 to 1,282—a 9.9 percent increase. In 2003, their total giving
reached nearly $1.4 million, an increase of 11 percent from 2002.
One of the benefits
of donor society membership is eligibility to participate in the study trips
offered through Colonial Williamsburg's travel program. In 2003, cultural
expeditions visited Vienna, Prague, and Dresden; America's Inland Waterway; and
southern Italy.
All donors of $100 or more annually are invited to enjoy
refreshments and special programming at the restored St. George Tucker House in
the heart of the Historic Area. In 2003, a staff of seventy-eight volunteers
welcomed more than 12,000 guests to the facility.
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