Make a Financial Donation
Make a Financial Donation
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum welcomes financial contributions which are used to support our mission to inspire the study and appreciation of comics and cartoon art through collecting, preserving and making accessible materials that represent a diversity of voices for research, teaching, exhibitions, and educational programming.
We rely on the generous donations of our supporters:
- To help us acquire, catalog and preserve cartoon-related materials including books, comic books, original art and archival collections
- To support our educational programming including exhibitions, presentations, workshops, family and K-12 programs, and online resources for teachers and researchers
- To assist us in making our collection accessible to researchers and scholars around the world
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is a non-profit, educational institution and financial donations are tax-deductible.
Choose from the Following Funds
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Cartoon Library and Museum Support Fund
Fund Number 308558
This fund supports the general work of the team at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Make a Cartoon Library and Museum Gift Today -
Tom Spurgeon CXC Support Fund
Fund Number 307256
This fund supports BICLM programming in conjunction with Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC), an annual city-wide comics festival that celebrates the diversity of the cartoon arts and their creators across genres and forms. It highlights Columbus and its comics community for the world. To make a donation in memory of Tom Spurgeon, CXC’s former Executive Director, please use this fund.
Give a Tom Spurgeon CXC Support Fund Gift -
Museum Education Program
Fund Number 318120
This fund will help us better meet the needs of our community by supporting a dynamic and engaging museum education program. The educational potential of comics and cartoons is boundless. They have the power to engage kids by igniting their imagination and creativity while enhancing literacy and artistic skills. We have an amazing collection at our fingertips, that our trained, dedicated educator uses to create and enact programming that appeals to children, families and educators and supplements art education taught in schools (which often excludes comics). The program possibilities are endless and exciting, with initiatives that could include a wide variety of fun and educational experiences such as:
- Interactive exhibit activities
- Hands-on classes covering all aspects of making comics
- Youth graphic novel book clubs
- Girl Scout comics badge workshops
- Class field trips
- Comics-focused summer camps
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Bill Blackbeard San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection Project
Fund Number 316717
This fund supports rehousing and cataloging this unique collection, which contains the graphic art of thousands of artists, including such luminaries as Winsor McCay, George Herriman, Nell Brinkley, Lyonel Feininger, Frank King, Milton Caniff, Edwina Dumm, Hal Foster, Walt Kelly, and Charles Schulz, as well as many whose work has not received the appreciation and critical attention it deserves because of the lack of access. The collection also includes incredibly rare copies of the Chicago Defender, one of the definitive Black Press newspapers. It is imperative that we rehouse and catalog this historically and artistically-significant collection so that broad public access can be provided for exhibitions, for research, and for teaching. Creating access to these irreplaceable source materials and artistic commentaries on the social, political, and cultural happenings across time will offer unique insights to researchers while inspiring diverse, broad audiences for generations to come. Thanks to Bill Blackbeard’s collection, BICLM is the only place in the world where much of this material can be studied, and we can only imagine what discoveries remain in the thousands of uncatalogued boxes. We need your help to preserve comic strip history!
Donations directly support the dedicated project archivists and archival material for housing the fragile collection materials.
Make a Bill Blackbeard Collection Project Gift
Mail in a check made out to The Ohio State University Foundation (please indicate which fund) and mail to:
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
The Ohio State University
110 Sullivant Hall, 1813 N. High St.
Columbus, OH 43210
Endowments
Endowment funds provide a valuable opportunity to invest in the future of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Each fund serves as a permanent financial resource that generates annual income for a designated purpose. In this way, donors create a living legacy that spans generations. An endowed fund is a dependable and perpetual source of support, since the principal is invested and only a portion of the earnings is spent annually. Endowments allow donors to make a lasting impact on the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, now and in the future. It is truly a gift that “keeps on giving.”
- New named funds are established by the Board of Trustees upon receipt of a gift of $100,000 or more for a restricted endowed fund.
- Endowments are named by the donor and often they carry the donor’s name or the donor’s family name, or they honor or memorialize someone loved or respected. Restricted endowments provide support to the area that the donor chooses.
- All endowed fund gifts at Ohio State are pooled together with other long-term university assets to form the Long-Term Investment Pool (LTIP). Within this pool are well-diversified U.S. and international investments.
- It is the university’s policy to make a distribution to each fund at the beginning of each fiscal year. The current annual distribution equals 4.50% of the average market value-per-share of the endowment during the past seven years.
Planned Gifts
In certain instances, it may be preferable from an estate, financial, and tax planning perspective to consider long-term gift planning as the best way to make a gift. This can be accomplished through various gift instruments, such as charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities, charitable lead trusts, and bequests.
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Matching Gifts
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If you have questions about making a gift of funds to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, please email cartoons@osu.edu or University Libraries Senior Director of Development Marcus Fowler at fowler.647@osu.edu.