How to Leave your Pawprints in Pine Grove Zoo’s History
Making a financial gift to the Friends of Pine Grove Zoo helps ensure a vibrant, positive, and enduring future beyond your lifetime, for our mission. Each generous gift is received with deep gratitude and stewarded with care. Your legacy gift, of any size, will provide sustained funding for world-class animal wellness, conservation, education programs, and will inspire respect and protection for animals and our environment. Here are just a few ways you can support the Friends of Pine Grove Zoo through your generous giving.
Commemorative Bench
A memorial bench creates a beautiful and distinctive way to remember or honor your loved one or an occasion at Pine Grove Zoo. Benches cost approximately $1,000 - $2,000 and includes an engraved panel to honor your loved one. Funds from the memorial benches support our mission to conserve, educate and support the Friends of Pine Grove Zoo.
Memorial or Tribute Donations
These donations can be an incredible way to honor or remember a loved one. All gifts create a lasting impact and allow us to continue the passion of their love of animals, conservation, and the nature world we live in.
Designating Pine Grove Zoo as Beneficiary
There are many ways to support the Friends of Pine Grove Zoo, and some are as easy as designating the Zoo as a beneficiary in your will or estate, your IRA, or 401K plan or even your insurance policy. You can leave a certain dollar amount or percent, specific property, or even a portion, or even remainder, of your estate to the Friends of Pine Grove Zoo.
Planning Your Gift
Gifts both large and small are important – legacy giving is not just for the wealthy. Everyone who supports Pine Grove Zoo is at a different stage in their life and able to give at a different level. Speaking with reputable financial or legal advisors is essential to help you decide which gift is best for you and your family.
Please Let Us Know
If you complete your estate plan and include the Friends of Pine Grove Zoo, please let us know. You can contact us at (320) 616-5595 or info@pinegrovezoo.com.