1955 Legacy Society

Why Your Legacy Matters

Your legacy gift will support vital programs like:

  • Science for All: Ensuring sustained community engagement, scholarships and field trip support, and offering free and reduced-price admissions and family memberships.
  • Neighborhood Science: Providing high-quality STEM education to youth throughout Central Florida for multiple days each week in afterschool programs and community centers.
  • Conservation Education & the Life Exhibit: Promoting environmental awareness and biodiversity education through three living ecosystems.
  • STEM Discovery Labs: The STEM Discovery Center is the educational hub of the Science Center and empowers students, educators and visitors of all ages with the means to create prosperity and stability for our future. Equipping future innovators with the tools and opportunities to thrive.
  • General Operations:
  • Endowment Fund: Providing long-term sustainability and impact for educational and operational funding.

Ways to Leave Your Legacy

A bequest is a simple, flexible way to support OSC’s mission beyond your lifetime.

Types of Bequests:

A specific bequest or gift is usually a stated dollar amount or a percentage of the estate. Your estate ensures that your gift will remain proportional to your estate size, no matter how it fluctuates. It may be in the form of cash, securities, real estate, tangible personal property or any other type of property.

A residual bequest or gift is usually the “rest, residue or remainder or a percentage of the remainder” after all other bequests, debts, and taxes have been fulfilled.

A contingent bequest or gift is made on the condition of a certain event that might or might not happen. A contingent bequest is specific and fails if the condition is not made.

A pecuniary bequest or gift of a fixed or stated sum of money designated in a donor’s will.  

How It Works: You can name Orlando Science Center as a beneficiary of a specific dollar amount, percentage of your estate, or specific asset (e.g., real estate, stocks).

Sample Language: “I give [dollar amount/percentage/specific asset] to Orlando Science Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, for its general charitable purposes.”

Name OSC as a full or partial beneficiary of your:

  • Retirement accounts [IRA, 401(k), 403(b)]
  • Life insurance policies
  • Bank or brokerage accounts

Benefits:

  • Simple to arrange
  • No need to amend your will
  • Can reduce income and estate taxes for heirs

Create a gift that provides income to you or a loved one during your lifetime while supporting OSC in the future.

Types Include:

  • Charitable Gift Annuity (CGA)
  • Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT)
  • Charitable Lead Trust (CLT)

Benefit:

  • Immediate tax deduction
  • Guaranteed income

Avoid capital gains taxes while supporting STEM education and accessibility.

My Grandpa just made an estate gift to my favorite place, Orlando Science Center, and now he receives a guaranteed income for life .... Yep, he’s a GENIUS!

What a great way to support me – his favorite grandkid – and my favorite place!

Join the 1955 Legacy Society

By including a charitable gift to Orlando Science Center in your will or trust, you continue to support our mission to inspire science learning for all, well into the future, making a difference in the lives of Central Florida students, teachers and families for years to come. When you let us know about your planned gift, you’ll join our 1955 Legacy Society, and we can recognize your generosity right away.

Legacy Society Benefits Include:

  • Recognition in OSC’s Annual Impact Report and Donor Wall
  • Invitations to exclusive legacy events
  • Behind-the-scenes exhibit previews
  • Optional anonymity

If you include Orlando Science Center in your plans, please use our whole legal name and federal tax ID#:

Legal Name: Orlando Science Center
Address: 777 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32803
Tax ID/EIN: #59-0896343

Let’s Talk Legacy

Interested in making a planned gift? We’d love to learn more about your vision and provide confidential assistance. Contact: Gina Owen, Director of Individual Giving and Major Gifts, 407.514.2183, gowen@osc.org.

If you already have included Orlando Science Center in your will or trust, or if you plan to do so in the future, we sincerely thank you. Please let us know of your plans so that we can recognize your generosity and personally extend our appreciation by connecting with us below.

CONNECT WITH US

Please consult with a professional advisor – financial planner, lawyer, accountant or insurance agent – that can tell you about tax benefits of planned gifts to Orlando Science Center, as a nonprofit organization. If you do not have a relationship with a professional advisor, we would be happy to connect you with someone.

Download Legacy Gift Guide PDF

Every legacy starts with a spark. Thank you to our 1955 Legacy Society members for ensuring the future of science and STEM education lives on. We are incredibly grateful to these individuals who have provided for Orlando Science Center in their will or estate plans.

William Gluyas, Jr.

Terri and Michael Harding

David Cole Hardy

Betty Houseman

Ruth and Frank Hubbard

Martha Lacy

Dr. Sarah Layton

William L. Little

Edwin Murray

Engrid Wallace

Carl L. and Gini Weyland

Scott H. Wilson