Background
Seagle Music Colony was founded in 1915. Seagle Music Colony, Inc., was certified in New York State in 1928. The organization has 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service as a tax exempt entity.

Support for Seagle Music Colony comes in multiple ways:
Cash Gifts
Memberships
Sponsorships
Deferred giving/Legacy Society
Gifts-in-kind
Grants
Capital gifts

Grants
Two major grants were received from the New York State Music Fund to support the work-shopping of the operas Morning Star (2006) and Séance on a Wet Afternoon (2007). General operating support was first received from the New York State Council on the Arts in 2008 and continues to the present. The National Endowment for the Arts gave a Challenge America grant to workshop a new opera by Thomas Pasatieri in 2008.

Capital Gifts
Major gifts were made in the past ten years to construct the Frank and Dorothy Shames Rehearsal Studio and to build two housing units, Allegro and Libretto. Seagle Music Colony is in the planning stages of a capital/endwoment campaign to commemorate its Centennial in 2015, which will ensure the longevity of the organization and improve the existing campus facilities.

A History of Careful Management
From its founding, the Seagle Music Colony has paid careful attention to budgeting. The current annual budget of $455,000 is planned and spent with fiscal discipline. Seagle Music Colonyholds investments at the Glens Falls National Bank Trust Department and the Adirondack Community Trust.

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