The Lincoln Motor Car Foundation is responsible for managing and supporting the Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum for the education and enjoyment of all. Since its founding, the Museum has become an amazing reality due to the generosity of current Foundation members and other involved individuals and organizations.

To secure the Museum’s future ability to preserve and share the Lincoln brand’s heritage and vehicles, the Foundation is embarking upon a campaign to raise the additional funds needed to sustain the cost of operating and maintaining the Museum on an annual basis. The objective of this campaign is to receive pledges of $300,000 or more by the end of 2023. This amount will boost the LMCF Endowment Fund to its total goal of $2,000,000 so the Fund’s annual interest and dividend earnings will cover the Museum’s yearly operating and maintenance expenses.

Two million is required to provide a significant endowment to assure the operation, maintenance and permanence of the facility and associated programs. In addition, funding is needed to refine and complete the exhibits.

The Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum is a place of education, fascination and inspiration. It can also be a place of lasting legacy for you. There are a variety of naming, memorial or commemorative opportunities available.

Please join your friends and supporters of the Lincoln automotive heritage in making a generous gift for the purpose of sustaining and improving a museum where we may share with the public the history of the Lincoln brand. Contributions to the Lincoln Motor Car Foundation are welcome as a one-time gift, a pledge payable over five years, appreciated securities or as part of your estate planning. The gifts can be made in your name, in commemoration of someone that you’d like to honor or as a memorial to a loved one or friend. Appropriate recognition of your gift will be made at the museum site. Many special naming opportunities are available or one that particularly appeals to you can be created.

The Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum & Research Foundation, Inc. (LMCF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, ID # 38-3500541. As such, all or part of your gift may be tax deductible as a charitable contribution, or if you are 70 ½, an IRA RMD gift may avoid tax. Please check with your tax advisor.

Ways to make your donation (see more details below):

1. Mail your personal check to the LMCF.
2. Fill out the form at the bottom of this page to donate to the LMCF by using PayPal, or your debit or credit card.
3. Request your financial institution to mail a Qualified Charitable Distribution check
   directly from your Individual Retirement Account to the LMCF.
4. Transfer your securities (stocks, bonds, etc.) directly from your financial institution to the LMCF. For information on potential tax advantages and/or how to accomplish a securities transfer, please send us a note using Contact Us.
5. Become a member of the Lincoln Legacy Society. Please Click Here for information
   about including a bequest to the LMCF in your estate plans and becoming a life member of the Lincoln Legacy Society.

Donors who have an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) and are 70 ½ or older may wish to consider having their financial institution make a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from their IRA directly to the LMCF. The donation counts toward the donor’s annual Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) and may avoid being taxed as income. This is especially beneficial for those who are not able to itemize their charitable contributions and it achieves the same tax objective. Please check with your tax advisor.

For payment by check – Individual:

These Donor Boards are presently displayed at the Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum as of 2023.