Annual Fund Giving Levels

$10,000+ Founder’s Society

$5,000 – $9,999 Ella McVean Club

$2,500- $4,999 David Fox Club

$1,000 – $2,499 Sam Drash Club

$500 – $999 Headmaster’s Club

$250 – $499 Chairman’s Club

$126 – $249 Faculty’s Club

$125 (UP TO) Friends of CMDS

CMDS Leaders Society

All donors who give $1,000 or more to CMDS in a school year will become members of the CMDS Leaders Society, a group of benefactors who receive special recognition and have the opportunity to attend special events.

Matching Gifts

Many corporations match their employees’ charitable donations. Check your employer’s website or human resources department for more information regarding their policy. It is a simple way to increase the value of your gift significantly.

Planned Giving

Tax laws intentionally encourage planned charitable giving which can many times reduce income tax, estate tax and capital gains tax.

Some options are:

• A bequest in your will

• Long-term appreciated securities (stocks, bonds, mutual funds)

• Life insurance policy with Christ Methodist Day School as the primary beneficiary

• Real property

• Personal property (artwork, jewelry, collectibles)

• Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust – provides the donor an annual percentage payment based on the fair market value of an asset for the donor’s lifetime, while the school receives a substantial gift.

• Charitable Remainder Unitrust – similar plan, but the payments to the donor fluctuate based on the fair market value of the asset each year.
  
  

Please contact your financial adviser or other professional for advice about your personal options in setting up your planned gift.

The perfect way to honor or remember someone is to add a custom inscribed brick to our courtyard. Prices start at $200. Proceeds from the courtyard brick project go directly to the Spirit Fund. Print and complete the brick order form and mail to CMDS Spirit Fund, 411 S. Grove Park, Memphis, TN 38117.

This is holy ground.

For decades Cy’s Field has been the backdrop where Church and School communities gather to celebrate our kids and our shared values.

It’s where we make the memories that shape our history. It’s where we meet the City along Poplar Avenue. Here, our boys and girls take the lessons out of the pews and classrooms out onto the field of life, where perseverance, humility and effort are more than ideas. Where nobody wins alone.

For generations around these sidelines, young parents have found the friends that become the village we raise our kids in. All of us want our children to build meaningful lives, surrounded by joyful, supportive communities. We want them to win. Might as well start with a Homefield Advantage.

We are going to raise $1 million by February 1st in order to break ground next summer and be ready for the Fall ’25 sports season. We are committing a 1/3 of the Annual Fund over the next three years to help fund it. We are doing so because Cy’s Field is a priority for our Mission, and we believe in it. We need the help of our entire community to meet this ambitious target. Let’s Leave it All on the Field.