Arts Educators Group

The Arts Educators Group, or "AEG", is seeking to make arts training and education, especially in music and dance, affordable and widely available to the general community.

Working with partners, such as Sunnyvale Christian School, we are providing music education to preschoolers and elementary school students in environments where it might otherwise be unavailable for economic, logistical, legal or social reasons.

Because the Arts Educators Group is incorporated in California as a Nonprofit Corporation, we want to clarify a few issues about tax deductibility of payments made to AEG.

• First, it is important to clarify that no payment made for goods or services is ever tax deductible as a charitable gift. When a payment is made to purchase something, then that is not charitable giving and hence, regardless of whether or not the recipient is a tax exempt organization, the payment itself is not deductible.
• For a payment to be tax deductible, it must be (a) charitable and (b) made to a tax exempt organization.