Your gift impacts lives in our community.

Contributions from friends and supporters allow us to make world-class musical opportunities accessible to everyone.

To donate by mail, checks can be made to:
Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program
PO Box 140, Grand Rapids, MN 55744

More ways to give

  • With a charitable designation in your will, you can help ensure orchestral music and string instruction in our community for years to come. The Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation and your attorney can help you leave a legacy gift to IOSP’s endowment fund. A gift will often reduce estate and transfer taxes.

    To make your gift, please send a check made out to IOSP to:

    Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation
    350 NW 1st Ave.
    Grand Rapids, MN 55744

    Please indicate “IOSP endowment” in the memo line.

  • The Eleanor Downing Maxine Miller Memorial Fund supports IOSP instrument purchases and repairs. The fund honors the memories of Grand Rapid’s great ladies of the arts: long time music educator Eleanor Downing, and her friends Maxine Miller and Roberta Fahlman. Your gift helps bring working instruments to students in need.

    To make your gift, please send a check made out to IOSP to:

    Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation
    350 NW 1st Ave.
    Grand Rapids, MN 55744

    Please indicate “Eleanor Downing Maxine Miller Memorial Fund” in the memo line.

  • We are happy to receive donations of appreciated stock or other financial assets, through our partnership with the Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation.

    To make this type of gift, please contact the foundation at (218) 999-9100 and ask to discuss planned giving to IOSP.

  • IOSP maintains a secondary donation platform on GiveMN.org. We’re happy to accept donations this way if it’s your preference.

    Click here to give via GiveMN.org