Pace Fund - Pace Academy
Each year, the Pace Fund—Pace Academy’s #1 annual-giving priority—provides vital resources that bolster every aspect of the exceptional Pace education and benefit every student.
An annual gift to the Pace Fund is the single most important way you can support Pace. Pace Fund resources ensure all facets of the Pace education—from academic and global leadership programming to arts, athletics and extra-curricular offerings—are the highest possible quality. Pace Fund dollars also support faculty professional development, need-based financial aid and other priorities.
Pace alumni are invited to support the Pace Alumni Fund, a branch of the Pace Fund providing direct support to need-based financial aid.
We count on every family to support the Pace Fund—your gift makes a difference! We invite you to make the Pace Fund your #1 Pace giving priority and participate with a tax-deductible gift sized right for your family.
LANCELOT SOCIETY
$20,000+
KNIGHTS CIRCLE
$10,000 – $19,000
SWORD & SHIELD
$5,000 – $9,999
NOBLES
$2,500 – $4,999
Make a Gift, Pledge, or Pledge Payment
Credit Card
Make a Pledge
Check
Gift of Stock
Wire
Matching Gifts
Through an IRA
Donor-Advised Fund Contributions
Use your credit card to make a new gift or to pay your pledge.
Make your commitment to the Pace Fund today, and pay at a later date. You may pay in installments if convenient. Note that pledges to The Pace Fund must be paid in full by May 15, 2025.
Make your check payable to:
Pace Academy.
Mail to: The Advancement Office, Pace Academy, 966 W. Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30327.
A gift of appreciated securities that you have held for more than one year can be a tax-wise way to give. For detailed information about transferring securities to Pace,
please click here.
For wire information for The Pace Fund or Accelerate Pace, please contact the
Advancement Office
Does your company offer matching gifts? You could double your impact to the Pace Fund. Contact your personnel office for matching gift information. If you have any questions about our matching gift program please email
advancement@paceacademy.org
If you are 70½ or older, you may also be interested in a way to lower the income and taxes from your IRA withdrawals. With an IRA charitable rollover, you will benefit this year while also providing a charitable gift to Pace Academy.
How it works:
Contact your IRA plan administrator to make a gift from your IRA to Pace. Your IRA funds will be directly transferred to Pace.
Note:
IRA charitable rollover gifts do not qualify for a charitable deduction.
Pace Academy welcomes gifts from Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) that comply with IRS regulations.
Pace cannot accept a DAF gift when the donor or person(s) related to the donor receive(s) as a result of the gift goods or services other than incidental private benefits. Examples of unacceptable purposes for DAF contributions include (but are not limited to) the following:
Gifts that include tickets to an event and/or provide for goods received or purchased at an event.
Memberships that are not 100% tax deductible.
Bifurcated payments in which the DAF provides the tax-deductible portion of a gift or sponsorship, and the donor separately pays the non-tax-deductible portion.
We are not able to deposit a donor-advised contribution in violation of IRS guidelines and must return it to the DAF.
Pace Academy events and programs that offer donor, sponsor and member benefits (typically not candidates for DAF gifts) include: the Fall Fair, A Night Out With Keeping Pace, the Alumni Knight Cap, the Parents Club Auction, the Pace Race, the Queens of the Court, and memberships in the Arts Alliance and Booster Club. However, a donor may use donor-advised funds for a sponsorship when contributing the full sponsorship amount and forgoing all gift-related benefits.
Opportunities where Pace encourages DAF gifts include the Pace Fund, capital campaign pledge payments or gifts, Georgia Tax Credit Program payments to the Apogee Scholarship Fund, endowment gifts, planned gifts, and other 100% tax-deductible philanthropic initiatives.
Parent Leadership
Aisha Parker, Pace Fund Chair
Marcellus Parker, Pace Fund Chair
Jim Roth, Pace Fund Chair
Keri Roth, Pace Fund Chair
New Family and Inclusion Leadership
Erin Long
Kyle Long
Cote Spiegel
Marc Spiegel
Alumni Parent Committee
Meredith Forrester '95
New Parent and Inclusion Committee and Pre-First
Debbie Cazan
Prashanth Chintanapalli
Sarah Cyrus
Sarah Jowers
Drew Niess
Kavitha Reddy
Brooke Statham
First
Samir Bajaj
David Coe
Second
Dan Bara
Ali Glenn
Ciara Irons
Third
David Gold
David Neckman
Julia Neckman
Fourth
Sara Blackwood
Alpa Chandra
Heather Friedman
Fifth
Alisa Alloy
Jason Alloy '95
Jennifer Bodner
Paige Turbeville
Wes Turbeville
Sixth
Bettina Drake
Michelle Edwards
Seventh
Eric Brune
Tom Buehler
Eddie Irons
Eighth
Rod Drews '00
Jennifer Hayes
Michelle Quinones
Ninth
Bryan Chitwood '93
Mark Luber
Tenth
Rod Drews '00
Anand Dutta
Kara Dutta
Eleventh
Justin Berman
Mike Locker
Jim Roth
Keri Roth
Twelfth
Alli Richardson
Matt Richardson
Ellie Weiss
Donor Advised Fund Gift Acceptance Policy
Pace Academy welcomes philanthropic gifts from Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). In order to accept a gift or grant from a DAF, the following must apply: No donor or individual related to the donor will receive any goods, services or other more than incidental private benefits.  Examples may include but are not limited to: If the grant is for an event or gala, it does not pay for tickets or any goods purchased at auction.  If the grant is for a membership, the membership must be considered 100% tax deductible.  The payment may not be a bifurcated payment; meaning the donor-advised fund has provided the deductible portion and the donor intends to provide the non-deductible portion separately.  Any payment received that does not adhere to these guidelines will not be deposited, and the payment will be returned to the DAF.
At Pace Academy, gifts intended to pay for sponsorships or memberships with benefits from DAFs will not be accepted for the following events and programs: Pace Fall Fair, Knight Out With Keeping Pace, Alumni Knight Cap, Parents Club Auction, Pace Race, Queens of the Court, Arts Alliance memberships, Booster Club memberships.  Donors can make a gift from a DAF for the
full amount
of the sponsorship and forgo all benefits.
Examples of where gifts from DAFs are encouraged: The Pace Fund, Accelerate Pace (capital campaigns), Tax Credit payments to Apogee Fund, endowment gifts, planned giving and other 100% tax-deductible special philanthropic initiatives.