The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the United States that operates www.mocadetroit.org (the Website). For every donation payment made through the Website, you agree to the following Terms and Conditions. We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time.
In order to donate to MOCAD, you must provide us with (i) your name, personal address and/or billing address, email address, and phone number (optional); and (ii) your credit/debit card details. You are responsible for ensuring this information is accurate. These details will be securely collected and processed via MOCAD’s payment processing provider, Stripe. We advise you to review Stripe’s terms and conditions, as they are different from our own. MOCAD will not share your personal biographical and financial details with any other third party.
MOCAD reserves the right to save your biographical information (section i) for the following purposes:
Sending you any appropriate donation recognition letters for your use in filing your taxes with the IRS
Maintaining internal donor records
Contacting you via mail, email, or telephone regarding MOCAD’s operations, unless you request us not to otherwise
Reporting on MOCAD’s fundraising campaigns.
MOCAD only processes donation refunds on a case by case basis. If you make an error in your donation, please contact us.
Every donation made on the Website is subject to an additional 3% credit card processing fee. MOCAD considers this fee an additional donation, on top of your initial donation. Your tax letter will detail your total donation to MOCAD and explain your tax-deductible dollar amount. . If you prefer to make your donation via another payment method, please contact 313-832-6622.
You will be issued a digital receipt in an email within 24 hours of completing your donation. A tax letter will be mailed to you no later than two weeks after your donation is received.
Acceptance of any contribution, gift or grant is at the discretion of MOCAD. MOCAD will not accept any gift unless it can be used or expended consistently with the purpose and mission of MOCAD.
No irrevocable gift, whether outright or life-income in character, will be accepted if under any reasonable set of circumstances the gift would jeopardize the donor’s financial security.
MOCAD will refrain from providing advice about the tax or other treatment of gifts and will encourage donors to seek guidance from their own professional advisers to assist them in the process of making their donation.
MOCAD will accept donations of cash or publicly traded securities. Gifts of in-kind services will be accepted at the discretion of MOCAD.
Certain other gifts, real property, personal property, in-kind gifts, non-liquid securities, and contributions whose sources are not transparent or whose use is restricted in some manner, must be reviewed prior to acceptance due to the special obligations raised or liabilities they may pose for MOCAD.
MOCAD will provide acknowledgments to donors meeting tax requirements for property received by the charity as a gift. However, except for gifts of cash and publicly traded securities, no value shall be ascribed to any receipt or other form of substantiation of a gift received by MOCAD.
The MOCAD will respect the intent of the donor relating to gifts for restricted purposes and those relating to the desire to remain anonymous. With respect to anonymous gifts, the MOCAD will restrict information about the donor to only those staff members with a need to know.
The MOCAD will not compensate, whether through commissions, finders' fees, or other means, any third party for directing a gift or a donor to the MOCAD.