Charitable Trusts

The Charitable Remainder trust provides lifetime income to you and/or loved ones and offers significant tax advantages. In contrast, the Charitable Lead Trust allows you to transfer assets to your family at a reduced tax cost while benefiting YIVO now.

The proper designation for YIVO is as follows:

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011

Federal Tax Identification Number: 13-1641082

For more information, contact:

Melissa S. Cohen
Chief Development Officer
(212) 294-6156

Charitable Remainder Trust: Robert and Lottie Tartell

"Yiddish is part of my own history and my sense of identification with the Jewish tradition," says Dr. Robert Tartell. "What I like about YIVO is that it is the repository of information, the history. I'd like to see it go on, and will help preserve it. It is also an honor to be part of the Gaon Society, to have a connection to the Vilna Gaon."

For Dr. Tartell and his wife Lottie, the two charitable remainder trusts they established at YIVO express a lifelong love for Yiddish and the city of Vilna, YIVO's birthplace and that of Dr. Tartell's mother.

Dr. Tartell received his B.A. and D.D.S. from New York University and its College of Dentistry. Although a dentist by profession, Dr. Tartell was also a founder, producer, and actor in the Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera of Long Island and has studied Yiddish at Oxford University and at YIVO's Uriel Weinreich program. Lottie graduated from the University of Manitoba and received a Masters in Economics from Columbia University. She was an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Hofstra University and is a volunteer counselor for Planned Parenthood of Nassau County.

The Tartells receive annual income from their two trusts throughout their lives, and the remainder will go to YIVO upon their deaths. For this, YIVO is grateful.