Baltimore Donor Promises $10-Million Bequest
January 17, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
A local Baltimore philanthropist, Dorothy McIlvain Scott, has promised to give the Baltimore Museum of Art $10-million — the largest cash gift made by one person in the institution’s 92-year history, The Sun reports.
The pledge from Ms. Scott, 94, is the most recent gift in a series of million-dollar donations to Baltimore charitable organizations. Sources have included the Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds, the philanthropist Suzanne F. Cohen, and the actress Jada Pinkett Smith, as well as an anonymous $1-million donation to the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival.
Over the decades, Ms. Scott has given the museum almost 200 pieces of Americana. Her newest gift, which will be transferred to the museum after her death, will allow those objects to be moved from their current exhibition space in the basement to galleries on the first floor.
