Donate
When you support Paying It Bach, you’re not just giving — you’re creating moments of peace, dignity, and beauty through live music. Every performance is offered on a donations-based model, ensuring that music remains accessible to all, while still serving causes that make a difference.
Where Your Gift Can Go
When making a donation, you can choose one of the following options:
Donate directly to one of three charities close to Jay’s heart. Please fill out the donation Acknowledgement form below!
Select a charity of your choice, if another cause is more meaningful to you.
Contribute directly to Paying It Bach, helping sustain the mission, travel cost, prep time, and expand potential future opportunities for other musicians to participate (non–tax deductible). You can do this by clicking “contribute” in the website menu.
What to Expect
Tax-deductible receipt: If you donate to a charity, your receipt will come directly from them by email.
Tracking impact: Logging your donation helps Jay share the total amount Paying It Bach has inspired — a way of showing how music, passion, and generosity come together.
Compassion in action: Your contribution directly helps turn music into a gift of remembrance and hope.
Paying It Bach – Featured Charities
DESK (Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, New Haven, CT)
Mission: To serve people experiencing homelessness and living in poverty by providing meals, food assistance, case management, and connections to shelter and care.
Why It Matters: A trusted local nonprofit that directly meets the most urgent human needs in New Haven.
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Neighborhood Music School (New Haven, CT)
Mission: One of the largest community arts organizations in Connecticut, NMS provides music, dance, and drama education to people of all ages, regardless of ability to pay.
Why It Matters: Makes music and the arts accessible to children and families from every background, nurturing creativity, discipline, and joy in the heart of New Haven.
Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven
Mission: To build affordable housing and help families achieve safe, stable homeownership.
Why It Matters: Housing security transforms lives, providing dignity and long-term stability for families in need.
Donation Acknowledgement Form
Thank you for your generosity!
To help us celebrate the impact of Paying It Bach, please take a moment to confirm your donation below. This form is not for making the donation itself — you will have already completed your gift directly with the charity of your choice.
By filling this out, you let Jay and the Paying It Bach team know that your contribution was made on behalf of Paying It Bach, so we can keep track of the total amount of good that this music is inspiring.
