Advisor Resources

Advisor Resources

If you are advising a client who is considering a planned gift or bequest to Ransom Everglades School, we welcome the opportunity to work with you in helping your client. Please use the below resources and tools and feel free to contact us any time for further information or assistance on a confidential basis.

Here is some basic information about our organization:

Legal Name
All charitable gifts should be directed to “Ransom Everglades School, 3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, Florida 33133, a Florida 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, charitable organization, or its successor, Federal Tax Identification Number: 59-0659070.”

Tax I.D. Number
Ransom Everglades School, Inc.'s Tax ID number is 59-0659070.

Consistent with safeguarding its own interests, Ransom Everglades School tries to make arranging a gift for the organization’s benefit as easy as possible, and we strive to honor the intentions of all our donors. Accordingly, we hope the following will prove helpful:

If one of your clients arranges an estate gift for the benefit of Ransom Everglades, we would very much appreciate knowing about the gift, both so we can express our sincere gratitude and – as noted above – so we can make sure we will be able to fulfill the donor’s wishes.

Of course, we respect the fact that in some cases donors prefer to remain anonymous. If you are willing to serve as an intermediary, a client of yours can share information about his or her plans without divulging his or her identity.

  • Click here to learn more about The Marie and Edward Swenson Society.
  • If you have already included Ransom Everglades in your estate plans, thank you! Please let us know by filling out this form and returning it to us so that we may have a record of your generous intentions.
  • Click here for a confidential form that can be used in notifying Ransom Everglades School that an estate gift has been arranged for the school's benefit.  

Finally, we want to be of assistance to you in any way we can, whether you are simply looking for general information about charitable giving, considering particular options on behalf of a particular client, or needing our cooperation in the administration of a bequest or other type of planned gift. 

  • Contact us to discuss a potential – or hypothetical – gift situation or to request a gift illustration.
  • Give our online calculator a try. 

Thank you for the work you do on behalf of our donors!

  • Nekeisha Clement P’25

    “I love RE because I love the environment and community that surrounds the school. The staff, educators and education are top notch. I cannot ask for anything better for my daughter.”

  • Claudia Miyar Angles ’96

    “I am grateful for the phenomenal teachers that pushed me to be the best student I could be and took interest and fostered a real passion.”

  • Faculty Emerita Buzzie Borona-Polson

    “I love RE because I spent 35 amazing years of my life teaching there. I still see so many of my students who call, come to visit, and regale me with their latest escapades.”

  • Eugene Williams, Jr. ’87

    “I love RE because it's where my talents and abilities were cultivated and appreciated.”

  • Alicia Medina ’26

    “This is the place where I have made friends, found new passions, and discovered new sides to myself. This is the place that has always pushed me. Here at Ransom Everglades, we have a community that is always there to lend a helping hand.”

Middle School

2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 305 250 6850

Upper School

3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 305 460 8800
Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.