jjbduke2004
Ultimate Member
If you are now a Life member, you can upgrade to Endowment level for $250 instead of $1,000 (I think).
I believe endowment has to do with your will. Not sure and IANAL.
But I did upgrade to Life for $300.
The NRA has three higher tiers of membership past Life Member recognizing additional donations: Endowment, Patron, and Benefactor. Few special benefits, other than seating and public recognition at NRA Annual Meetings ("Would the Endowment Members in the room please stand").
https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/superlife.asp
Nominally, going from Life to Endowment is $1000. Going from Endowment to Patron or Patron to Benefactor is $1500. So a Benefactor has nominally given $5000 to the NRA: $1000 life membership, $1000 endowment donation, $1500 donation to Patron, followed by $1500 donation to Benefactor. In reality, you can catch a deal from time to time. For me, $500 Life, $200 Endowment, $300 Patron, with an offer on the table of $300 to Benefactor.
Where are you seeing this?
I'm getting this via email, but I'd suggest clicking this link and punching in your info and see what comes out.
https://www.nra.org/accountservices/