We gratefully acknowledge the many individuals, institutions, corporations, and government agencies whose support is critical to our continued work.
The following contributors made gifts over the last year through January 6, 2025.
Official Sponsor
Major support for the Mark Morris Dance Group is provided by members of the GRAND DUO CIRCLE with annual gifts of $12,000 or more. HERO $500,000+ Elizabeth Amy Liebman. LEADER $125,000-$249,999 The Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation, Fidelity Charitable Foundation, Judith R. and Alan H. Fishman, Howard Gilman Foundation. STAR COLLABORATOR $50,000-$124,999 Anonymous, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Shelby and Frederick Gans, Mrs. Candace and Dr. Vincent Gaudiani, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Sully Bonnelly and Robert Littman, MacMillan Family Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, The New York Community Trust, PARC Foundation, Antony Peattie, The Shubert Foundation, Vanguard Charitable. STAR SPONSOR $25,000-$49,999 Anonymous, Jody and John Arnhold, Billy Rose Foundation, Lucy Bowen McCauley, Eliot Nolen and Timothy Bradley, Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, Bernice Greene, John and Tommye Ireland (in memoriam), Suzy Kellems Dominik, Mark Morris, Schwab Charitable, The SHS Foundation, Jamie Gorelick and Richard Waldhorn, June and Jeffrey Wolf. STAR SUPPORTER $12,000-$24,999 Harold Clinton, Con Edison, Susan DeLong, Doris Duke Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, York-Chi and Stephen Harder, Amanda Gluibizzi and Christian Kleinbub, Susan Jacobson and David Moskovitz, National Endowment for the Arts, Sarabeth Berman and Evan Osnos, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Jolie Curtsinger Schwartz and Gabriel Schwartz, David Resnicow and Diane Solway, Nancy Umanoff, Mary Ann Casavant and Scott Wilson.
Additional support provided by Mark Morris Dance Group PARTNERS contributing $1,500-$11,999 annually. LEADING PARTNER $6,000-$11,999 Anonymous (3), American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc., Wally and Roz Bernheimer, Beyer Blinder Belle, Terry Boyer, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Carol Ann Dyer, Stephen M. Foster, Gillett
Gilbert, Sharon Gurwitz, Lori Raphael and J. Michael Hemmer, Macduff and Twyla Hughes, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, Kenneth Aidekman Family Foundation, The Lupin Foundation, Jill Horner and Yo-Yo Ma, Manson Family and Stanley J. Wertheimer Fund Donors, Marta Heflin Foundation, Kristine Morris, National Philanthropic Trust, Parkinson’s Foundation, Onay Payne, Lizz Pimentel, Patrick Ravey, Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert, Resnicow and Associates Inc., Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lisa Rinehart, Cindy Sherman, Sills Family Foundation. COLLABORATING PARTNER $3,000-$5,999 Anonymous, Paul Appeldoorn, Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund, Kate Weil and Stuart Bauchner, Bloomberg LP, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Jeffery and Tina Budge, Carmie and Merv Budge, Hon. Steven Berk and Jennifer Chandler Hauge, Charney Companies, Chefer Tompkins Family Fund, Circles for Change, Mark Selinger and Iris Cohen, Caroline and Paul Cronson, Katherine and Peter Darrow, Della Rosa Family Foundation, John and Margaret Falk, Ann and Richard Feldman, Michael and Nancy Feller, Frank and Deenie Brosens Foundation, Google Matching Gift Program, Lynn and Brian Grant Family, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Herman Liebmann Foundation, Penn and Diane Holsenbeck, Insperity, Kate and Tom Kush, Leatherwood Foundation, Judy Lichterman, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, William W. Lockwood, Jr., Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation, Medtronic, Janet and David Offensend, PNC Bank, Princeton Area Community Foundation, Marjorie Randolph, Paul Di Vito and John Silvia, Emmanuel Torrijos and Jing Shang Tan, Jay and Elaine Unkeless, Zeitz Foundation. SPONSORING PARTNER $1,500-$2,999 Anonymous (8), Jane E. Aaron, The Amphion Foundation, Inc., Eve Auchincloss Lilley, Katherine and Gary Bartholomaus, Frederick and Morley Bland, Stephanie Boye, Gabriel Boyers, Cynthia A. Clegg, Carol Yorke and Gerard Conn, Jean and Wayne Cunningham, Belden and Pamela Daniels, Mary Darmstaetter, Katherine and Peter Darrow, Jane Rush Davenport, Catherine de Saint Aignan, Estela Díaz, Bob Dixon, John and Linda Donovan, Maura Dougherty, Jean Fuller Farrington, Katharine Ferguson Roberts, Carolyn George, Arline T. Geronimus , Elisa B. and Kenneth Glazer, Rebecca Glen, Robert Goldberg, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Elizabeth Lovett Grover, Thomas Shapiro and Madeleine Grynsztejn, Hank and Karoly Gutman, Alice Hofheimer, Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund, Jewish Community Foundation, Mary Neal Jones, Deborah Karl, Fred and Jean Leventhal, Gretchen Wold and Thomas Martin, Diane L. Max, Suzanne Berman and Timothy J. McClimon, Jennifer Melby, Liza Velazquez and Timothy Milford, Judith Scofield Miller and David Miller, Claire Munzenrider, Emanuel Ax and Yoko Nozaki, Steve Offutt, Emily Omura, Jill and Geoffrey Parker, Claire E. Pensyl, David Pomerantz, Drs. Jocelynne and Perry Rainey, The Fein/Remnick/Litman Family, Mary-Kathryn and Richard Roelofs, Constance and Theodore Roosevelt, Toby E. and Robert Rubin, Jeffrey and Kim Brown Seely, James and Colleen Seely, Jeff Seroy, Esther Shapiro, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, David Stang, Yukie Stubbs, Susan K. Freedman & Rabbi Richard Jacobs Family Fund, Jennifer Thienes Dixon, Grace and John Timberlake, Charlie and Judy Tobey, Bob Turner and Paula Togawa, Kirsti Aho and Dale Underwood, Joel Bluestein and Michal Warshow, Mary Waters, Franklin Stone and David Wenk, Leslie Ziff, and the more than 1,800 supporters not listed here whose support has been crucial to our operations.
LEGACY GIVING Individuals who name the Mark Morris Dance Group in estate plans through bequests, gift annuities, charitable trusts, and beneficiary designations ensure a strong future for our organization. MMDG gratefully acknowledges recent bequests and living legacy commitments from Lucy Bowen McCauley, James and Sheila Foley, Sandy Hill, Patrick
Leader, Claire E. Pensyl, Gregg Rockefeller, Jane Levy Troy, Estate of Kathryn (Nan) Wells Little, J.D. Bruce Wilson. If you are new to legacy planning, please explore our free tool at freewill.com/mmdg or if you have already planned for MMDG in your will, please let us know so we can welcome you to our Legacy Society. Contact Michelle Amador, Director of Development at michelle@mmdg.org. We would be honored to recognize your generosity in future programs.
GIFTS IN HONOR Barry Walker, Charlie and Judy Tobey, Cristobal Williams, Dana Kotler, David B. Leventhal, Doris Olin, Edith Tinnes, Elise Gaugert, Gayle and George Miranda, Ivan Bodis-Wollner, Jane and Robert Stine, Jesse Gomer, Johanna Kopp, Jolie Curtsinger Schwartz, Judith R. and Alan H. Fishman, Lauren Grant, Leonore Gordon, Lloyd Mast, Lucy Bowen McCauley, Mark Morris, Mark Morris Dance Group, Michael Andrew Fox, Michael J. Fox, Michael Vitaly Sazonov, Michelle Amador, Misty Owens, Nancy Umanoff, Nicole Pearce, Patricia Beilman, Raven Marshall, Ruth Manson, Sam Black, Sarabeth Berman, Steven Berk, Susan Betsy Light, Tara Sherman, Tony Balcena.
GIFTS IN MEMORY Adolph Fuerst, Albert Spielman, Carlos Lemme, Charles Boyd School of the Dance, Charles Underwood, Cynthia Gilbertson, David Drennen, Don Wergeles, Edward William Gretton, Harold Young, Helen Waricha, Hy Schechter, Janet Stram, Joan Acocella, John and Tommye Ireland, Joyce Graber, Judith Rosenblatt, Julia Thomas, K. Robert Reaster, Kathleen Howard, Laurence Levine, Lawton Johnson, Linda Young, Lloyd Mast, M. Evangeline Munzenrider, Mark Horowitz, Marshall Marcovitz, Mary Evangeline Munzenrider, Maureen Zaniel, Michael Aron, Michael Sheniak, Mira Popovich, Nancy Giles Snyder, Regina Welt, Richard Marcus, Rita Schwartz and Martin Miller, Ruben A Kelly, Stan Reedy, Stanley Bushkoff, Stanley J. Wertheimer, Stephen Shapiro, Tommy Vigorita, Victoria Alford, Walter M Kozlowski, Warren Brunetti, Zoltan David Farkas and John O. Miller.
IN KIND CONTRIBUTIONS Anonymous, Brooklyn Brewery, Darryl Pinckney and James Fenton, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mark Horowitz, M.D., Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc., Union Square Hospitality Group, LLC.
The Mark Morris Dance Group is a member of the Cultural Solidarity Fund, Dance/USA, the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Alliance, and Museum Arts and Culture Access Consortium.
Discalced Inc. (dba Mark Morris Dance Group) is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and relies on cash contributions, gifts from donor advised funds, stocks, IRA rollovers, bequests, memberships, and contributions for its annual programs.