About Us
Supporters
Thank you to the individuals, corporations, foundations, government agencies, and community organizations that provide financial support to Sitar Arts Center’s annual programs and operations. The donors listed below generously gave or pledged $500 or more between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.
Thank you also to the generous supporters of Sitar’s Building the Next Stage multiyear capital campaign, who are listed here.
We are deeply grateful to the volunteers and leaders whose generous contributions of time and effort make Sitar Arts Center’s work possible. And we thank the donors of in-kind goods and services, and supporters at all levels who are not named on this page.
With each of you, Sitar engages DC youth, from early childhood to young adulthood, in building a creative community of learning and belonging that removes financial and cultural barriers.
If you notice an error in a listing, or would like to learn more about supporting the youth at Sitar, please contact Essence Newhoff, Chief Development Officer, at essence@sitarartscenter.org or (202) 797-2145 ext. 101.
$100,000+
Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program
Bloomberg Philanthropies
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Learn24
$50,000 – $99,999
Diane and Norman Bernstein Foundation
deLaski Family Foundation
Dweck Philanthropies
Genesis Inspiration Foundation
Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation
The Morningstar Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
$25,000 – $49,999
Anonymous
Greg Albright and Wes Combs
Clark-Winchcole Foundation
Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation
David DeSantis and Todd Malan
Melissa and Ken Doyle
Harman Family Foundation
Jack R. Anderson Foundation
Lainoff Family Foundation
Jill Minneman and Tom Fulcher
Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation
Share Fund
The George Preston Marshall Foundation
The Lois & Richard England Family Foundation
The William S. Abell Foundation
$15,000 – $24,999
Be Dismond Sweet ~ BeSweetLife
Kenton Campbell and Susan Wooddell-Campbell
Make It Better Fund
The Richard E. & Nancy P. Marriott Foundation
Thomas Nichols and Daniel Chadburn
Scott Spector and Sandra Masur
The Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation
V&S Foundation
$10,000 – $14,999
Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts
David S. Shrager Foundation
Mary Kathleen Ernst and Edmund Spivack
Events DC
Jean-Marie and Raul Fernandez
Nancy “Bitsey” Folger
Harman Cain Family Foundation
Jill Herscot
Joseph and Lynne Horning
Judy Family Foundation
Dov and Elma Levy
Mohini Malhotra and Tilman Ehrbeck
Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
Omidyar Network Fund, Inc.
Marla and Peter Schnall
The Kogan Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
TTR Sotheby’s International Realty
World Bank
$5,000 – $9,999
Anonymous
Bernstein Management Corporation
Moyra Byrne
CIBC Private Wealth
Department of Parks & Recreation
Dimick Foundation
Dweck Charitable Fund
Khaled and Laura Farhang
Dan and Jacki Fox
Chris Hanes and Zack Wisniewski
JBG Smith
Joseph E. Robert, Jr. Charitable Trust
Jo and Brian Kmet
Lavin Family Foundation
Kevin and Mora Lavin
Mayor’s Office on Latino Affairs
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Isabel Reiff and Lee Pasarew
Ruth Sorenson
Chris Stacey and Sam Stebbins
Standard Title Group, LLC
The Fountain Inn
Truist
Leslie Tullio and Micah Dammeyer
Venable Foundation
Saman Zomorodi and Susan Gravatt
$2,500 – $4,999
20 Degrees LLC
Kevin Anderson and Brett Miguel
Carol Apelt and Paul Prokopovich
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Melissa and Jason Burnett
CohnReznick Foundation
Dan Cameron Family Foundation, Inc.
Samantha Dean and Robert Mileff
Charles DeSantis and David McDermott
Ellen Fern and Brett O’Brien
Skila Harris
Ty Hreben and Jay Krich
Ileann Jimenez-Sepulveda and Hector Sepulveda
Julie Roberts Home Team, a Long and Foster Real Estate Team
Claude and Nancy Keener Charitable Fund
Andrea Kirstein
Sara and Chris Lange
Jill Lesser and Jonathan Diesenhaus
Eve Auchincloss Lilley
Im and Peter Lynde
Clint Mann and Andrew Doster
Tracy and Jeff Mathews
Teresa Mueller
Michael and Neela Nilsson
Geryl Pearl
Erin and Matt Rizk
Carolyn Roberts and Jim Everett
Gina Schaefer and Marc Friedman
Edwin Sequeira
Spa Logic Inc
The Merck Foundation
The Meridian Group
United Bank
Elizabeth and Rick Witter
$1,000 – $2,499
Anonymous
Charo Abrams
Altium Wealth
David Amann
Virginia Q. Anthony
Richard Bernstein and Michael Minnemann
Malcolm J. Bertoni
Maria Borga
Bose Public Affairs Group
George Bren and Denise Schlener
Mark Brennan and Stephen Benedicto
Diane Brenneman
Rhonda Buckley-Bishop and Kelley Bishop
Gregg Busch and Brook Rose
Chengzhong Focus Foundation
Amanda Chulick
Ken Cluskey and Lisa Yuan
Michele de Nevers
Holly and Todd Deckelbaum
Carroll Dey
James DiLaura and Grace Boyle
Mario Garcia Durham and Craig Horness
Jean M. Esswein
Rachel and Joseph Firschein
Amelia Fogarty
Lea and Joe Fox
Zachary and Julie Friedlis
Tom Glass and Phyllis Freedman
Miriam Gonzales and Michael Fitzpatrick
Helene M. Grandvoinnet
Heidi Harper
Meredith and David Haussler
Michael E. Hill and Peter M. Korns
Grace Hong and David Olsen
Interactive Strategies
Brent and Andrea Jackson
Mark Jaskowiak and Georgina Baker
Betsy Jordan
Luis Arriaza-Kibby and William Kibby
Korzeniewski Family Foundation
Barbara Kurzeja
L&B Concepts
D’Ann Lanning
Anne Madison and Dave Heneberry
Jody Manor and Mario Diaz
Nancy and Nicholas McConnell
Kristan McMahon
Cynthia Miller and Matthew Korn
Eric Mitzenmacher and Allison Abayasekara
Margret Nedelkoff
Jana Nelhybel
Dr. Gail Kern Paster
Gil Pierson
Saree Pitt
Rebecca Ravenal and Stephen Costello
Frederick and Molly Rolandi
Barbara Rothkopf
Jaya Saxena and Viyas Sundaram
Parker and Abigail Schaffel
SettlementCorp
Pilar and Gerry Sequeira
Wendy and Daniel Shenk-Evans
Ian Shuman and Sarah Weiner
Thomas Sietsema and Ed Lichorat
Cynthia Sitcov
Steven Smith
Socialize Event Co.
Vivek Srivastava
Carolyn Sweterlitsch and Bradford Baldwin
Paul Tetreault
Edward and Venus Tuvin
Boxerman Family
Julie and Albert Wood
Melissa Wyers
Catherine Wyler and Richard Rymland
Mary and Michael Young
$500 – $999
7DrumCity The Pocket
Kimberly Adler and Aaron Knight
Marianne Alberti
Ann Barnet
Nancy Berkowitz
Juergen Blum
Joe and Sue Bredekamp
Chubb Charitable Foundation
Jack Davies and Kay Kendall
Jessica Denson
David Diemert
Jeffrey Domber and Betty Bird
Maureen and Chris Dwyer
Stephen Dwyer and Kate Riley
EJF Real Estate
Carole Feld and David C. Levy
Jade Floyd and Charles Small
Jere Ford
Odelia Funke
Marina Galvani
Burton Lee Gerber
Sara and Josh Gibson
Linda and William Goldman
Randi Greenwald and Lowell Turnbull
Guidehouse
Sarah Guy
Monica J. Harrington
Kieran Hayes
Tom Helf and Michelle Brafman
Karen and Brendan Herron
Humanity United
Greg and Maia Kats
James K. Kearney and Karla J. Letsche
Nidhi Khattri
Dave Steadman and Daphne Kiplinger
Evelyn and Michael Kitay
David Knasel
Sophia Krentzman and John Gruener
Nandini and Sumir Lal
Barry and Lorraine Leskin
Lydians of Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
John McKinney
Robert and Joanna McNamara
Dorothy and Bill McSweeny
Barbara F. Meeker and Joe Auslander
Jeff Meza and Quique Pajarese
Sam and Tsai Hong Miller
Jennifer Myers
Howard and Dominie Nash
Essence Newhoff and Paul Gardullo
Ellin and Jim Nolan
Bryant and Devon Oskvig
Beth Plunkett
Bridget Pooley
Pamela Prather and Dennis Meyers
Rajendra Bery Memorial Fund
Elaine Reuben
Sam Roberson and Ted Buckley
Sarah Romero and Urnav Desai
Barton and Shereen Rubenstein
Debra and Chris Solomita
Ed and Neesham Spitzberg
Roberta Spitzberg
Jennifer Stevens
Cora and Richard Stewart
Connie and Joe Tasker
The Line Method
Josh Tjaden
Annie Totah
Maura and Jim Vanderzon
Michael Walton and Isabel Guerrero
Stephanie Wang
Philip Ward and Claire Cunningham
Adrianne and Dave Wegner
Sylvia and Sergio Zwi