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, 2024 and June 30, 2025.
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+
Greg Albright and Wes Combs
Bloomberg Philanthropies
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Learn24
$50,000 – $99,999
Anonymous
Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation
Dweck Philanthropies
Philip L. Graham Fund
Share Fund
The deLaski Family Foundation
The Morningstar Foundation
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
$25,000 – $49,999
Capital for Children
England Family Foundation
Harman Family Foundation
Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation
Jack R. Anderson Foundation
Lainoff Family Foundation
Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation
Jill Minneman and Thomas Fulcher
National Endowment for the Arts
Jaya Saxena and Viyas Sundaram
The George Preston Marshall Foundation
The William S. Abell Foundation
$15,000 – $24,999
Barbara Harman and William Cain
Judy Family Foundation
Mars Foundation
Edwin Sequeira
The Kogan Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation
$10,000 – $14,999
Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation
Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts
David S. Shrager Foundation
Dan and Jacki Fox
Marla and Peter Schnall
Truist
Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Leslie Tullio and Micah Dammeyer
V&S Foundation
$5,000 – $9,999
Bernstein Management Corporation
Rhonda Buckley-Bishop and Kelley Bishop
Melissa and Jason Burnett
Moyra Byrne
Kenton Campbell and Susan Wooddell-Campbell
CIBC Private Wealth
Crescent Communities
Jessica Denson
Dimick Foundation
Events DC
Nancy “Bitsey” Folger
Lynne Horning
Lavin Family Foundation
Kevin and Mora Lavin
Jill Lesser and Jonathan Diesenhaus
Make It Better Fund
Mazda North American Operations
Thomas Nichols and Daniel Chadburn
Isabel Reiff and Lee Pasarew
Ruth Sorenson
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
TTR Sotheby’s International Realty
Venable Foundation
World Bank
$2,500 – $4,999
20 Degrees LLC
Anonymous
Atlantic Union Bank
Mark Brennan and Stephen Benedicto
CohnReznick
Dan Cameron Family Foundation, Inc.
Samantha L. Dean
Holly and Todd Deckelbaum
Charles DeSantis and David McDermott
Dweck Charitable Fund
Ellen Fern and Brett O’Brien
Jean-Marie and Raul Fernandez
Jade Floyd and Charles Small
Helene M. Grandvoinnet and Nick Moschovakis
Thomas Grogan and Meaghan Bresnahan
Chris Hanes and Zack Wisniewski
Harkins Builders, Inc.
Heidi and Matthew Harper
Alyssa and Richard Henderson
HRGM Corporation
Hugh B. Kaplan and Caroline L. Kaplan
Daphne Kiplinger and David Steadman
Andrea Kirstein
KPMG LLP
Ameya Kulkarni and Aliya Jiwani
Anita Kulkarni and Dr. Amol S. Rangnekar
Sara and Chris Lange
Suzanne Laporte
Eve A. Lilley
Douglas Lingenfelter and John Roane
Mohini Malhotra and Tilman Ehrbeck
Jody Manor and Mario Diaz
Robert and Joanna McNamara
Tsai Hong Miller
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Jennifer Morrison
Vivian and Alan Riefberg
Erin and Matt Rizk
Sage Communications LLC
Spa Logic Inc
Vivek Srivastava
Chris Stacey and Sam Stebbins
Bettina and Chris Stern
The Merck Foundation
The Stebbins Fund
United Bank
Kevin Varney
$1,000 – $2,499
Saurabh and Nadya Abhyankar
Albert L. Tucker and Elizabeth T. Tucker Foundation
Altium Wealth
David Amann
Virginia Q. Anthony
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Matthew Bailey
Malcolm J. Bertoni
Rachna and Samir Bhatt
Chidi Blyden and Solade Rowe
Bose Public Affairs Group
George Bren and Denise Schlener
Diane Brenneman
Ken Cluskey and Lisa Yuan
Della Cronin and Bob Mangum
Michele de Nevers
Allen Devine and Andy Broadbent
J. Carroll Dey
Melissa and Ken Doyle
Heather Dresser
Dr. Bernadette Dunham and Dr. Raymond Petryshyn
Mario Garcia Durham and Craig Horness
Easterns Automotive Group
EJF Real Estate
Zach and Amy Faden
Carole Feld and David C. Levy
Kathryn Finney
Focus Partners Wealth
Nicholas M. Folger and Sofia Llompart
Bertrand and Laura Fote
Coach and Mrs. Ralph Friedgen
Zachary and Julie Friedlis
GRF CPAs & Advisors
Sara and Josh Gibson
Jeanne and James Gilroy
Tom Glass and Phyllis Freedman
Derek and Linda Harps
Monica J. Harrington
Haussler & Associates
Meredith and David Haussler
Interactive Strategies
Brent and Andrea Jackson
Mark Jaskowiak and Georgina Baker
Ileann Jimenez-Sepulveda and Hector Sepulveda
Korzeniewski Family Foundation
Emily Lenzner and Vivek Jain
Richard Lilley
Kendall Lott
Clint Mann and Andrew Doster
Markel
Kristan McMahon
Archana Mehta and Manu Raju
Eric Mitzenmacher and Allison Abayasekara
Essence Newhoff and Paul Gardullo
Omidyar Network Fund, Inc.
Troy Patterson
Saree Pitt
Chris Pratt
Hope Richardson
Carolyn Roberts and Jim Everett
Michael Romano and Laura Towers
Abigail Rosenfeld
Barbara Rothkopf
Carlynn Rudd
Dan Ryan
Gina Schaefer and Marc Friedman
Dani Seltzer and Pierre Malko
Mohammad Reza Setoodeh
Thomas Sietsema and Ed Lichorat
Steven Smith
Jennifer Stevens
Cora and Richard Stewart
Stephen Tabor
Trent & Co. at Compass Real Estate
Kenneth and Heather Voorhees
Philip Ward and Claire Cunningham
Christopher Wingert
Elizabeth and Rick Witter
Melissa Wyers
Xala Tech
Jessica Zetzman and Hoang-Kim Vu
$500 – $999
Kimberly Adler and Aaron Knight
Marianne Alberti
Carol Apelt and Paul Prokopovich
Nancy Berkowitz
Rohit Bhayana and Chandrani Ghosh
Ross Bierkan
Thomas Bindley
Bonstra | Haresign ARCHITECTS
Maria Borga
Tracy Camponeschi
Jason Danielson
David Diemert
Jeffrey Domber and Betty Bird
Mary Beth and Peter Durant
Maureen and Chris Dwyer
Stephen Dwyer and Kate Riley
Khaled and Laura Farhang
Elliot and Lily Feldman
Madeline Fried
Nadine Gabai-Botero and Luis Botero
Matthew Gamser and Anna Zaremba
Natalie Grandison and Eamon Walsh
Kristine Greco and John T. Johnson
Bonnie Harkness
Kieran Hayes
Karen and Brendan Herron
Martin J. Hindel
Keith Johnson Jr.
Nassym Kavezade
James K. Kearney and Karla J. Letsche
Nidhi Khattri
Julie Kiang
Susannah Kiehl
David Knasel
James and Wendy Knight
Tyler Korba
Laura Lallos and David Harrell
Jill Landefeld
Kerry Lenahan and Federico Soifer
LinkedIn
Wayne and Debbie Lizama
Bill and Carol Lorenz
Im and Peter Lynde
Mary Anne Mahin
Tatiana Marochnik
Mahasti Mashhoon
Tim and Laurie Matthews
John McKinney
Rekha Mehra and Rip Landes
Gabriella Modan and Susan Fleischmann-Modan
Morena and Dario Mori
Caitlin Murphy
Jennifer Myers
Howard and Dominie Nash
Jana Nelhybel
Mark M. Nelson
Ellin and Jim Nolan
David Park and Clarence Pineda
Anand Rajaram
Lucretia Risoleo
Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard
Tommie L. Robinson, Jr.
Christopher Rodousakis and R Nathan Hoyt
Sarah Romero and Urnav Desai
Michael Samuelian
David Savage and Daisy Jones
Ricki Seidman
G. Theodore Serra
Wendy and Daniel Shenk-Evans
Ian Shuman and Sarah Weiner
Jodie Kelley and Scott Sinder
Faranak Sotoudeh
Mark Steitz
Connie Tasker
John Thompson III
Boxerman Family
Adrianne and Dave Wegner
Jessika and David Wellisch
Bill and Serena Wiltshire
Julie and Albert Wood
Brandon and Laura Wright
Mary and Michael Young
Salman Zaheer and Inji Islam
Esha Zaveri
Clare Zeitlin Harris