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, 2025 and June 30, 2026.
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+
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Committee For The Future
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Learn24
$50,000 – $99,999
Anonymous (2)
Greg Albright and Wes Combs
CohnReznick
Diane and Norman Bernstein Foundation
Dweck Philanthropies
England Family Foundation
Jill Minneman and Thomas Fulcher
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
Julie Egermayer
Harman Family Foundation
Barbara Harman and William Cain
Jack R. Anderson Foundation
Lainoff Family Foundation
Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation
Jaya Saxena and Viyas Sundaram
Marla and Peter Schnall
The George Preston Marshall Foundation
The Kogan Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The William S. Abell Foundation
V&S Foundation
$15,000 – $24,999
Dweck Charitable Fund
Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation
Judy Family Foundation
Kathryn Kincaid and Michael Lainoff
Mars Foundation
The Marinus and Minna B. Koster Foundation
The Richard E. & Nancy P. Marriott Foundation
$10,000 – $14,999
Anonymous
Kenton Campbell and Susan Wooddell-Campbell
David S. Shrager Foundation
Jessica Denson
Amal and Dante Disparte
Melissa and Ken Doyle
Dan and Jacki Fox
Coach and Mrs. Ralph Friedgen
Galena-Yorktown Foundation
Estate of Burton L. Gerber†
Jill Lesser and Jonathan Diesenhaus
Im and Peter Lynde†
Rossotti Family Foundation
Gina Schaefer and Marc Friedman
Chris Stacey and Sam Stebbins
The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
Truist
Leslie Tullio and Micah Dammeyer
World Bank
$5,000 – $9,999
Anonymous
Anthony & Anna L. Carozza Foundation
Bernstein Management Corporation
Rhonda Buckley-Bishop and Kelley Bishop
Moyra Byrne
CIBC Private Wealth
Crescent Communities
DC Department of Parks and Recreation
Dimick Foundation
Mary Kathleen Ernst and Edmund Spivack
Nancy “Bitsey” Folger
GRF CPAs & Advisors
Helene M. Grandvoinnet and Nick Moschovakis
Jill Herscot
Andrea Kirstein
D’Ann Lanning
Lavin Family Foundation
Kevin and Mora Lavin
Eve A. Lilley
Jason Najjoum
Thomas Nichols and Daniel Chadburn
Omidyar Network Fund, Inc.
Isabel Reiff and Lee Pasarew
Erin and Matt Rizk
Edwin Sequeira
The Merck Foundation
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
TTR Sotheby’s International Realty
Venable Foundation
Barbara and John Wing
$2,500 – $4,999
Atlantic Union Bank
Katherine Bradley
Mark Brennan and Stephen Benedicto
Melissa and Jason Burnett
Crowell & Moring Foundation
Dan Cameron Family Foundation, Inc.
Jason Danielson
Samantha L. Dean
Allen Devine and Andy Broadbent
G. David Fensterheim and Julie A. Hoffman Fensterheim
Jean-Marie and Raul Fernandez
Sara and Josh Gibson
Tom Glass and Phyllis Freedman
Sharon and Shawn Gundrum
Harkins Builders, Inc.
Heidi and Matthew Harper
Michael E. Hill and Peter M. Korns
Lynne Horning
Hugh B. Kaplan and Caroline L. Kaplan
Daphne Kiplinger and David Steadman
Korzeniewski Family Foundation
KPMG LLP
Anita Kulkarni and Dr. Amol S. Rangnekar
Suzanne Laporte
Richard Lilley, Jr.
Jody Manor and Mario Diaz
Robert and Joanna McNamara
Tsai Hong Miller
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Michael and Neela Nilsson
Saree Pitt
Barton and Shereen Rubenstein
Stephanie Saturni
Helen and Paul Schmitz
Ian Shuman and Sarah Weiner
Thomas Sietsema and Ed Lichorat
Ruth Sorenson
Spa Logic / LuLuu Spa and Salon
Vivek Srivastava
Trent & Co at Compass Real Estate
United Bank
Kenneth and Heather Voorhees
Stephanie Wang
Nancy Withbroe
$1,000 – $2,499
20 Degrees LLC
Adams Morgan Partnership BID
Albert L. Tucker and Elizabeth T. Tucker Foundation
Altium Wealth
David Amann
Virginia Q. Anthony
Malcolm J. Bertoni
Rachna and Samir Bhatt
Chidi Blyden and Soladé Rowe
Bose Public Affairs Group
Joe and Sue Bredekamp
George Bren and Denise Schlener
Diane Brenneman
Cohen Clinic for Plastic Surgery
Ana Corado and James Bradford
Michele de Nevers
Holly and Todd Deckelbaum
Charles DeSantis and David McDermott
J. Carroll Dey
Jeffrey Domber and Betty Bird
Nancy and Bill Dunkerley
A. Aboud and Amy Dweck
Stephen Dwyer and Kate Riley
EJF Real Estate Services
Betsy Erickson
Ellen Fern and Brett O’Brien
Jade Floyd and Charles Small
Bertrand and Laura Fote
Zachary and Julie Friedlis
Odelia Funke and Lawrence Carter
Linda and William Goldman
Thomas Grogan and Meaghan Bresnahan
Marla Grossman and Eric Steinmiller
John Hackett and Tom Newton
Monica J. Harrington
Meredith and David Haussler
Tom Helf and Michelle Brafman
Alyssa and Richard Henderson
De Coninck-James Family
Soojin Kim
Paula Y. Koda and John B. Trescot
Ameya Kulkarni and Aliya Jiwani
Laura Lallos and David Harrell
Sara and Chris Lange
Michelle Lanier and Rebecca Neuburger
LinkedIn
Bill and Carol Lorenz
Mohini Malhotra and Tilman Ehrbeck
Clint Mann and Andrew Doster
Nancy and Nicholas McConnell
Archana Mehta and Manu Raju
Louise Meng
Eric Mitzenmacher and Allison Abayasekara
Kerry Muldoon and Terri Ryan
Essence Newhoff and Paul Gardullo
Brian Nido
Ellin and Jim Nolan
David Park and Clarence Pineda
Russ Phillips
PNC Foundation
Chris Pratt
Hope Richardson and Chimso Okoji
Lucretia Risoleo
Rivertowne Advisors LLC
Carolyn Roberts and Jim Everett
Sarah Romero and Urnav Desai
Barbara Rothkopf
Parker Schaffel
Dani Seltzer and Pierre Malko
Wendy and Daniel Shenk-Evans
Jodie Kelley and Scott Sinder
Ed and Neesham Spitzberg
Cora and Richard Stewart
Michael Stokes and Kristen Hajduk
Kathy and Tim Summers
Stephen Tabor
Anupa Upadhyay
Linda Vandeloop
John and Ellen Villa
Christopher Wingert
Elizabeth and Rick Witter
Julie and Albert Wood
Melissa Wyers
Salman Zaheer and Inji Islam
$500 – $999
Anonymous
Kimberly Adler and Aaron Knight
Quanda M. Allen and Justin Hobson
Carol Apelt and Paul Prokopovich
Yann Azoux and Olivia Ricchi
Connie Barnes
Jeremy Barnes and Ana Munoz
Ann Barnet
Ross Bierkan
Maria Borga
Eden Brown
Thomas Cohen and Harriet Bronstein
Dan Covitz and Susie Wertheimer
Janna L. Daniels
Matthew De La O and Bryan Hughes
Lindsay Dean
David Diemert
Heather Dresser
Mary Beth and Peter Durant
Mario Garcia Durham and Craig Horness
Alan and Maureen Dwyer
Maureen and Chris Dwyer
Elliot and Lily Feldman
Mia Ferrara
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas M. Folger
Lea and Joe Fox
Madeline Fried
Friends of Fillmore Arts Center
Jake Gaddis
Trish Glowacki
Kristine Greco and John T. Johnson
Chris Hanes and Zack Wisniewski
Kieran Hayes
Peta Hellmann
Karen and Brendan Herron
Bradley Henson and Seetha Srinivasan
Martin J. Hindel
Elizabeth Hoffman and Eric Emerson
Grace Hong and David Olsen
Skip Hughes and Barry Tubman
Interactive Strategies
Mark Jaskowiak and Georgina Baker
Ileann Jimenez-Sepulveda and Hector Sepulveda
Renee Jones-Carvalho and Charles Mansfield
James K. Kearney and Karla J. Letsche
Andrew Koenig
Tyler Korba
Rachel and Mark Kronowitz
Ann Lallos
Adam and Belinda Lehman
Rachel Lubin and Scott Berkowitz
Rev. James P. Marsh Jr.
Barbara F. Meeker and Joe Auslander
Ryan Merkel
Gabriella Modan and Susan Fleischmann-Modan
SageVest Wealth Management
Joanie Newhart
Edward J. O’Connell and Susan L. O’Connell
Dr. Gail Kern Paster
Bonnie R. Politz and Jerome Berman
Pamela Prather and Dennis Meyers
Anand Rajaram
Christopher Rodousakis
Kathryn and Ed Schwartz
Holly Scott
G. Theodore Serra
Lauren Sipple
Connie Tasker
Paul Tetreault and John Jeter
THE ORCHESTRA Band
Annie Totah
Boxerman Family
Michael Walton and Isabel Guerrero
Adrianne and Dave Wegner
Jennifer Weiss
Bill and Serena Wiltshire
Ben Withbroe and Rebecca Kunau
Mary and Michael Young
Donors listed above who made gifts with special tributes include:
Anonymous in memory of Parthenon Huxley
Greg Albright and Wes Combs in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
David Amann in memory of Enne Amann
Virginia Q. Anthony in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Boxerman Family in honor of Jill Herscot
Ana Corado and James Bradford in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Dan Covitz and Susie Wertheimer in honor of Ellen Fern
Samantha L. Dean in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Holly and Todd Deckelbaum in honor of Paige Girson
Jessica Denson in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Allen Devine and Andy Broadbent in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Diane and Norman Bernstein Foundation in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Jeffrey Domber and Betty Bird in honor of Beth Hochberg
Nancy and Bill Dunkerley in memory of Parthenon Huxley
England Family Foundation in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Ellen Fern and Brett O’Brien in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Dan and Jacki Fox in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Lea and Joe Fox in memory of Peter Fox
Coach and Mrs. Ralph Friedgen in honor of Kristina Friedgen
Tom Glass and Phyllis Freedman in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Sara and Josh Gibson in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Barbara Harman and William Cain in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Michael E. Hill and Peter M. Korns in memory of Peter Fox
Skip Hughes and Barry Feldman in honor of Greg Albright
Ileann Jimenez-Sepulveda and Hector Sepulveda in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Andrew Koenig in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Ann Lallos in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Laura Lallos and David Harrell in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Richard Lilley, Jr. in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Bill and Carol Lorenz in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Im and Peter Lynde in memory of Peter Fox
Jody Manor and Mario Diaz in memory of Peter Fox
Nancy and Nicholas McConnell in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Jill Minneman and Thomas Fulcher in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Thomas Nichols and Daniel Chadburn in memory of Peter Fox
Edward J. O’Connell and Susan L. O’Connell in memory of Parthenon Huxley
THE ORCHESTRA Band in memory of Parthenon Huxley
Bonnie R. Politz and Jerome Berman in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Isabel Reiff and Lee Pasarew in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Carolyn Roberts and Jim Everett in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Holly Scott in memory of Parthenon Huxley
G. Theodore Serra in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Share Fund in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Ian Shuman and Sarah Weiner in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Vivek Srivastava in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Chris Stacey and Sam Stebbins in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer
Nancy Withbroe in honor of Maureen L. Dwyer