A SALUTE TO OUR DONORS
Thousands of individuals, corporations, foundations and government agencies help fund our performances and community programs through their generosity. While space allows us to list only donors of $1,000 or more, we wish to express our appreciation to all who have supported the Circus.
$1,000,000 or more
Shelley and Donald Rubin
$500,000 or more
The Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Foundation
The Zankel Fund
$250,000 or more
Riva Ariella Ritvo Slifka and The Alan B. Slifka Foundation
$100,000 or more
Mary Jane Brock
Peggy and Ronnie Gross/The Gross Family Foundation
Ursula and Paul Lowerre
Samantha Rudin and Family
May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc./The Rudin Foundation, Inc.
Danielle and Chris Wearing/Accenture
$50,000 or more
Jon and Nancy Bauer
The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Inc.
The Goldenheim Family
Cathy and Marc Lasry
Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation
Thomas Nides/Morgan Stanley
Nancy and Daniel Paduano
Patricia and John Rosenwald
The Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation
Mr. Peter Sellars
Nanna and Daniel Stern
van Ameringen Foundation, Inc.
$25,000 or more
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Amy and Gary Churgin
Halcyon Corporation in memory of Alan Slifka
Hollis Forbes
Tom Glocer/Thomson Reuters
Laurie and Peter Grauer
The Marc Haas Foundation, Inc.
The Hagedorn Fund
Ms. Robin A. Henry and Mr. Jonathan Goodman
Abram & Ray Kaplan Foundation
The Elroy and Terry Krumholz Foundation, Inc.
Arlene and Reuben Mark
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Mayberry, Jr.
Chris and Sherman Meloni
Prince Charitable Trusts
Louise and Leonard Riggio
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Robards
Jack and Susan Rudin
The Shubert Foundation
The Silverweed Foundation
Frank N. Stanley III
Mr. Paul P. Tanico
Jeffrey C. and Suzanne C. Walker
Anonymous
$10,000 or more
The Frank J. Antun Foundation
The Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust
The Theodore H. Barth Foundation
Ms. Leigh A. Bonney and Mr. Larry Ritzhaupt
Kim L. Bozzella/UBS
Clark-Winchcole Foundation
The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation
Charles P. Ferro Foundation
Anna and Etai Gross
Talia and Harry Gross
The Janey Fund
F. M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.
James T. Lee Foundation
Demarest Lloyd, Jr. Foundation
David and Anita Massengill
Tracy Merrill
Philip and Cheryl Milstein
Mr. David Mugar
Linda and Tim O’Neill
Rockwell Group
Lawrence J. and Anne Rubenstein Charitable Foundation
Edith M. Schweckendieck Trusts
David Slifka and Michele Michaelis
Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust
Jane Stine and R.L. Stine
Ms. Carolyn Sullivan
Mr. John J. Suydam
Seana and Roger Wood
$5,000 or more
Mr. and Mrs. David Altshuler
Gary and Liz Anderson
Gina J. Argento-Ciafone
Joan and Robert Arnow Fund
The Bay and Paul Foundations
Helene Berger Foundation
Dorian Brown
Mr. Richard D'Amore
Carol and Allan B. Deering
Robert Goldberg
Mr. and Mrs. Barry W. Gray
Mr. and Mrs. Gates Helms Hawn
Mr. Joseph W. Hill in Memory of Alan Slifka
The Libby Holman Foundation, Inc.
Ellen Howe
Ms. Natasha Labovitz/Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Laurence W. Levine Foundation
Mrs. Mortimer Levitt
James and Ellen Marcus
Mr. H. Roemer McPhee
The Donald R. Mullen Family Foundation, Inc.
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation
Cynthia and Bud Rogers
Monica and Richard Segal
Jim and Debby Sharpe
Robert A. Stern
Patricia Vance
Anonymous (2)
$2,500 or more
Aid Association for the Blind of the District of Columbia
May P. & Francis L. Abreu Charitable Trust
Jay and Maureen Adolf
Nicole Alger and Zachary Karabell
American Chai Trust
Candice Bergen
Bialkin Family Foundation
Paul Binder
Helen and Mike Boudreau
Cynthia Green Colin
John and Lorraine Dizzia
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Durkin, Jr.
The Edouard Foundation, Inc.
Robert and Margaret Fagenson in memory of Alan Slifka
Ms. Vicky Gewirz
Gibson Family Foundation
Gumuchian Fils, Ltd.
Mr. Eugene Gurkoff
Mr. Russel T. Hamilton
Barbara Hubshman
The Roy A. Hunt Foundation
The Joelson Foundation
Richard H. Levy and Lorraine Gallard
Lorraine Machiz and Family
John and Susanne Manley
Robert and Christina Mann
Anne and Paul Marcus
Ms. Heather McDonald
Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse, Jr.
Mr. Bill Ohlemeyer
The Old Stones Foundation, Inc.
Michele, Michael and Thomas Pecora
Warrie and Jim Price
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Robbins
Dr. and Mrs. David Rosenthal and Family
Melissa and Robert Soros
Michelle Stein
Dr. Daniel Susott in Memory of Alan Slifka
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sutcliff
Van Pelt Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Walsh
John C. Whitehead
Sara Zion
Anonymous (2)
$1,000 or more
Ms. Mindy Ash
Mr. John M. Bader
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Berkowitz
Mr. Kenneth L. Bowmaker
Mr. and Mrs. George Cates in honor of Frank Stanley
Suzanne and Bob Cochran
Mr. Stephen Coit
Ms. Anne Colley
Carol A. Faulb
Fiona Fein
Peggy Foran
Stephen Foreht
Michael and Elizabeth Foster
Anne G. Garonzik
Harkness Foundation for Dance
Ms. Bonney Hebert
Molly K. Heines and Thomas J. Moloney
Mr. James Higgins
Richard H. Holzer Memorial Foundation
Nicole J. Kafka
Dr. Michael Katz
Virginia and Richard Keim
Mrs. Alice Keim Weiss
Marc S. Kirschner and Nancy Fisher
Mr. William Kneisel
The Kurlan Family Foundation
Mr. Harold Levine
Dr. Laurie J. Levinson
Dr. and Mrs. Peter J. Linden
Naomi and Marvin Lipman
Arthur Loeb Foundation
Mrs. Frederick Mali
Mr. Andrew Malis
Marcus & Pollack, LLP
Mr. Kevin McCarey
McKeon Family Foundation
The Morris Family Foundation, Inc.
Ruth Nagourney
Mr. Michael Newman and Ms. Polly Kornblith
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ohlweiler
Liz and Jeff Peek
Freear Pollard
Mr. Theodore Price
Sally Quinn
Ann and Stanley Reese
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Resnick
Ms. Elizabeth Rose
Vicki Rosen Solomon
Daryl and Steven Roth
Mr. Robert Rothenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rugg
David M. Russek
Kathleen E. Shannon
David and Beth Shaw
Jacob, Aaron and Sara Simkovitz
Jeffrey and Patsy Tarr
Wray Thorn
Mary Ann Tighe
Mr. Arthur Vitarius
David and Jane Walentas
Sue Ann Weinberg
Ms. Lucille Werlinich
Ms. Barbara Whitman and Mr. David Carlyon
Glenn Whitmore
Deborah E. Wiley
Jean Wood
Scott Zelnick
Corporations
The Big Apple Circus acknowledges general support from the business community through memberships, grants, special events and matching gifts.
Accenture
AXA Foundation
Bank of America
Bank Leumi USA
Barclays Capital
Bloomberg
Bloomingdale's Fund of the Macy’s Foundation
The Boston Consulting Group Inc.
British American Business, Inc.
CNY Builders
Con Edison
Deloitte
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
Halcyon Asset Management
Hasbro Children's Fund
IESI Corporation
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
McKinsey & Company
The Moody's Foundation
Morgan Stanley
National Association of Catering Executives
CME Group
Newman's Own Foundation
Pepsico Foundation Inc.
Pfizer Inc
The Prudential Community Giving Campaign
Real Estate Board of New York Foundation, Inc.
Saint Barnabas Medical Center
Serino Coyne
DeWitt Stern
Thomson Reuters
TJX Foundation, Inc.
UBS
Van Wyck & Van Wyck Inc.
Government
DREAM BIG at the Big Apple Circus is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Big Apple Circus artistic and outreach programs are supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Kate D. Levin, Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs
Speaker Christine C. Quinn (3rd C.D.), the Leadership of the New York City Council, and their staffs including:
Council Member and Chair of Finance Committee Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., 47th C.D.
Council Member and Chair of Cultural Affairs, Libraries & International Intergroup
Relations Committee Jimmy Van Bramer, 26th C.D.
Council Member Gale A. Brewer, 6th C.D.
Council Member Fernando Cabrera, 14th C.D.
Council Member Inez E. Dickens, 9th C.D.
Council Member Helen D. Foster, 16th C.D.
Council Member James F. Gennaro, 24th C.D.
Council Member Robert Jackson, 7th C.D.
Council Member Jessica S. Lappin, 5th C.D.
Council Member Albert Vann, 36th C.D.
Council Member Mark Weprin, 23rd C.D.
Additional funding from the City of New York is received from the Department of Youth and Community Development and the Health and Hospitals Corporation.
ENDOWMENT AND CAPITAL PROJECTS
The following donors have made significant commitments to capital and special projects:
Charles Hayden Foundation
The Hyde and Watson Foundation
New York City Government
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Department of Cultural Affairs
New York City Council
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Inc.
