Current Sponsors

The Institute is most grateful to the following current sponsors for their generous financial support:

Benefactor
The Herb Alpert Foundation
The Dalio Foundation
Doris Duke Foundation
Susan De Boismilon Trust
Northrop Grumman
Stuart Subotnick
Lynda Thomas (1950-2021)
United Airlines

Underwriter
Carnival Corporation
Jim and Nancy Demetriades
Sandra J. Evers-Manly
Ford Foundation
Lou Gonda
Los Angeles Unified School District, Beyond the Bell Branch
National Endowment for the Arts

Patron
AT&T
Ray and Vera Conniff Foundation
Frank and Berta Gehry
Harold Goode
GRoW @ Annenberg
Herbie and Gigi Hancock
The Lupin Foundation
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

Sustainer
Patricia Baars
Linda Brown
Kent Kresa
MaddocksBrown Foundation
Barbara Shapiro
Triad Foundation, Inc.

Partner
Page and Lou Adler / MIPF, Inc.
Massimo Biolcati / iRealPro.com
Don Coe
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities
James E. Farmer
The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
The Shubert Foundation

Contributor
The Honorable Madeleine Korbel Albright (1937-2022)
Corina Higginson Trust
Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation
William C. Paley Foundation
William S. Paley Foundation
Elaine Shocas
Ronald and Cynthia Thompson
UPS

Associate
Anonymous
Dimick Foundation
Carol Weiner Wilner

Supporter
Richard Ben-Veniste
Don Briggs
LaDonna Cooper
Lawrence Devron
Mark and Patricia Eklund
Roslyn Goldstein
Robert W. Hickmott
Mayumi Ishida
Elyse B. Lacher
Marquis McCants
Robert & Mary Lou McGee
Guy R.X. Middleton Charitable Fund
Susan Reese
Robert Shapiro

Friend
Steve Barnette
Ellington Brown
M Airy Carlson
James Carpenter
Beth Carter Blair
Jane Angarola
Bonnie Berry
Tricia Carlson
Pamela Carter Youngblood
Steve Diminuco
Lynda Dixon
Mary Dougher-Foster
Philip Dufour
Price Floyd
Scotty Fallon Greenwood
Tom and Carol Goss
Linwood Ham
Michael and Audrey Haynes
Rob Haynes
Kim Herron
Carron Hocut
Larry Irving
Linda Jamison
Kathy Johnson
Katherine Kane
Alison Kutler
Nicole Lee
Jackie Mcelwee
Cheryl C. McQueen
Arturo O’Farrill
Marsha Neal Sandridge
Peggy Robertson Archambault
Karen Scates
Tara Sonenshine
Giovanni Stella
Jane Swensen
Nancy Thompson
Tanya Wallace
Celena Westlund
Steve Whisnant
Robert Winship
Jake Yunker
Brenda Zimmerman

If you would like to support the educational programs of the Institute to ensure that young people around the world have an opportunity to learn about jazz – America’s most important musical contribution to the world – please consider making an online contribution or contact us. The Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and all contributions are tax-deductible. For more information about the Institute, please consult our GuideStar Profile.

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