FRONT COVER 

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) linked eight telescopes around the globe to form 

an Earth-sized virtual telescope with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. At the 

helm of the effort, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory captured the frst-ever 

image of a black hole. Albert Einstein’s century-old theory of general relativity helped 

predict that a black hole casts a circular shadow on the bright, superheated material 

around it—and this image reveals the shadow. 

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have never forgotten the moment when I frst 

visited the Smithsonian. It was the mid-1960s 

and we were driving back to New Jersey after 

a family vacation. I was too young to understand why we 

couldn’t stop at many historic sites I wanted to visit in 

the still-segregated South. But when we drove through 

Washington, D.C., we made a detour to the Smithsonian. 

My dad explained that I could visit the Smithsonian 

and not worry about being turned away because of race. It 

was then that I frst understood the power of this institution 

where anyone, regardless of who they were, could become 

something more than who they had been. 

Since its inception, the Smithsonian has been a gift to 

America, telling the nation’s stories through our collections, 

scholarship and educational initiatives. Our scientific 

research—examining everything from Earth’s prolific 

biodiversity to distant galaxies—also tells stories about the 

human condition, our place in the universe, and where we 

might be headed next. 

Now, as an institution, we are working to become more 

than we have been. That entails more fully occupying the 

digital realm, more robustly enhancing our educational 

capabilities, and more deeply examining the world’s most 

pressing challenges. All are goals that have become more 

urgent with the advent of dual pandemics: the deadly novel 

coronavirus contagion and the persistent virulent racism 

that may have fnally galvanized a nation into confronting 

its tortured racial past. 

For us to be the institution Americans need and deserve, 

we must use our reputation and expertise to stimulate dialogue 

about some of the most important collective challenges we 

face. Clearly one of those is the challenge of race in all its 

dimensions. In the wake of the horrifc killing of George Floyd 

and the unifed outcry for change, the Smithsonian is leading 

the discussion with a couple of new initiatives. 

The frst, Race, Community and Our Shared Future, is 

a Smithsonian-wide project that will examine the impact 

of racial inequality in our communities and nation and 

inspire conversation about how Americans understand and 

experience race. And the new digital platform Talking About 

Race by the National Museum of African American History 

and Culture is helping diverse audiences better understand 

and discuss the lived realities of race with a variety of digital 

tools, instructional videos and multimedia resources. 

Also, at the top of our minds right now is the uncertainty 

of a global pandemic. As of June 2020, more than 2 million 

people have contracted COVID-19 in the United States. 

Many in our communities face unprecedented hardships: 

dealing with illness or the loss of loved ones, balancing the 

care of others with the unfamiliarity of working from home, 

feeling isolated from friends and families, or dealing with 

economic anxiety. 

The Smithsonian is preparing for what comes next with 

two task forces and a COVID-19 response team working to 

identify how we can gradually reopen, guided foremost by 

the safety and health of our employees and the public. Despite 

the hurdles inherent in our “new normal,” they have not 

prevented us from fnding new ways to engage and inspire. 

We will never replace our tangible objects that tell a 

story when you see them up close. But for the millions of 

people who cannot visit our museums, a virtual Smithsonian 

can be at their fngertips no matter where they are. The 

value of being a more digital institution has been made 

clear during this time of isolation. We are uniting people by 

hosting online events, providing invaluable Smithsonian 

digital assets, and staying connected through social media. 

One of the ways we are able to inspire creativity among 

all socially distant learners is through our new Open Access 

initiative. By releasing an unprecedented amount of free 

Smithsonian digital resources into the public domain—more 

than 3 million 2-D and 3-D images—we are ushering in a new 

era of educational and research endeavors, creative reuse, 

computational analysis and innovative exploration. 

As we continue to make new discoveries, produce 

groundbreaking exhibitions, and initiate thought-provoking 

discussions, we must share them with future generations. 

Already, we create educational materials based on our science 

and scholarship that enhance student and teacher engagement 

in 21st-century learning. Smithsonian education materials are 

used by teachers in all 50 states, but we can do more. 

To that end, I plan to bolster the Smithsonian’s role in 

lifelong learning by working to transform it into a national 

leader in pre-K–12 education. That is why we are developing 

a model for the future of education by working with the 

Washington, D.C., public school system. In time, we plan 

to share that model on a national and international stage. 

As an educational organization, we have an obligation to 

make education a priority, no matter if learners get their 

education in classrooms or online. 

The crises we are facing have reinforced the importance 

of what we hold most dear, starting with the health and safety 

of our families and loved ones. But they also have reminded 

us that our human connection extends beyond the walls of our 

homes, beyond the color of our skin, and beyond the borders of 

our nations. We long for the comfort of culture, the perspective 

of history, the beauty of art, and the answers to questions about 

our universe and ourselves that science provides. These, too, 

are more precious than ever, and the Smithsonian is unique 

in its ability to bring these endeavors to people everywhere. 

I have been so fortunate to be a part of this remarkable 

institution for the better part of my career. I am honored to 

lead it as we approach the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary 

in 2021. In this time that feels so fragile, so precarious, we 

must heed what one of my favorite authors, James Baldwin, 

said: “The challenge is in the moment; the time is always 

now.” I believe there is no better time than now to make the 

Smithsonian the best version of the institution it can be. 

Thank you for your continued commitment and support. 

Lonnie G. Bunch III 

Secretary of the Smithsonian 

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An international team of scientists including Katie Bouman, who is a former Smithsonian Astrophysical 

Observatory computer scientist, created a set of algorithms to piece together the puzzle of data taken by eight 

telescopes around the world, creating the first image of a black hole. This is an early equation Bouman developed 

and presented in a TED Talk. 

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1 Shep Doeleman has been chasing 

black holes for years. More than 

a decade ago, this Smithsonian 

astronomer and other visionary 

scientists asked: Was it possible to 

capture an image of one? Black holes by 

their very nature are invisible, predicted 

by Albert Einstein but never directly 

observed. And the resolution required to 

record such a distant object—fearsome 

in mass but tiny in size, invisible or not— 

would necessitate a lens the size of the 

entire Earth. Doeleman likened the 

endeavor to photographing the date on a 

quarter in Los Angeles while standing in 

New York City. 
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The frst-ever image of a black hole was front-page news across the planet in 2019. Science magazine called 

it one of the most important breakthroughs of the year. The team was awarded the Einstein Medal 2020 from the Albert 

Einstein Society and the NSF Diamond Achievement Award from the National Science Foundation. 

2 Incredibly, that is what the Event 

Horizon Telescope (EHT) team 

he directs—an international 

consortium that has grown to 

involve more than 200 scientists at 13 

research institutes around the world— 

accomplished. The EHT linked eight 

radio telescopes on four continents 

to swivel in perfect synchrony and 

train their sights on a luminous swirl 

of hot gases and debris orbiting a 

supermassive black hole 55 million 

light years away in the center of the 

galaxy called Messier 87. 
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The S gua Salud P oject in the Panama Canal W tershed pr vides a model 

degraded landscapes, r ealing ho is in ed b land use. The decades-long r ch project is a 

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The Smithsonian’s Agua Salud Project in the Panama Canal Watershed provides a model for restoring 

degraded landscapes, revealing how water fow is infuenced by land use. The decades-long research project is a 

collaboration among the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Panama Canal Authority and the National 

Environment Authority of Panama. Long-term research on how humans and animals impact ecosystems is more and 

more relevant to efforts to sustain our planet. PHOTO MARCOS GUERRA 

3 This is a unique strength of 

the Smithsonian: the ability 

to convene partners around 

the globe to create a virtual 

observatory the size of the planet 

in pursuit of what was once thought 

impossible. For Doeleman and his 

colleagues it was the discovery of a 

lifetime. Their research opens new 

windows into our understanding of 

space-time, the origins of galaxies, 

and the very workings of the universe. 

For the rest of us, that image shared 

around the world is a discovery that 

brings us together as human beings— 

an awe-inspiring reminder that we 

are all here together on this small blue 

sphere looking out at a vast and 

mysterious cosmos. 
Martha, the last descendant of the once-abundant passenger pigeon population, is one of the most famous 

birds in the world. Her death helped inspire the modern conservation movement. Today, her 100-year-old remains have been 

digitized and rendered in 3-D for viewers to study, download, reuse or remix. Martha is one of nearly 3 million digital items 

in the Smithsonian collection now available copyright-free through our Open Access initiative. P H O T O D O N A L D E . H U R L B E R T 

his idea of our shared place in the universe—our 

shared history—was embodied in 2019. The heft of the 

Smithsonian—its unparalleled collections, its diverse 

and deep-rooted expertise, and its outsized ability to 

connect with millions of people—is being brought to bear on the 

most critical issues of our time: conversations about democracy, 

identity, climate change and more. 

The challenges we face today, as a nation and as a planet, 

call for creative and collaborative interdisciplinary solutions—big 

ideas. The Smithsonian, a place that belongs to all of us, has the 

capacity to unite us by drawing on the material legacy of the past 

to imagine a brighter and more just and sustainable future. This 

is what drives the institution forward to be, as Secretary Lonnie 

G. Bunch III explains, “the glue that helps to hold us together.” 

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Panel from Hokusai: Mad about Painting (on view November 2019–January 2021) at the Freer Gallery of 

Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the National Museum of Asian Art, which is home to one of the largest collections of 

the artist’s work. The Katsushika Hokusai-painted panel features a crane perched on a snowy limb. Detail from Twelve 

Months, a pair of folding screens. 
Astronaut Neil Armstrong wore this glove during the historic 1969 Apollo 11 mission, which landed the frst 

person on the moon. His gloves and spacesuit were conserved and digitized thanks to the frst-ever Kickstarter campaign 

by a museum, Reboot the Suit. They were displayed at the National Air and Space Museum for the 50th anniversary of 

the lunar landing. PHOTO MARCO GROB / TRUNK ARCHIVE 

Fifty years ago another image captivated the world and 

galvanized our faith in human ingenuity and wonder at the 

universe around us: the extraordinary sight of astronaut Neil 

Armstrong setting foot on the moon. This past summer the 

Smithsonian helped lead the nation in commemorating that 

historic achievement, bringing half a million people to the 

National Mall to relive the Apollo 11 mission with a spectacular 

multimedia broadcast on the Washington Monument. 

The National Air and Space Museum, whose frst director, 

Michael Collins, was also one of the three Apollo 11 astronauts, 

spearheaded the production. And now the museum is embarking 

on the most substantial renovation in Smithsonian history in order 

to redouble its capacity to inspire new generations to reach for the 

stars. This is the power of the Smithsonian: to spark wonder and 

lifelong learning, make accessible the artifacts of history, and 

bring us together around a shared culture. 

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In July 2019, more than 500,000 people gathered on the National Mall to celebrate the 50th anniversary 

of the moon landing. Commissioned by the National Air and Space Museum, Apollo 50: Go for the Moon re-created the 

launch of Apollo 11 in a 20-minute video projected on the Washington Monument as part of a three-day celebration. 

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This ca. 1850 portrait of Rhoda Phillips, born into slavery and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, 

depicts a personal story of enslavement. National Museum of African American History and Culture curator Mary Elliott 

included the daguerreotype, along with other museum objects, in her history of slavery essay for The 1619 Project in 

The New York Times. 

The museum that Secretary Bunch shepherded into being, 

the National Museum of African American History and Culture, 

has already become a treasured place of pilgrimage in the 

almost four years since its opening. It is an indispensable source 

of excellence and expertise, helping direct the nation in a vital 

discussion about race and American history. Naturally, The New 

York Times partnered with the Smithsonian as it embarked upon 

a major examination of the pervasive legacy of slavery and the 

ways it has shaped American society. 

The 1619 Project marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival 

of the frst enslaved Africans in British North America. Curator 

Mary Elliott selected objects from the museum collection for a 

special broadsheet section of the newspaper, sharing the powerful 

stories they represent to tell a fuller, more truthful story of slavery 

and freedom. “This is a shared history, everyone inherited the 

legacies of slavery,” Elliott says. “This project—like the museum 

itself —enables each of us to confront this history and seek to learn 

more, to be thoughtful about moving forward as a nation.” 

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Wayde McIntosh’s Legacy, a portrait of his friend, artist Jordan Casteel, explores social issues in the United 

States that have been a part of the country since its birth. Legacy was chosen as the third-place winner in The Outwin 2019: 

American Portraiture Today, a triennial competition at the National Portrait Gallery on view October 2019 – August 2020. 

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The bilingual exhibition Dolores Huerta: Revolution in the Fields / Revolución en los Campos explores Huerta’s 

infuence on and fght for agricultural labor rights in the 1960s and 1970s. This Smithsonian Institution Traveling 

Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibition was created in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery and is based on the 

exhibition One Life: Dolores Huerta. Supported by the Smithsonian Latino Center, the exhibition will travel to 14 cities 

through 2023, bringing the stories of this infuential woman to audiences nationwide. 

New partnerships and platforms propel the Smithsonian 

toward the goal of reaching as broad an audience as possible, 

taking the institution beyond the National Mall. The American 

Women’s History Initiative is a digital-frst project for precisely 

this reason. The Smithsonian has teamed up with Wikipedia to 

bring unsung stories of women in American history to people all 

over the world who might not ever come to the nation’s capital. 

Facilitated by a new open knowledge coordinator partly funded 

by the Wikimedia Foundation, the initiative is hosting a series 

of Wikipedia edit-a-thons alongside exhibition openings and 

digital image releases. 

Already, for instance, images and biographies of women 

uploaded from the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Votes 

for Women: A Portrait of Persistence have been viewed hundreds 

of thousands of times. Curator Kate Clarke Lemay dug deep to 

tell the history of women’s struggles for equality, highlighting 

activists from the 1830s through the 1960s, and shining new 

light in particular on African American women’s fght for full 

citizenship. 

In conducting her research, she asked, “When I read 

the accounts of women’s sufrage, I wondered where are the 

African American women in what arguably is one of the longest 

reform movements in American history? What of Latinx, Native 

American or Asian American women? Why has women’s history 

never been recognized as the needle on the barometer of 

American history?” 

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The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative is a paradigm shift at the institution, placing women 

at the center of the American story and uncovering their hidden narratives to reveal a more diverse and complete history. 

The National Portrait Gallery’s Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (on view March 2019 —January 2020) launched 

the initiative and was a major exhibition, shedding light on the diversity of women who played a role in the fght for 

women’s suffrage. 

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Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott, Susan B. Anthony, Anna 

Julia Haywood (Cooper), Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, 

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore. 

CENTER: Alice Dunbar Nelson. 
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The Smithsonian’s mission to educate and inspire is more important than ever in moments of crisis and 

change. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic closed our doors, but the Smithsonian remained open, active and responding 

to learners and visitors through our distance learning resources and interactive virtual tours. The Smithsonian American 

Art Museum is one of many museums that offer 360° images of art, objects and full exhibitions online. Whether you are 

at home, at school, across the world or across the country, Smithsonian resources, expertise and experiences are just 

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As the institution sets a course to tell a fuller story, the most 

vital arena in which we can do that work is with K–12 education. 

The Smithsonian seeks to inspire a generation of confdent, 

creative problem solvers who connect their knowledge to 

complex challenges. Establishing a more inclusive and expansive 

understanding of what it means to be American opens up 

possibilities of deeper engagement. It’s an investment in the 

nation’s children and their capacity to see themselves in history 

and imagine a better future. 

At the National Museum of the American Indian, a new 

Native Knowledge 360° education initiative seeks to inspire 

an expanded understanding of Native American cultures 

past and present and inform the ways American history 

is taught. Through online materials and teacher training 

opportunities held around the country, the platform offers 

students and teachers a new K–12 framework to modernize 

the teaching of history, social studies, arts, culture and 

more—one that centers Native voices, is geographically and 

culturally diverse, and builds on the premise that this is a 

personal history we all share. 

The institution has entered into a two-year partnership 

with the Washington, D.C., public school system, aligning 

Smithsonian content with the schools’ existing curricula to 

support the social and emotional needs of students. This efort 

to strive for equity and access by reaching students who have the 

least access to resources will empower learners with experiences 

that aid in their academic work and overall development. This 

comprehensive education initiative begun in 2019 was put to 

the test in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. When 

the Smithsonian closed its museums and research centers to 

mitigate the spread of the virus, the institution quickly adapted 

to create an easy-to-use library of learning resources for various 

age levels and those with access to high-tech, low-tech or notech tools. The impact was immediate, as teachers already 

comfortable with our digital teaching tools such as Learning Lab 

focked to our sites, as did students and caregivers. 

The Smithsonian is bringing more diverse perspectives to education programs and adopting new approaches 

to ensure that learners can access Smithsonian resources anytime, anywhere. Native Knowledge 360°—the National 

Museum of the American Indian’s signature education initiative—provides K–12 materials online to enlighten and inform 

education about Native American history and culture. NK360° is one of the Smithsonian’s robust distance learning 

resources that became essential for educators and students learning from home during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. 
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute fellow Jennifer Gil-Acevedo understands that people do not always 

appreciate what they cannot see, taste or touch. Microalgae power entire ecosystems but are invisible to the naked 

eye—so Gil-Acevedo created glowing images using microscopes, printed touchable 3-D models and baked cookies 

with edible microalgae. Her work offers everyone a way to experience microalgae through one or more of their senses. 

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“The Smithsonian has always been committed to support -

ing students and teachers, and we want to ensure that school 

closures do not get in the way of students’ ongoing education,” 

notes Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, the Smithsonian’s acting 

undersecretary for education. “We formed an education 

response team to support schools facing closures around the 

country by connecting them with free and relevant resources. 

And the response has been tremendous.” 

All across the institution, scientists are undertaking remark -

able projects to build a more sustainable and resilient future. They 

are studying the emergence of coronaviruses similar to COVID -19 

to try to stem the next pandemic, researching the impact of solar 

ultraviolet radiation on phytoplankton in the Antarctic, pioneer -

ing new cryogenic technologies to preserve coral reef ecosystems 

around the globe, documenting indigenous peoples’ ecological 

knowledge of icescapes in Alaska and the Bering Strait region, 

monitoring air pollution from satellites in space, and so much more. 

These studies regularly involve scientifc and cultural part -

ners; they often involve the public, too —citizen scientists such 

as Gabon schoolchildren working with forest researchers to 

measure how tree growth responds to weather and climate, or 

American volunteers mailing in ginkgo leaf samples as part of 

last summer’s National Science Foundation –funded Fossil 

Atmospheres project. The Smithsonian Conservation Commons 

now links these investigators and living laboratories together 

in an action network that amplifes eforts to sustain Earth’s 

biodiversity and convened to discuss and share solutions at the 

April 2020 Earth Optimism Summit. 

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Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial (on view May 2019–January 2020) celebrated the power of design to 

transform our understanding of and relationship with the natural world. To create Fantasma, design studio AnotherFarm 

collaborated with scientists who make transgenic glowing silk, engineered by injecting silkworm eggs with jellyfsh DNA. 

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Darko Vulic’s memories of Sarajevo are haunted by war, but the sight and smell of dandelions from the former 

Yugoslavia give him hope for a brighter future. Seeds of Peace is one of many objects in Bloom: Flowers in the Archives 

of American Art (on view March 2019–October 2019) that explore artists’ complex relationship to the natural world, and 

the cross-pollination of ideas between nature, history, art and science. The Archives continues to digitize its collection to 

make these poignant and important primary sources more accessible for researchers, students and the general public. 

Many of these studies have been ongoing for decades. 

The data and the specimens amassed join the limitlessly 

rich archives that are the national collections, where they are 

preserved for future researchers who will conduct inquiries we 

can’t even begin to imagine. 

Nowhere is this vast record of our planet more powerfully 

demonstrated than in the new Deep Time exhibition in the David 

H. Koch Hall of Fossils, which transmits the revolution in recent 

thinking about the history of life on earth directly to visitors. 

While Deep Time showcases many of the museum’s most famous 

and historic specimens, often posed in dramatic new stances, 

the fossils are presented within the context of new scientifc 

research: a 500-million-year survey of extreme changes in 

climate showing how the planet’s changing environment 

has afected ecosystems through time and providing a new 

framework for understanding the climate crisis of today. 

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Michael Sherrill used clay, glass and metal to re-create the botanical wonders he saw from his studio window 

in the mountains of North Carolina. The Michael Sherrill Retrospective, at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American 

Art Museum, captured the ephemeral beauty of fowers such as the Julesvernium (Seafower) depicting the life cycle of a 

single fower—opening, blooming and wilting. The exhibition used different media to show how the artist’s ideas changed 

and clarifed through time. The retrospective was organized by the Mint Museum and on view June 2019—January 2020. 
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This skeleton of a woolly mammoth is posed clearing snow from vegetation in the David H. Koch Hall of 

Fossils–Deep Time exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History. Mammoths lived across northern Eurasia and 

North America until a few thousand years ago, when a lethal combination of shifting climate, changing food sources, and 

a brand-new predator—humans—drove them to extinction. The skeleton provides a window into our own recent past on 

planet Earth and reminds us that no species—regardless of size—is invulnerable. P H O T O G A R Y M U L C A H E Y 
Deep Time at the National Museum of Natural History tells the long and still-unwinding story of life on 

Earth, from 3.5 billion years ago to today and beyond. This fossilized palm frond, found in Alaska, is both familiar and 

strange: It closely resembles living Sabal palms growing in Florida, but testifes to much warmer climate in the north 

some 50 million years ago. P H O T O L U C I A R M M A R T I N O , J A M E S D I L O R E T O A N D F R E D C O C H A R D 

Paleobotanist Scott Wing explains that Deep Time is “helping 

people to see that their actions today leave a legacy that ripples 

thousands of generations into the future.” He studies fossil plants 

that date to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 

a period of intense global warming some 56 million years ago that 

most closely approximates the rapid anthropogenic environmental 

changes of today. 

Those very same plants were alive around the time that 

the brilliant orange-yellow light encircling the black hole and 

captured by the Smithsonian’s Event Horizon Telescope began 

its journey to us. It is coincidence, but nevertheless a measure 

of the scale of Smithsonian research, that the scientists using 

the Event Horizon Telescope are studying light that left the 

colliding black holes at almost the same time PETM fossils 

were part of a living ecosystem stressed by the Earth’s last 

great warming event. 

Understanding this shared history on a global scale brings 

us together in the spirit of the Smithsonian’s 18th-century 

chemist and geologist founding donor, James Smithson, 

and his dream of a place for the increase and difusion of 

knowledge for all—one that inspires us to model the future we 

wish to see: creative, agile, innovative, diverse and accessible 

to everyone. 

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Artist Pat Steir drew inspiration from the shape of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s iconic 

circular Gordon Bunshaft building for her monumental Color Wheel (on view October 2019–January 2021). Composed 

of 30 large-scale paintings, the installation flls the museum’s second-foor inner-circle gallery with the full spectrum of 

colors. Steir’s suite of paintings invites viewers to walk along the nearly 400 linear feet of paintings, the artist’s largest 

installation to date. To view the exhibition virtually, visit Hirshhorn.si.edu. P H O T O A L E X M O N R O E 
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ACCESSIBLE 

TO EVERYONE 

THANKS TO YOU 

A photographer captured images of visitors to the National Museum of American History on a single day. 

Millions of people—from South Carolina, Missouri, Cameroon, Honduras and more—cross through the Smithsonian’s 

physical and digital doors each year. They and our generous donors are the lifeblood of the Smithsonian, which is supported 

through a public-private partnership with the American people, Congress and donors who make possible our thoughtprovoking exhibitions, engaging public programs and vital research. PHOTOS STEPHEN VOSS 
Education is at the heart of all 

Smithsonian museums. Jere and 

Bonnie Broh-Kahn further this 

essential purpose with a $1 million 

gift to the National Air and Space Museum and a $1 million gift 

to the National Museum of Natural History to fund the BrohKahn Weil Director of Education at each institution for fve 

years. These crucial positions use each museums’ extensive 

collection, knowledgeable curators and expert research staf to 

implement programs that spark curiosity and build awareness 

about the history—and possible futures—of our planet, its 

people and the universe beyond. Hundreds of thousands of 

visitors of all ages are captivated each year by the experiential 

educational opportunities at these museums. In addition, 

the donors plan to leave generous bequests to each museum 

to endow the positions. Jere and Bonnie Broh-Kahn have 

supported numerous Smithsonian museums since 1992. 

Jere and Bonnie 

Broh-Kahn 

Passing knowledge 

to the future 

The galleries on the fourth foor 

of the National Museum of 

African American History and 

Culture explore African American 

and African diasporic cultural 

expression across genre, place 

and time. Objects range from fashions by iconic designer Ann 

Lowe to the literary arts of author and playwright Ntozake 

Shange. A major gift from American Express expands the 

impact and scope of these galleries, named the American 

Express Culture Galleries. Two endowed curators—the 

American Express Curator for Culture and the American 

Express Curator of the Center for the Study of the African 

Diaspora—will shape the galleries’ exhibitions and programs. 

The gift also funds research, collection care, acquisitions, 

educational programs and exhibitions, and establishes an 

endowed Curatorial Fund for Culture. American Express is a 

founding donor of the National Museum of African American 

History and Culture and has also supported the National 

Museum of the American Indian. 

American Express 

a Cultural legaCy 

A $10 million gift from David M. 

Rubenstein, former chair of the 

Smithsonian Board of Regents, 

will transform the iconic Arts and Industries Building into a 

national hub for exploring ideas and questions about the future. 

Constructed in 1881 to house the U.S. National Museum, the 

building’s reincarnation begins in 2021—the Smithsonian’s 

175th anniversary—with a yearlong exhibition Futures featuring 

visions for the future. After the exhibition, a multiyear 

renovation will preserve this architectural gem while adapting 

the interior to accommodate future-facing technologies and 

experimental programs that require fexible spaces. Rubenstein 

also gave $1 million this year to the Smithsonian American 

Women’s History Initiative, which illuminates women’s pivotal 

roles in building and sustaining our country. A board member 

of the National Museum of American History and the National 

Museum of Natural History, Rubenstein has provided generous 

support to a wide array of Smithsonian museums and centers 

over the last 15 years. 

David M. 

Rubenstein 

ConneCting Past 

and future 

Since its founding in 1954, the Archives of American Art has 

sought to build a diverse collection that tells the full story 

of the visual arts in the United States. In fiscal year 2019, 

the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation contributed $5 million to 

create an endowment that enables the Archives to process 

and digitize more material on historically underrepresented 

artists, including the papers of Jef Donaldson, co-founder of 

the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA) 

in 1968, and the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material on 

Chicano art, one of the most consulted collections for the study 

of Latino art. By ensuring that resources like these are available 

online, the Archives provides greater access to the legacies of 

underrecognized artists and shares a more inclusive story of 

American art with the world. In addition to the endowment gift, 

the foundation has also pledged to donate the Roy Lichtenstein 

Foundation records and Roy Lichtenstein papers to the Archives. 

Roy Lichtenstein Foundation 

a more inClusive story 

More than 7 million people have visited the National Museum 

of African American History and Culture since it opened in 

2016, making it one of the most visited museums in the United 

States. Walmart helps ensure that every visitor can fully 

engage with exhibitions illustrating how African American 

stories both reflect American values and shape what it 

means to be American. The ground-foor Walmart Welcome 

Center has greeted visitors with information on navigating 

the building’s eight levels. A new $5 million grant endows 

the Walmart Director of Visitor and Guest Services, a unique 

position responsible for enhancing all aspects of the visitor 

experience including accessibility, exhibition technologies and 

opportunities for social interaction. The grant also provides 

funding to support the director’s work as well as the museum’s 

overall mission of documenting African American life, history 

and culture. 

Walmart 

a vision for visitors 

John and Adrienne Mars have been involved with the Smithsonian for decades, supporting a number of Smithsonian 

museums and research centers. This year, their gifts to the 

Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute 

and the Arts and Industries Building afrm their legacy. The 

Mars’ $5 million gift to the National Zoo and Conservation 

Biology Institute allows the Smithsonian to endow the director’s position, named in their honor. Their gift of $1 million 

for the Arts and Industries Building will make possible the 

development of Futures, a landmark exhibition to celebrate 

the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary in 2021. The exhibition 

will highlight a new mission for the building: to inspire people 

to think more optimistically about the future. 

John and Adrienne Mars 

insPiring hoPe 

Since 2005, the Terra Foundation 

for American Art has partnered 

with the Archives of American Art on an ambitious project 

to digitize the Archives’ vast collections and share them 

worldwide through an unparalleled web-based repository. To 

fund this work in perpetuity, Terra has given $2.268 million to 

complete the Terra Foundation for American Art Endowment 

Fund for Worldwide Collection Access, which was established 

Terra Foundation for American Art 

Partners for art’s sake 

We thank 2019’s most generous donors for 

their gifts of $2.5 million or more 

The How Things Fly gallery in the National Air and Space 

Museum sparks curiosity about forces such as gravity as well 

as the technologies that seem to defy it. A $10 million gift from 

Textron Inc. to aid the museum’s multiyear transformation 

will also fund a major redesign of the How Things Fly 

gallery, to be named in recognition of Textron. The gallery 

will gain 1,000 square feet of exhibition space and more 

immersive, interactive exhibits, including an expanded design 

makerspace and a new Cessna 172 with a cockpit open for 

exploration by visitors. Geared for middle-school students, 

the redesigned gallery will present challenging science, 

technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts with the 

goal of inspiring future innovators in air and space travel. 

Textron Inc. 

the sCienCe of flight 

through a multiyear $4 million challenge grant made by the 

foundation. Since establishing this endowment, the Archives 

has digitized and made available online more than 230 archival 

collections comprised of more than 2.8 million images. This 

grant allows the Archives to signifcantly accelerate digitization 

and provide access to important collections like the Woman’s 

Building records from an organization that played a key role 

as an alternative space for women artists energized by the 

feminist movement in the 1970s. In the past 15 years the Terra 

Foundation has contributed more than $10 million to support 

digitization eforts at the Archives. 

LEADERSHIP 

GIFTS 

With an $11 million gift through 

their Hillside Foundation, Allan 

and Shelley Holt are helping 

to bring the thrill and wonder 

of fight to a new generation by supporting a comprehensive 

revitalization of the National Air and Space Museum’s galleries, 

collections and educational programs. The Allan and Shelley 

Holt Innovations Gallery, scheduled to open in 2025, will 

be a centerpiece of the transformed museum, delving into 

groundbreaking technologies that fuel the aerospace industry. 

The gift also establishes the Allan and Shelley Holt Innovations 

Series of annual lectures and demonstrations. These will 

explore how innovative ideas create new felds of science, art 

and industry—and change the course of history. The Holts have 

been extraordinary benefactors of the National Air and Space 

Museum for more than a decade, generously supporting the 

Holt Scholars Program and the museum’s Trophy awards. Allan 

Holt is chair of the museum’s board and a member of the Board 

of Regents’ Advancement Committee. 

The Hillside 

Foundation – Allan 

and Shelley Holt 

sPaCe for innovation 

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Education is at the heart of all 

Smithsonian museums. Jere and 

Bonnie Broh-Kahn further this 

essential purpose with a $1 million 

gift to the National Air and Space Museum and a $1 million gift 

to the National Museum of Natural History to fund the BrohKahn Weil Director of Education at each institution for five 

years. These crucial positions use each museums’ extensive 

collection, knowledgeable curators and expert research staff to 

implement programs that spark curiosity and build awareness 

about the history—and possible futures—of our planet, its 

people and the universe beyond. Hundreds of thousands of 

visitors of all ages are captivated each year by the experiential 

educational opportunities at these museums. In addition, 

the donors plan to leave generous bequests to each museum 

to endow the positions. Jere and Bonnie Broh-Kahn have 

supported numerous Smithsonian museums since 1992. 

Jere and Bonnie 

Broh-Kahn 

Passing knowledge 

to the future 

The galleries on the fourth floor 

of the National Museum of 

African American History and 

Culture explore African American 

and African diasporic cultural 

expression across genre, place 

and time. Objects range from fashions by iconic designer Ann 

Lowe to the literary arts of author and playwright Ntozake 

Shange. A major gift from American Express expands the 

impact and scope of these galleries, named the American 

Express Culture Galleries. Two endowed curators—the 

American Express Curator for Culture and the American 

Express Curator of the Center for the Study of the African 

Diaspora—will shape the galleries’ exhibitions and programs. 

The gift also funds research, collection care, acquisitions, 

educational programs and exhibitions, and establishes an 

endowed Curatorial Fund for Culture. American Express is a 

founding donor of the National Museum of African American 

History and Culture and has also supported the National 

Museum of the American Indian. 

American Express 

a Cultural legaCy 

Since its founding in 1954, the Archives of American Art has 

sought to build a diverse collection that tells the full story 

of the visual arts in the United States. In fiscal year 2019, 

the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation contributed $5 million to 

create an endowment that enables the Archives to process 

and digitize more material on historically underrepresented 

artists, including the papers of Jeff Donaldson, co-founder of 

the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA) 

in 1968, and the Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material on 

Chicano art, one of the most consulted collections for the study 

of Latino art. By ensuring that resources like these are available 

online, the Archives provides greater access to the legacies of 

underrecognized artists and shares a more inclusive story of 

American art with the world. In addition to the endowment gift, 

the foundation has also pledged to donate the Roy Lichtenstein 

Foundation records and Roy Lichtenstein papers to the Archives.

Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

a more inClusive story 

We thank 2019’s most generous donors for 

their gifts of $2.5 million or more

L E A D E R S H I P 

GIFTS

With an $11 million gift through 

their Hillside Foundation, Allan 

and Shelley Holt are helping 

to bring the thrill and wonder 

of flight to a new generation by supporting a comprehensive 

revitalization of the National Air and Space Museum’s galleries, 

collections and educational programs. The Allan and Shelley 

Holt Innovations Gallery, scheduled to open in 2025, will 

be a centerpiece of the transformed museum, delving into 

groundbreaking technologies that fuel the aerospace industry. 

The gift also establishes the Allan and Shelley Holt Innovations 

Series of annual lectures and demonstrations. These will 

explore how innovative ideas create new fields of science, art 

and industry—and change the course of history. The Holts have 

been extraordinary benefactors of the National Air and Space 

Museum for more than a decade, generously supporting the 

Holt Scholars Program and the museum’s Trophy awards. Allan 

Holt is chair of the museum’s board and a member of the Board 

of Regents’ Advancement Committee.

The Hillside 

Foundation – Allan 

and Shelley Holt

sPaCe for innovation

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Ally Financial 

The National Museum of African American History and Culture 

presents the complex experience of black life in this country, 

from the injustices of slavery and the Jim Crow era through 

the hard-fought triumphs of the civil rights movement and the 

election of President Barack Obama. Ally Financial contributed 

to the initial design and construction of the museum; a new $1 

million gift from the company supports the museum’s ongoing 

mission to educate and inspire visitors of all backgrounds and to 

illuminate how the past informs the present. The museum has 

been one of the most popular Smithsonian destinations since 

its opening in September 2016. 

William and Valerie Anders 

Foundation 

Scientists are exploring deep time 

on Earth and in space with the help 

of a $1 million gift from the William 

and Valerie Anders Foundation. 

The gift establishes the William 

and Valerie Anders Foundation 

Fund at the National Air and Space Museum, supporting research 

on the geologic history of the moon and Mars. The gift also funds 

the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s paleontological 

research in the Amazon. The Panama-based institute has named 

its Amazonia Field Station and a seminar room for Valerie Anders 

in recognition of this contribution. William and Valerie Anders 

have supported the Smithsonian as volunteers and donors for 

two decades. 

Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative 

In 2017, Alice Walton created Art Bridges to share American 

art across the country and strengthen collaboration among 

art institutions. For more than 40 years, the Terra Foundation 

for American Art has fostered exploration, understanding 

and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States. A joint 

initiative by the two foundations brings these ideas to life. 

The Smithsonian American Art Museum received nearly 

$2 million from the Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative 

for an innovative multiyear, multi-institutional exhibition with 

fve museums in the western region of the United States. The 

partnership allows the Smithsonian American Art Museum to 

loan its artworks to each museum and also develop an exhibition 

with all participating museums that will travel starting in 2021. 

Ferring Pharmaceuticals 

Though social and economic globalization connect us in new 

ways, these forces can pressure traditional cultures to assimilate 

and risk losing their indigenous languages, arts and crafts, 

and economic self-sufciency. Ferring Pharmaceuticals has 

provided a $1.5 million gift to scale the impact of the Cultural 

Sustainability Program at the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife 

and Cultural Heritage. The center’s work with communities 

across the United States and around the world ensures that 

cultural heritage and endangered languages are not only 

preserved but can thrive and contribute to global cultural 

vitality. Ferring has supported the center since 2012. 

Boeing 

In July 2019 Boeing provided a $2 million gift to the National Air 

and Space Museum in support of Apollo 50, a series of programs 

culminating with a three-day festival on the National Mall to 

celebrate the 50th anniversary of the frst human steps on the 

moon. To commemorate this great leap, the National Air and 

Space Museum displayed astronaut Neil Armstrong’s newly 

conserved Apollo 11 spacesuit and other artifacts from the lunar 

missions; projected a multimedia display of the Saturn V rocket 

on the Washington Monument; and hosted thought-provoking 

discussions, including conversations about America’s powerful 

new rocket to take astronauts to deep space, the Space Launch 

System (SLS), which will inspire wonder and spark a national 

dialogue about the past, present and future of space exploration. 

Boeing has been a signifcant Smithsonian donor for 35 years. 

Analytical Graphics, Inc. 

The National Air and Space Museum uses hands-on interactives 

to engage visitors with the latest information about aerospace 

missions. Through an in-kind gift from Analytical Graphics, 

Inc., the museum has been able to customize and modernize 

interactives in several galleries, including a video interactive 

in Space Hall showing the current position of the Hubble Space 

Telescope, new visuals of the Apollo 11 mission on the media 

wall in Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, a satellite tracking 

workstation in the Explore the Universe exhibition and two 

interactives about living and working on the International Space 

Station in Moving Beyond Earth. 

Ford Foundation 

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because 

of Her Story, rewrites the narrative of American history by 

spotlighting women’s achievements, reaching diverse audiences 

and empowering future generations. The Ford Foundation, 

which has supported the Smithsonian for more than 35 years, 

provided a $1 million grant to help launch this institution-wide 

initiative. Because of Her Story encompasses exhibitions that 

commemorate the 100th anniversary of women’s sufrage; 

publication of Smithsonian American Women, a book of 

Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women’s contributions; care 

and cataloguing of collections; and digital strategies that bring 

American women’s stories to global audiences. 

Dr. Peter Buck 

Diamonds, formed under extreme heat and pressure deep 

within the Earth, are among the planet’s most treasured 

objects of beauty and value. With a $1.75 million gift from 

Dr. Peter Buck, the National Museum of Natural History has 

acquired the largest diamond ever discovered in the United 

States: the Uncle Sam Diamond, a 40.23-carat stone unearthed 

in Arkansas in 1924. Now a 12.42-carat emerald-cut jewel, this 

magnifcent stone helps illustrate the beautiful history of our 

planet. Dr. Peter Buck has been a benefactor of the National 

Museum of Natural History since 2003 and is an emeritus 

member of the museum’s board. 

The Case Foundation 

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because 

of Her Story, breaks ground not only as the nation’s most 

comprehensive efort to unearth women’s stories, but also for 

its digital-frst approach to sharing these stories. A $1 million 

gift from the Case Foundation supports the initiative’s digital 

outreach and strategies program. This includes an online 

platform to help scholars and educators access Smithsonian 

collections, research and educational resources focusing on 

women’s contributions. The Case Foundation’s gift helps ensure 

that millions of people around the nation and the world hear the 

complete, compelling story of women in America. 

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes 

A $1 million gift from the 

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes 

will help create the National 

Native American Veterans 

Memorial to honor the patriotism, valor and sacrifce of Native 

Americans who have served our country. The design centers 

on a large steel circle balanced on a stone drum, and includes 

sacred elements of water and fre as well as lances to which 

visitors can tie prayer cloths. Harvey Pratt, Cheyenne and 

Arapaho tribal citizen and Vietnam veteran, designed the 

memorial as a place to gather, remember and heal. It will be 

dedicated at the National Museum of the American Indian on 

Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2020. 

The Douglass Foundation 

For 50 years, scholars in residence 

at the Smithsonian American Art 

Museum have generated new 

research and shared fresh ways of 

seeing American art, aided by the 

museum’s prestigious fellowship 

program. A $1.045 million gift 

from The Douglass Foundation and its president, Dr. Laurel 

Douglass, endows one of the core fellowships for predoctoral 

researchers, The Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American 

Art, established by former foundation president and SAAM 

American Art Forum member Donald Douglass. SAAM Fellows 

spend up to one year in full-time residence at the museum, 

conducting research in the collection of more than 44,000 

works. Their discoveries advance their professional careers 

while helping the museum reveal America’s rich artistic history. 

We thank 2019’s most generous donors for 

their gifts of $1 million or more 

LEADERSHIP 

GIFTS 

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

A grant of $1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

greatly advances the Smithsonian’s ability to tell the stories of 

American women and show how they have shaped our history. 

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because 

of Her Story, features exhibitions, symposia, publications and 

digital media that share the stories of women such as Frances 

Ellen Watkins Harper, 19th-century abolitionist and women’s 

sufrage leader; Zitkála-Šá, early 20th-century Sioux activist; 

and Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s frst chief of astronomy. 

The Gates Foundation has generously funded Smithsonian 

education, history, culture and arts initiatives for more than 

a decade. 

William J. Graham 

Where did modern human life 

begin? What is the course of human 

evolution and migration? How 

did we become who we are? What 

does it really mean to be human? 

Researchers at the National Museum 

of Natural History extract clues from an array of fossil records, 

genetic data and ancient artifacts to piece together the answers 

to these tantalizing questions, and share their results with 

millions of visitors each year. Through a $1.6 million bequest 

from the estate of William J. Graham, the Smithsonian will 

continue exploring the story of our human origins. 

Hollywood Foreign Press Association 

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded its frst 

ever grant to the Smithsonian—a $1 million contribution to the 

National Museum of American History. The gift benefts the 

exhibition Entertaining America, opening in 2021, which will 

explore how entertainment shapes American culture through 

flm, theater, television, music and sports. Entertainment can 

address complex social and cultural issues such as racism 

and civil rights, sexuality and gender roles, and patriotism 

and protest. It can build empathy, inspire wonder and trigger 

laughter—or tears. Entertaining America will be the frst major 

Smithsonian exhibition focused on the importance and impact 

of entertainment. 

Johnson & Johnson 

A $1 million gift from Johnson & Johnson provides vital support 

for the Smithsonian Science Education Center’s mission to 

bring inquiry-based science, technology, engineering, math, 

manufacturing and design (STEM2D) education into K-12 

classrooms worldwide. This funding enables the center to expand 

its proven STEM2D curricula and digital resources; increase 

targeted outreach to girls, who remain underrepresented in 

these felds; and bolster systemic reform needed to revolutionize 

science education and inspire young students from diverse 

backgrounds to pursue STEM2D careers. This gift continues 

Johnson & Johnson’s generous support of the center’s important 

work; the company has been a Smithsonian donor since 1991. 

W.K. Kellogg Foundation 

A three-year, $1.5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg 

Foundation enables the National Museum of African American 

History and Culture to expand its Early Childhood Education 

Initiative, which creates programs and resources to empower, 

enrich and educate young children from birth to eight years old. 

These age-appropriate programs about identity, race and the 

African American experience are designed to uplift each child’s 

positive sense of self, illuminate similarities and celebrate 

diferences, and inspire children to see how what is unfair can 

be made fair. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has supported 

several Smithsonian museums and educational initiatives. 

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons 

From humankind’s earliest 

dreams of lunar flight to our 

first steps on the moon, from 

the international politics of the 

1960s space race to technologies 

for upcoming missions, the 

Destination Moon gallery at the 

National Air and Space Museum 

will tell the fascinating story of lunar exploration past, present 

and future. Opening in late 2022, the gallery will feature 

new exhibitions as well as iconic artifacts like astronaut Neil 

Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit. Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons 

have donated $1 million to support Destination Moon, part of a 

seven-year museum transformation that aims to inspire future 

generations of dreamers and explorers. 

Frank and Susan Mars 

Frank and Susan Mars’ $1 million gift to the Smithsonian’s 

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute benefts 

species large and small. The gift enables the Panama Amphibian 

Rescue and Conservation Project to build captive populations 

of frog species at risk of extinction from the deadly amphibian 

chytrid fungus, and develop methods for successfully 

reintroducing captive frogs back into the wild in the future. The 

gift also supports eforts to save Asian elephants and bolsters 

the National Zoo’s leadership in wildlife education and species 

conservation worldwide. Susan Mars is an active and dedicated 

member of the National Zoo’s advisory board. 

Jacqueline B. Mars 

What will our future look like? Who gets to decide? The Futures 

exhibition, coming to the Arts and Industries Building in 2021, 

will encourage visitors to explore such questions as they see, 

touch, taste and design diverse visions of the future. A $1 million 

gift from Jacqueline B. Mars funds exhibition development. 

Curators will draw from innovation hubs around the country 

as well as Smithsonian collections and expertise to identify 

art-tech installations, speculative designs, performances, talks 

and other experiences that inspire future thinking. A former 

Smithsonian National Board member, Jacqueline B. Mars has 

also supported the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler 

Gallery and a dozen other Smithsonian museums and centers. 

Wick and Bonnie Moorman 

A $1.5 million gift from Wick and Bonnie Moorman will support 

a broad range of endeavors that increase our understanding 

of the world and disseminate knowledge. The gift primarily 

benefts the seven-year transformation of the National Air 

and Space Museum. It also provides the Secretary of the 

Smithsonian discretionary funds; supports the Smithsonian’s 

21 libraries; strengthens the Archives of American Art, a vast 

trove of primary sources for art history; and enhances the 

Cultural Sustainability Program at the Smithsonian’s Center for 

Folklife and Cultural Heritage, including its work to revitalize 

endangered languages. Wick Moorman is a member of the 

Smithsonian National Board. 

PNC Bank 

Since 2016, the National Museum of African American History 

and Culture has welcomed more than 7 million visitors, 

providing opportunities to connect with the American story 

through an African American lens. With a $1 million donation, 

PNC Bank joins the museum’s Corporate Leadership Council, 

a group of corporate donors with a shared commitment to 

supporting the museum’s ongoing operations. This donation 

strengthens the museum’s ability to partner with universities, 

libraries and individuals, extending the museum’s reach and 

deepening the study of African American and African diasporic 

history and culture worldwide. 

Poarch Band of Creek Indians 

In tribute to the enduring legacy 

of thousands of courageous Native 

American men and women who 

have served with distinction in the U.S. military, the Poarch 

Band of Creek Indians made a gift of $1 million to help establish 

a permanent National Native American Veterans Memorial on 

the grounds of the National Museum of the American Indian. 

The memorial, to be unveiled at the museum on Veterans Day on 

Nov. 11, 2020, will be encompassing and inclusive, honoring all 

American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian veterans 

across all branches of service from the American Revolution to 

the present. 

Colin and Alma Powell 

Colin and Alma Powell made 

a $1 million gift in support of 

the endowment of the National 

Museum of African American 

History and Culture. The museum 

tells the dynamic story of the 

African American experience 

through diverse, powerful and accessible exhibitions such as 

Musical Crossroads, which illustrates how African American 

music has been a vehicle of cultural survival, change and 

creative expression, and Double Victory: The African American 

Military Experience, which shows how military service has 

shaped opportunities for the African American community 

and strengthened the nation as a whole. The Powells are 

founding donors of the museum, and Colin Powell serves on 

the museum’s advisory council. 

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

A grant of $1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

greatly advances the Smithsonian’s ability to tell the stories of 

American women and show how they have shaped our history. 

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because 

of Her Story, features exhibitions, symposia, publications and 

digital media that share the stories of women such as Frances 

Ellen Watkins Harper, 19th-century abolitionist and women’s 

suffrage leader; Zitkála-Šá, early 20th-century Sioux activist; 

and Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief of astronomy. 

The Gates Foundation has generously funded Smithsonian 

education, history, culture and arts initiatives for more than 

a decade. 

William J. Graham 

Where did modern human life 

begin? What is the course of human 

evolution and migration? How 

did we become who we are? What 

does it really mean to be human?

Researchers at the National Museum 

of Natural History extract clues from an array of fossil records, 

genetic data and ancient artifacts to piece together the answers 

to these tantalizing questions, and share their results with 

millions of visitors each year. Through a $1.6 million bequest 

from the estate of William J. Graham, the Smithsonian will 

continue exploring the story of our human origins.

Hollywood Foreign Press Association 

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded its first 

ever grant to the Smithsonian—a $1 million contribution to the 

National Museum of American History. The gift benefits the 

exhibition Entertaining America, opening in 2021, which will 

explore how entertainment shapes American culture through 

film, theater, television, music and sports. Entertainment can 

address complex social and cultural issues such as racism 

and civil rights, sexuality and gender roles, and patriotism 

and protest. It can build empathy, inspire wonder and trigger 

laughter—or tears. Entertaining America will be the first major 

Smithsonian exhibition focused on the importance and impact 

of entertainment.

Johnson & Johnson

A $1 million gift from Johnson & Johnson provides vital support 

for the Smithsonian Science Education Center’s mission to 

bring inquiry-based science, technology, engineering, math, 

manufacturing and design (STEM2D) education into K-12 

classrooms worldwide. This funding enables the center to expand 

its proven STEM2D curricula and digital resources; increase 

targeted outreach to girls, who remain underrepresented in 

these fields; and bolster systemic reform needed to revolutionize 

science education and inspire young students from diverse 

backgrounds to pursue STEM2D careers. This gift continues 

Johnson & Johnson’s generous support of the center’s important 

work; the company has been a Smithsonian donor since 1991. 

W.K. Kellogg Foundation 

A three-year, $1.5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg 

Foundation enables the National Museum of African American 

History and Culture to expand its Early Childhood Education 

Initiative, which creates programs and resources to empower, 

enrich and educate young children from birth to eight years old. 

These age-appropriate programs about identity, race and the 

African American experience are designed to uplift each child’s 

positive sense of self, illuminate similarities and celebrate 

differences, and inspire children to see how what is unfair can 

be made fair. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has supported 

several Smithsonian museums and educational initiatives.

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons

From humankind’s earliest 

dreams of lunar flight to our 

first steps on the moon, from 

the international politics of the 

1960s space race to technologies 

for upcoming missions, the 

Destination Moon gallery at the 

National Air and Space Museum 

will tell the fascinating story of lunar exploration past, present 

and future. Opening in late 2022, the gallery will feature 

new exhibitions as well as iconic artifacts like astronaut Neil 

Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit. Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons 

have donated $1 million to support Destination Moon, part of a 

seven-year museum transformation that aims to inspire future 

generations of dreamers and explorers.

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The Smithsonian gratefully acknowledges those donors who made 

gifts, pledges or pledge payments during the fscal year 2019. 

Donors to the Smithsonian 

Recognizing our benefactors 

$1,000,000 OR MORE 

Anonymous 

Acton Family Giving 

Alaska Airlines 

Ally Financial 

Amazon Web Services, Inc. 

American Airlines 

American Express 

Analytical Graphics, Inc. 

William and Valerie Anders Foundation 

Boeing 

Jere and Bonnie Broh-Kahn 

Dr. Peter Buck 

Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies 

The Case Foundation 

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes 

The Delta Air Lines Foundation 

Dagmar Dolby 

The Douglass Foundation 

Ferring Pharmaceuticals 

Sakurako and William Fisher Family 

Ford Foundation 

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

GE 

Goldman, Sachs & Co. 

Thomas W. Haas Foundation 

The Hillside Foundation –Allan and 

Shelley Holt 

Hollywood Foreign Press Association 

Intel Corporation 

Johnson & Johnson 

W.K. Kellogg Foundation 

David H. Koch 

Roy Lichtenstein Foundation 

Lockheed Martin Corporation 

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons 

The Henry Luce Foundation 

Frank and Susan Mars 

Jacqueline B. Mars 

John and Adrienne Mars 

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 

Wick and Bonnie Moorman 

National Basketball Association 

Northrop Grumman Corporation 

PNC Bank 

Poarch Band of Creek Indians 

Colin and Alma Powell 

The Rhimes Family Foundation 

David M. Rubenstein 

Salesforce.org 

John and Ginger Sall 

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community 

Robert Frederick Smith 

Target 

Ambassador Nicholas F. Taubman 

and Mrs. Eugenia L. Taubman 

Terra Foundation for American Art 

Textron Inc. 

United Airlines 

United States Mint 

U.S. Bank 

Walmart 

Ed and Jackie Warner 

Dr. Coralyn Wright Whitney 

Elaine P. Wynn & Family Foundation 

Salesforce.org 

With a $1 million gift to the National Museum of African 

American History and Culture, Salesforce.org provides essential 

support for examining the myriad ways in which African 

Americans have shaped the culture of our nation. Inventive 

and interactive exhibitions throughout the museum’s galleries 

celebrate the African American artists, athletes, entrepreneurs 

and entertainers whose achievements resonate with energy, 

creativity and passion, as well as the countless unsung men 

and women whose contributions built America as we know it 

today. The museum’s deeply engaging exhibitions encourage 

reflection, cultivate understanding, and deepen visitors’ 

appreciation of African Americans’ vital role in American life. 

Shakopee Mdewakanton 

Sioux Community 

With a gift of $1 million to the 

National Native American Veterans Memorial at the National 

Museum of the American Indian, 

the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community helps ensure 

lasting recognition for the proud and courageous tradition of 

Native American military service. During World War II, more 

than 10 percent of Native Americans saw active military duty; 

over the last century, they have served at an extraordinary 

rate—at times higher than any other ethnic group. Many 

Native Americans consider military service an extension of 

the traditional warrior’s role, which includes not only fghting 

enemies but caring for others and helping the community thrive. 

Target 

The Smithsonian Latino Center will have its frst physical space 

on the National Mall in 2021 when the Molina Family Latino 

Gallery opens in the National Museum of American History. 

Through powerful bilingual installations and digital experiences, 

the inaugural exhibition will reveal how Latinos have shaped the 

nation since before its founding. Visitors will reexamine what 

they know about Latinos and expand their understanding of 

what it means to be American. Target, the gallery’s corporate 

founding donor, has been a major funder for this project. A 

longstanding Smithsonian donor, Target has given signifcant 

support to the institution’s arts and cultural initiatives. 

U.S. Bank 

Faced with systemic racism and exclusion, African American 

communities developed their own thriving network of organizations and institutions. Black businesses, churches, schools 

and universities, fraternal and service organizations, and the 

Black press all grew out of these communities’ resilience, 

resourcefulness and determination to improve opportunities 

for African American citizens. A $1 million gift from U.S. 

Bank enables the National Museum of African American 

History and Culture to continue telling these powerful stories 

and demonstrate how the struggles for personal liberty, social 

freedom, economic opportunity and educational equity changed 

our nation and consistently moved us toward a truer democracy. 

Elaine P. Wynn & Family 

Foundation 

With a gift of $1 million for the 

Smithsonian American Women’s 

History Initiative, Because of Her 

Story, the Elaine P. Wynn & Family 

Foundation participates in a 

monumental endeavor to document, research, collect, display and share the complex story of 

women in the United States. The initiative encompasses 

exhibitions at multiple museums—including Votes for Women: 

A Portrait of Persistence at the National Portrait Gallery and 

Girlhood (lt’s Complicated) at the National Museum of American 

History—as well as online collections and Wikipedia edita-thons. Together, these programs fll gaps in our national 

narrative and expand our shared history. Elaine Wynn is a 

member of the initiative’s advisory committee. 

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Salesforce.org 

With a $1 million gift to the National Museum of African 

American History and Culture, Salesforce.org provides essential 

support for examining the myriad ways in which African 

Americans have shaped the culture of our nation. Inventive 

and interactive exhibitions throughout the museum’s galleries 

celebrate the African American artists, athletes, entrepreneurs 

and entertainers whose achievements resonate with energy, 

creativity and passion, as well as the countless unsung men 

and women whose contributions built America as we know it 

today. The museum’s deeply engaging exhibitions encourage 

reflection, cultivate understanding, and deepen visitors’ 

appreciation of African Americans’ vital role in American life. 

Shakopee Mdewakanton 

Sioux Community

With a gift of $1 million to the 

National Native American Veterans Memorial at the National 

Museum of the American Indian, 

the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community helps ensure 

lasting recognition for the proud and courageous tradition of 

Native American military service. During World War II, more 

than 10 percent of Native Americans saw active military duty; 

over the last century, they have served at an extraordinary 

rate—at times higher than any other ethnic group. Many 

Native Americans consider military service an extension of 

the traditional warrior’s role, which includes not only fighting 

enemies but caring for others and helping the community thrive.

Target 

The Smithsonian Latino Center will have its first physical space 

on the National Mall in 2021 when the Molina Family Latino 

Gallery opens in the National Museum of American History. 

Through powerful bilingual installations and digital experiences, 

the inaugural exhibition will reveal how Latinos have shaped the 

nation since before its founding. Visitors will reexamine what 

they know about Latinos and expand their understanding of 

what it means to be American. Target, the gallery’s corporate 

founding donor, has been a major funder for this project. A 

longstanding Smithsonian donor, Target has given significant 

support to the institution’s arts and cultural initiatives.

U.S. Bank 

Faced with systemic racism and exclusion, African American 

communities developed their own thriving network of organizations and institutions. Black businesses, churches, schools 

and universities, fraternal and service organizations, and the 

Black press all grew out of these communities’ resilience, 

resourcefulness and determination to improve opportunities 

for African American citizens. A $1 million gift from U.S. 

Bank enables the National Museum of African American 

History and Culture to continue telling these powerful stories 

and demonstrate how the struggles for personal liberty, social 

freedom, economic opportunity and educational equity changed 

our nation and consistently moved us toward a truer democracy.

Elaine P. Wynn & Family 

Foundation

With a gift of $1 million for the 

Smithsonian American Women’s 

History Initiative, Because of Her 

Story, the Elaine P. Wynn & Family 

Foundation participates in a 

monumental endeavor to document, research, collect, display and share the complex story of 

women in the United States. The initiative encompasses 

exhibitions at multiple museums—including Votes for Women: 

A Portrait of Persistence at the National Portrait Gallery and 

Girlhood (lt’s Complicated) at the National Museum of American 

History—as well as online collections and Wikipedia edita­thons. Together, these programs fill gaps in our national 

narrative and expand our shared history. Elaine Wynn is a 

member of the initiative’s advisory committee.

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$500,000 OR MORE 

Anonymous 

Altria Group 

Ms. Wallis Annenberg, 

The Annenberg Foundation 

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos 

BNSF Railway Foundation 

Booz Allen Hamilton 

Brewers Association (U.S.) 

Charina Endowment Fund, Inc. 

The Chickasaw Nation 

Joe Clark 

ConocoPhillips 

ExxonMobil 

Ford Motor Company Fund 

GlaxoSmithKline 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Haaga, Jr. 

JetBlue 

Bruce R. McCaw Family 

Foundation 

Nion McEvoy 

Merck & Co., Inc. 

National Air Traffc Controllers 

Association 

Nationwide Foundation 

Rasmuson Foundation 

Raytheon Company 

Lucy S. Rhame 

Richard H. Robb and 

Rebecca E. Crown 

Mr. Douglas O. Robson 

Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund 

for Arts and Sciences 

Albert and Shirley Small 

Smithsonian Women’s Committee 

David M. Tolley 

Margaret S. Vining and 

Barton C. Hacker 

The Walton Family Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Williams 

(Merrill Foundation, Inc.) 

$100,000 OR MORE 

Anonymous 

3M 

A+E Networks 

AAR, David Storch and Ira Eichner 

AARP 

Lynette and Kedrick Adkins 

Adobe Foundation 

Lee and Elizabeth Ainslie 

Airbus 

ALIPH 

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, 

Incorporated 

American Council of Learned 

Societies 

Dr. and Ms. Vijay Anand 

Paul M. Angell Family 

Foundation 

Arctic Slope Regional 

Corporation 

Automattic 

Bank of America 

Will Barnet Foundation 

Ms. Ellen Benninghoven 

Martha and Faustino Bernadett 

Mr. and Mrs. Jay Bernstein 

(Jill and Jay Bernstein Family 

Foundation) 

Bloomberg Philanthropies 

The Bluhm Family Charitable 

Foundation 

Diane and Hal Brierley 

Mary and John F. Brock III 

Brown Capital Management 

Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family 

Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Buchanan 

Calista Corporation 

The Honorable Roel Campos and 

Dr. Minerva Campos 

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Canning, Jr. 

(Canning Foundation) 

Carnegie Corporation 

of New York 

Carnival Corporation 

Mr. Disaphol Chansiri 

Amita and Purnendu Chatterjee 

Kenneth I. and Kathryn Chenault 

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo 

Anne Page Chiapella 

CITI 

A. James and Alice B. 

Clark Foundation 

Clark Construction Group 

Linda and Pete Claussen 

Mr. Randall Cleaver 

Dale Mason Cochran 

The Ryna and Melvin Cohen 

Family Foundation 

Dr. N. Anthony and 

Mrs. Robyn Coles 

Dr. Peter L. Comanor 

Compass with Booz Allen 

Hamilton volunteers 

Elissa F. and Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. 

Maurice J. and Carolyn D. 

Cunniffe 

Delta Faucet Company 

Ms. Adelaide de Menil (Rock 

Foundation, Inc.) 

Mr. Alvaro de Molina 

Dick and Betsy DeVos Family 

Foundation 

Doyon, Limited 

Robert and Mercedes Eichholz 

Foundation 

Mr. Steven A. Elmendorf 

Suzanne B. Engel 

Sandra J. Evers-Manly 

The Executive Leadership 

Council, Inc. 

Exelon Foundation 

Facebook, Inc. 

FedEx Corporation 

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. and 

Annette L. Nazareth 

Julie and Greg Flynn 

Forest County Potawatomi 

John and Laura Foster 

Gretchen and Matthew Frank 

Sidney E. Frank Foundation 

Peter and Cathy Halstead 

David C. Frederick and 

Sophia Lynn 

The Freeman Foundation 

Barry D. Friedman 

Friends of the National Zoo 

Cary J. Frieze 

Frontier Airlines 

Patricia and Phillip Frost 

Ann and Richard Fudge 

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Fuentes 

Susan Breakefeld Fulton 

Shelby and Frederick Gans 

GEICO 

General Motors Foundation 

Dr. David R. Gens 

James T. and Juliette J. George 

The Getty Foundation 

Joseph L. and Emily K. Gidwitz 

Memorial Foundation 

Gila River Indian Community 

Alice R. Gottesman 

Daniel Greenberg, 

Susan Steinhauser and 

The Greenberg Foundation 

Marie M. Halff 

The Leona M. and Harry B. 

Helmsley Charitable Trust 

Mr. Robert D. Hevey, Jr. and 

Ms. Constance M. Filling 

Dr. and Mrs. Carter Hill 

Lyda Hill 

Helen and Edward Hintz 

Larry and Susan Hirsch 

Dr. Kristen D. Hitt and 

Mr. Brett R. Hitt 

The Robert H.N. Ho Family 

Foundation 

The Hoch Family 

Steven and Jane Hoch 

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hoffen 

Houston Zoo, Inc. 

JoGayle Dillon Howard Trust 

Mr. Saul Hudson 

Cathy Hughes and 

Alfred C. Liggins III 

Hyundai Motor America 

IBM Corporation 

The Japan Foundation 

Dennis R. Jenkins 

JLG Industries, Inc. 

Gregory D. and Jennifer Walston 

Johnson 

Shirley Z. Johnson 

JPMorgan Chase & Co. 

The Julis-Rabinowitz Family 

Kaiser Permanente 

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, 

Incorporated 

William R. Kenan, Jr. 

Charitable Trust 

Carl and Emily Knobloch 

Ms. Carla Knobloch (Knobloch 

Family Foundation) 

Robert and Arlene Kogod 

Wendy and Jerry Labowitz 

Land O’Lakes, Inc. 

Debra L. Lee, Quinn S. Coleman, 

Ava L. Coleman 

Mr. Tae-Sung Lee 

(SeAH Holdings Corp.) 

F.H. Levinson Fund 

Loida Nicolas Lewis, 

Leslie Malaika Lewis and 

Christina Lewis Halpern 

Peter and Paula Lunder 

Elizabeth and Whitney MacMillan 

Millie and Larry Magid 

Mrs. Stéphany Maillery and 

Stephan Crétier 

Ambassador Robert and 

Julie Mandell 

Mars, Incorporated 

Robert R. McCormick Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Mencoff 

Joyce F. Menschel 

MGM Resorts International 

Michael and Lori Milken Family 

Foundation 

Mille Lacs Band 

Mitsubishi Corporation 

John C. Molina 

Gordon and Betty Moore 

Foundation 

Morris Animal Foundation 

Lester S. and Enid W. Morse 

Mr. Henry R. Muñoz III 

National Basketball Players 

Association Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Newman 

Nikon Inc. 

Susann Norton 

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, 

Incorporated 

The Pace Gallery, New York 

Carlos and Robin Palomares 

Mary and John Pappajohn 

PEPCO, An Exelon Company 

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, 

Incorporated 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Podell 

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi 

Indians 

Poor Richard’s Charitable Trust 

Rosy and José Luis Prado 

Prince Albert II of 

Monaco Foundation 

J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family 

Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Ragland, Jr. 

A. Barry and Donna Rand 

Rare Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs. G. Jeffrey Records, Jr. 

The Nora Roberts Foundation 

Mrs. Heidi Roddenberry, 

The Roddenberry Foundation 

Rolex 

Mrs. Alison Wrigley Rusack 

Sana H. Sabbagh 

Daniel H. Sallick and 

Elizabeth Miller 

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian 

Community 

Roger and Victoria Sant 

Dr. and Mrs. Enrique Segura 

(Ense Group) 

Shared Earth Foundation 

Shell 

Andrew and Anya Shiva 

Siegel Family Endowment 

Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity/Boulé 

Foundation 

Simons Foundation 

Robert H. Smith Family 

Foundation 

Soil Science Society of America 

Mr. Scott Spector and 

Ms. Sandy Masur 

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation 

Spirit Airlines 

Stevenson Family Charitable Trust 

Patty Stonesifer and 

Michael Kinsley 

Kelso F. and Joanna L. Sutton 

Suzanne and 

Michael E. Tennenbaum 

Juliana Curran Terian 

Mr. Andrew H. Tisch 

and Mrs. Ann Rubenstein Tisch 

Jim and Sharon Todd 

Tohono O’odham Nation 

TOYOTA 

The Travelers Companies, Inc. 

Robert and Lynne Uhler 

University of Delaware 

Antoine and Emily van Agtmael 

Mr. James G. Vella 

Steuart Walton 

Andy Warhol Foundation 

for the Visual Arts 

Washington Nationals Baseball 

Club, LLC 

Janet M. and Laurence B. Watt 

Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. 

Michael Werner/Gordon 

VeneKlasen 

John and Barbara Wilkerson 

Leslie S. Wilkes and 

Marzanne Claiborne 

Ronald A. and Cynthia R. Williams 

Warren and Barbara Winiarski 

(Winiarski Family Foundation) 

Mr. Stephen Tsi Chuen Wong 

Paul R. Wood 

Robert L. Wright 

Wyeth Foundation for American Art 

Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation 

Zegar Family Foundation 

Mr. Frank Zink 

Zoo New England 

The Zoological Society of 

San Diego 

$50,000 OR MORE 

Anonymous 

1923 Fund 

Accenture 

Mr. William A. Ackman 

Aerojet Rocketdyne 

Agua Caliente Band of 

Cahuilla Indians 

Air Lease Corporation 

Airbnb 

Altman Foundation 

Judy Hart Angelo and John M. 

Angelo and The Angelo Family 

Carol and David Appel 

Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Applbaum 

Apple, Inc. 

The Argus Fund 

Mr. and Mrs. Leopoldo J. 

Arosemena 

Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne 

Mr. and Mrs. Lyndon Barrois 

Gabrielle de Kuyper Bekink 

David Berg Foundation 

Amy G. Bermingham and 

Charles Wilson 

Lisa and Joshua Bernstein 

Mr. and Mrs. Norman R. Bobins 

(The Robert Thomas Bobins 

Foundation) 

Mr. William H. and Clare Bohnett 

Darlene Bookoff 

Fleur Straus Bresler 

The Bresler Foundation 

Bristol Bay Native Corporation 

Deborah, Lindsey and 

Willard W. Brittain, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Brodie 

Elizabeth Broun 

Burger Collection, Hong Kong 

C.F. Foundation, Inc. 

Capital One 

Donald A. Capoccia and 

Tommie L. Pegues 

The E. Rhodes & Leona B. 

Carpenter Foundation 

Dr. and Mrs. James I. Cash, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Cay III 

Chapman Hanson Foundation 

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. 

The Julia Child Foundation 

for Gastronomy and the 

Culinary Arts 

Mr. Hans Chou 

James and Jamie Coss 

Ann and Tom Cousins 

The Nathan Cummings 

Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Vin Di Bona 

Dennis O. Dixon 

Ms. Trinh Doan and 

Mr. Michael Jermyn 

Susan Dunne 

Eastern Band of Cherokee 

Indians 

Dr. Mary Jane West Eberhard and 

Dr. William Eberhard 

Heidi and John Fahey 

Federated Indians of Graton 

Rancheria 

FEI Company 

Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Fetter 

Martha J. Fleischman 

Ms. Nancy Swift Furlotti 

(Furlotti Family Foundation) 

Gagosian 

Ms. Brenda J. Gaines 

Ken and Madge Gazzola 

Getch Foundation 

Mr. Michael Goldfarb and 

Ms. Jacqueline Kelly 

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation 

Agnes Gund 

Hakuta Family 

Ms. Myra M. Hart and 

Dr. J. Kent Hewitt 

Heritage Auction Galleries 

Alexandra and Paul Herzan 

Hilton 

Hobbs, Straus, Dean & 

Walker, LLP 

Mellody Hobson and George Lucas 

Holtzman Wildlife Foundation 

Honda Marine Science 

Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Ming Hsieh 

(The Hsieh Family Foundation) 

The International Rhino 

Foundation 

Jamestown LP 

James A. Johnson 

JPMorgan Chase Foundation 

Mr. K.S. Kalsi 

Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan 

Family Foundation, Inc./ 

Scott Kaplan Belsky 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kashian 

Connie and Dennis Keller 

Kilpatrick Townsend & 

Stockton LLP 

The Elbrun and Peter Kimmelman 

Family Foundation 

The Korea Foundation 

Todd and Debbie Krasnow 

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey and 

Dr. Robert J. Lavizzo-Mourey 

Steve and Sheri Lear 

Mrs. Nancy Lee 

Dale L. LeFebvre 

Leon Levy Foundation 

Lisson Gallery 

Macy’s, Inc. 

Meredith Siegfried Madden and 

Dr. Peter Madden 

Manzanillo International Terminal 

– Panama, S.A. 

Mar Fund 

March Conservation Fund 

Nancy A. Marks 

Mars Wrigley Confectionery 

Mr. Randall D. Martinez 

(Cordoba Corporation) 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martucci 

Margery and Edgar Masinter 

Ms. Catherine Berger Mason 

Colin and Leslie Masson 

Michael and Hannah Mazer 

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. McGovern 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Metz 

Gus and Deanne Miller 

and Family 

MOËT HENNESSY 

Stanley Motta 

Museum Modern and 

Contemporary Art in Nusantara, 

Jakarta — Indonesia 

Mr. and Mrs. Jahm Najaf 

Sarah E. Nash 

Mary Hopkins Navies and 

Jerome Navies 

Rodney, Cheryl and Chloe Neal 

Paul Neely 

Nancy Brown Negley 

Netfix, Inc. 

New Tradition Media 

NeXaN Charities 

Raj and Indra Nooyi 

Melanie and Larry Nussdorf 

Amelia and Bayo Ogunlesi 

OMEGA 

The Orchard Hill Fund 

Mr. Richard S. Paegelow 

Richard D. and Laura A. Parsons 

Mr. and Mrs. Philippe Peress 

Perlin Family Foundation 

Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr. 

Pfzer Inc. 

Phila China Limited 

Dr. Jorge G. Puente and 

Dr. Patricia Matos-Puente 

Puyallup Tribe 

Embassy of the State of Qatar 

Franklin D. Raines and 

Denise Grant 

James Renwick Alliance 

R/GA 

Si and Betty Robin 

Walter and Lucille Rubin 

Madeleine K. Rudin 

Elizabeth and Philip Ryan 

The Samsung Foundation 

of Culture 

Jesse Ormond Sanderson, Jr. and 

Robert Keith Black 

Santa Barbara Foundation 

Roland and Debra Sauermann 

Ms. Karla Scherer 

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Schlesinger 

Sealaska Corporation 

The Shenandoah National 

Park Trust 

Iris and Adam Singer 

Mr. and Mrs. George D. Smith, Jr. 

Ms. Janay Marriel Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Jay Snyder 

(The Beatrice Snyder 

Foundation) 

Southwest Airlines 

Antoinette and Erik J. Stapper 

Mr. Steven M. Sumberg 

Stephen and Ellen Susman 

Mr. Akio Tagawa 

Alyssa Taubman and 

Robert Rothman 

Tenet Healthcare Corporation 

Ms. Emiko Terasaki 

Tessellate Design, Inc. 

Leslie Thomasina Thornton and 

Henry and Ernestine Thornton 

Lloyd and Teri Trotter 

Mr. John K. Tsui 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Udvar-Hazy 

Mr. Joseph P. Ujobai and 

Mr. Eduardo Ardiles 

United Launch Alliance 

Esme Usdan and James Snyder 

Amy and Horacio Valeiras 

Steven and Caroline VanRoekel 

Mr. Raj Vattikuti 

(The Vattikuti Foundation) 

Mr. Frederick S. Voss 

Anita Cooke Wells 

Theodore V. Wells, Jr. and 

Nina Mitchell Wells 

Anthony and Beatrice Welters 

and the Vincent Wilkinson 

Foundation 

Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan 

Sandy and Jon Willen 

Anita Winsor 

Wright Brothers Family 

Foundation 

Mr. David G. Wright 

Mr. Jerry Yang and 

Ms. Akiko Yamazaki 

Mr. Xiang-Dong Yang 

Judy Francis Zankel 

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$25,000 OR MORE 

Anonymous 

Academy of Osseointegration 

Aegis Project Controls 

API (American Petroleum 

Institute) 

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 

Aroha Philanthropies 

Atlas Air Worldwide 

Autodesk 

Bill and Pam Ayer 

Baker Tilly 

Daniel and Jennifer Baker 

Banco General, S.A. 

BAND Foundation 

Nancy and Michael D. Baudhuin 

Foundation Fund 

Mr. and Mrs. Morton A. Bender 

(Dorothy G. Bender Foundation) 

The Benevity Community Impact 

Fund 

Mr. and Ms. Philip D. Bennett 

Dr. Stephanie Bennett-Smith 

Mrs. Martha C. Berlin 

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bernstein 

Max N. Berry 

Blain Southern 

Marion C. Blakey 

Senator Richard and 

Cynthia M. Blumenthal 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Bousa 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Brand 

The Brown Foundation, Inc. 

of Houston 

Ms. Sheila P. Burke and 

Mr. David Chew 

Ann Burroughs 

President and 

Mrs. George W. Bush 

Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Cafritz 

Candeo Fund at International 

Community Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Canfeld 

Dr. and Mrs. Paul Carter 

Orlando and Anne Marie Carvalho 

Rod and Lynette Case 

Denise Jefferson Casper 

Cedar Hill Foundation 

Chanel, Inc. 

Mr. Richard T. Choi and 

Ms. Claudia M. Perry 

Chugach Alaska Corporation 

Dr. Young Yang Chung 

The CIRI Foundation 

The CIT Group, Inc. 

Citizen Potawatomi Nation 

Fern and Hersh Cohen 

Comcast 

Continental Building Products 

Ted and Marian Craver 

Cross Charitable Foundation 

Jeffrey P. Cunard 

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Daniels 

DaRin Butz Foundation 

Douglas and Wendy Dayton 

Foundation 

Paul and Becky Dhyse 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Diamond 

Mr. Eduardo Díaz 

Valerie and Charles Diker 

Elizabeth and James Eisenstein 

John L. and Margot P. Ernst 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Evans, Jr. 

Expedia, Inc. 

Mr. Donald C. Farley, Jr. 

Ms. Maria Luisa Ferré and 

Mr. Cyril L. Meduna 

(The Ferré Foundation) 

Roger S. Firestone Foundation 

(Mr. John D. Firestone, 

Ms. Gay F. Wray) 

First Baptist Church of Glenarden 

The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable 

Foundation 

ForeFlight 

Foundation for Advancement 

in Conservation 

The Honorable Barbara H. 

Franklin and Mr. Wallace Barnes 

Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fries 

Kathryn Fuller 

Fundación Alberto Motta 

Hope L. and John L. Furth 

Michael and Elizabeth Galvin 

The George Washington 

University Law School 

Giant Food 

The Honorable Joseph and 

Alma Gildenhorn 

Mrs. Barbara Gladstone 

(Gladstone Gallery, LLC) 

Mrs. Dorothy Tapper Goldman 

Ronnyjane Goldsmith 

Dr. Margaret A. Goodman 

Mrs. Marian Goodman (Marian 

Goodman Gallery) 

Gordon Research Conferences 

Mr. Brett Gorvy (Lévy Gorvy) 

Julia and Ken Gouw 

Graham Holdings Company 

Greater Circle Foundation 

Heather and Michael D. 

Greenbaum 

Grifols 

Mr. Ken Grossinger and 

Ms. Micheline Klagsbrun 

(CrossCurrents Foundation) 

Patricia and Douglas Hammond 

The Michael and Marlys Haverty 

Family Foundation 

David and Dawne Hickton 

Hirshleifer’s, Inc. 

Charlie and Nancy Hogan 

Michele J. Hooper and Lemuel 

Seabrook III 

Dr. Judith Richards Hope 

Mrs. Miranda Hope 

Joseph and Lynne Horning 

Marshall and Lee Ann Hunt 

Mr. Benjamin Hunter 

(Ten Letters Media, Inc.) 

ICF International, Inc. 

Kathleen M. Ilyin 

Mr. Jon C. Iwata 

Mr. and Mrs. David G. Johnson 

Chris and Vernice Jones 

Ms. Jennifer Jones 

Dame Alice S. Kandell 

The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc. 

Clint and Missy Kelly 

The David Woods Kemper 

Memorial Foundation 

Nancy Lee and Jonathan Kemper, 

The David Woods Kemper 

Memorial Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kessler 

(Kessler Family Foundation) 

Mr. Jaideep Khanna (Jaideep and 

Rachel Khanna Foundation) 

Maureen and Gene K. Kim 

Ms. Tina Kim (Kukje Gallery) 

Vince King 

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kolitz (Kolitz 

Foundation, Inc.) 

Koret Foundation 

Mr. John H. Krehbiel, Jr. and 

Ms. Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel 

Samuel H. Kress Foundation 

Mrs. Won Sun Yang Kwak 

Mr. Sung Moon Kwon 

Sue and Al Landon 

Bruce and Leslie Lane Foundation 

Evelyn Day Lasry 

Mr. Isaac Lee and Mr. Juan Mora 

Aimee and Robert Lehrman 

Thelma and Melvin Lenkin 

Randi Charno Levine and 

Jeffrey Levine 

Ms. Dominique Lévy (Lévy Gorvy) 

Cheryl Winter Lewy and Glen Lewy 

Ms. May Liang and 

Mr. James Lintott 

Gina Lin 

Marie and Harley Lippman 

Martha G. Locke 

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Lomax 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Lore 

Mr. and Mrs. David M. Love 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. 

MacDonald 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin 

Barbara and Morton Mandel 

Gloria Marchant 

Mrs. Audrey Martinez 

Laura L. McAuliffe 

Mr. and Mrs. Thad and 

Becky McCollum 

Mr. and Mrs. David L. McCombs 

Dr. William J. McShea 

Metro by T-Mobile 

Barry and Wendy Meyer 

Foundation 

Ms. Elizabeth E. Meyer and 

Mr. Michael McCaffrey 

Robert E. Meyerhoff and 

Rheda Becker 

Arnold Miller 

Miranda Family Fund 

(Hispanic Federation) 

Jane Mitchell and Jeffrey Bland 

Ms. Mary V. Mochary 

The Ambrose Monell Foundation 

Peggy A. Montes 

Patricia and Walter Moore 

Mr. Nathaniel R. Morris 

Pearl and Seymour Moskowitz 

Jim and Marlene Moss 

National Fish and Wildlife 

Foundation 

National Geographic Society 

National Public Radio 

The Newburger-Schwartz 

Family Foundation 

The Honorable and 

Mrs. William A. Nitze 

Mr. Kingsley Obaji and 

Mrs. Magdalene Obaji 

Marty O’Brien and Lisa Gordon 

Mr. Juan Otero and 

Ms. Julissa Marenco 

Dennis and Trudy O’Toole 

The David and Lucile Packard 

Foundation 

Mr. Guillermo Peralta and 

Mrs. Lynda Correa Peralta 

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Pillsbury 

The Pittsburgh Foundation 

Mr. Thierry Porté 

Denese F. and Leonard H. Powell 

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 

Prince Charitable Trusts 

Robert Procop 

Thomas Pumpelly 

Ms. Abbe Raven and 

Mr. Martin Tackel 

Lola C. Reinsch (Reinsch Pierce 

Family Foundation) 

Catherine B. Reynolds 

Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ricci 

Ricos Products Company 

Ms. Linda Ritholz 

Robert A. Siegel Auction 

Galleries, Inc. 

Rockwell Group 

Ms. Gloria Rodríguez 

Mrs. Janet Ronnenberg 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Rosen 

Rosenthal Jaguar/Land Rover 

of Chantilly 

Mr. Mark Rosman and 

Dr. Jacqueline Corcoran 

Richard Rosman and 

Fran Morris Rosman 

The Brian and Jill Rowe Foundation 

Valerie and Jack Rowe 

Dr. Randi Rubovits-Seitz 

The Herman J. Russell Family 

Saks Fifth Avenue 

San Francisco Foundation 

San Francisco State University 

Judy Saslow 

The Scintilla Foundation 

The Segal Family Foundation 

Nina and Ivan Selin 

Share Fund 

Sophia Shaw and Art Collins 

Mr. and Mrs. Mike Shealy 

William and Adrienne Sheneman 

Kim and Jon Shirley Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Shreve 

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. 

Ms. Ann E. Silverman (M&T 

Charitable Foundation) 

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 

The Gertrude E. Skelly Charitable 

Foundation 

Sketch Foundation 

Leon Polk Smith Foundation 

Ms. Elizabeth Hunter Solomon 

The Smithsonian Latino Center is the corazón 

of Latinidad at the Smithsonian. Since 1997, 

the Latino Center has successfully ensured that 

the contributions of the Latino community are 

celebrated and represented throughout the 

Smithsonian. The Molina Family Latino Gallery, 

its first-ever museum space, will open at the 

National Museum of American History in 2022. 

SMITHSONIAN LATINO CENTER 

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Sotheby’s 

Spearhead Marketing Group 

Alan and Terri Spoon 

Earl W. and Amanda Stafford 

David and Margaret Stewart 

Ellen Stofan and Tim Dunn 

Tom and Kitty Stoner 

Diana and Steve Strandberg 

Mr. Jerry Straus (Hobbs, Straus, 

Dean & Walker, LLP) 

Mara A. Strock 

Studio O+A 

Nathaniel K. and Mallory Sutton 

Sweet Meadow Fund 

Sycuan Band of the 

Kumeyaay Nation 

Ms. Naoma J. Tate 

TD Securities 

Curtis H. and Jylla Moore Tearte 

Mr. Kent Thiry and 

Ms. Denise O’Leary 

(Thiry-O’Leary Foundation) 

Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Thoma 

Ms. Lynda Thomas 

The Tides Foundation 

Ms. Tabatha Turman 

Robert Tuttle and 

Maria Hummer-Tuttle 

University of California, 

Santa Barbara 

University of Florida 

Valentino 

The Volgenau Foundation 

The Washington Post 

Ms. Leslie A. Wheelock 

Wikimedia Foundation 

Edgar Wilson Trust 

Mr. Iwan Wirth (Hauser & Wirth) 

Judy Wise/Baskin Family 

Foundation 

Mrs. Ann Soh Woods 

The Woodtiger Fund 

World Stamp Show-NY 2016 

World War I Centennial 

Commission 

Anne Elizabeth Wynn and Joaquin 

Avellan (AeLK Foundation) 

Dr. Soon-Young Yoon and Mr. 

Richard M. Smith (The Pinkerton 

Foundation) 

$10,000 OR MORE 

Anonymous 

100Kin10 

Mr. Michael D. Abrams and 

Ms. Sandra Stewart 

Ms. Simone L. Acha 

The Aerospace Corporation 

Aetna Inc. 

Afognak Native Corporation 

AgFed Credit Union 

Akin Gump Strauss 

Hauer & Feld LLP 

Bill and Purvi Albers 

Mr. and Mrs. Jaime E. Aleman 

Dr. Elena H. Allbritton and 

Mr. Robert L. Allbritton 

Paul G. Allen Philanthropies 

Marjie and Steve Alloy 

Dr. Tina Alster and 

Ambassador Paul Frazer 

James H. Alston Family 

Ms. Aida Alvarez and 

Dr. Raymond J. Baxter 

American Association of Equine 

Practitioners Foundation 

American College of Trust and 

Estate Counsel 

American Orchid Society 

Ammunition 

Mr. Mark Andrews 

Mr. Ricardo M. Arango 

Cindy and Mark Aron 

(Aron Family Foundation) 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Ashley 

(Richard C. Ashley Foundation) 

Association of Zoos & Aquariums 

The Atlantic Group 

Aurora Flight Sciences 

Corporation 

Ms. Elizabeth Avery and 

Mr. Alexander Bullock 

Tolulope Ayiloge 

Mr. and Mrs. William Aylward 

BAE Systems 

Mrs. Jamie Baldinger 

Mrs. Karole Dill Barkley and 

Mr. Eric J. Barkley 

Barbara and Craig Barrett 

Ms. Virginia Bayer and 

Mr. Robert Hirt 

BB&T 

Dr. Susan L. Beningson 

Bradford and Jennifer Benn 

Tamra and Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Berlin 

(Howard R. & Joy M. Berlin 

Foundation) 

Dr. Michael M. and Tricia Berns 

Bernstein Family Foundation 

Diane and Norman Bernstein 

Eve Bernstein and 

Alex Gersznowicz 

Jane and Raphael Bernstein 

Eugenia Bickerstaff 

Mary C. Blake 

Blu Dot 

Bluepoint Race Management 

Timing and Training LLC 

Blum & Poe 

John and Carol Boochever 

Johnnie Brooks Booker, Dalyn 

and Aiden Booker 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Boulos 

Glenn and Donna Boutilier 

Mrs. Nancy L. Bowker 

Mr. Shawn E. Boynes 

James E. Bramsen 

Ms. Elizabeth Brannan 

Mr. and Mrs. Rupinder Brar 

Mr. Marcus Brauchli and 

Ms. Maggie Farley 

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Braunstein 

Joyce Martin Brayboy 

Broadcom Foundation 

Dr. Walter D. Broadnax 

Reginald J. Brown and 

Tiffeny F. Sanchez 

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Brown 

Broyhill Family Foundation 

Greg and Mary Bruch 

John and Rebecca Budd 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Burdick 

Sarah L. Burns, Ph.D. 

Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz 

Charitable Trust 

Hacker and Kitty Caldwell 

William and Jeong Ok Carey 

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Carrington 

CASSS 

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Chalsty 

Armando, Carol, Claire and 

Matthew Chapelli 

Chicago Botanic Garden 

Mr. and Mrs. Armeane Choksi 

Chubb 

Mrs. Brice M. Clagett 

Clark Concepts 

Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Polner and 

Mr. William C. Hudson 

Mr. Monty Cleworth and 

Ms. Susannah Drake 

David S. Cohen and 

Craig A. Benson 

Sara and Bruce Collette 

The Commonwealth Fund 

Con Edison 

Conference of State Bank 

Supervisors 

Conservation International 

The Contursi Family 

Dr. Estelle Cooke-Sampson 

The Corcoran Women’s 

Committee 

Mr. Rob Coretz (Coretz Family 

Foundation) 

Corvias Group, LLC 

Wallace H. Coulter Foundation 

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana 

Ruth Covo Family Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Cowan 

Mr. Peter Cummings (Peter D. 

& Julie F. Cummings Family 

Foundation) 

Daimler AG 

Julia and Frank Daniels, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Davidson, Jr. 

John Davis and Jason Heffner 

Ms. Laura DeBonis and 

Mr. Scott Nathan 

Dr. Philip J. Deloria and 

Mrs. Peggy Burns-Deloria 

The Honorable Vivian Lowery 

Derryck 

Dibner Charitable Trust of 

Massachusetts 

Jim and Janet Dicke 

Amina Dickerson and 

Julian Roberts 

Scott and Deanna Donnelly 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Dorman 

Albert E. Dotson, Jr. and Family 

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Downs 

Mr. and Mrs. Doug Dreier 

Drink Company 

Drum Major Institute Inc. 

Ms. Mary N. Dryden 

Helen Runnells DuBois and 

Raymond F. DuBois, Jr. 

The Doris Duke Charitable 

Foundation 

Mark Dunkerley and 

Marilia Duffes 

Ms. Susan Dunlevy 

W. Mercer and Mary A. Dye 

Sarah and Scott Eames 

Farhad and Mary Ebrahimi 

Kim and Al Eiber 

Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Eldredge 

The Lois and Richard England 

Family Foundation 

Entertainment Software 

Association 

Episcopal High School 

Mr. James Erbs and 

Ms. M. Shân Atkins 

Mr. Randy Falco 

Mr. and Mrs. Faramarz Fardshisheh 

Ms. Gabriela Febres-Cordero 

Mr. George A. Feldenkreis 

(Perry Ellis International) 

Winnie and Michael Feng 

Fieldstead & Company 

Dr. and Mrs. William W. Fitzhugh 

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas M. Florio 

The Focht Family Foundation 

Fond du Lac Band of Lake 

Superior Chippewa 

Cynthia and Edsel Ford 

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Foster 

The Foundation for Enhancing 

Communities 

Fox Corporation 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Frankel 

(Charles & Diane Frankel 

Philanthropic Fund) 

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation 

Jeff Fuqua 

Furthermore: a program of the 

J.M. Kaplan Fund 

Ms. Barbara Futter 

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Garfeld 

D.E. Garretson 

Jeff and Mary Lynn Garrett 

Ms. Annie Gawlak and 

Mr. Samuel Gilliam, Jr. 

Georgetown University 

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Getty 

(Ann & Gordon Getty 

Foundation) 

Gilbane Building Company 

The Glenstone Foundation, 

Mitchell P. Rales 

S. Taylor Glover 

Goethe-Institut Washington 

Ms. Joanne M. Gold and 

Mr. Andrew A. Stern 

Mr. Allan Golston 

The Goodman-Swindell Family 

Foundation 

James C. Gorman 

Kevin and Anne Marie Gover 

Jon C. Graff 

Eldesia Granger 

Peter and Rhondda Grant 

Mr. Garth Greenan (Garth 

Greenan Gallery) 

Mr. and Mrs. John Grisham 

Groupon 

The Honorable Jeff Grubbe and 

Mrs. Alyssa Lorraine Grubbe 

Ms. Collot Guerard 

Mr. Gerald Guess and 

Ms. Evelyn L. Murry Guess 

Mr. Ben Guterman and 

Mr. Don Patron 

James M. and Anita K. Guyette 

Nancy E. Gwinn and John Y. Cole 

Ms. Ashley Hall 

Hamilton Place Strategies 

Hampton Roads Community 

Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Hanlon 

Kathy Hopinkah Hannan and 

Mark Hannan 

Robert Harris and 

Susan Rothermund 

Ms. Kathryn N. Harrison 

Ms. Shirley D. Harrison 

Roger D. and 

Martha E.V. Hathaway 

Offce of Hawaiian Affairs 

Dr. and Mrs. Jay J. Hellman 

The Jane Henson Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Miguel Heras 

Robin Hettleman and 

Matthew Weinberg 

Roland and Sarah Hoch 

Elizabeth Jackson Hodges and 

C. Howie Hodges II 

Mary W. Hopkins 

Mr. Eric R. Horowitz 

Tom and Janet Horton 

Virginia Hough 

Freeman A. Hrabowski III and 

Jacqueline C. Hrabowski 

Ms. Connie Hsu 

Scott Hughes 

Frederick S. Humphries, Jr., Kim 

Sheftall Humphries, Arielle 

S. Humphries, Frederick S. 

Humphries III 

Ms. Beverly J. Hunter 

Huntsman International LLC 

Elizabeth Ann Hylton 

Ms. Irene Hirano Inouye 

J & AR Foundation 

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe 

Ms. Christine Jenkins 

David S. and Pat Jernigan 

Wendell L. and 

Marie Collins Johns 

LTC (Ret.) Charlotte Johnson 

The George and Jana Johnson 

Family Foundation 

Mr. Robert N. Johnson 

Thomas and Adelaide Jones 

Thomas and Elizabeth Jones 

Mr. and Mrs. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. 

J. Lisa Jorgenson and 

David D. Doniger 

Lou Josephs and Susan Koonin 

Mr. Alan Robert Kabat 

Kagins, Inc. 

Mrs. Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan 

and Dr. Louis D. Kaplan 

The Kaplen Brothers Fund 

Dr. and Mrs. Ashok Kaveeshwar 

The Honorable Jefferson E. Keel 

and Mrs. Carol Keel 

Ms. Anne B. Keiser and 

Dr. Douglas M. Lapp 

Mr. Sean Kelly (Sean Kelly Gallery) 

William R. Kelly Charitable 

Gift Trust 

Thomas S. Kenan, III 

Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Keough 

(Donald & Marilyn Keough 

Foundation) 

Ms. Judy Kieffer 

Mr. and Mrs. Bill S. Kim 

Erica and Gregory L. Kinzelman 

Dr. Kay D. Klass and 

Mr. Mark A. Levitt 

C. Jeffrey and Katherine Knittel 

Ms. Lauren Koopman 

Korean Cultural Center 

Colleen and John Kotelly 

Mr. Stephen C. Koval and 

Ms. Celeste M. Sant ́Angelo 

The Kresge Foundation 

Dr. Sachiko Kuno 

(Sachiko Kuno Foundation) 

Jack and Shanaz Langson 

Ms. Ann Evans Larimore 

Betsy and David Lawer 

Ms. Sarah Lawer 

Dr. Dallas A. Lea, II and 

DeDe Ferrell Lea 

Nicholas N. Leach and 

Leah Robinson-Leach 

Mr. Raymond J. Learsy 

Barbara Lee Family Foundation 

Fund at the Boston Foundation 

The LeeKong Family 

Robert Lehman Foundation 

Leidos 

Fred M. Levin and Nancy 

Livingston, The Shenson 

Foundation 

Jeanne and Richard Levitt 

Drs. Jerrold Levy and Maria Arias 

Ms. Ginger Lew and 

Mr. C. Lennart Ehn 

Byron and Sylvia Lewis 

The David Baker Lewis Family 

Charitable Foundation 

Ms. Dorothy Lichtenstein 

The Link Foundation 

Jan W. Lipkin 

Ms. Patricia L. Lofand 

Nicholas Logothetis (Chartwell 

Consulting Group, Inc.) 

Longwood Gardens 

Steve and Betsy Loranger 

Ms. Marilyn Lummis 

Lupa Systems LLC 

Ronald and Ayana Machen 

Mr. and Mrs. Creighton R. Magid 

Maharam 

Barbara J. Mahone 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mancuso 

Mandarin Oriental, 

Washington, D.C. 

Ms. Claude Mann 

Richard and Jane Manoogian 

Foundation 

Judith A. Mansfeld 

Dr. Claire Prouty Mansur and 

Mr. John P. Ryan 

Ms. Janet Marstine 

(The Marstine Family 

Foundation) 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark A.L. Mason 

Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology 

Ms. Andrea Massey-Farrell 

(Massey Services, Inc.) 

Mr. and Mrs. John W. McCarter, Jr. 

Eric and Cheryl McKissack 

Ms. Jodie McLean 

Amy and Marc Meadows 

Richard and Ronay Menschel 

Ms. Adele S. Merck (Wells Family 

Foundation) 

Method 

MigraMar 

Mikyoung Kim Design 

Constance Corcoran Miller 

Ms. Rosemary E. Minyard 

Mission Culture LLC 

The Mnuchin Foundation 

Therese and J. Mario Molina 

Moo 

Ms. Beth Mooney 

Ms. Bridget Moore and 

Mr. Christoph M. Kotowski 

The Claude Moore Charitable 

Foundation 

Dr. Geoffrey D. Moorer 

Wendy Burden Morgan 

Morningstar, Inc. 

Morongo Band of Mission Indians 

Douglas and Susan Morrison 

Ms. Kristel Muciño-Koenig 

(Eric & Della Koenig Foundation) 

Ruth O’Donnell Mutch 

Natelli Communities Foundation 

National Funeral Directors 

Association 

National Institute for Health Care 

Management, LLC 

Dr. and Mrs. Christopher E. Nelson 

Elizabeth R. Nesbitt 

Neubauer Family Foundation 

Katherine Neville 

New Belgium Brewing Company 

Dr. Sandra Nichols and 

Mr. Ronnie A. Nichols 

Larry and Paige Nicholson 

Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Offt 

Ms. Yoshie Ogawa 

Mr. Ziad Ojakli 

Mr. Morgan Dene Oliver and 

Elizabeth Hamman Oliver 

The Honorable Maria Otero and 

Reverend Dr. Joseph T. Eldridge 

Mr. and Mrs. C. Jason Payne 

Ethan and Laura Payton 

Arthur and Linda Pelberg 

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas G. 

Penniman IV 

Barbara Rescher Perry 

Mr. Carter Phillips and 

Mrs. Sue J. Henry 

Ms. Regina Pitaro 

The John L. Plueger Family 

Susan and John Pohl 

Mrs. Vivian L. Pollock 

Mr. Jim Porter and 

Ms. Elyse Rabinowitz 

Potomac Construction Services 

Ms. Kate Prendergast, Marcia 

Marcus Media, Inc. 

The Procter & Gamble Company 

Prudential Foundation 

PSCU 

Public Broadcasting Service 

Mr. Eduardo Rabassa and 

Ms. Patricia M. Marcos 

(Seeliger Y Conde International) 

RadicalMedia 

Dr. Anne-Imelda Marino Radice 

and Ms. Stephanie Stebich 

Dr. and Mrs. Deepak Raghavan 

(The Deepak Raghavan Family 

Foundation, Inc.) 

Helen Hilton Raiser 

Ralph Lauren Corporation 

Ms. Ann Ratner (Ratner 

Companies) 

Andrew Rawls 

Mr. and Mrs. John Daniel Reaves 

Ms. Almine Rech-Picasso 

Redrock Entertainment Services 

Dr. and Mrs. Mark Reid 

Mr. and Mrs. Blair E. Richardson 

Ms. Alice B. Richwine 

Ms. Laurie N. Robinson Haden 

(Corporate Counsel Women 

of Color) 

Dr. and Mrs. R. Perry Robinson 

(The Widgeon Point Charitable 

Foundation) 

Robbie and D’Rita Robinson 

Sara Roby Foundation 

Mr. Johnathan Rodgers and 

Mrs. Royal Kennedy Rodgers 

Desirée Rogers and 

Victoria Rogers 

Joseph Romito 

Adam R. Rose and 

Peter R. McQuillan 

Rieva Rose 

Susan and Elihu Rose 

Mrs. Eleanor T. Rosenfeld 

Sheldon Paul and 

Donna Rosenzweig 

Arthur Ross Foundation 

Dr. Ann Roulet 

Ms. Laura Roulet and Mr. Rafael 

Hernandez Mayoral 

Ms. Roberta Ong Roumel 

John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe 

John and Anne Ryan 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Ryterband 

Ms. Amy R. Sabrin and 

Mr. G. Evans Witt 

Mr. Christopher Sacca 

The Safer-Fearer Fund in The 

New York Community Trust 

Deborah Sara Santana 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Sapir 

Mrs. Ronnie Lapinsky Sax 

Maggie and Dick Scarlett 

Lloyd G. and Betty A. Schermer 

SCHF Management, LP 

Ms. Chara Schreyer (Kadima 

Foundation) 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Schwartz 

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Sechrist 

Ms. Elizabeth Segerstrom 

Deborah Shafer 

Shapeways, Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sheehan 

Mr. Randall C. Shepard 

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Ms. Joan Shigekawa 

Ann Pruitt Shough 

Sierra Nevada Corporation 

Dr. Ruth J. Simmons 

Skanby + Gould Foundation 

Mr. Andrew D. Skipper 

Mrs. Susan Small-Savitsky and 

Mr. Gerald Savitsky (Albert & 

Lillian Small Foundation) 

Judith Smith and 

Lonnie Spencer 

The Honorable Pamela H. Smith 

(The Hyde Foundation) 

Snap-on Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Snyder 

Ms. Denise Littlefeld Sobel 

Mr. Jim Sokol and 

Ms. Lydia Cheney 

Ms. Mimi Song 

John and Frank Sparacio 

Charitable Foundation 

Janet Stanley 

Diane Steed 

Margaret and Terry Stent 

Ms. Meredith G. Stevens 

Dmitri Stockton and 

Renée Allain-Stockton 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Sugden 

The Sumitomo Foundation 

Donald and Chacea Sundman 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Swallow 

Ms. Jacqueline Neuwirth Swire 

and Mr. Stephen Swire 

Televisa Foundation 

John Templeton Foundation 

Damon and Sherry Thompson 

Marie and Gary Thunem 

Tishman Speyer 

Mrs. Joan F. Tobin 

(The Tobin Foundation) 

Emily Hall Tremaine 

Foundation, Inc. 

Troutman Sanders LLP 

Mr. William H. Truettner 

Ms. Loretta A. Tuell and 

Mr. Richard A. Guest 

Ms. Kathryn C. Turner 

Marshall and Ann Turner 

Mr. Michael J. and 

Dr. Amy B. Tuteur 

Embassy of the United Arab 

Emirates 

United Technologies Corporation 

The Honorable Lynn R. Valbuena 

and Mr. Stephen Valbuena 

Dr. and Mrs. Jean-Paul Valles 

Mark A. Vann, C.P.A. 

Josef Vascovitz and 

Lisa Goodman 

Ms. Jacqueline Vossler 

Drs. Betsy and 

Alkinoos Vourlekis 

Ms. Valaree Wahler 

Tina A. Walls 

The Walt Disney Company 

The Walt Disney Company 

Foundation 

Walter and Shirley Wang 

Matthew, Shawna, and 

Alexandra Watley 

Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Watson, Jr. 

Ms. Elaine Webster and 

Mr. James Johnson 

Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation 

Dana T. Weekes 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Weiss 

Weiss/Manfredi Architects 

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Weitzman 

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 

Mr. and Mrs. Roberto D. Werebe 

Nadine and Bill Westcott 

Mr. Alan B. Whitman 

The Widgeon Point Charitable 

Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Willard 

Janice Savin Williams and 

Christopher J. Williams 

Willkie Farr & Gallagher 

Willowsford Conservancy 

Mr. Fred Wilpon 

Ms. Christine Windheuser 

Howard and Gail Campbell 

Woolley Charitable Fund 

Wrinkle in Time Foundation 

Ms. Mei Xu 

Fred and Sandra Young 

Jason D. and Jeannette D. Young 

Nancy and Philip Young 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Zelenka 

$5,000 OR MORE 

Anonymous 

Laura L. Acton 

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Adams 

Clara Leach Adams-Ender 

The Honorable Alfonso Leo 

Adderly and Mrs. Wilda Adderly 

Aerospace Industries Association 

Mr. Adrian Al-Amin, Sr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Alexander 

Alfred Street Baptist Church 

Ms. Kathleen B. Allaire 

Mr. and Mrs. Hunter S. Allen, Jr. 

Carolyn Small Alper 

American University 

Joel R. Anderson 

Renette Combs Anderson 

Architecture Research Offce 

(ARO) 

Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi and 

Mr. Craig A. Subler 

Christopher Artis 

Atherton Family Foundation 

Mr. Rick Atkinson and 

Dr. Jane C. Atkinson 

Dr. Angela Austin 

Milton and Sally Avery Arts 

Foundation 

The Hon. Bruce E. Babbitt and 

Ambassador Harriet Babbitt 

Mr. J. Kevin Baesler 

Mr. William Bagley 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. and Dianne 

Monteith Bailey 

Dr. Narinder Bajwa (California 

Heart Center) 

Baker & Botts, LLP 

Ms. Helen B. Baker 

Ball Aerospace & 

Technologies Corp. 

Norma Barfeld 

David James Barger 

Mr. Luiz Andre Barroso 

David and Julie Battaglia 

Sean B. and Brenda R. Battle 

Susan Battley 

Mr. and Mrs. Dwight J. Baum 

Susan and Thomas Baxter 

Michael Anthony Beale and Family 

Ms. Elizabeth Beaman and 

Mr. Scott Delman 

Ms. Linda K. Beauvil 

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Beers 

Douglas Beijer 

Robin Aleda Belle, James Major 

Belle III and Joan Belle Ricks 

Dr. Martin A. Berger 

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Bernstein 

Jewelle and Nathaniel Bickford 

Mr. and Mrs. Bud Bigelow 

Binitie Family Foundation 

Robert and Dawn Birmingham 

Tina Blackwell and Traci Blackwell 

BNSF Railway Company 

James C. Boakes 

Richard and Eugenia Bodnar 

Bon Appétit Management 

Company 

Haise and Kevin Borgmann 

Bottega Veneta 

Earl and Barbara Bowles 

Mrs. MaryAnn Bowman 

Mrs. Rose Williams Boyd 

Arthur and Annette Bracey 

Mr. and Mrs. David G. Bradley 

Patricia Allen Bradley 

The Honorable Stephen F. Brauer 

and Mrs. Camilla Thompson 

Brauer 

Mr. Harry Bremond and 

Ms. Peggy Woodford Forbes 

Roger Brody 

Ms. Adrienne Brooks 

Agnes M. Brown 

Joseph C. Brown 

Ms. Paulette Brown 

Dr. Quincalee Brown and 

Dr. James P. Simsarian 

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Bruckheimer 

The Brukardt Family 

The Honorable Stephanie 

A. Bryan (Poarch Band of 

Creek Indians) 

Bunyan Bryant and Erika Nova 

Bryn Mawr College 

Mr. Alan Bubes and Mrs. Nancy 

Taylor-Bubes (Bubes Family 

Foundation) 

Walter and Kelly Burks 

Linda Burnes-Bolton 

Tom and Madeleine Burrell 

Peg and Blain Butner 

Bruce A. and Karen L. Campbell 

Jenny Rose and Gus Carey 

Ms. Dianne Carlson 

Mrs. Martha A. Carr 

Mr. Gary Carsel and 

Mrs. Anne Taylor 

Mr. Francis Carter 

Mr. David W. Cartwright 

Mr. Vincent R. Castro 

Ms. Antoinetta Catanzariti 

Centro de Incidencia 

Ambiental Panamá 

Ms. Jen Chaiken and 

Ms. Sam Hamilton 

(The Donald and Carole Chaiken 

Foundation) 

Dr. Bruce Chalker and 

Dr. Polly A. Penhale 

Chamber Music America 

Charles and Barbara Chambers 

Felicia Lynette Chambers, Esq. 

and Gloria Celestine Brown 

Kevin and Damara Chambers 

Susan Chapman-Hughes and 

Christopher Hughes 

Mr. Stephen Charles 

Chevron 

Chief Executives Organization 

Sandy Chilewich and Joe Sultan 

Vincent Cimino 

Civilization 

Gwendolyn Bullock Clark 

Hester Taylor Clark 

Mr. Andrew W. Clarke and 

Mr. Martin Sherrill II 

Major General Thomas E. Clifford, 

U.S.A.F. (Ret.) 

Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham 

Mr. Roy Cockrum 

Mr. Howard K. Cohen 

Thea Cohen and Dave Yellin 

Suzanne and Norman Cohn 

George and Nina Cois 

Colby College 

Ms. Marilyn Collins 

Columbus Zoological Park 

Association 

Ms. Maureen Conners 

Ms. Antoinette Corcillo 

Ronald M. Costell, M.D., and 

Marsha E. Swiss 

Maurice, Earlene Hardie, 

Michelle and Michael Cox 

Ms. Ty Cramer and 

Mr. Steve Romein 

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Crawford 

Elaine A. Crider 

Mr. Michael J. Critelli 

Pedro and Carol Cuatrecasas 

Cuisine Solutions, Inc. 

Candra A. Cummings, M.D. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Cummings 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Cummins 

Ken and Sylvia Curry 

Ronald and Jessica Dabrowski 

Dr. and Mrs. Roger Dash 

Leah Denyatta Daughtry 

Ms. Deborah Goodman Davis 

Hal and Bonnie Davis 

Drs. Lonnie Davis and 

Victoria Edmond-Davis 

Nora Hsu Davis and 

Barry C. Davis 

The Dedalus Foundation 

Deere & Company 

Delaware Nation 

The Charles Delmar Foundation 

Deloitte 

Mike DeLuca 

Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Denton 

Today s computing devices came about after centuries of 

innovation and experimentation by inventors and users 

alike. Their innovations were tangible symbols of their ideas, 

expertise and unique needs. The objects shown are from the 

National Museum of American History and in the museum’s 

computer and mathematics collections. Some are part of the 

exhibition My Computing Devices, which opened in 2019. 

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Ms. Linda Meer and 

Mr. Ed Falkowitz 

Mehr Foundation 

Ms. Anne Mehringer and 

Mr. John T. Beaty 

Ms. Grete Meilman and 

Mr. Hanno Mott 

Mr. Robert Mennell 

(Spirit Open Equestrian) 

Mr. George Frederick 

Mead Merck 

The Miami Foundation 

Michael W. Michelson 

Microsoft Corporation 

Ellen G. Miles and Neil R. Greene 

Dennis and Patricia Miller 

Mr. Thomas Miree 

Ms. Victoria Miro 

(Victoria Miro Gallery) 

Cindy Miscikowski 

R.C. Mitchell 

Robbin Mitchell and 

Jeffrey Scruggs 

Miu Miu 

Robert Mnuchin, Mnuchin Gallery 

Vivian Moore 

Mr. Harold L. Morrison, Jr. 

Jestine Thomas Mosby and 

Dr. David C. Mosby 

Dale A. Mott and 

Kenneth P. Hyle, Jr. 

Mt. Ennon Baptist Church 

Linda and J.N. Musto 

Ruth P. Nelson and 

Barbara MacNeal 

Willie and Lorraine Nelson 

Network for Good 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Newman 

Mr. and Mrs. Tim Nicholls 

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Nolan 

Mr. Russell G. Noles 

Edward Nowak and 

Nancy Laura Middleton 

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Obering 

Oceanic Heritage Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Ogden 

(The North Ridge Foundation) 

Andrew Oliver and 

Melanie Du Bois 

Nels Olson and Kristen Olson 

Oppenheim Architecture 

Janice Carlson Oresman 

Mr. and Mrs. David M. Osnos 

Michael T. Owens and 

Wanda Felton Owens 

Oyebola Oyedijo 

Dr. Olasope O. Oyelaran and 

Dr. Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran 

Mr. and Mrs. Chips Chapman 

Page (Robert H. and 

Monica M. Cole Foundation) 

Ms. Margaret B. Parsons 

Ms. Louise Patterson 

Wesley Patterson and 

Linda Pritchard Patterson 

Mr. Chris Paul 

Jerome and Gwen Paulson 

Ms. Patricia C. Payne 

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pearlstein 

Peco Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Penner 

John O. and Joyce K. Peterson 

Patti McGill Peterson and 

Kate S. Woodward 

Ms. Nicole Petrosky 

Dr. and Mrs. J. Peter Pham 

Ms. Ellen Phelan and 

Mr. Joel E. Shapiro 

PHILLIPS 

Kay and Dave Phillips 

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Phillips 

Mr. and Mrs. David Pickett 

Barry and Beverly Lang Pierce 

Dr. Thomas Pinder 

John and Denise Pittas 

Point Defance Zoo & Aquarium 

Ms. Dorothy H. Powe 

Powerful Life Fitness LLC 

Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC 

Mrs. Peter G. Powers 

Ms. Clara Lee Pratte 

(Strongbow Strategies) 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Price 

Public Welfare Foundation, Inc. 

Québec Government Offce 

in Washington 

Madeline Murphy Rabb 

Tim and Karen Ramsey 

Mrs. Lois S. Raphling 

Richard T. Rapp, Ph.D. 

Dr. Hanne Nina Rasmussen 

Rauch Foundation 

Dr. and Mrs. M. Keith Rawlings 

Mr. William P. Rayner 

Dr. Jim Reagan and 

Ms. Jane Reagan 

The Rebuild Foundation 

Germar and Angelinia Reed 

Mr. David P. Rehfuss and 

Mrs. Hedy S. Rehfuss 

Carol A. Reich 

Ms. Linda R. Reifschneider 

(Asian Elephant Support) 

Reuler Lewin Foundation Inc. 

Mr. Ralph M.G. Reynolds 

and Family 

Ms. Jane L. Richards 

Sonya and Thomas Ricketts 

R. Lucia Riddle 

Michael J. Roach 

Ms. Caroline Robbins 

Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth X. Robbins 

Mr. Charles J. Robertson 

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Robert Roche and 

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Memorial Fund 

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Conference 

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Sanders 

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The Sikand Foundation 

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Virginia, Inc. 

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Kimberly Brandon 

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Ted Slavin Family Foundation 

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Smithsonian UK Charitable Trust 

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Sprüth Magers 

Mr. Matthew Steinmetz 

Sterling Charitable Gift 

Fund Trust 

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Chairman Ernest L. Stevens, 

Jr., National Indian Gaming 

Association 

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Suquamish Tribe 

Docks Sutherland 

Mr. Craig B. Swick and 

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Texas Instruments Foundation 

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E. Thibodeaux 

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Sabrina Thompson 

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of Luiseño Indians) 

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Virginia Native Plant Society 

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Wabash College 

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(AG Foundation) 

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Ealy and Aaron Mills Ealy 

Eastern Shawnee Tribe of 

Oklahoma 

Dean S. Edmonds Foundation 

Edwin M. Knowles China Co. 

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Mrs. Sherika Ekpo 

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Environmental Engineering 

Consultants, LLC 

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Eye Health Services, Inc. 

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Bonnie Nance Frazier 

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Mr. Douglas Varley 

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Friends of Alma Thomas 

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M.D./The Dorothy Cate & 

Thomas F. Frist Foundation 

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The Funger Foundation, 

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Mr. Chappall Gage and 

Ms. Jennifer Hosmer 

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Galerie Lelong & Co. 

The Garden Club of America 

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Carol Brown Goldberg 

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Foundation 

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Sally Goudreau 

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Institute Foundation 

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Ms. Lisa Meulbroek 

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Harvard University 

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Janice Hazlehurst 

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Fuad Sahouri, Jr. 

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Ralph and Genevieve B. Horween 

Foundation 

Michael J. Howard, CPA and 

Yvonne Howard 

Mr. Chris Howell, BNSF Railway 

Company 

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Mrs. Adleane Hunter 

Ingemar Panamá 

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ISEM, Inc. at Southern Methodist 

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Kim Lew Jackson 

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John M. Jacquemin Family 

Foundation 

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Williams, Jr., Dudley N. Williams III 

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Ms. Martha Levin 

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Jennifer A. Lichtmann 

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Wesley Lin and Brian Chapman 

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James L. Long 

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Reginald Love 

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Mr. Edward A. Lovinguth, Jr. 

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(Luhring Augustine Gallery) 

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Carolyn Weaver Mackay 

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The Honorable and 

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Susan Pateras Maybury 

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and Mrs. S. Yvonne McCall 

Nancy Ellen McCarthy 

Danielle Millicent McCoy 

Ms. Suzanne McIntire 

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(McLarty Companies) 

Mr. Richard P. McNeil 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McNeill III 

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Kenneth M. Zemrowski and 

Susan MacKeen 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Zients 

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Margot Lurie Zimmerman 

$2,500 OR MORE 

Anonymous 

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Act for Alexandria 

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Aetna Foundation, Inc. 

Ms. Danielle Aguiar 

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Ms. Kathleen A. Blackburn 

Ms. Paulette Alexander 

Rachel and Bob Allen 

Susan Marie Allen 

AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. 

Allied Integrated Marketing 

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American International Group, 

Inc. (AIG) 

American Quilt Study Group 

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Dr. Michael T. Angell and 

Ms. Jennifer Harper 

Mr. John J. Angelone 

Ms. Kathy Aram and 

Mr. Robert Fabia 

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Argos Panamá Com 

Ms. Dana Arnett 

(VSA Partners Inc.) 

Ms. Veronica Artis 

The Marjorie Sale Arundel 

Fund for the Earth 

Rosemary Austin 

Mr. Roberto Awad 

Axa Equitable Life Insurance Co. 

Ms. Zandra Bailes 

Charles and Diana Bain 

Kevin H. Baines, PhD 

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, 

Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC 

Beverly G. Baker 

Dr. Jennifer Ballard 

Mr. Bruce Ballengee 

Mr. and Mrs. David F. Barbour 

Dr. Lindsay J. Barnes and 

Mr. Marcus K. Barnes 

The Honorable Shirley Elizabeth 

Barnes 

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Robert and Cathleen Bartlett 

Mr. Jake Barton 

Ms. Joan L. Baxter 

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Mr. Mark Benezra 

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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Berkley 

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(Tension Envelope Foundation) 

Dava Berkman 

Mr. Philip D. Berlin and 

Ms. Olivia Adler 

Ann E. Berman and 

Daniel J. Feld 

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Von Nakayama 

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Bohlinger, III 

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danah boyd, Ph.D. 

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Ambassador Richard Boucher 

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Bright Machines 

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(Julian A. and Lois G. Brodsky 

Foundation) 

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Brooks 

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Aaron Agenbroad 

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Michael Burke and 

Lynn Kennedy 

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Uschi and Bill Butler 

Caledonia Spirits 

Robert and Geneva Calloway 

Consulate General of Canada 

The Honorable Michael Caplin 

and Mrs. Kristina Caplin 

Reverend Elizabeth Carl 

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Robert and Sherrie 

Black Carr 

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Karl and Saidah Carter (Snake 

Nation) 

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Carvana 

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Mr. and Mrs. James Catalano 

Centers for Spiritual Living 

Ms. Catalina Chacon 

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Carol and Johnny Clark 

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Sanford Cloud, Jr., Esq. 

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and Ms. Emily England 

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Bernard C. Coleman III & 

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Gene and Elizabeth Colice 

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Ms. Tanya D. Collins 

Ms. Lucy A. Commoner 

The Community Foundation 

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Donnette A. Cooper, Esq. 

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Ms. Suzi Cordish 

(The Cordish Family Fund) 

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Mrs. Andrea Corpening 

Melissa Courtney 

Elizabeth Covey 

Beverly J. Cox 

Dr. Judith L. Craven 

Creekside Digital 

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Betty Neal Crutcher 

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Esther D. Curtwright 

Mrs. Jane W. Daniels 

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Roeckelein 

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Digital Transitions Inc. 

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District Experience, LLC 

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Washington, Maryland 

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Ms. Sandra Eskin (Eskin Family 

Foundation) 

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Evim Foundation 

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FARO Technologies, Inc. 

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Federal Home Loan Mortgage 

Corporation 

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Ms. Sarah Malka 

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Rhonda and Clayton Ferguson 

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Mr. Melvin Finkelstein 

Ms. Hedy Fischer and 

Mr. Randy Shull 

Kyle Fisher 

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Denise Flanagan 

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Otis and Barbara Gates 

Gem, Lapidary & Mineral Society 

of Montgomery County, MD, Inc. 

Linda George 

In 2019, the Asian Pacific American Center launched the 

Keystone Initiative to create the first permanent gallery space 

in Washington, D.C., and fund curators, interns and programs 

dedicated to the Asian Pacific American experience. 

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Palantir Technologies 

Judge Phillip Lewis Paley, 

Judge Sheree Velita Pitchford 

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Dr. Paul D. and Mrs. Elmerina 

L. Parkman 

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Jacquie Pechmann 

Paul Peck 

Edith A. Pena 

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The PepsiCo Foundation 

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Susan B. Perry 

Susan Peters and Richard Lee 

Lorraine Petrosky 

Picturae 

Dr. Marie O. Pitts-Mosley 

Pledgeling Foundation 

PNC Foundation 

Judith Podskalny 

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Polk Family 

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Pounder-Kone 

Marjorie Lynne Powell 

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Quinn Evans Architects 

Frank and Betty Quirk 

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Audrey and Albert Ratner 

Vicki and Walter Ray 

Mr. Robert Rea 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Reckford 

The Reed Foundation 

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Foundation Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Reynolds 

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Mr. Ed Mason 

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Diane M. Ridley, M.D. 

Mr. William Ritchie 

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Lisa Roberts and David Seltzer 

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Robinson 

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The Rockefeller Foundation 

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Roseborough 

Ms. Rachel Rosemann 

(Rosemann Family Foundation) 

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Rosemary Rosso 

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Sa Ming Foundation 

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Suneetha Budampati 

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(Esther Schipper Gallery) 

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Seventh Regiment Armory 

Conservancy 

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Abemayor Family Fund 

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(Esther Simon Charitable Trust) 

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & 

Flom LLP 

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(Council for Canadian American 

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Smithsonian Networks 

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Victor G. Springer 

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Stewart Family Foundation 

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Petra Von Heimburg 

Amanda Stott 

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Major Willard H. Strandberg, Jr. 

and Mrs. Ann Strandberg 

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in Switzerland 

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(Derek Wang Family Foundation) 

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Washington 

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Irene and Alan Wurtzel 

Dr. and Mrs. Philip J. Wyatt 

Gail Yano 

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Zack 

Mr. John Zeiler 

Mr. Emil Zuberbueler and 

Mr. Russ Elder 

The Donald and Barbara Zucker 

Family Foundation 

Karen Zukowski and 

David Diamond 

Mr. David Zwirner 

(David Zwirner Gallery) 

In Donors to the Smithsonian (above), we gratefully recognize donors’ 

gifts, pledges and pledge payments received by the Smithsonian in 

fscal year 2019. This began Oct. 1, 2018, and ended Sept. 30, 2019. 

Gifts paid in full are recognized at their total amount in the fscal year 

they are recorded. Gifts made as pledges are recognized at the total 

amount pledged in the fscal year they are recorded and at the pledge 

payment amount recorded in subsequent fscal years, until the pledge 

is completed. If more than one gift, pledge and/or pledge payment by a 

donor is recorded in a fscal year, these are added together and the donor 

is recognized in the appropriate category. The Ofce of Advancement 

makes every efort to recognize donors accurately. 

Sumner Gerard Foundation 

Kathy and J.W. Gibson 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven H. Gibson 

Dr. Roscoe C. Giles III 

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gindi 

Larry Gladney 

Glass Alliance of Los Angeles 

Mr. Brian Glasser 

Godfrey Dadich Partners 

Mr. William H. Goines 

Mr. and Mrs. Amnon Golan 

Mrs. Richard Gold 

Ms. Jackie Goldberg 

Ms. Claudette Golden 

Mr. Jim Goldschmidt 

Mrs. Cheryl Goldwire 

Ms. Mary Anne Goley 

Google.org 

Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Graham 

Ms. Beverly Ruth Grant 

(Marx Foundation) 

Mrs. Flora L.W. Grant 

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Grayson 

Dr. Arthur and Cassandra Greene 

Ms. Peggy A. Grove 

Ms. Rosemary Haas 

The Honorable and 

Mrs. Robert F. Hale 

Dr. Wendy Hall, Wendy Farms 

and Flowers 

Mr. Peter Hamel 

Gloria Shaw Hamilton 

Mrs. Maureen Hamilton 

Thomas and Terry Hamilton 

Artis Hampshire-Cowan 

Mrs. Nikole Hannah-Jones 

Ms. Nancy Harahan 

Mr. Michael Hardy 

The Milton and Patricia 

Hardy Family 

Mr. Roger D. Hardy and 

Ms. Renee Stevens 

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Harper 

Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP 

Mr. Christie G. Harris 

Ms. Thelma Harris 

Donna M. Harris-Aikens, Esq. 

Reverend Linda Harrison and 

Mr. Robert A. Corsello 

Dr. Fruzsina M. Harsanyi and 

Mr. Raymond Garcia 

Colonel Brodes Hartley and 

Dr. Jacquelyn Hartley 

Hausknost Family Trust 

Johnine Hays 

Admiral Thomas Hayward, USN 

Ms. Michelle Headen 

Ms. Vaughan Heard 

Joseph A. Hearn 

Ms. Gertraud Hechl 

Mr. Ronald Lee Henry 

The Herndon Family Foundation 

Dr. Tomás Herrera 

Paul Hertelendy 

Ms. Kim Heyman 

Dr. Avionne Hill 

Ms. Victoria Hill 

Dr. Sally T. Hillsman 

Dr. Anson H. Hines, Jr. 

Hinson Ford Cider & Mead 

Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Hipkins 

Mary Hirahara 

Debra Hollander 

Dr. Sandra C. Holley 

Ms. Paula Holt 

William Logan Hopkins 

Nettie A. Horne and 

Suzanne Haynes 

Mr. Matthew Horsfeld 

Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Howard 

Mr. Alvin Howard 

Mr. Timothy Howard and 

Mrs. Debra M. Howard 

Ms. Mei Yen Huang Chang 

Mr. Robert G. Hughes 

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Hullar 

Mark Humphrey 

Randy J. and Kelsey T. Hunt 

Dr. Carlessia A. Hussein, 

Opportunity and Health 

Illinois Tool Works Foundation 

Embassy of Ireland 

Necole S. Irvin 

Islas Secas Foundation 

Ms. Cheryl Jackson 

LaTanya, Zoe and 

Samuel L. Jackson 

Mr. and Mrs. William E. James 

Mr. Brian K. Jammer 

Ms. Attica Alexis Jaques 

The Jedra Charitable 

Foundation 

A Yęmisi Jimoh 

Clarissa E. Johnson 

Reverend Earl Johnson and 

Dr. Douglas Ward 

Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson 

Kenneth E. Johnson 

Leslie and Paul Johnson 

Ms. Lola M. Johnson 

Ms. Saniah Johnson 

Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson 

Willie Johnson, Jr. 

Ms. Anna Faith Jones 

Dr. Walter F. Jones and 

Ms. Cheryl L. Rash Jones 

Mr. William Jones 

Ms. Sirretha Joy 

Mr. Oscar Joyner 

Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason 

Foundation 

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kanter 

Ms. Diane Kaplan 

Dr. Arnold and Ms. Marcia Kaplin 

Russell and Randy Katz 

Sheldon and Audrey Katz 

Mr. Jaya A. Kaveeshwar and 

Dr. Hans G. Pohl 

Donnell Lewis Kearney 

Terry Keeler 

Margot and Robert Keith 

Rosa Lee Kelley and 

Marlene Marie Turner 

Ms. Claire E. Kelly 

The Honorable Dirk and 

Mrs. Patricia Kempthorne 

Ms. Marie-Louise Kennedy 

Mr. John W. Kilpatrick 

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene D. Kinlow, Jr. 

Mr. Elbert Kirby 

Thomas and Mary Bridget Kluwin 

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Knell 

Mr. Gary Knell and 

Ms. Kim Larson 

Mr. Jay L. Knott 

Ms. Bonnie Kogod 

Mr. Stuart Kogod and 

Ms. Denise Garone 

Mr. Michael Kolakowski 

Mrs. Barbara Korman 

KPF Foundation 

Ms. Anne E. Kreamer and 

Mr. Kurt B. Andersen 

Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer and 

Mr. Ross G. Kreamer 

Ms. Rae M. Krelitz 

Mr. and Mrs. George Krupp 

Ms. Patrice Kunesh 

Mr. and Mrs. Alvin L. Kwiram 

Janey and Melvin Lack 

Mr. and Dr. Kelly and Ann Lally 

Diane Lane 

Barbara Lang 

Mr. Lawrence Larson 

Vivienne M. Lassman 

Weldon and Constantia Latham 

and Family 

Ms. Rosetta N. Lattimore 

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lee 

Ms. Peggy D. Lee 

LEGO Systems, Inc. 

The Leighton Family from 

Alan & Katherine Stroock Fund 

Dr. Yvonne T. Le Melle 

Suzanne and Fred Lepple 

William A. Lester, Jr., Ph.D. 

D’Ann and John Lettieri 

Mr. Daniel W. Leubecker 

Donald J. and Marcy Leverenz 

Mr. Richard H. Levi and 

Ms. Susan Perry 

Ms. Janet Lew 

Cynthia Lewin 

Mr. Alan E. Lewis 

Dr. Earl Lewis 

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lewis 

Ms. Frances Li and 

Mr. Carl Schaefer 

Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lieberthal 

Lilly Pulitzer 

Mauretta R. Link 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linton 

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Little, Jr. 

(William & Helen Little Family 

Foundation) 

Mr. Paul Livingston 

Mr. and Mrs. Alex Lodde 

Karen and Jack Lowe 

Dr. Zhe-Xi Luo 

Dr. Deborah L. Lyons 

Mr. Thomas G. MacCracken 

Roderick and Barbara MacNeal 

Jean B. Mahoney 

The Cecily and David Murphy 

Majerus Foundation 

Dr. Lydia G. Mallett 

Nancy Mannes 

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis G. Manning 

Theresa Marinelli 

Ms. Joyce L. Martin 

Michelle M. Martin 

Ms. Vicki Match-Suna 

James and Marsha Mateyka 

Linda L. Mayer 

Ms. Dawn L. McCall 

McClary-White Charitable 

Foundation 

McCormick & 

Company, Inc. 

Maia S. McCuiston 

Mattie McFadden-Lawson & 

Michael Lawson and Family 

Renee and David McKee 

Ms. Catherine McNamee and 

Mr. Christopher Miller 

Cheryl McQueen 

Mr. Lorenzo McRae II and 

Ms. Nancy Brown 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Victor McTeer 

Ms. Mary Anne Mekosh 

Mr. James F. Melchert 

Mr. and Mrs. Alan W. Melvin 

Merck Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Merritt 

Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Michaels 

Mr. and Mrs. W. Todd Miller 

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Minerich 

Lee and Saundra Minshull 

Dr. Edith P. Mitchell and 

Mr. Delmar K. Mitchell 

Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell 

Mr. Randall Pernell Mitchell 

Betty M. Montgomery 

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Monthey 

Mrs. Amanda L. Moore 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Moore 

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Moore 

Jocelyn M. Moore and the 

Gardner Family 

Colonel and Mrs. John E. Moore, Jr. 

Verba A. Moore, M.D. 

Deborah E. Mosley-Bennett 

Lynda and Richard Mounts 

Mr. Wash 

Mr. and Mrs. Salah Mubarek 

Ms. Wendy Munger 

Ms. Pam Murphy 

Suzan Murray 

Ms. Catherine Muther 

Mystic Stamp Company 

Melanie Nathanson and 

Jeffrey Jackman 

National Association of Student 

Financial Aid Administrators 

Native Orchid Conference Inc. 

Katee and Chris Neal 

Dr. Larry Dean Nelson and 

Linda H. Nelson 

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Newbill 

Amy Klette Newman Foundation 

Ms. Elaine Nichols 

Dr. Guy Nicholson and 

Ms. Bonani Datta 

Constanze and Oliver Niedermaier 

Obviously 

Libby and Matt O’Connell 

Mr. and Mrs. Jay Scott Odell 

Ms. Mary B. Olch 

Mr. James Oliver 

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Olson 

Omni Shoreham Hotel 

Ms. Cerissa M. O’Neal, Esq. 

William and Anne Overbey 

Oxford Properties 

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GIFT-IN-KIND 

DONORS 

Anonymous 

3M 

Analytical Graphics, Inc. 

Apple, Inc. 

Automattic 

Mr. and Mrs. Lyndon Barrois 

Booz Allen Hamilton 

Mary and John F. Brock III 

Mr. and Mrs. John A. 

Canning, Jr. 

(Canning Foundation) 

Clark Concepts 

Comcast 

Compass 

Susan Dunne 

Eastern Band of Cherokee 

Indians 

Mr. Steven A. Elmendorf 

FedEx Corporation 

Martha J. Fleischman 

Jeff and Mary Lynn Garrett 

Sonny and Kathy 

Hagendorf 

Hinson Ford Cider & Mead 

IBM Corporation 

LaTanya, Zoe and 

Samuel L. Jackson 

JLG Industries, Inc. 

Korean Cultural Center 

Mr. Stephen C. Koval and 

Ms. Celeste M. 

Sant ́Angelo 

Evelyn Day Lasry 

Debra L. Lee, 

Quinn S. Coleman, 

Ava L. Coleman 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. 

Lore 

Maharam 

Mars, Incorporated 

Jacqueline B. Mars 

Mattie McFadden-Lawson 

& Michael Lawson and 

Family 

Mystic Stamp Company 

New Tradition Media 

Nikon Inc. 

Mr. Morgan Dene Oliver 

and Elizabeth Hamman 

Oliver 

The Pace Gallery, New York 

Judy Lynn Prince 

R/GA 

Mr. and Mrs. William M. 

Ragland, Jr. 

Ricos Products Company 

Daniel H. Sallick and 

Elizabeth Miller 

Shapeways, Inc. 

Bob and Kim Showalter 

Southwest Airlines 

Donald and 

Chacea Sundman 

Tessellate Design Inc. 

United Airlines 

Amy and Horacio Valeiras 

Ms. Jacqueline Vossler 

Washington Nationals 

Baseball Club, LLC 

Mr. and Mrs. Denzel H. 

Washington 

Wegmans Food 

Markets, Inc. 

Mr. Alan B. Whitman 

SMITHSONIAN 

CORPORATE 

MEMBERS 

Corporate memberships 

forge dynamic ties with 

businesses nationwide and 

provide unrestricted support 

to Smithsonian education, 

research and exhibition 

initiatives. 

3M 

Allergan, Inc. 

Altria Group 

Bloomberg 

Booz Allen Hamilton 

BP America 

CareFirst BlueCross 

BlueShield 

Clark Construction Group 

The Coca-Cola Company 

Comcast NBCUniversal 

Deloitte 

Designtex 

ExxonMobil 

Ford Motor Company 

Hilton 

Honeywell 

Johnson & Johnson 

JPMorgan Chase & Co. 

Karn Charuhas 

Chapman & Twohey 

KPMG LLP 

Latch 

Mars, Incorporated 

Nissan North America, Inc. 

PEPCO, An Exelon 

Company 

Pfzer Inc. 

Polygon Global Partners LP 

Pratt Institute 

Room & Board, Inc. 

SC Johnson 

Southern Company 

Swiss Re 

Texas Instruments 

UBS 

Visa 

The Walt Disney Company 

Wolf-Gordon 

BEQUEST 

EXPECTANCIES 

We gratefully acknowledge 

our donors who made bequest 

arrangements this year. 

Anonymous 

Claudia R. Allen and 

Willis M. Allen, Jr. 

Bob and Dori Arrington 

Mr. Steven Bershader and 

Ms. Marguerite Godbold 

Robert S. and Dawn M. 

Birmingham 

Ruth L. Bohan 

Darlene Bookoff 

Jere and Bonnie 

Broh-Kahn 

Margaret Carson-Gable 

and Eric H. Gable 

Dr. Cynthia Jacobs Carter 

Ms. Pauline Ann Cochrane 

Dr. Peter L. Comanor 

Charles and 

Candace Cowan 

The Cronin Charitable 

Fund 

Colonel and Mrs. Robert J. 

Dalessandro 

Robert and Odessa Dann 

Robert L. Davidson 

Susan Denning 

Eddie and Rachel Eitches 

Joseph V. Fischer 

Dr. Dolores Mercedes 

Franklin 

LaVerne Council Franklin 

Mary Alice Freeney 

Ian C. Gibson-Smith 

Mark and Tia Graham 

Lorna Grenadier 

Robert and Deborah 

Hefferon 

Major Barbara E. Hiatt, 

USAF (Ret.) 

Elizabeth Jackson Hodges 

and C. Howie Hodges II 

Debra Hollander 

Dr. Peter L. Jakab 

Mr. Michael G. Knapp 

Ann E. Leininger 

Lou and Chosun 

Mastriani 

Mary Shaw McCutcheon 

Robert E. Mortensen 

Lynda Cahan Mulhauser, 

Ph.D. 

The Honorable and 

Mrs. William A. Nitze 

Mrs. James William 

Noonan 

Dr. Percy North 

Nancy E. Rehman 

Ms. Hillary Rosenwald 

Dr. Randi Rubovits-Seitz 

Dawn Renée Runyan 

John and Anne Ryan 

Tim and Patricia Schantz 

William and Adrienne 

Sheneman 

Amy E. Smithson 

Steven G. Stepanek 

JJ van Haelewyn 

Darlene D. Watkins 

Mei Chen Welland 

Sarah F. Whiting 

Warren and Barbara 

Winiarski (Winiarski 

Family Foundation) 

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Witt 

David and Dianne Worley 

Judy Yoss 

BEQUESTS 

We remember with 

appreciation the following 

generous donors whose gifts 

through bequests from their 

estates were received this year. 

Anonymous 

Elfriede Baker 

James Bond 

David and Joan R. 

Challinor 

Douglas T. Comerdinger 

Steven L. Conrad 

Charles E. Dern 

Yvonne de Vilar 

Nicholas J. Dissler 

Harold A. Dundee, Ph.D. 

Anne Forbes 

Rose Frieze 

Doris E. Gerbracht 

Henry F. Gottstein 

William J. Graham 

Linda E. Gramlich 

Debra A. Sandlin Hahn 

Herbert H. Hamilton 

Robert and Bettye 

Hammond 

Rita Neergaard Hansen 

Drue Heinz Trust 

Evelyn Heinzinger 

Claudia Hellmann 

Carl D. Herold 

Michael S. Hirsch 

Anita Hirsh 

Chang-Su Cho Houchins 

Jane Hurlbut 

Amy P. Jones 

Marjorie C. Kennedy 

Edward Joseph 

Kuhlmann III 

Anna F. and 

John E. Laynor 

Robert Thomas Leonard 

Leslie Leonelli 

Edna Leuthner 

Richard S.T. Marsh 

Marshall J. Mayry 

Constance McCollough 

Barbara Lee Mills 

Sorab K. Modi and 

Susan Lowe Modi 

Patricia Anne Morris 

Dorothy J. O’Berry 

Hugh E. O’Donnell 

James Painter 

Roy R. Phillips 

Carol Cosden Price 

Jack and Marjorie Rachlin 

Patsy Riedel Sampson 

Kenneth A. Saunders 

Marguerite V. Schneeberger 

Mary Hudson Siciliano 

Joan S. Siedenburg 

Bernice Silverman 

Charlene Landsberg Smith 

Charles R. Smith 

DJ Smith-Brooks 

Sterling F. and Barbara 

M. Strause 

William J. Taylor, Jr. 

Keith Vrhel 

William C. White 

Francis W. and 

Carol J. Worrell 

MEMORIAL AND 

COMMEMORATIVE 

GIFTS 

The following were honored 

by their families, friends 

and other donors to the 

Smithsonian. 

Elizabeth Abramowitz 

An Family 

Helene An 

Andrea Baker 

Cynthia Malkin Blumenthal 

Laura Brouse-Long 

Lonnie G. Bunch 

Margaret Collins 

Laura Evan Combs 

Elisa Díaz 

Leno Díaz 

Bern Dibner 

George W. Elliott 

Barbara G. Fleischman 

Cary J. Frieze 

Jeff Garrett 

Ferdinand V. Hayden 

Leonard P. Hirsch 

Michael P. Ilyin 

Mary E. Jenkins 

Warren Lee Jones 

Rena Joyce Weller 

Karefa-Smart 

Mariana Stroock Leighton 

Nion McEvoy 

Arlene Factor Meyers 

Sorab K. Modi and 

Susan Lowe Modi 

Steven L. Monfort 

Shirley Federgreen Morris 

Ted Morris 

Enid W. Morse 

Ann Richards Nitze 

Chips Chapman Page 

A. Barry Rand 

Philip D. Reed, Jr. 

Beth Richwine 

John and Olga Robinson 

Elliot Rosman 

Valerie Rowe 

Randall C. Shepard 

Thomas R. and 

Charlene Landsberg 

Smith 

Pumpkin Landsberg Smith 

Margaret A. Turner 

James W. Wheeler 

Janet B. Wheeler 

Robert L. Wilkins 

Paul R. Wood 

Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology 

Institute provide medical care for endangered species and research 

links between wildlife and human health to combat emerging infectious 

diseases, including coronaviruses. 

NATIONAL ZOO AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 

INSTITUTE S GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAM 

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Nancy Barclay Graves 

Joanne T. Greenspun 

Ms. Virginia Gregory 

Lorna Grenadier 

Mrs. Ruth Gresham 

Alice L. Grindstaff 

Marilyn Grossman 

Mr. Donald J. Guiles 

Mrs. Milton R. Gunther 

Mr. Robert S. Guthrie 

Nancy E. Gwinn and John Y. Cole 

Valerie J. and D. Wilson Gyton 

Eileen Hamilton 

Gloria Shaw Hamilton 

KD “Jonesy” Hamilton-Jones 

The Tom and Char Hand 

Foundation 

Richard W. Hardman 

Mrs. Nancy M. Harlan 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harmon 

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Harmon 

Mr. Christie G. Harris 

Ms. Margery F. Harris 

Myra Maloney Hart 

Miss Jeannine Hartley 

Al Hartwick 

Ms. D.L. Hasse 

Roger D. and 

Martha E.V. Hathaway 

Jean Mary Hauck 

Ellen M. Haude 

Hausknost Family Trust 

Ms. Jennifer E. Hawley 

Dr. Carla H. Hay 

Christine Berglund Hayes 

Mr. Geoffrey F. Hayes 

Johnine Hays 

Robert and Deborah Hefferon 

Mrs. Joan E. Hekimian 

Ms. Judith A. Henderson 

Mr. Richard D. Henderson 

Michael and Char Hersh 

Martha Hertelendy 

Paul Hertelendy 

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Herzog 

Major Barbara E. Hiatt, USAF (Ret.) 

Bob Hickey 

Mr. Daniel Higman 

Jeff Hill 

Robert Anthony Hirsch 

Mr. Charles W. Hirst 

Edward J. and Ruth Hodge 

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart 

Hodgekinson-Price 

Elizabeth Jackson Hodges and 

C. Howie Hodges II 

Miss K.T. Hoffacker 

Sallie Holder 

Ms. F. Lynn Holec 

Debra Hollander 

Ms. Edna M. Hoover 

Glenn Hopkins 

Mary W. Hopkins 

William L. Hopkins 

Mr. Herbert J. Hoppe, Jr. 

Virginia Stewart Houk 

Ms. Brenda Howard 

John A. Hoyda 

Ms. Suzanne Huber 

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Hugel 

Dr. and Mrs. James C. Hunt 

Mr. Chris Hushak 

Mr. and Mrs. Milton M. Hyatt 

Ms. Marie Ann Iandoli 

Keith Jackson 

Karel and Virginia Jacobs 

Living Trust 

Dr. Peter L. Jakab 

Ms. Jean Jamison 

Ms. Nancy E. Jemiola 

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Jenkins 

Dennis R. Jenkins 

Donald R. and Judy Jensen 

David S. and Pat Jernigan 

Dr. Karen Jespersen 

Carol D. Jobusch 

Dr. G. David Johnson and 

Ms. Ai Nonaka 

Shirley Z. Johnson 

Diane B. Jones 

Ms. Heather Jones 

Wells B. Jones and 

Donna L. Ceravolo 

J. Lisa Jorgenson and 

David D. Doniger 

Suryaram R. Joshi and 

Sushila S. Joshi 

Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Jue 

Mr. Nelson Kading 

Linda Kamen 

Carol Ann Kapheim 

Ms. Judy Kaselow 

Steven Kazan and 

Judy Heymann Kazan 

Ms. Anne B. Keiser and 

Dr. Douglas M. Lapp 

Robert F. and Nancy L. Kempf 

Mr. John B. Kendrick 

Ms. Kelly A. Kendrick-Bailey 

Mrs. Rae Keogh 

Mary Jane Kilhefner 

Anita Y. Kinard-Medeiros 

Diana A. King 

Mr. James W. Kinnear 

Drs. Susan and Perry Klein 

Mr. Michael G. Knapp 

Mrs. Elise H. Knight 

Dr. C. Wilson Kniseley 

Mary Ann Knyff 

Dr. Seth A. Koch 

John and Mary Lu Koenig 

Richard Kolesar 

Mrs. William K. Konze 

Ms. Amy Kotkin 

Mr. and Mrs. Myron Kownacki 

Dr. Ellen Kreighbaum 

Grace and Wayne Krumwiede 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Kuehl 

Richard and Allyn Kurin 

Margo Kurtz 

Ms. Lee L. Kush 

Mr. Travis S. Lamberton 

Mrs. Robert H. Lando 

Gilbert H. Lang, M.D. 

Jane Lanham 

Dr. Deirdre Ann LaPin 

Cynthia Muss Lawrence 

Mr. and Mrs. Willis Lawrence 

William Leavens 

M/SGT. Lionel L. Leblanc 

Mr. and Mrs. Erich Lechpammer 

Ms. Maryann D.B. Lee 

Tonia Chenelle Lee 

Harvey I. Leifert 

Mr. Bruce Leighty 

Ann E. Leininger 

Emily Markgraf Leslie 

Ms. Rosealie Lesser 

Donald J. and Marcy Leverenz 

Barbara Ann Libbey 

Jeanie Linders 

Mr. Michael W. Lingo 

Daniel M. Linguiti and 

Teri A. Smurl 

Ms. Eleanor L. Linkous 

Jan W. Lipkin 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Liss 

Ms. Anne R. Litchfeld 

Ms. Nina Liu 

William and Katherine Livengood 

Martha G. Locke 

Dr. and Mrs. Pichon P.Y. Loh 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Long 

Shirley Loo 

Kurt M. Loos 

Frances J. Lowe 

Mrs. Karen F. Lowe 

Steven Lubar and Lisa Thoerle 

Frank J. Lukowski 

Glen and Sally Lunde 

Mr. Bradley Lutz 

Ms. Doris MacDaniel 

Marion Maia da Cruz 

Kim and Mark Mailloux 

Commander and 

Mrs. Charles Maluzzi 

Ms. Janean L. Mann 

Nancy Mannes 

Judith A. Mansfeld 

Reverend Ann F. Martens 

Teresa L. Martin 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martucci 

Margery and Edgar Masinter 

David Mason 

Linda Powers Massaro 

Lou and Chosun Mastriani 

Mr. Paul Maxim 

Ms. Kathleen Maxwell 

Ms. Annette May 

Ronald W. McCain 

Robert and Cynthia McCallum 

Ms. June W. McCarron 

Mr. and Mrs. Brandon McCrary 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. McCrary 

Mr. Stephen McCrary 

Ms. Carolyn H. McCurry 

Mary Shaw McCutcheon 

Ms. Iris McDonald 

Mattie McFadden-Lawson & 

Michael Lawson and Family 

Cristina McGee 

Mr. John C. McGilvary 

Ms. Lowen McKay 

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse T. McMahan 

Mr. Andrew McMahon 

Ms. Lenore McMahon 

Melinda McMullen and 

Duncan Kime 

Alison McNally and Bobby German 

Cheryl McQueen 

Scott and Hella McVay 

Miss Nora L. Melville 

Ms. Mae Mercereau 

Hans and Mary Miesler 

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mikuletzky 

Dennis and Patricia Miller 

Gus and Deanne Miller and Family 

Mrs. Melissa L. Mills 

Ms. Patricia Minard 

Ms. Jo Ann Mitchell 

R.C. Mitchell 

Sidney Mobell 

Robert K. and Sandra S. Momyer 

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Montanye 

Dr. Judith A. Monte 

Ms. Nancy Montecalvo 

Susan and Guy Moody 

Marshall W. Moore 

Mrs. Anne Murray Morgan 

Ms. Jessie Morgan 

Ms. Jeri Ann Moriarty 

Charles H. and Helen S. Moriyama 

Marie L. Morrisroe 

Jill D. Morrow-Gorton and 

Christopher Gorton 

Robert E. Mortensen 

David and Francesca Moskowitz 

Gary L. Mueller, M.D. and Carolyn R. 

Mueller, Ph.D., R.N. 

Marianne Muellerleile and 

Tom Norris 

Dr. Joel Mulhauser 

Lynda Cahan Mulhauser, Ph.D. 

Marilyn J. Musser 

Joan C. Muzzillo and 

Paul R. Popick 

Mr. Roger K. Myers 

Mr. Marvin J. Nakashima 

David A. Neiss 

Ms. Caroline K. Nelson 

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Nelson 

Mary and Paul Nelson 

Ms. Beverly A. Nichols 

The Honorable and 

Mrs. William A. Nitze 

Mrs. James William Noonan 

Dr. Percy North 

Jane Strauss Northern 

Susann Norton 

Jeane and Joel Novak 

Carl T. and Carol Jean Obenland 

Mr. Homer C. Ogles 

Daniel and Rebecca Okrent 

Nancy L. O’Neal 

Ms. Terry O’Reilly 

Ms. Jean D. Osbon 

Ms. P. Gail Osburn 

Tim and Debra Osburne 

Mr. Richard S. Paegelow 

James and Anne Painter 

Russell E. and Wendy Palmer 

Jean and Kent Papsun 

James D. Parker 

Stephen Parks 

Mr. Ronald P. Parola 

Mr. Wayne Parsons 

Mr. Robert Pastorino 

Wesley Patterson and Linda 

Pritchard Patterson 

Robert C. Patton, M.D. 

David and Diane Pearson 

Joanne M. Pearson, M.D. 

Mary Ann and Carl Pearson 

Paul Peck 

SMITHSONIAN LEGACY SOCIETY 

The Society honors those who carry on James Smithson’s 

tradition by making legacy gifts, such as bequests, charitable 

gift annuities, charitable trusts, gifts of retirement plans or 

donations through other planned gifts. 

Anonymous 

Lucian Abernathy 

Ms. Simone L. Acha 

Mrs. Mary Adams 

Mr. Michael C. Adams, Jr. 

Doctors Joseph and Seena Aisner 

Mrs. Roberta M. Alden 

Stephen T. Alexieff 

Claudia R. Allen and 

Willis M. Allen, Jr. 

Ruth and Sam Alward 

Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya 

Mr. Richard C. Andersen 

William S. and Janice R. Anderson 

Paul G. and Alyce C. Andrus 

Linda Anthon 

Dr. and Mrs. C. Araoz 

Ms. Beryl E. Arbit 

Dr. and Mrs. Mark B. Ardis 

Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. Arnaud, Jr. 

Ms. Ruth Arnold 

Bob and Dori Arrington 

Ms. Joan Reading Asboth 

Mr. Robert J. Atwater 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Avery 

Rose Marie Baab 

Ms. Kathy Babcock 

Mrs. Dorothy Baecht 

Dr. Sheryl R. Bair 

Lorraine Idriss Ball 

Kimberly Caitlin Barden 

Mr. Roger Barnes 

Mr. Dale S. Barnett, Jr. 

Captain Celia Barteau 

LeRoy T. Baseman 

Betty Passmore Bass 

Florence Baston 

Susan Battley 

Nancy and Michael D. Baudhuin 

Foundation Fund 

Susan and Thomas Baxter 

Heather Beachum 

Mr. Gary F. Beanblossom 

Susan M. Beardsley 

Gwendolyn Beasley 

Elizabeth Clagett Beck 

Leslie Ellen Beller 

Bradford and Jennifer Benn 

Bonnie and Rodney Benson 

Ms. Joan Benson 

Mr. and Mrs. Jason R. Beresford 

Doris Bergen 

Dava Berkman 

Philip D. Berlin 

Mr. Steven Bershader and 

Ms. Marguerite Godbold 

Robert S. and Dawn M. Birmingham 

Thomas T. Bishop and 

Clifford L. Gregory 

Mrs. Carolyn Boday 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Boggs 

Ruth L. Bohan 

Mr. William H. and Clare Bohnett 

Margaret W. and William J.D. Bond 

Ms. Barbara L. Bonessa and 

Mr. Alan L. Perkins 

Darlene Bookoff 

Mark and Eileen Boone 

Colonel Charles Botula III, USAF 

(Ret.) and Mrs. Susan K. Botula 

Mark C. Bowers 

Ms. Jean Brackman 

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Bradley 

Ms. Annelise Brand 

Mrs. Linda Ann Brass-Terry II 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Breitwieser 

Ms. Brenda Bridges 

Diane and Hal Brierley 

Jere and Bonnie Broh-Kahn 

Penelope J. Brook 

Colonel Arthur L. Brooke (Ret) 

Agnes M. Brown 

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Brown 

Harris and Diane Bruch 

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Bruns 

Dr. Nancy D. Bryant 

Rogene A. Buchholz 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Kevin Buchi 

Mr. Donald S. Budowsky 

Robert F. Bulens 

Mrs. Edward A. Burka 

Mr. Scott C. Bushnell 

Bradley and Heidi Butcher 

Warren F. Buxton, Ph.D., CDP 

John P. Cahill 

Bruce A. and Karen L. Campbell 

Ms. Margaret Capuder, R.N. 

Dawn V. Carr 

Robert and Sherrie Black Carr 

Mrs. Ruth Ogden Carroll 

Margaret Carson-Gable and 

Eric H. Gable 

Dr. Cynthia Jacobs Carter 

Ms. Joyce L. Carter 

Mary M. Case and 

Edward T. Fishwick 

Rod and Lynette Case 

Michael W. Cassidy 

Mr. and Mrs. James Catalano 

Mr. James K. Cavanaugh 

Kathleen A. and 

William J. Cavanaugh 

Dr. Rubén S. and 

Mrs. Kelly J. Cedeño 

Mr. Eric Chandler 

Samuel Charache 

Judith L. Cherwinka 

Anne Page Chiapella 

Ms. Mary Claire Christensen 

Mr. Roland H. Cipolla II 

Ms. Linda C. Clark 

Ms. Tanya Marie Clark 

Mr. Thomas L. Clark 

Dorothy H.V. Clarke 

Linda and Pete Claussen 

Earl F. Clayton 

Colleen Cleary 

Jason Wayne Isamu Clock 

Robert and Betsey Clopine 

Ms. Pauline Ann Cochrane 

Ann and John Collins 

Dr. Peter L. Comanor 

James M. Compton, Col. USA (Ret.) 

Joe and Wanda Corn 

Ronald M. Costell, M.D., and 

Marsha E. Swiss 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Cotton 

Charles and Candace Cowan 

Patrisha Creevy and 

Albert Del Negro 

Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Creitz 

Barbara S. Cronin 

Mr. Curtis E. Croom 

Stacey E. Crouch 

Ms. Joanne Crovets 

Phillip and Betty Crum 

Linda B. Cullen 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Culley 

Mr. Hal J. Cunningham 

Mr. James Curry 

Ken and Sylvia Curry 

Miss Pauline R. Cushing 

Gregg and Jody Cutler 

Mrs. Margaret J. Cutler 

Ms. Candi Cutrell 

Mrs. Phyllis Daderio 

Colonel and Mrs. Robert J. 

Dalessandro 

Mr. Carmen J. D’Angelo 

Robert and Odessa Dann 

Doris M. Darmopray 

Mrs. Lucile Daubner 

Robert L. Davidson 

James and Dorothy Davis 

Ms. Kamer Davis 

Nora Hsu Davis and Barry C. Davis 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Davis 

Mr. Walter Deans 

Mrs. Alexandra de Borchgrave 

Dr. Bertrun Delli 

Mr. Alan R. Dellinger 

Ms. Sue A. Delorme 

Susan Denning 

Mr. and Mrs. Roland A. DeSilva 

Jeff DeTroye and Mary Ann Gorman 

Baroness Yvonne de Vilar 

David and Kunie DeVorkin 

Ms. Ruth E. Dewton 

Paul and Becky Dhyse 

Kenneth G. and Sherry L. Dietz 

Dennis O. Dixon 

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Dixon 

Alycia and Bruce Doctor 

Mr. Mark S. Doherty 

Deborah G. Douglas, Ph.D. 

Alan and Elizabeth Duckett 

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Eacker 

Eleanor O. Earle 

Jason and Marci Eaton 

Ms. Nancy L. Eaton 

Mr. Gabriel H. Ebersole 

Amanda Edens and 

Stephanie Semmer 

Frances A. Edmonds (Mohr) and 

Michael D. Mohr 

Dr. Kay L. Edwards 

Mrs. Ruth F. Effron 

Eddie and Rachel Eitches 

Valerie A. Emerson 

Ronald W. and Sophie M. Enger 

Mr. Carl B. Fausey 

Dr. Linda S. Ferber 

Alan and Lois Fern 

Ken Ferrara 

Ms. Gloria Fine 

Ms. Rosemarie Fiorilli and 

Mr. Thomas A. Berglund 

Joseph V. Fischer 

Ms. Norma L. Forbes 

Dr. Brandon Brame Fortune 

Sarajane Foster 

Mr. Ronald J. Foulis 

Stephen D. Fox 

Dr. Dolores Mercedes Franklin 

LaVerne Council Franklin 

Mrs. Marilyn C. Frantsov 

Ms. Diane Freedman 

Mary Alice Freeney 

Mr. Jarvis Freymann 

Howard and Shirlee Friedenberg 

Al Friedlander 

Barry D. Friedman 

Wendy Frieman and 

David E. Johnson 

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Friendly 

Gudrun Fruehling 

Dr. David G. Furth 

Dr. Ann Reed Gaines 

The Anthony and Linda Galasso 

Family Foundation 

Mr. Tim Garner 

David E. Garrett 

Jeff and Mary Lynn Garrett 

Ms. Lois Gartlir 

Suzanne Gartz 

Jane W. Gaston 

Helen Gaul 

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Gazzola 

Dr. Martha Gelderman 

Dr. Mary Gendernalik-Cooper and 

Dr. Wade H. Cooper 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Gibson 

Ian C. Gibson-Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Gilbert 

Mr. William Gjodesen 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Godfrey 

Ms. Gaylynn Golden and 

Mr. James Basara 

Mr. Michael Goldfarb and 

Ms. Jacqueline Kelly 

Robert Goldman 

Ronnyjane Goldsmith 

Ms. Mary Anne Goley 

Dr. Margaret A. Goodman 

Mrs. Renee Goodstein 

Dr. Cheryl Gorelick 

Kenneth C. and Mary M. Gossett 

Anita F. Gottlieb 

Mr. Richard A. Govoni 

The Jon C. Graff Fund 

Mark and Tia Graham 

Ms. Gladys Grant 

Peter and Rhondda Grant 

Richard Wayne and 

Barbara K. Grant 

Ms. Margaret J. Grasston 

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Laura H. Peebles 

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Pehta 

Edith A. Pena 

Mrs. Carmalita J. Pendlebury 

Elaine and Patrick Perkins 

Barbara Rescher Perry 

Patti McGill Peterson and 

Kate S. Woodward 

Ms. Nicole Petrosky 

Mr. John E. Plastino 

Mr. Don Polan 

Morton and Sandra Porwick 

Bob and Janice Pound 

Mr. and Mrs. Anco L. Prak 

Ms. Louise Pressman 

Judy Lynn Prince 

Mrs. Lakhbir Purewal 

Ms. Martha Puricelli 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 

Stanley Purvinis 

Frank and Betty Quirk 

Mrs. Mildred F. Rafaj 

Glen E. and Susan F. Rainsley 

Mrs. Lois S. Raphling 

Francis H. Rasmus, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Daniel Reaves 

Mr. Michael F. Reed 

Ms. Sanae Iida Reeves 

Mr. David P. Rehfuss and 

Mrs. Hedy S. Rehfuss 

Nancy E. Rehman 

Mr. Jerrold H. Rehmar 

Carol A. Reich 

Mr. Donald Reinking 

Helen M. Reinsch 

Donna J. Rentzel 

Larry D. Reser and 

Kathleen L. Toyoda 

Suzanne Resnick and 

Robert Kayton 

Jon and Emilee Reynolds 

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry M. Rice 

Mrs. Robert A. Rice 

Althea Richards 

Norm Richards 

Justin and Lauren Richeson 

Mrs. Rose Marie Rick 

R. Lucia Riddle 

Mrs. Lydia Puccinelli Robbins 

Carol O. Roberts 

Mary Ann Roberts 

Ms. Susan Roberts 

Mr. Charles J. Robertson 

Janice Stultz Roddenbery and 

Thomas Peale Roddenbery 

Ms. Betty Rodgers 

Mr. Scott Roeth 

Ms. Laurel Rohrer 

Mr. Norman Roscilo 

Rieva Rose 

Mr. and Mrs. Stuart W. Rosenbaum 

The Honorable Ronald 

A. Rosenfeld 

Dr. Harry Rosenthal 

Ms. Hillary Rosenwald 

Sheldon Paul and 

Donna Rosenzweig 

Dee and Allan Roth 

Ms. Shari Rothstein 

Dr. Randi Rubovits-Seitz 

Dr. Mary A. Rudloff 

Nancy and Clive Runnells 

Foundation 

Dawn Renée Runyan 

Ralph and Dorothea Hoffman 

Rushworth 

Ms. Karen L. Russell 

Louise Russell, Ph.D. 

Mr. Richard T. Russell, Jr. 

John and Anne Ryan 

Ms. Sally D. Ryan 

Mr. C.J. Ryburn 

Edward H. Sachtleben 

Synthia SAINT JAMES 

Trudy and Charles Salter 

Dr. Janice E. Sanders 

Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders 

Jesse Ormond Sanderson, Jr. and 

Robert Keith Black 

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph 

R. Santa Barbara 

Mrs. Patricia Ann Beattie 

Santaromana 

Tim and Patricia Schantz 

Lloyd G. and Betty A. Schermer 

Donald and Marilyn Schlief 

Ms. Deborah Schneide 

Robert L. and Mary T. Schneider 

Ms. Jane Scholz and 

Mr. Douglas C. Balz 

Mr. Russell L. Schoudt 

Andrew and Beatrice Schultz 

Dr. Deanna Schupbach 

Catherine F. Scott 

Mrs. Ida Maxey Scott 

Ms. Sharon Scott 

Elinor Scotte-Virgona 

Sheryl Scull 

Madge Warden Selinsky 

Frederic Thompson Selleck, Ph.D. 

Mrs. Hope Sellers 

Anne Robertson Sellin 

Janice L. Settle 

Dee and Skip Seward 

S. Diane Shaw 

Mrs. Norma Gudin Shaw 

Mr. Jerrell W. Shelton 

William and Adrienne Sheneman 

Ms. Louise Sherman 

Dr. Gerry and Marietta Shigekawa 

Dr. Christina H.Y. Shih 

Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Shumate 

June and Harold Siebert 

Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Silberstein 

Ms. Mary F. Simons 

Mr. James C. Small and 

Mr. John A. Fry 

Sandra and Lawrence Small 

Dr. Barbara J. Smith 

Glenn Alan Smith 

Ms. Kelly P. Smith 

Amy E. Smithson 

Mary Catherine Smolenski 

Denny G. Snyder 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen K. Soldoff 

Siewchin Yong Sommer 

Deena R. Sosson 

Dr. Alex M. Spencer 

Mr. John Robin Sperry 

Earl C. Spohr 

Mr. and Mrs. George S. Sproesser 

Ms. Marcia L. Sprules 

Paul and Janet Stahlhuth 

Mr. and Mrs. L. Bradley Stanford 

Mr. James Starkey 

Ms. Eugenia L. Staszewski 

Steven G. Stepanek 

Ms. Sandra Sterling 

Kevin B. Stone 

Tom and Kitty Stoner 

Patty Stonesifer and 

Michael Kinsley 

Miss Irma Story 

Amanda Stott 

Edward and Diane Straker 

Miss Iris M. Strauss 

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick 

L. Streckewald 

Ms. Donna Strom 

Robert and Gail Strong 

Randy Struthers 

Joseph and Elizabeth Suarez 

Mr. Lewis Suber 

Mrs. Katherine Sullivan 

John A. and Janet Swanson 

Mr. John Szabo and 

Ms. Theodora Fine 

Ralph Edward Tamper 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Tanner 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Tanner 

John Thomann and Stanton 

Schnepp 

George D. and 

Mary Augusta Thomas 

Henry B. Thomas and 

Lynette Wardle 

James H. Thomas II 

Dr. F. Christian Thompson 

Ms. Johanna W. Thompson 

John and Ellen Thompson 

Robert and Karen Thompson 

Marie and Gary Thunem 

John and Evelyn Tielking 

Mrs. Diane D. Tobin 

Mr. David E. Todd 

Jim and Sharon Todd 

David and Linda Tozer 

Dr. Jack W. Trigg, Jr. 

Stephen Ungar and Susan Ungar 

Ms. Selena M. Updegraff 

Fred G. and Lelia R. Valdivia 

Susan A. Vallon and Andrew Beyer 

Wouter K. Vanderwal 

Dr. Lorna VanderZanden 

Carol Vangelos 

JJ van Haelewyn 

Dr. Frederick and 

Dr. Claudette Varricchio 

Trust of Dan and Marty Vega 

Dr. Miriam E. Vincent 

Dr. Sandy Vogelgesang and 

Mr. Geoffrey Wolfe 

Mr. and Mrs. Ladislaus von 

Hoffmann 

Jean and Davis H. von Wittenburg 

Mr. Frederick S. Voss 

Mr. Randall Wadsworth 

Ms. Jannene Wagner 

Patty Wagstaff 

Raymond Waite 

Ms. Jeanette M. Walke 

Bettye S. Walker 

Ms. Esperanza R. Walker 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Ward 

Dr. Winfred O’Neil Ward 

Darlene D. Watkins 

Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Watson, Jr. 

Sandra S. Watson, Ph.D. 

Susan G. Waxter 

Ruth L. Webb 

Richard P. Weber 

Mr. Les J. Weinstein 

Ms. Anne Weismann and 

Mr. Benjamin D. Gorton 

Angela Caveness Weisskopf 

DarEll T. Weist and Diane Kenney 

Mei Chen Welland 

Mr. Walt Wells 

Dale (Billie) L. Welton 

Dr. Jacqueline H. Werner 

Mrs. Laurel A. Wessman 

Larry J. West 

Mrs. Harriet K. Westcott 

Craig and Catherine Weston 

Jason Sean White 

Dr. Richard Whitekettle 

Mr. Dale A. Whiteside 

Sarah F. Whiting 

Ms. Duncan Whittome 

Ms. Vivian Wilder 

Bob Wilkinson 

Sandy and Jon Willen 

Mr. Donald E. Williams 

Ernest Gilman Wilson and 

Joan Work Wilson 

Warren and Barbara Winiarski 

(Winiarski Family Foundation) 

Ms. Shirley Winkler 

Ms. Margaret M. Wisniewski 

Mr. and Mrs. Brian Witt 

Rosemary Keates Witty 

Dr. Michael C. Wolf 

Sue Ann Wolff 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wolford 

Ms. Doris C. Wong 

Ms. Betsy J. Wood and 

Mr. James W. Stuart-Smith 

Martha R. Wood 

Mr. Phillip S. Woodruff 

David and Dianne Worley 

David F. Wright 

Deby and Robert Wulff 

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wynbrandt 

Sally Wyte 

Gail Yano 

Mr. Carey L. Yeager 

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Yohannes 

Judy Yoss 

Ms. Elise Barbara Yuter 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Zelenka 

Kenneth M. Zemrowski and 

Susan MacKeen 

John and Sherry Ziegler 

Margot Zimmerman 

Flavia P. Zorgniotti 

The Zug Family 

Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Zygielbaum 

The Anacostia Community Museum was renovated to be a 

more welcoming center for community engagement and 

outreach. Objects from the collection reflect the vibrancy 

of Washington, D.C. s Anacostia neighborhood. 

ANACOSTIA COMMUNITY MUSEUM 

SMITHSONIAN 2019 HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2019 55 ’54 
JAMES SMITHSON SOCIETY 

The 680 member households of the James Smithson 

Society share a deep commitment to the advancement of 

the Smithsonian through their philanthropy. In fscal year 

2019, they contributed $2.91 million in general support to the 

institution. The Smithsonian gratefully acknowledges the 

following individuals for the generous fnancial gifts, which 

provided important support for the institution’s art 

and artifact conservation, research, exhibitions and 

educational programs. 

Smithsonian National Board Member or Alumnus 

James Smithson Society Sustaining Fellow 

Endowed Life Member 

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS CIRCLE 

Anonymous 

Mr. Steven Bershader and 

Ms. Marguerite Godbold 

Mr. Zarth Bertsch 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Kevin Buchi 

Richard Ditton 

Cary J. Frieze 

Alfred C. Glassell, III and 

Ms. Marli Andrade 

Dr. and Mrs. H. Lee Griffn 

Gloria Shaw Hamilton 

David S. and Pat Jernigan 

Mr. Wayne E. Kurcz 

Lester S. and Enid W. Morse 

Everett P. and Andrea Paup 

Lola C. Reinsch (Reinsch Pierce 

Family Foundation) 

Melvin and Martha Rice 

Mr. and Mrs. William Shelton 

Mary and Steven Swig 

Nanar and Tony Yoseloff 

JOSEPH HENRY CIRCLE 

Anonymous 

The Arctica and 

Abbey Foundation 

Ms. Barbara L. Bonessa and 

Mr. Alan L. Perkins 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Cotton 

Gregg and Jody Cutler 

Dr. and Mrs. Paul T. Davis 

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Drower 

Robert and Debra Ekman 

Christopher Feldmann and 

Laura Beauchamp 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Forster 

Stuart Grossman 

Elaine A. Hodgson 

Mary W. Hopkins 

Tao Jones Charitable Foundation 

Kay Family Foundation, Inc. 

Michael and Gretchen Kriss 

Drs. Jerrold Levy and Maria Arias 

Ms. May Liang and 

Mr. James Lintott 

Robert R. Little 

Dr. and Mrs. David Machuga 

Jacqueline B. Mars 

Ms. Linda Merinoff 

Cindy Miscikowski 

Robert E. Mortensen 

Jim Neal 

Susann Norton 

James D. Parker 

Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock 

Mr. Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor 

William J. and Sally R. Siegel 

Foundation Ltd. 

Tricia and Thom Smelter 

Ms. Betty W. Smykal 

Eileen and Michael Tanner 

Sigrid and Philip Tiedtke 

Larry and Darlene Tripplett 

Ms. Mary Jane Walbridge and 

Mr. Mark A. Walbridge 

Nancy Zverina 

SAMUEL PIERPONT 

LANGLEY CIRCLE 

Anonymous 

Leslie Allen 

Ms. Nancy Anderson 

Mr. Ross Anderson 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Avery 

Mr. J. Kevin Baesler 

Ms. Laurel Barron 

Susan and Thomas Baxter 

Dr. Tyson E. Becker and 

Ms. Katherine Sutcliffe Becker 

Robert and Dawn Birmingham 

James E. Borleis 

Mr. and Mrs. Julian Brodsky 

(Julian A. and Lois G. Brodsky 

Foundation) 

Mark and Janice Buffer 

Mrs. Barbara Calvao 

Alan Cannon 

Jenny Rose and Gus Carey 

Mrs. Elizabeth Cheek 

Bruce E. Cobern 

Mary Ann Condon 

S.B. Cooper and R.L. Besson 

Christopher Cope and 

Jamie Shaw 

Karen L. Daigle, MD 

Nora Hsu Davis and 

Barry C. Davis 

Jeffrey and Cindy Dill 

Cheryl Dronzek 

Ms. Ann Dunkin 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Durst 

Dr. and Mrs. Bradley C. Eichhorst 

Miss Babs Eisman 

Mr. Ralph E. Elliott 

Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Fischer 

Ms. Sonia Florian 

Jacqueline Fowler 

Dr. and Mrs. William A. Geffen 

Dr. Alice George 

Ian C. Gibson-Smith 

Dr. Cheryl Gorelick 

Mr. James H. Greene, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Grisham 

Mr. William Gruber and 

Mrs. Claudia Gruber 

Mr. Kevin Hable 

Eileen Hamilton 

Drs. J. Michael Hamilton and 

Myung H. Nam 

Mr. and Mrs. S.A. Hancock 

Ms. Alice Handy 

Barbara Hiller Philanthropic Fund 

Galen and Patricia Ho 

Ms. F. Lynn Holec 

Ms. Wilhelmina Cole Holladay 

John A. Hoyda 

Diane and John Ippolito 

Mrs. Pamela Jacobs 

Mr. Bobby E. Jelks 

Wells B. Jones and 

Donna L. Ceravolo 

Mr. Nelson Kading 

The Fannie and Stephen Kahn 

Charitable Foundation 

Sheldon and Audrey Katz 

Mrs. Nancy B. Kelly 

Lenore and Howard Klein 

Foundation, Inc. 

Ms. Jone D. LaBombard and 

Mr. William Noyce 

James and Mary Larkin 

Ms. Linda R. Lee 

Mr. Jeffrey M. Lewis-Oakes and 

Mrs. Nicole Lewis-Oakes 

Susan Lindemuth 

Mr. Richard Livingston 

Glen and Sally Lunde 

Mrs. Jacomien Mars 

Virginia Cretella Mars 

Mary Martell 

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Mattox 

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Mayer 

Laura L. McAuliffe 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. McFadden 

Richard T. McMurray 

Dennis and Patricia Miller 

Milligan Family Foundation 

C. Jay Moorhead Foundation 

Marie L. Morrisroe 

Richard and Cheryl Moxley 

Drs. James and Pamela Mulshine 

Charles B. Nam 

Mr. and Mrs. George A. Needham 

Larry and Paige Nicholson 

Douglas and Suzanne Parker 

Ms. Sue Payne 

Roy and Michele Peck 

Ms. Denise Peine 

Mr. Carter Phillips and 

Mrs. Sue J. Henry 

Mr. Dale Precoda 

Tim and Karen Ramsey 

Ms. Lisa Rice 

Richter Family Foundation 

(Mr. Alfred C. Richter) 

Mr. William Ritchie 

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Andrew 

Rothkopf 

Mr. Raymond V. Ryan 

Madge Warden Selinsky 

Philip and Jane Skuta 

Dr. Stephen D. and 

Mary Jane Smith 

Fredda Sparks and 

Kent Montavon 

Paul and Chandler Tagliabue 

Dr. Ronald Takvorian and 

Dr. Katherine S. Upchurch 

John Thomann and 

Stanton Schnepp 

William E. Thomas, Jr. 

John and Evelyn Tielking 

Mr. William A. Trebilcock 

Harvey S. Trop 

Ms. Araceli R. Vargas 

Susan G. Waxter 

Craig and Catherine Weston 

Mark Wilkie 

David and Dianne Worley 

Jim and Richie Wright 

Dr. and Mrs. Wallace C. Wu 

Ellen and Bernard Young 

Drs. Rodney and Deborah Zeitler 

Kenneth M. Zemrowski and 

Susan MacKeen 

S. DILLON RIPLEY CIRCLE 

Anonymous 

Lucian Abernathy 

Janet B. Abrams 

Mr. John Adams 

Robert and Sara Adler 

Mr. Terry L. Albertson and 

Ms. Kathleen A. Blackburn 

Mr. and Mrs. David Aldrich 

Mr. Terry G. Aldridge and 

Ms. Patricia Thomas 

Mr. and Mrs. Jessie J. Allen 

Ms. Ann C. Alsina 

Ms. Louise A. Amrine 

Mr. Wolfram Anders and 

Ms. Michele A. Manatt 

Carol and Ed Anderson 

Mr. Melvin T. Andrews 

Gabriella Angeloni and Family 

Ms. Anne V. Applegate 

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Araujo 

Mr. and Mrs. D.R. Atkinson 

Mr. Jack Bader 

Ms. Carol Baker and 

Mr. Mark Stein 

Ms. Catherine Bannister 

Dr. Stephanie Barak and 

Mr. Alan Barak 

Dr. Edward Baranoski 

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Barnum 

Captain Robert M. Barr, Jr. 

USN (Ret.) 

Barbara B. Barresi, Ph.D., R.N. 

Barbara and Craig Barrett 

Beatrice and Myron Baum 

Sally and John Beals 

Thomas F. and 

Kathleen M. Beddow 

Michael and Tootie Beeman 

Mr. Chris Beikman 

Rowland E. Bell 

Brian and Betty Benson 

Lyn and David Berelsman 

Dean M. Francille Bergquist 

Dava Berkman 

Pegi and Kent Bernard 

Eve Bernstein and 

Alex Gersznowicz 

Melanie Berson and 

Von Nakayama 

Mr. Akar Bharadvaj 

Jerry and Karen Birchmore 

Susan H. and Geoffrey Blaha 

Ms. Maritha Blalock 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blanchard 

Mr. John H. Blazek 

Margaret W. and 

William J.D. Bond 

Mr. David Borenstein 

Ms. Elisabeth T. Bottler 

Jann Bowman 

Mark S. Box, M.D. 

Dr. Marilyn E. Braddock 

Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Bradley 

Donald R. and Rosemary Brasie 

The Honorable Stephen F. Brauer 

and Mrs. Camilla Thompson 

Brauer 

Eric Briggs 

Mr. Andrew Brill 

Jere and Bonnie Broh-Kahn 

Ms. Laura Brouse-Long and 

Dr. William F. Long 

Agnes M. Brown 

David and Lois Brown 

Sheila Brown, M.D. 

Harris and Diane Bruch 

Patricia Budka and 

Kristofer Lafko 

George E. and Clare M. Burch 

Mrs. Edward A. Burka 

Dr. J. Andrew Burkins, MD 

JoAnn Byrd 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Byrd 

Mr. Eric Byunn and 

Ms. Alyssa Corinne Rieder 

James E. and Linda Cafritz 

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Cahill 

Mr. Jeffrey Campbell 

Kathryn Campbell 

Glen and Linda Cannon 

Mr. Cory Capps 

Dawn V. Carr 

Margaret Carson-Gable and 

Eric H. Gable 

Ms. Julie Carter 

Mr. Calvin Carver 

Rod and Lynette Case 

Judy and Jack Cater 

Vinton and Sigrid Cerf 

Mrs. Nancy Chambers 

Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan L. Chang 

Dr. William A. Chantry, Jr. 

Stuart and Helen Chemtob 

Cherry Hill Park 

Judith L. Cherwinka 

Anne Page Chiapella 

Mr. Michael Jay Chusmir 

Mrs. Jessica C. Clark 

Kay L. Clausen 

Mr. Stephen W. Clayton 

Colleen Cleary 

J. Donald Cline 

Mr. Adam Cohen 

Joan and Harvey Cohen 

Mrs. Emy Cohenca 

Gene and Elizabeth Colice 

Mr. Philip H. Collector 

Mark Colley and Deborah Harsch 

Mrs. Gena and Mr. David Collis 

Drs. Jack H. and Rita R. Colwell 

Mr. William G. Combs 

Ms. Ruth Boyer Compton 

Mrs. Noel Robbins Congdon 

Robert C. Cook 

Lori Cooke-Marra 

Ms. Laura Cooper 

Dr. Fred Goodwin Corley 

Ms. Charlotte A. Corrigan 

Charles and Candace Cowan 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Crawford 

Patrisha Creevy and 

Albert Del Negro 

Mr. David Curren 

Ronald and Jessica Dabrowski 

Carol Deane 

Kathy Dehm 

Mr. T. Delashmutt 

Bernard G. and Susan Dennis 

Philip de Picciotto and 

Trinka Roeckelein 

Geert M. DePrest and 

Laura Travis-DePrest 

Jeff DeTroye and 

Mary Ann Gorman 

Lily and Joseph Dewton Family 

Fund (Ms. Ruth E. Dewton) 

Lee and Mary Alice Dickerson 

Dennis O. Dixon 

Mr. Joseph Dixon 

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Dobranski 

(The Dobranski Foundation, Inc.) 

Dr. Daniel Dodgen 

Adrienne Dominguez 

Sue Dorsch 

John F. Downey 

Drs. Joseph and Carolyn Drage 

Debbie Driesman and 

Frank F. Islam 

Diane Dudley 

Claudia and Dennis Dulmage 

W. Mercer and Mary A. Dye 

Vicki and Mike Eastland 

Mr. Jonathan W. Ebbeler 

The Eberly Family Trust 

Mr. and Mrs. Cole Ebert 

Mr. Stephen Edelmann 

Adrienne M. Edens 

Dean S. Edmonds Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Edmonds 

Eddie and Rachel Eitches 

The Honorable Stuart Eizenstat 

Paul D. Ekman 

Sandra B. Enser 

Mrs. John Esswein 

Ms. Heather Ewing 

John A. Farrall 

Christine R. Faser 

Ms. Judy Scott Feldman 

Lorry Fenner, Ph.D. 

Mr. James J. Ferguson and 

Ms. Alisa Hurley 

Michael Finan and Pamela Frazier 

Nicholas Fintzelberg, Ph.D. 

Mr. L.R. Fischer 

Denise Flanagan 

Richard and Judith Fletcher 

Sue M. Fogarty 

Dr. Shannon Marie Foster 

William and Theodosia Foster 

Barbara L. Francis and 

Robert C. Musser 

Bonnie S. Franklin 

Mr. Jason E. Free 

Ms. Wendy Frieman and Colonel 

David E. Johnson, Ph.D. 

USA (Ret.) 

David and Galya Frost 

Dr. Gerard J. Fulda 

Mr. Coleman F. Fung 

Mr. Tim Gale and 

Mrs. Jennifer Gale 

Geraldine Gallagher, Ph.D., CFRE 

Ms. Kerry Galvin 

Mr. Richard T. Garner 

Mrs. Mary Frances Garrett 

Mr. Joseph L. Gastwirth 

Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Gelin 

Ms. Claire Geller-Kolchetski 

Mr. Daniel Gilbert 

Karyn C. Gill and 

George McC. Gill, M.D. 

Mary Turner Gilliland and 

Clinton R. Gilliland 

Graham Gilmer 

Walter and Karla Goldschmidt 

Foundation 

Ms. Mary Goodreau 

Mr. Robert Goodrow 

Dr. Robert Gore 

Ms. Patricia A. Gowland 

Drs. David Granite and 

M.L. Oster-Granite 

Mary and Bradford Graves 

Mrs. Mary J. Graves 

Ms. Susannah Gray and 

Mr. John Lyons 

Alma and Edward Greer 

Susan and Ben Gregg 

Mr. Patrick W. Gross 

Mr. Michael John Gunther 

Ms. Marianne U. Gustafson 

Robert G. Gutenstein 

Sonny and Kathy Hagendorf 

Mr. Peter Hamel 

Ms. Virginia Hamister 

Hansan Family Foundation 

The Mark and Anne Hansen 

Foundation 

Mr. Shawn Hansen 

Ms. Dale S. Hanson 

Andrew Harris 

Mr. Christie G. Harris 

Dr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Hartman, Jr. 

Mr. Wayne Hathaway 

Ms. Doris L. Hausser 

Dr. Carla H. Hay 

Mr. Ernest M. Hayashi 

Marilyn T. Heebner 

Robert and Ann Herman 

Sally M. and Stephen A. Herman 

Mr. Robert D. Hevey, Jr. and 

Ms. Constance M. Filling 

CDR Douglas G. and Major 

Barbara E. Hiatt (Ret.) 

Captain Deborah Hinkley, USN 

Carol and Mike Hoepner 

Dr. and Mrs. C.J. and 

Ginna Holmes 

Ms. Elizabeth Homan 

Roland and Cynthia Hoover 

William Logan Hopkins 

Lt. Colonel Edward Horne, Jr. 

Dave Horner 

Dr. and Mrs. Ramachandra 

Hosmane 

Katherine and 

Joseph Householder 

Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Howard 

Robert L. and Helen Howard 

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Hugel 

Mr. Larry A. Hultberg 

Judy and Bob Huret 

Dr. Robert Ireland 

Mr. Tyler Jackson and 

Ms. Dawn Cooper-Jackson 

Ms. Susan Janssen 

Christian A. Johnson Endeavor 

Foundation 

Dr. Jeffrey W. Johnson 

John Johnson 

Ms. Monica Cole Johnson 

Dr. Judith Jones and 

Dr. William Rogers 

Margaret E. Jones 

Michael and Diane Jones 

Dr. Walter F. Jones and 

Ms. Cheryl L. Rash Jones 

Dr. Ken Jordan 

Andrea Lilly Kahn 

Dr. Arnold and Ms. Marcia Kaplin 

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kashian 

Richard and Leanne Kaslow 

Mrs. Carol Kauffman 

Richard and Elaine Kaufman 

Stephen C. Keeble and 

Karen Depew 

Margot and Robert Keith 

Ms. Jennifer Nelson Kemp 

Thomas S. Kenan, III 

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Kendrick 

Mr. and Mrs. Absolon Kent 

Dr. Rebecca Kenyon 

Erna and Michael Kerst 

Coyla Ketchy 

Mr. Christopher M. Kinsey 

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Kitchen 

Dr. Susan L. Koen 

Ms. Lauren S. Kogod and 

Mr. David Smiley 

Ms. Leslie S. Kogod 

Mr. Stuart Kogod and 

Ms. Denise Garone 

Donald and Patricia Korb 

Mr. David Korba 

Mr. Timothy J. Kosinski 

Kathleen McCarthy Kostlan 

Richard S. Kraus 

Mr. Allen Kress 

Mrs. Gwen G. Krivi 

Krupka Foundation, Inc. 

John LaBrecque and 

Shirley Winkler 

LAI Holdings, Inc. 

Ms. Sarah Lamb 

Mr. Stephen Lanier 

Jorn Larsen-Basse 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Lauzon 

Dr. Otto Ledford, Jr. and 

Mrs. Eugenie B. Ledford 

Ms. Dania Leemputte 

Ms. Lucie Lehmann 

Ann E. Leininger 

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Polly A. Levee Charitable Trust 

Donald J. and Marcy Leverenz 

Canice Kelly Levin 

Mr. Richard Levine 

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W. Linfors 

William and Katherine Livengood 

David Lloyd 

Shirley Loo 

Ms. Monica Lopez 

Dr. Joan Lunney and 

Mr. William W. Idler 

Ms. Linda K. Lyle 

Captain Kathleen M. Lyman, 

USN (Ret.) 

Matt and Laura Maasdam 

Mrs. Marjorie E. MacLachlan 

Dr. Hugh Mainzer and 

Mrs. Jill Jarecki Mainzer 

Mrs. Charles T. Manatt 

Merriel F. Mandell, Ph.D. 

Mr. Joseph V. Mani 

Mrs. Debbie Maron 

Frank and Carol Marshall 

Mr. Mariano Martinez 

David Mason 

Mr. William R. Massey 

Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Mathews 

Linda L. Mayer 

Margaret P. McCamish 

Kathleen McCarthy 

Mr. Kevin McCarthy and 

Dr. Catherine McCarthy 

Susan McCarthy 

Mr. James H.T. McConnell, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. McCrary 

Mary F. McFadden 

Carole McFee 

Mrs. Elizabeth McGoldrick 

Joseph and Elizabeth McGowan 

Mr. David J. McGrath 

John R. McIntyre 

Leda McIntyre-Hall 

Dr. Theresa McLoud 

Melinda McMullen and 

Duncan Kime 

Ms. Susan Means 

Mr. and Mrs. Alan W. Melvin 

Mr. Charles I. Miller 

Ms. Eleanor Miller 

Mr. Thomas Miree 

Mr. Randall Pernell Mitchell 

Mr. Timothy Mitchell 

Betty M. Montgomery 

Mr. Matt Moore 

Ms. Susan M. Moore 

Mrs. Sue Morss 

Gary L. Mueller, M.D. and 

Carolyn R. Mueller, Ph.D., R.N. 

Dr. Lynda Mulhauser and 

Mr. Richard Pierce 

Dr. and Mrs. William A. Murphy, Jr. 

Ms. Tamsen Hicks Murray 

Linda and J.N. Musto 

Maizy A. Myers 

Rear Admiral David J. Nash, CEC/ 

USN/Ret. and Carolyn K. Nash 

Ms. Caroline K. Nelson 

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Nelson 

Todd Nemoir 

Ms. Dane A. Nichols 

Randy A. Noranbrock and 

Anna Rappaport 

Deborah Norton 

Melanie and Larry Nussdorf 

Robert McLain Nutting Family 

Foundation Inc. 

Mr. and Mrs. Merlin G. Nygren 

Mike O’Dell and Judy Grass 

Suzanne Oparil, M.D. 

Tim and Debra Osburne 

Mr. Steven O’Sheal 

Frances M. Owens 

Richard C. Paddock 

Ms. Patricia A. Papas and 

Dr. Ray E. Tully 

Dr. Bette Jane Pappas and 

Mr. James C. Burks 

Jean and Kent Papsun 

Mr. and Ms. Steve Paskay 

Celeste Patrick, M.D., and 

Mr. Charles W. Patrick, Jr. 

Ms. Nancy Patrick 

Laura H. Peebles and 

Ellen Fingerman 

Frankie Pennington-Groff 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Perkaus, Jr. 

Barbara Rescher Perry 

Mark Perry and Adele Mouzon 

Ms. Pamela J. Pescosolido 

Susan Peters and Richard Lee 

Mrs. Patricia Peterson 

Dr. Bob Pettapiece 

Mr. James Pigott (Moccasin 

Lake Foundation) 

Peter Pilawa 

Ms. Toby Pippin 

Carol Pochardt 

Linda Polk 

Ms. Joanne E. Pollak 

Allison Porter 

James C. Powell 

Mr. Joseph A. Power, Jr. 

Mr. Edward Pozniak 

Judy Lynn Prince 

Drs. Dena and Jerome Puskin 

Dr. Brian Abel Ragen 

Mr. H. Lewis Rapaport 

Dr. Matthew J. Raymond and 

Mrs. Sonya Raymond 

Dr. and Mrs. Mark D. Reckase 

Ms. Laurie Reed 

Ivy and Stanley T. Relkin 

Mr. Paul A. Renard 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Renyi 

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry M. Rice 

Ms. M. Riehle 

Reginald Riley, Ph.D. 

Michael J. Roach 

Mr. Bill Roberts 

Ms. Nancy J. Robertson and 

Mr. Mark N. Cookingham 

Andrea Rockefeller 

Mr. Scott Roeth 

Mary Ellen and David Rogers 

Mr. and Mrs. William P. Romenius 

Mr. David J. Rosenthal and 

Ms. Jennie Scholick 

Tony Rosenthal and 

Ruth Ganister 

Ms. Hillary Rosenwald 

Howard and Janice Rosser 

Maryà Rowan 

Dr. Randi Rubovits-Seitz 

Louise Russell, Ph.D. 

Edward H. Sachtleben 

Rebecca and Ronald Sacra 

MG (Ret.) and 

Mrs. Alan B. Salisbury 

John and Ginger Sall 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Samuels 

Martin Sands, M.D. 

Ms. Jessica Sarowitz 

Mr. Gary Satin 

Mr. Kevin James Savage 

Patricia J. Sawvel 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schmidt 

Dr. Linda Schwartzstein and 

Mr. Lee M. Goodwin 

Catherine F. Scott 

Dr. Diane Scott-Jones 

Mr. Albert Seargeant 

Ms. Frances and 

Mr. Joel Segal 

Patricia Senchur 

Mr. David Sessions 

The Shack Sackler Foundation 

Mr. Shelby Shapiro and 

Dr. Marti Bornstein 

Mr. and Mrs. Mike Shealy 

Ms. Kate M. Sheehy 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Sheffeld 

Mr. John W. Shepard, Sr. 

Mr. Thomas A. Sherard, Jr. 

Mr. James R. Sherrard 

Barbara L. Shortridge 

Frank Shrontz 

Carey C. Shuart 

Ms. Naomi Weisberg Siegel 

Sylvia and David Silver 

Dr. Kathryn Simmons and 

Mr. Guy Simmons, Jr. 

Diljeet Singh 

Ms. Margaret Runge Singleton 

Audrey Smith 

Ms. Barbara F. Smith 

Mr. Dean P. Smith 

Michael and Meg Smith 

Tanya K. Smith 

Mr. and Mrs. T. Eugene Smith 

Marianne and V. James Solfronk 

Siewchin Yong Sommer 

Lucinda T. Spaney 

Mr. Jonathan Spencer 

Mr. Leonard Spencer and 

Mrs. Tanya Spencer 

SpyLaw Consulting, LLC 

Patricia Squires and 

Patrick J. Spann 

Gay K. Stanek 

Ms. Joanne M. Sten 

Mr. Bob Stephenson 

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Stepney 

Sidney Stern Memorial Trust 

Mr. Jim Steverson 

Mr. and Mrs. David D. Stirrett 

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stoecker 

Shepard and 

Marlene Stone 

Mr. James D. Strand 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stratton 

Barry S. and Evelyn Strauch 

Strong Foundation of 

New York 

Sandra L. Sully 

Ms. Artie Teresa Suri 

Ms. Judith Sutherland 

John and Donna Swan 

The Tabard Inn 

Mr. Akio Tagawa 

Dr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Takafuji 

Dr. and Mrs. James Tarver, III 

Frederick and 

Barbara Clark Telling 

Ms. Margaret Louise Tevis 

Ms. Larie Thomas 

Charles E. and Lois J. Toomer 

Jack and Claire Tozier 

Dr. Jack W. Trigg, Jr. 

Mr. David S. Turner 

James T. and Patricia R. Turner 

Amy and Horacio Valeiras 

David and Patricia Vondle 

Colonel Harold W. Vorhies 

Ms. Jacqueline Vossler 

Dr. Carol L. Wagner 

Ms. Jannene Wagner 

Raymond Waite 

Gilbert Waldman and 

Christy Vezolles 

Maggie Walker 

Ms. Elisse Walter and 

Mr. Ronald Stern 

Mr. Xianfeng Wang and Ms. Wei Li 

(Derek Wang Family Foundation) 

Mr. Fielding and 

Mrs. Maryann Watson 

Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Watson, Jr. 

Ruth L. Webb 

Duane Webber 

Mr. Robert A. Weinstein 

Eric and Kathleen Weisblatt 

Angela Caveness Weisskopf 

Linden H. and Judith A. Welch 

Mei Chen Welland 

Gregory J. Werden 

Mr. Gregory Wernert 

Ms. Barbara Whitcraft 

Kay E. White, Ph.D. 

Gideon and Jennifer Wiginton 

Mr. Jeffrey H. Williams 

Toni Williams 

Janice L. Wilson 

Harry and Patricia Wimbrough 

Mr. William E. Winckler 

Sinclair Winton 

Ms. Sandra Wirta 

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wolford 

Neal L. Wood 

Catherine A. Worrall 

Diana G. Wortham 

Dolores Yankauskas 

Mr. James Yap 

Ms. Michelle F. Yarborough 

Ms. Debra Yates 

Mr. Frank M. Yates 

Linda J. Young 

Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. 

Michael J. Youngson 

Sondra Zambino 

Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Zelenka 

Margot Lurie Zimmerman 

Tom Zoufaly 

The Donald and Barbara Zucker 

Family Foundation 

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Folkways Recordings and 

community programs celebrate diverse folk traditions and 

support cultural sustainability. The record label received two 

Grammys in 2020: Best Historical Album for Pete Seeger’s The 

Smithsonian Folkways Collection and Best Regional Mexican 

Music Album (Including Tejano) for Mariachi Los Camperos’ 

De Ayer Para Siempre. 

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DISTINGUISHED BENEFACTORS 

Recognizing our most generous donors 

The Distinguished Benefactors Room 

in the Smithsonian Castle honors our 

most generous donors, whose gifts and 

membership payments total $1 million or 

more, and foundations and corporations, 

which have made one-time gifts of the 

same amount. 

Anonymous 

3M 

AAA 

AARP 

Charles Francis Adams 

Hugh Trumbull Adams 

M. Clay Adams 

Rodney and Michelle Adkins 

A+E Networks 

Aetna Foundation, Inc. 

Afac Incorporated 

The Aga Khan Trust for Culture 

Lee and Elizabeth Ainslie 

Airbus 

Alaska Airlines 

Alcoa 

Alfred Street Baptist Church 

Basil H. Alkazzi 

Ally Financial 

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, 

Incorporated 

Altria Group 

Amazon Web Services, Inc. 

American Airlines 

American Chemical Society 

American Express 

American International Group, Inc. 

(AIG) 

American Public Transportation 

Association 

American Road & Transportation 

Builders Association 

AMS Foundation for the Arts, Sciences 

and Humanities 

Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar 

Analytical Graphics, Inc. 

William and Valerie Anders Foundation 

Judy Hart Angelo and John M. Angelo 

and The Angelo Family 

Anheuser-Busch Foundation 

Apple, Inc. 

Arcadia Fund 

Art Research Foundation 

Association of American Railroads 

The Atlantic Philanthropies 

Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. 

Autodesk 

Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod 

Bank of America 

Laura Barney 

Barbara and Craig Barrett 

Kenneth E. Behring Family 

Martha and Faustino Bernadett 

Max N. Berry 

Jef and MacKenzie Bezos 

BlackRock 

Barbara and James Block 

Mary and Leigh B. Block 

Bloomberg 

Bloomberg Philanthropies 

Winton M. “Red” Blount 

Boeing 

Mary and David Boies 

Bombardier 

Mrs. Virginia O. Boochever 

F. Otis Booth, Jr. 

Agnes C. Bourne 

Dr. and Mrs. T.B. Boyd III and Family 

The R.H. Boyd Company 

Fleur Straus Bresler 

The Bresler Foundation 

Diane and Hal Brierley 

Mary and John F. Brock III 

Jere and Bonnie Broh-Kahn 

Brown Capital Management 

The Brown Foundation, Inc. 

of Houston 

Hildegard Bruck and Alfred Egerter 

Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family 

Foundation 

Bente and Gerald E. Buck 

Dr. Peter Buck 

The Emil Buehler Trust 

The Ronald Burkle Family Foundation 

William A. Burleson 

Burroughs Wellcome Fund 

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz 

Foundation 

Hacker and Kitty Caldwell 

Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies 

Susan and Jim Cargill 

Meghann and Patrick Harker 

Christian Harker 

Carnival Corporation 

The E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter 

Foundation 

Maverick Carter 

The Case Foundation 

Amita and Purnendu Chatterjee 

Kenneth I. and Kathryn Chenault 

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes 

The Chickasaw Nation 

CIGNA 

CITI 

A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation 

Joe Clark 

Linda and Pete Claussen 

Clear Channel Media and 

Entertainment 

The Coca-Cola Company 

David A. and Mary Ann H. Cofrin 

The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family 

Foundation 

Dr. N. Anthony and Mrs. Robyn Coles 

Sara and Bruce Collette 

The Comer Foundation 

Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial 

Foundation 

Wallace H. Coulter Foundation 

Ted and Marian Craver 

Lee H. Cruse Trust 

Elissa F. and Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Cullman, 3rd 

Jefrey P. Cunard 

The Daniels Fund 

Peggy and Richard M. Danziger 

Richard Darman 

Marcel and Serge Dassault 

Florence Coulson Davis 

Michael and Susan Dell 

The Delta Air Lines Foundation 

Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen 

Dick and Betsy DeVos Family 

Foundation 

Bern Dibner 

Frances K. Dibner and 

the Dibner Family 

Jim and Janet Dicke 

Valerie and Charles Diker 

Discover Financial Services, Inc. 

Discovery, Inc. 

Ralph L. and Patricia R. Dixon 

Patricia C. Dodge 

Dagmar Dolby 

Donald J. and Helen D. Douglass 

The Douglass Foundation 

Andreas C. Dracopoulos 

Draper 

DuPont 

In 2019, the National Postal Museum hosted the North American celebration 

of the Royal Philatelic Society London’s 150th anniversary. The event 

honored the 1939 state visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to 

Washington, D.C., marking the only time the world’s two most famous 

stamp collectors—the king and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt—met 

face to face. 

NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM 

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The Eberly Family Trust 

Dorothy E. Ebersbach 

Farhad and Mary Ebrahimi 

EDS 

Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz 

EMC Corporation 

Anne and Travis Engen 

Joseph Manfred Ennis 

John L. and Margot P. Ernst 

Charles H. Ettl 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Evans 

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Evans, Jr. 

Sandra J. Evers-Manly 

The Executive Leadership Council, Inc. 

Exelon Foundation 

ExxonMobil 

FedEx Corporation 

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. and 

Annette L. Nazareth 

Ferring Pharmaceuticals 

The Fertilizer Institute 

Nancy B. and Hart Fessenden 

Sakurako and William Fisher Family 

Barbara G. Fleischman 

The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund 

Ford Foundation 

Ford Motor Company Fund 

Martha Parks Forrest 

Sidney E. Frank Foundation 

Peter and Cathy Halstead 

Andréa and Kenneth Frazier 

Charles Lang Freer 

Friends of the National Zoo 

Cary J. Frieze 

Patricia and Phillip Frost 

Fujiflm 

Susan Breakefeld Fulton 

The Funger Foundation, 

Morton and Norma Lee Funger 

Hope L. and John L. Furth 

Shelby and Frederick Gans 

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

GE 

David Gefen Foundation 

General Mills Foundation 

General Motors Company 

James T. and Juliette J. George 

GlaxoSmithKline 

The Glenstone Foundation, 

Mitchell P. Rales 

Goldman, Sachs & Co. 

Google.org 

Alice R. Gottesman 

Arvin Gottlieb 

Katharine Graham 

William J. Graham 

Dr. Leonard M. Greene 

Mary Livingston Griggs and 

Mary Griggs Burke Foundation 

William H. Gross 

Agnes Gund 

The George Gund Foundation 

George Gund III and Iara Lee 

James E. Gysin 

Thomas W. Haas Foundation 

Karl H. Hagen 

Mr. Christie G. Harris 

Myra M. Hart 

The Hartford 

Enid A. Haupt 

William Randolph Hearst Foundation 

Drue Heinz Trust 

Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. 

Edward P. and Rebecca R. Henderson 

Janine and J. Tomilson Hill 

Lyda Hill 

The Hillside Foundation – Allan and 

Shelley Holt 

Barron Hilton / Conrad N. Hilton 

Foundation 

Helen and Edward Hintz 

Ikuo Hirayama 

Joseph Hirshhorn 

The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation 

Mellody Hobson and George Lucas 

Frank and Lisina Hoch 

Steven and Jane Hoch 

Hubert N. (Jay) Hofman, III 

Holenia Trust 

Hollywood Foreign Press Association 

Ruth S. and A. William Holmberg 

Janet Annenberg Hooker 

Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz 

Grant W. Howell 

John R. Huggard 

Cathy Hughes and Alfred C. Liggins III 

Judy and Bob Huret 

IBM Corporation 

Intel Corporation 

Intel Foundation 

International Lease Finance 

Corporation 

LaTanya, Zoe and Samuel L. Jackson 

The LeBron James Family Foundation 

J & AR Foundation 

Johnson & Johnson 

Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. 

Allan William Johnson, Jr. 

Christian A. Johnson Endeavor 

Foundation 

Gregory D. and 

Jennifer Walston Johnson 

James A. Johnson 

Kevin and Michelle Johnson & 

Georgia and Ronnie West 

Robert L. Johnson 

Michael Jordan and Family 

JPMorgan Chase Foundation 

The JSM Charitable Trust, James S. 

McDonnell III, John F. McDonnell 

Kaiser Permanente 

Georgette and Herman Kamenetz 

Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan 

The W.M. Keck Foundation 

Herb Kelleher 

Connie and Dennis Keller 

W.K. Kellogg Foundation 

R. Crosby Kemper 

William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust 

Peter B. Kibbee 

Ann and Gilbert H. Kinney 

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 

Carl and Emily Knobloch 

David H. Koch 

Robert and Arlene Kogod 

Lt. Col. and Mrs. William K. Konze 

The Korea Foundation 

Kovler Foundation 

Kraft Foods 

The Kresge Foundation 

Constance and Harvey Krueger 

B.Y. Lam Foundation 

Land O’Lakes, Inc. 

Lannan Foundation 

Debra L. Lee, Quinn S. Coleman, 

Ava L. Coleman 

Dale L. LeFebvre 

Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak 

Robert Lehrman 

The Lemelson Foundation 

Thelma and Melvin Lenkin 

Barbara Riley Levin 

Edith S. and Arthur J. Levin 

Barbara and Aaron Levine 

Frank Levinson Family Foundation 

Leon Levy Foundation 

Loida Nicolas Lewis, Leslie Malaika 

Lewis and Christina Lewis Halpern 

The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation, Inc. 

In I Am...Contemporary Women Artists of Africa, 

women artists explore community, faith, politics and 

the environment, on view June 2019–July 26, 2020. 

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2019 62 SMITHSONIAN 2019 63 

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART 
Rod Lewis and Family 

Roy Lichtenstein Foundation 

Life Technologies Corporation 

Life Technologies Foundation 

Lilly Endowment Inc. 

The Links Foundation, Incorporated 

Lockheed Martin Corporation 

Jefrey H. Loria 

Los Alamos National Laboratory 

Foundation 

Jon and Lillian Lovelace 

Lower Manhattan Development 

Corporation 

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. 

The Henry Luce Foundation 

Peter and Paula Lunder 

The Lunder Foundation 

The Elizabeth Carolyn Lux Foundation 

Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons 

The John D. and 

Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 

Victor and Thaderine MacFarlane 

and Family 

Elizabeth and Whitney MacMillan 

Barbara and Morton Mandel 

Richard and Jane Manoogian 

Foundation 

Christian L. and Edna M. March 

Nancy and Edwin Marks 

Alice S. Marriott Lifetime Trust/ 

The J. Willard and 

Alice S. Marriott Foundation 

Mars, Incorporated 

Frank and Susan Mars 

Jacqueline B. Mars 

John and Adrienne Mars 

Linda A. Mars 

The Mashantucket Pequot 

Tribal Nation 

Margery and Edgar Masinter 

Colin and Leslie Masson 

Bruce R. McCaw Family Foundation 

McDonald’s Corporation 

Rose A. McElrath-Slade 

Nan Tucker McEvoy 

Nion McEvoy 

MCI WorldCom 

James L. and Juliette McNeil 

Medtronic Foundation 

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 

Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. 

Barry and Wendy Meyer Foundation 

MGM Resorts International 

Microsoft Corporation 

Michael and Lori Milken 

Gus and Deanne Miller and Family 

Mitsubishi Corporation 

Sidney Mobell 

Tina and Hamid Moghadam 

The Mohegan Tribe of Indians 

of Connecticut 

John C. Molina 

Josephine M. Molina 

Therese and J. Mario Molina 

The A.P. Møller and Chastine 

Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation 

Monsanto 

The Moore Charitable Foundation 

Louis Bacon 

The Claude Moore Charitable 

Foundation 

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 

Mark & Brenda Moore and Family 

Morgan Stanley 

Wick and Bonnie Moorman 

Lester S. and Enid W. Morse 

Susan and Furman Moseley 

Motorola Foundation 

Robert O. Muller 

NAMM – International Music 

Products Association 

National Asphalt Pavement 

Association 

National Association of Realtors 

National Basketball Association 

National Basketball Players 

Association Foundation 

National Business Aviation 

Association, Inc. 

National Football League 

National Mining Association 

National Stone, Sand & Gravel 

Association 

Nationwide Foundation 

Paul Neely 

Nancy Brown Negley 

LeRoy Neiman Foundation 

H. Duane Nelson 

New York Life 

NIKE Foundation 

The Nippon Foundation 

Nissan North America, Inc. 

Nordic Council of Ministers 

Northrop Grumman Corporation 

NYSE Foundation 

Occidental Chemical Corporation 

Ocean Conservancy 

Oceans 5 

Carroll O’Connor and 

Nancy Fields O’Connor 

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated 

Oneida Indian Nation (New York) 

Timothy and Linda O’Neill 

Yoko Ono 

Orkin Exterminating Company, Inc. 

Bernard and Barbro Osher 

Lynn Roseman Owen 

The David and Lucile Packard 

Foundation 

Russell E. and Wendy Palmer 

Mary and John Pappajohn 

Richard D. and Laura A. Parsons 

Pearson Foundation 

Paul Peck 

The PepsiCo Foundation 

Tyler Perry 

Peterson Family Foundation 

John L. Peterson 

The Pew Charitable Trusts 

William F. Pickard Family Group 

Pioneer Electronics (USA), Inc. 

Pitney Bowes Inc. 

Robert W. Pittman 

The John L. Plueger Family 

PNC Bank 

Poarch Band of Creek Indians 

Poor Richard’s Charitable Trust 

Colin and Alma Powell 

The Principal Financial Group 

J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family 

Foundation 

Prudential Financial 

Prudential Foundation 

Pucci Family Foundation 

PwC Charitable Foundation, Inc. 

Jack and Marjorie Rachlin 

Franklin D. Raines and Denise Grant 

Ralph Lauren Corporation 

Rasmuson Foundation 

Raytheon Company 

Reve Foundation 

Donald W. Reynolds Foundation 

Lucy S. Rhame 

The Rhimes Family Foundation 

Rice Family Foundation 

Si and Betty Robin 

Robinson Helicopter Company 

Sara Roby Foundation 

Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock 

David Rockefeller 

The Rockefeller Foundation 

Rolex 

Rolls-Royce 

Samuel G. Rose and Julie Walters 

Susan and Elihu Rose 

Arthur Ross Foundation 

Valerie and Jack Rowe 

David M. Rubenstein 

Walter and Lucille Rubin 

Arthur M. Sackler 

Arthur M. Sackler Foundation 

Dr. Elizabeth Sackler/ 

The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation 

Else Sackler 

Dame Jillian Sackler, D.B.E. 

Dame Jillian & Dr. Arthur M. Sackler 

Foundation for the Arts, Sciences & 

Humanities 

John and Joy Safer 

Sage Foundation 

Salesforce.org 

John and Ginger Sall 

Jesse Ormond Sanderson, Jr. and 

Robert Keith Black 

Roger and Victoria Sant 

Deborah Sara Santana 

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 

Saudi Aramco 

Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul II 

Lloyd G. and Betty A. Schermer 

SC Johnson 

Nina and Ivan Selin 

Seneca Nation of Indians 

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux 

Community 

Shell 

Frank B. and Faye Sherry 

Andrew and Anya Shiva 

Shirley Phillips Sichel 

Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity/Boulé 

Foundation 

Simons Foundation 

Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund 

for Arts and Sciences 

Paul Singer 

Sketch Foundation 

Bill and Tish Slattery & the Slattery 

Family Foundation 

Ted Slavin Family Foundation 

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 

Albert and Shirley Small 

Small World Institute Fund at Silicon 

Valley Community Foundation 

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Smith 

and Family 

Robert Frederick Smith 

Robert H. Smith Family Foundation 

Smithsonian Networks 

SoftBank Group Corp. 

Soil Science Society of America 

Guenther and Siewchin Yong Sommer 

Southern Company Charitable 

Foundation, Inc. 

Southwest Airlines 

The Speedwell Foundation 

Michael and Jenny Messner and Family 

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation 

Alan and Terri Spoon 

Earl W. and Amanda Staford 

The Starr Foundation 

State Farm Insurance Companies 

Stavros Niarchos Foundation 

Margaret and Terry Stent 

Stevenson Family Charitable Trust 

Tom and Kitty Stoner 

Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley 

Steve Stoute Family Trust 

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Sugden 

Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center 

The Summit Fund of Washington 

Kelso F. and Joanna L. Sutton 

Target 

Ambassador Nicholas F. Taubman and 

Mrs. Eugenia L. Taubman 

Patrick F. Taylor Foundation 

John Templeton Foundation 

Suzanne and Michael E. Tennenbaum 

Terra Foundation for American Art 

Textron Inc. 

Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw 

Charitable Trust 

Thermo Fisher Scientifc 

Tifany & Co. Foundation 

Time Warner Foundation 

Timex Corporation 

TOYOTA 

TRW 

Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation 

Earl S. Tupper 

Turner Foundation, Inc. 

TWA 

Mr. and Mrs. Steven F. Udvar-Hazy 

Richard O. Ullman Family Foundation 

United Airlines 

UnitedHealth Group 

United Parcel Service 

United Soybean Board 

United States Mint 

United States Postal Service 

United Technologies Corporation 

The Upton Trust 

U.S. Bank 

Esme Usdan and James Snyder 

Anne van Biema 

Van Cleef & Arpels 

Reginald Van Lee 

Verizon 

Verizon Foundation 

Teodoro Vidal 

The Commonwealth of Virginia 

The Volgenau Foundation 

VOLVO 

Jean and Davis H. von Wittenburg 

Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund 

Walmart 

The Walt Disney Company 

The Walton Family Foundation 

Warner Bros. 

Ed and Jackie Warner 

Janet M. and Laurence B. Watt 

Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. 

Craig and Diane Welburn and Family 

Wells Fargo 

Anthony and Beatrice Welters and 

the Vincent Wilkinson Foundation 

Alexander and Annie B. Wetmore 

Dr. Coralyn Wright Whitney 

John and Barbara Wilkerson 

Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan 

Norman C. and Catherine M. Willcox 

The Oprah Winfrey Charitable 

Foundation 

Harry Winston Hope Foundation, Inc. 

Harry Winston Research 

Foundation, Inc. 

Ronald Winston 

The World Bank 

Robert L. Wright 

Elaine P. Wynn & Family Foundation 

Xerox Corporation 

Zegar Family Foundation 

Zoetis 

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LEADERSHIP 

Board of Regents 

The Smithsonian was created by an act of Congress in 1846 in accordance with the terms of the will of 

James Smithson of England, who in 1826 bequeathed his property to the United States of America “to 

found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase 

and difusion of knowledge.” After receiving the property and accepting the trust, Congress vested 

responsibility for administering the trust in the Smithsonian Board of Regents. It consists of the Chief 

Justice of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, three members of the United States 

Senate, three members of the United States House of Representatives and nine citizens. 

The Chief Justice 

of the United States 

Ex offcio, Chancellor 

The Vice President 

of the United States 

Ex offcio 

David M. Rubenstein 

Citizen of Maryland, Chair 

Steve Case 

Citizen of Virginia, Vice Chair 

John Boozman 

Senator from Arkansas 

Patrick J. Leahy 

Senator from Vermont 

David Perdue 

Senator from Georgia 

Doris Matsui 

Representative from California 

Lucille Roybal-Allard 

Representative from California 

John Shimkus 

Representative from Illinois 

Barbara M. Barrett 

Citizen of Arizona 

John Fahey 

Citizen of Washington, D.C. 

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. 

Citizen of Washington, D.C. 

Michael Govan 

Citizen of California 

Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey 

Citizen of Pennsylvania 

Michael M. Lynton 

Citizen of New York 

John W. McCarter, Jr. 

Citizen of Illinois 

Porter N. Wilkinson 

Chief of Staff to the Regents 

Cathy Helm 

Inspector General 

In fscal year 2019 

An ongoing exhibition, Magnificent Obsessions: Why We 

Collect, highlights the unique passions of Smithsonian 

Libraries collectors. The exhibition opened in 2019. 

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F I N A N C I A L R E P O R T 

fisCal year ending sePt. 30, 2019 

The Smithsonian receives funding from federal government appropriations, other governmental entities and 

private sources. Public dollars conserve national collections, sustain basic research, educate the public, provide 

for administrative and support services and operate, maintain and protect the Smithsonian museum and research 

complex. Private funds leverage federal dollars and provide the critical diference for carrying out innovative research, 

developing and building new facilities, opening groundbreaking exhibitions, reaching out to America’s diverse 

communities, endowing positions and strengthening national collections. The 2019 annual audit was conducted by 

KPMG LLP and is available at si.edu/about/policies. 

Federal 

Appropriation 

53.3% 

Contributions 

& Grants 

19.8% 

Business Activities 

12.1% 

Endowment Payout 

5.5% 

R E V E N U E 

in percent, FY 2019 

E X P E N S E S 

in percent, FY 2019 

Other 

9.2% 

Salaries & Benefts 

49.2% 

Other Operating 

Expenses 

26.4% 

Business Activities 

8.4% 

Capital Expenses 

16.0% 

Total Funds 

Trust Federal 2019 2018 2017 2016 

Assets $ 3,062 $ 2,359 $ 5,421 $ 5,177 $ 4,890 $ 4,713 

Liabilities 280 807 1,087 1,016 906 882 

Net Assets $ 2,782 $ 1,552 $ 4,334 $ 4,161 $ 3,984 $ 3,831 

FINANCIAL POSITION 

in millions of dollars, FY 2016-2019 

G R O W T H I N N E T A S S E T S 

in millions of dollars, over fve years 

2019 $ 4,334 

2018 $ 4,161 

2017 $ 3,984 

2016 $ 3,831 

2015 $ 3,639 

2019 2018 

Operating Revenue $ 1,376 $ 1,374 

Operating Expenses 1,520 1,479 

Increase in Operating Net Assets (144 ) (105 ) 

Increase (Decrease) in Other Net Assets 317 282 

Total increase in Net Assets $ 173 $ 177 

F I N A N C I A L A C T I V I T I E S 

in millions of dollars, in FY 2019 and FY 2018 

LEADERSHIP 

Smithsonian National Board 

leadershiP, adviCe and PhilanthroPy 

The Smithsonian’s institution-wide volunteer advisory board advises the Secretary and other 

Smithsonian leaders, acts as an ambassador for the Smithsonian in communities across the country, 

and sets an example of philanthropic leadership that inspires giving in others. 

Through its 47 members and 180 alumni, the National Board’s volunteers also serve the Smithsonian 

by contributing their advice and service through committees and ad hoc working groups. In 2019, 

28 members and alumni served on 16 Smithsonian advisory boards and as non-Regent members 

of committees of the Board of Regents, and 39 members served on seven Regional Councils. Their 

extraordinary commitment to philanthropy is shown through gifts totaling $17.2 million. This fgure 

includes $1.84 million in unrestricted board annual giving. 

LEADERSHIP 

Robert D. MacDonald, Chair 

Edward R. Hintz, Vice Chair 

Dennis J. Keller, Vice Chair 

Denise M. O’Leary, Vice Chair 

MEMBERS 

Lisa V. Bennett 

John F. Brock, III 

Roger W. Crandall 

Edgar M. Cullman, Jr. 

Wendy W. Dayton 

Vin Di Bona 

Sharon Fawcett, Ex offcio 

Maria Luisa Ferré 

Trevor F. Fetter 

Julie A. Flynn 

Brenda J. Gaines 

William J. Galloway 

Rick Goings 

Nancy Hogan 

Michele J. Hooper 

David G. Johnson 

Jennifer Walston Johnson 

David Woods Kemper, II 

Todd Krasnow 

Allan R. Landon 

Dale L. LeFebvre 

Cheryl Winter Lewy 

David M. Love 

Jacqueline Badger Mars 

Thomas D. McCloskey, Jr. 

Kevin McGovern 

Charles W. Moorman, IV 

Jahm Najaf 

Sarah Elizabeth Nash 

Sarah F. Perot 

Jorge G. Puente 

G. Jeffrey Records, Jr. 

Kenneth C. Ricci 

John C. Ryan 

Philip K. Ryan 

Fredericka O. Stevenson 

Diana S. Strandberg 

JoAnn Symons, Ex offcio 

Naoma J. Tate 

Michael E. Tennenbaum 

Andrew H. Tisch 

John K. Tsui 

L. John Wilkerson 

HONORARY 

William S. Anderson 

Max N. Berry 

L. Hardwick Caldwell III 

G. Wayne Clough, Ph.D. 

Frank A. Daniels, Jr. 

Sakurako Fisher 

Patricia Frost 

Jean B. Mahoney 

Paul Neely 

Sandra Day O’Connor 

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. 

Lloyd G. Schermer 

David J. Skorton 

Frank A. Weil 

Gay Firestone Wray 

Membership year 2019 

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fisCal year ending sePt. 30, 2019 

The Smithsonian’s frst endowment dates to 1846, underscoring the institution’s focus on the long term. 

The Endowment’s value on Sept. 30, 2019, was $1,700.7 million, and its return for fscal year 2019 was 

9.3 percent. Contributors to the Endowment’s performance were investments in venture capital, private 

equity and real estate as well as selection of investment managers. In fscal year 2019, receipts from 

gifts and bequests added $23.6 million to the Endowment while contributing $71.9 million in payout. 

Since 2005, investment gains and gifts were $1.7 billion. During the same period, the Endowment has 

contributed $825 million in private support to Smithsonian-wide programs. 

200

400

600

800

1,000

1,200

1,400

1,600

1,800

1974

197619781980

19821984

198619881990

199219941996

199820002002200420062008201020122014201620182020

C U R R E N T A S S E T A L L O C A T I O N 

as of FY 2019 

fisCal year ending sePt. 30, 2019 

This report gratefully acknowledges the transformative generosity of our donors. Thousands of 

individuals, members, foundations, corporations and others have made gifts to the Smithsonian this 

year. Every gift advances the institution’s ambitious vision to discover new knowledge and educate and 

inspire future generations. These charts provide information on the sources and uses of private dollars 

contributed to the Smithsonian in fscal year 2019. 

E N D O W M E N T R E P O R T PHILANTHROPY REPORT 

C O M P A R A T I V E P E R F O R M A N C E 

Trailing 1 Year 3 Years 5 Years 10 Years 

Smithsonian Endowment 9.3% 10.7% 8.0% 8.8% 

Policy Benchmark 0.7% 5.8% 4.0% 5.5% 

E N D O W M E N T V A L U E O V E R T I M E 

1974-2019 in millions of dollars 

Since September 1974, the endowment 

has produced a 9.6 percent compounded 

annual growth rate. 

September 2019, 

$1,700.7 million 

September 1974, 

$28.0 million 

$ 90.6 

Exhibitions, 

Education & Public 

Programs 

47% 

$ 54.2 

Museums & 

Research Centers, 

General Support 

28% 

$ 18.7 

Smithsonian 

General Support 

10% 

$ 1.9 

Facilities & 

Public Spaces 

1% 

$ 9.9 

Acquisitions 

& Collections 

5% 

$ 192.6 

TOTAL FUNDS 

$ 12.5 

Other 

6% 

$ 115.0 

Individuals 

60% 

$ 192.6 

TOTAL FUNDS 

$ 25.6 

Foundations 

13% 

$ 39.5 

Corporations 

21% 

FUNDS RAISED BY SOURCE 

in millions of dollars 

FUNDS RAISED BY PURPOSE 

in millions of dollars 

Global Equity 

18.0% 

Emerging Markets 

7.0% 

Marketable 

Alternatives 

16.0% 

Fixed Income 

& Cash 

11.0% 

Private Equity & 

Venture Capital 

33.0% 

Real Assets 

15.0% 

$ 17.3 

Research 

9% 

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WAYS TO GIVE 

Smithsonian Academy 

The recognition society for the 

Smithsonian’s most generous 

donors is open to individuals 

who give $1 million or more to 

Smithsonian museums, research 

centers and programs. Smithsonian 

Academy members’ extraordinary 

generosity enables the institution 

to thrive and continue to difuse 

knowledge across the nation and 

around the world. They participate 

in one-of-a-kind opportunities 

and explore the ideas, discoveries 

and new knowledge that make 

the Smithsonian a vibrant 

national treasure. To learn 

more, contact Lynn Hepburn, 

director of donor and volunteer 

engagement, at 202.633.8009 or 

smithsonianacademy@si.edu. 

Membership 

With members from across 

the nation, the Friends of the 

Smithsonian and James Smithson 

Society provide support for the 

institution’s mission and strategic 

plan priorities. Those who join may 

enjoy a wide variety of benefts 

and events. Annual membership 

levels range from $75 to $25,000 

and above. 

800.931.3226, membership@si.edu 

si.edu/onlinemember 

Many individual Smithsonian 

museums and research centers 

ofer their own memberships. To 

learn more, visit the website of the 

museum that interests you. 

Online Giving 

Donating to the Smithsonian online 

is fast, easy and secure. Make your 

tax deductible gift at: 

si.edu/onlinegiving 

Gift Planning 

Those who provide for the 

Smithsonian through their estate 

plans or life income gifts build a 

strong future for the institution. 

Smithsonian Legacy Society 

members are kept well informed 

of the latest exhibitions, programs 

and scientifc discoveries and 

have exclusive opportunities to 

participate in member-only events. 

888.419.7584, legacy@si.edu 

legacy.si.edu 

Corporate Memberships and 

Sponsorships 

Corporations play a vital 

philanthropic role in today’s 

Smithsonian. We welcome 

corporate engagement and 

ofer membership through 

the Smithsonian Corporate 

Membership Program. 

Contact us to learn more about 

how a Smithsonian partnership 

can complement your corporate 

objectives. 

202.633.0016, scmp@si.edu 

si.edu/corporate 

For Further Information 

To learn how you can support 

the Smithsonian and its dynamic 

mission “for the increase 

and difusion of knowledge,” 

please contact: 

Robert J. Spiller 

Assistant Secretary for 

Advancement 

Ofce of Advancement 

Smithsonian Institution 

1000 Jeferson Drive S.W., 

Room 124 

MRC 027, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.4300, giving@si.edu 

si.edu/giving 

Generations of donors have brought the Smithsonian to where it is today. 

In a rapidly changing world, the Smithsonian matters more than ever as 

a force for civic engagement in America that reaches people where they 

are. Your gifts power our impact. 

Administration 

Lonnie G. Bunch III 

Secretary 

Meroë Park 

Deputy Secretary and 

Chief Operating Offcer 

Kevin Gover 

Acting Under Secretary 

for Museums and Culture 

Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar 

Acting Under Secretary 

for Education 

Roger Brissenden 

Acting Under Secretary 

for Science and Research 

Michael McCarthy 

Under Secretary 

for Administration 

Robert J. Spiller 

Assistant Secretary 

for Advancement 

Julissa Marenco Otero 

Assistant Secretary for 

Communications 

and External Affairs and 

Chief Marketing Offcer 

Gregory R. Bettwy 

Chief of Staff to the 

Secretary 

Judith E. Leonard 

General Counsel 

Era L. Marshall 

Director, Offce 

of Equal Employment 

and Minority Affairs 

To contact staff members 

listed above, call 

202.633.1000 

Museums 

Anacostia Community 

Museum 

Melanie Adams, Director 

1901 Fort Place, S.E. 

Washington, D.C. 20020-3230 

202.633.4839 

Arts and Industries Building 

Rachel Goslins, Director 

MRC 400, Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.5153 

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian 

Design Museum 

John Davis, Interim Director 

2 East 91st Street 

New York, N.Y. 10128-0606 

212.849.8400 

Freer Gallery of Art and 

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 

Chase F. Robinson, 

Dame Jillian Sackler Director 

MRC 707, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.0456 

Hirshhorn Museum and 

Sculpture Garden 

Melissa Chiu, Director 

MRC 350, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.2824 

National Air and Space 

Museum and the Steven F. 

Udvar-Hazy Center 

Ellen Stofan, John and Adrienne 

Mars Director 

MRC 310, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.2350 

National Museum of African 

American History and 

Culture 

Spencer Crew, Interim Director 

MRC 1400, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.4751 

National Museum 

of African Art 

Deborah L. Mack, 

Interim Director 

MRC 708, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.4610 

National Museum of 

American History, 

Kenneth E. Behring Center 

Anthea M. Hartig, Elizabeth 

MacMillan Director 

MRC 622, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.3435 

National Museum of the 

American Indian 

Kevin Gover, Director 

MRC 590, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.6700 

National Museum of 

Natural History 

Kirk Johnson, Sant Director 

MRC 106, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.2664 

National Portrait Gallery 

Kim Sajet, Director 

MRC 973, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.8276 

National Postal Museum 

Elliot Gruber, Director 

MRC 570, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.5500 

National Zoological Park 

Steve Monfort, 

John and Adrienne Mars Director 

3001 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. 

Washington, D.C. 20008 

202.633.4442 

Smithsonian American 

Art Museum and Renwick 

Gallery 

Stephanie Stebich, The Margaret 

and Terry Stent Director 

MRC 970, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.8430 

Research Centers 

Archives of American Art 

Liza Kirwin, Interim Director 

MRC 937, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.7940 

Center for Folklife and 

Cultural Heritage 

Michael Atwood Mason, Director 

MRC 520, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.1141 

Museum Conservation 

Institute 

Robert J. Koestler, Director 

4210 Silver Hill Road 

Suitland, Md. 20746-2863 

301.238.1205 

Smithsonian Astrophysical 

Observatory 

Charles R. Alcock, Director 

60 Garden Street 

Cambridge, Mass. 02138 

617.495.7100 

Smithsonian Conservation 

Biology Institute 

Steve Monfort, 

John and Adrienne Mars Director 

1500 Remount Road 

Front Royal, Va. 22630 

540.635.6522 

Smithsonian Environmental 

Research Center 

Anson H. Hines, Jr., Director 

647 Contees Wharf Road 

Edgewater, Md. 21037 

443.482.2208 

Smithsonian Institution 

Archives 

Tammy Peters, Acting Director 

MRC 507, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.5926 

Smithsonian Libraries 

Scott Miller, Acting Director 

MRC 154, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.2240 

Smithsonian Tropical 

Research Institute (Panama) 

Matthew Larsen, Director 

9100 Panama City Place 

Washington, D.C. 20521-9100 

011.507.212.8086 

Education and Outreach 

Offce of Fellowships and 

Internships 

Eric Woodard, Director 

MRC 902, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.7070 

Smithsonian Affliations 

Myriam Springuel, Director 

MRC 942, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.5300 

Smithsonian Asian Pacifc 

American Center 

Lisa Sasaki, Director 

MRC 516, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.3590 

Smithsonian Associates 

Frederica Adelman, Director 

MRC 701, P.O. Box 23293 

Washington, D.C. 20026-3293 

202.633.8628 

Smithsonian Center for 

Learning and Digital Access 

Stephanie L. Norby, Director 

MRC 508, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.5297 

Smithsonian Institution 

Traveling Exhibition Service 

Myriam Springuel, Director 

MRC 941, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.3137 

Smithsonian Latino Center 

Eduardo Díaz, Director 

MRC 512, P.O. Box 37012 

Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 

202.633.1240 

Smithsonian Science 

Education Center 

Carol L. O’Donnell, Director 

901 D Street S.W., Suite 704-B, 

MRC 952 

Washington, D.C. 20024 

202.633.2972 

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Additional Credits Henry Ramirez, SPIN (orange), 2009, museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz 

H. Denghausen Endowment, Smithsonian American Art Museum ©, Paul Henry Ramirez; 

FRONT COVER Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Carmen Lomas Garza letter to Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (front), after 1989, Tomás Ybarrap. 2 IMAGE Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Frausto research material on Chicano art, 1965−2004, Archives of American Art 

p. 4 FROM TOP LEFT World Journal (Chinese); Schwabmünchner Allgemeine; Corriere p. 42 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Harold Dorwin, Erika Mack looking at iPhone, 

della Sera; Vanguardia (Mexico); Los Angeles Times; Le Télégramme; El País; Mainichi 2018, National Museum of American History; America Online (AOL), software disc, 

Shimbun; Politiken; The Irish Times; China Business News; Der Standard; April 11, 2019, ca. 1998, gift of Bernard S. Finn, National Museum of American History; Xerox Star in use, 

All courtesy PressReader.com ca. 1981, courtesy DigiBarn; Apple Computer, Inc., Apple I Microcomputer, 1976, acquired 

in part through a generous donation from Malon D. Mimms, Jr. as well as gifts from Paul p. 8 Passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), 1914. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, 

Neely, Steven Fink, and Dorothy Lemelson, National Museum of American History; Apple Birds Division, National Museum of Natural History 

Computer, Inc., iPad Tablet Computer with Adapter, 2011, gift of Laura Warner, National 

p. 9 Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Birds, Animals, and Plants Representing the Twelve Museum of American History; Texas Instruments, Little Professor Teaching Calculator, 

Months, ca. 1820-1835. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, Freer Gallery of Art ca. 1978, gift of John B. Priser, National Museum of American History 

p. 12 Unidentifed Photographer, Daguerreotype of Rhoda Phillips, ca. 1850. National p. 47 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Asian American Literature Festival PHOTO 

Museum of African American History and Culture Thomas Piantone; Asian American Literature Festival PHOTO Thomas Piantone; Elevator 

p. 13 Wayde McIntosh, Legacy, 2017. Collection of the artist © Wayde McIntosh Pitch Culture Lab PHOTO Camille Lenain; Theresa Lund, Jay Park performing (center), 2019; 

Iconic blue gown worn by Constance Wu in the flm Crazy Rich Asians, gift of Marchesa, p. 14 Harvey Wilson Richards, Dolores Huerta, “Huelga,” during grape strike, Delano, 

Division of Cultural and Community Life, National Museum of American History California, Sept. 24, 1965. Harvey Richards Media Archive © Paul Richards 

p. 50 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: PHOTO Suzan Murray; PHOTO Roshan Patel; p. 15 Studio Portrait of Alice Dunbar Nelson, ca. 1895, Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers, 

PHOTO Dawn Zimmerman; PHOTO Clara Jo; all from Smithsonian National Zoological Park Special Collections, University of Delaware Library; Sallie E. Garrity, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, ca. 

and Conservation Biology Institute 1893, National Portrait Gallery; H.M. Platt, Anna Julia Haywood (Cooper), 1884, courtesy 

Oberlin College Archives; H.M. Platt, Mary E. Church Terrell, 1884, courtesy Oberlin p. 55 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Erlena Chisolm Bland, Dots and Stripes Forever, 

College Archives; Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Sara Jane Clarke n.d.; Sam Gilliam, Muse I, 1965; John N. Robinson, Pete, 1942; Lloyd McNeill, New Thing 

Lippincott, and Susan B. Anthony details from L. Schamer, Representative Women, 1870, Jazz Workshop, The McNeill Quartet, n.d.; David Driskell, Untitled, 1990; John N. Robinson, 

National Portrait Gallery Raynolds Place, 1970; all from Anacostia Community Museum 

p. 17 Excerpts from the following National Museum of the American Indian Native p. 58 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Pete Seeger, Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian 

Knowledge 360° digital lessons: The Pawnee Treaties of 1833 and 1857: Why Do Some Folkways Collection, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2019, anthology; PHOTO Jeff 

Treaties Fail?; The Inka Empire: What Innovations Can Provide Food and Water for Millions?; Malet; PHOTO Hrant Sahakyan for My Armenia Program; PHOTO Xueying Chang; PHOTO 

American Indian Removal: What Does It Mean to Remove a People?; The Great Inka Road: Jeff Malet; PHOTO Hrant Sahakyan for My Armenia Program; all courtesy Center for Folklife 

How Can a Road System Be an Example of Innovation?; and The Navajo Treaty of 1868: Why and Cultural Heritage 

Was the Navajo Journey Home So Remarkable? p. 61 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: 2-1p King George VI stamp, Great Britain, 

p. 19 Hiromi Ozaki and Masaya Kushino (AnotherFarm), Fantasma, 2019. Created in 1937, National Postal Museum; Royal Train RPO cover, June 9, 1939, museum purchase, 

collaboration with Japan’s Hosoo textile manufactory. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design National Postal Museum; A crowd waits for the king and queen on 15th Street, N.W. near 

Museum, courtesy AnotherFarm the Treasury Department Building, June 8, 1939, Library of Congress; 8p King George VI 

stamp, Great Britain, 1939, National Postal Museum; Coronation Cover Autographed by p. 20 Darko Vulic, Seeds of Peace, 1995. John Held, Jr. papers, 1917-1958, Archives of 

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 1937-1939, gift of Great Britain, National Postal American Art 

Museum; 1-1p Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Great Britain, 1937, 

p. 21 Michael Sherrill, Julesvernium (Seafower), 2008. Collection of Mark Parker National Postal Museum 

p. 22-23 Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) (composite), Department of p. 62 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Aida Muluneh, Sai Mado (The Distant Gaze), 

Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History 2016, museum purchase; Wangechi Mutu, Tree Woman, 2016, museum purchase, 

p. 24 Alaskan palm (Sabalites sp.), loan from the University of Alaska Museum of the North Women’s Initiative Fund; Nike Davies-Okundaye, Liberal Women Protest March I, 1995, gift 

at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, National Museum of Natural History of Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders in honor of the artist Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye; 

MwangiHutter, On a Beach Desert Meadow, 2012, gift of Tony Podesta; Patience Torlowei, p. 25 Detail, Pat Steir: Color Wheel, 2019. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 

Esther, 2013, gift of the artist 

p. 39 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Olga Albizu, Radiante, 1967, Gift of JPMorgan 

p. 66 CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Wonder Woman, no. 7, December 1943, Chase, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Judith F. Baca, Photograph of The Great 

courtesy DC Comics; Starmer, Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship sheet music cover, 1904; Wall of Los Angeles A view of Judy Baca and mural makers meeting at the 1940’s section 

Herman Miller Furniture Co., Soft Seating, ca. 1956; Exposition Souvenir Corporation, titled “David Gonzalez” in progress PHOTO SPARC Archive; Angel Rodríguez-Díaz, The 

The New York World’s Fair, 1939; Welcome Home: A Dinner to Theodore Roosevelt, 1910, Protagonist of an Endless Story, 1993, museum purchase made possible in part by the 

Russell E. Train Africana Collection; all from Smithsonian Libraries. Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool and the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition 

Program, Smithsonian American Art Museum © 1993 Angel Rodriguez-Diaz; Preliminary BACK COVER PHOTO Ira Block 

rendering of the Molina Family Gallery at National Museum of American History; Paul 

Smithsonian 2019 is published Charlotte Gaither, Director of 

by the Smithsonian Offce of Constituent Engagement 

Advancement. Available online at 

Laura Hambleton, Editor go.si.edu/smithsonian2019 

Elizabeth McNeely, Managing Editor 

Heather Ewing, Essay Writer 

Dawn Cunningham, Laura Hambleton, 

Elizabeth McNeely, Julia Ross, Linda 

Schmidt, Elise Walter, Writers 

Elizabeth Sherman, Contributing Editor 

Abigail Croll, Photo Editor 

Polygraph, Design 

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BACK COVER 

“Heartly,” a fossilized leaf from Scott Wing’s collection at the National Museum of Natural 

History, is about 56 million years old. The Event Horizon Telescope’s landmark image of 

a black hole captured light that sparkled billions of light years and many galaxies away 

at roughly the same time. Only at the Smithsonian will a photo of millions-of-years-old 

light particles unite with a fossil in the institution’s collection: one a memory from the 

past, and the other a frst look at technology that could defne the future. 
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