Meet Our Donors
Starting Arts receives and solicits operating funds from individuals, corporations, foundations and government agencies. Those who “step up to the plate” to support the arts in schools are making a low-cost, high-return investment in a quality of life that will attract and keep employees with children in a community. Equally important, their financial support not only helps nurture the community’s next generation of artists – but the next generation of innovators and leaders as well.
Corporate, Foundation, and Organization Donors
$800,000+
Swenson Builders
$100,000+
City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs
SV Creates
$200,000+
City of San Jose
$50,000+
Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller (St. Joseph Commandery, San
Jose)
Flora Family Foundation
$25,000+
Shortino Foundation
Applied Materials
Adobe
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$10,000+
Rotary Club of San Jose
Rotary Club of Santa Clara
Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara
$1000+
The San Francisco Foundation
Heritage Bank of Commerce
San Jose Opera Guild
Lyon Charitable Fund
Google
Los Gatos Dental Group
Corinthian Wealth Management
Aesthetx
Abbott Laboratories
Cisco Systems
In-Kind Donors
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Cal Printing
Happy Hollow Park and Zoo
The Tech Museum of Innovation
Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose
Sunnyvale Parks & Recreation
Heather Peters Photography
Individual Donors
Emre Akalin
Zeina Akawi
Jane Bailly & Dave Schaal
Michele Barsanti
Scott & Paige Bayer
Amy Bredemeyer
Nancy Chang
Michelle Curley
Emily Dodson
Bryan Emmert
Jennifer Everett
Bruce Fox
Jodi Fujimoto
Judith Golub
Carolyn Grasshof
Robert George
Dr. Amelia Hausauer
Mary Hayes
Peggy Heiman
Allan & Janalie Henriques
Julie & Christopher Henriques
Tina Kobetsky
Paul Korff
John Koss
Sima Kremer
Han Le
Mary Jo & Louis Lee
Tim Leehane
Deborah Levin
Jason Lundgaard
Polly McBride
Denise Merrill
Libby Morimoto
Karen Neilson
Charotte Neimeyer
Liza Karmardian Neudecker
Heather Peters
Caterina & Don Peterson
Dr. Benjamin Picard
Monica Bacon Proctor
Lia & Bryan Prusha
Bob Reay and Judi Fan
David & Khanh Russo
Lawrence Rust
Dave Samuels
Chris & Alicia Sanders
Dwight Sanders
Neha Shenoy
Haruna Takahashi
Cathie & Jeff Thermond
Andrea & Charles Thurber
Phuong Tran
Daniel Tomalesky
Julie Turchin
Kristin VanderPas
Will Vincent
Melissa Waggenspack
Tracy Wingrove
Rosanne Wong
Chung-Ping Wu
Ligaya Yrastorza
Sayaka & Robert Yamane
Martin Zinkevich