Supporters

Founding Funders

Sarah Arison

The Arnhold Family

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Cantor Fitzgerald

Ford Foundation

Goldman Sachs | One Million Black Women

Heckscher Foundation for Children

Valerie-Charles Diker Fund

Wendy E. Scripps Foundation

Leadership Circle ($100,000+)

The Ann and Weston Hicks Charitable Fund 

Sarah Arison

The Arnhold Family

Charles and Valerie Diker 

Ford Foundation

Denise Littlefield Sobel

Visionary Circle ($50,000-$99,999)

The Heckscher Foundation for Children

The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Champion Circle ($25,000-$49,999)

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Cecily Carson

Katherine Farley

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

New York State Council on the Arts

Nyssa & Chris Lee

Weiss Family Charitable Fund

Impact Circle ($10,000-$24,999)

Amazon Web Services

Change Starts With Me | Alltroo

Peter Croncota

Four Friends Foundation

Harkness Foundation for Dance

The Marshall Frankel Foundation

Mary P. Landy

Mertz Gilmore Foundation

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

L’Oreal

Benis and Robert Reffkin

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts |
Long Island University

Turn 2 Foundation

Uber

Wilhelm Family Foundation

WORK OF ART HOLDINGS®

Community Circle ($5,000-$9,999)

Anonymous

Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust

Joyce & Arnold Evans

Find Your Light Foundation

Cassie & Seth Hollandar

Hyde and Watson Foundation

Derek and Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Michael Lemle

Deborah Min

Sally H. and L. Michael Sheehy

Advocate Circle ($1,000-$4,999)

Anonymous

Diane Ashton

Samantha Brand

Cécred

Champion Mindset Consulting

Choreographics

Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Ron and Soraya Coley

Bethany D’Meza

Brad Downs

DV Foundation

Linda A. & James H. Ellis

Nancy and Michael Feller

Denyce Graves

Pamela Greenidge

Turkessa Green

Hannah Gottlieb-Graham

Laura and Gordon Golub

Mark Hadfield

Aya Stark Hamilton

Mark Kalmansohn

Gabrielle Lesser

Rossana Leipzig

Alison Maschmeyer

Tai Mendoza

National Basketball Association

Jon Neal Selzer

O’Sullivan Family Charitable Fund

Valerie Robinson

Samira Shamoon

Mona Sewell on behalf of the Sewell Family Foundation

Lola Ladeinde Temple

Jacquelin Thomson

TPZ Cares Foundation

Friends of MCF ($0-$999)

Anonymous
John and Debra Adams
Modupe Akinola
Jay Anderson
Katie Anderson
Francesca Andrews
Elizabeth Avril
Terri Babyak
David Bailey
Alison Benjamin
Jillian Bershtein
Patricia Bertone
Chris Bohlin
Pamela Brandt
Joan Breibart
Lorenza Bruno
Teresa Brown
Tracey Budden
Rebecca Campbell
Brig Campbell
Carol Campbell
Candex
Aiden Cantine
Edward Callaway
Eleanor Carter
Amber Cavallaro
Gretchen Coley
Renee Collodi
Jaclyn Costello
Katie Constantine
Daniel Czajka
Susan Deaver
Cathryn Deal
Edmine Delva
Charmise Desire
Robyn DesHotel
Antone Dias
CK Diebold
William Dillard
Merideth Dolan
John B. Donovan
Cheri Dudley
Jerome Eckstein
Melissa Elstein & Eric Katzman
Iveoma Eriken
Andrea Fast
Darice Fadeyi
Flora Fajardo
Elizabeth Ferrell
Vera Fischer



Scott Forester
Alyson Fortune
Eric Frankel
Corinne Frey
Danni Gee
Clifford R. Ghetti
Noah Goldmann
Lindy Goldstein
Julie Green
Toni Haber
Carolyn Hakulin
Lori Hannon
Ed Harsh
Howard Harrison
Scott Helmers
Merrit Heminway
Alissa Heynen
Jody Heyward
Sophia Howard
Cornelius Hubbard
Timothy Hunkele
Anthony Iarrapino
Ephram Cola Jacquin
Rachel Jasko
Louise Jacob
Melina Johnson
Matt Johnson
Sandra Jontz
Tara Jones
Robert Kaeding
Marissa Kalu-Thompson
Paula Katinas
Yvonne Kocur
Anju Krishnamurthy
Zo Landers
Daniel Landver
Brian Lewis
Naomi Leszkiewicz
Roseanne Lind
Sandy Loyless
Denise Lynch
Marion Magnuson
Michael Martin
Cyrus Massoumi
John Mathews
Heather McDonough
Martha McCracken
Kimberley McClain
Jennifer McGrath
Leslie McKenney

Sarah McKenna
Jennifer Merchant
Maybeth Messmer
Pamela Morrissey
Serah Morrissey
Jessica Morton
Paula Mozen
Mary Patricia Nardino
Joyce Nadig
Andrea Nellis
Keri Nelson
Peggie O’Neal
Theresa Ott
M’Lisa Oravitz
Eric Paisner
Anastasia Papas
Stacey Panek
Kevin Parichan
Lia Pascale
Amanda Philipp
Marcia and Eric Pillar
Margaret Pisani
Trenton Price
Emily Rackoff
Shannon Rosenberg
Leslie Ross
Evelyn Roman
Abigail Santos
Victoria Sandler
Angela Scott
Sara Seegers
Katherine Skelley
Debra Smith
John, Laura, and Gisele Sonnier
Leonard Steinberg
Caroline Stokes
Mary Tanner
Joyce Templeton
Laura & David Torres
Kimberly Underwood
Olivia Chitayat Uyizeye
Mona A. Wachtel
Natalie White
Anitra Wilson
Maureen Wilson
Cathryn Williams
Schiro Withanachchi
Lindsay Wormser
Kary Woodruff
Patricia Zaken

The Misty Copeland Foundation is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.