A Heartfelt Thank You from PHILADANCO!

General

In any given year, PHILADANCO!’s performances, workshops, classes, and presentations reach tens of thousands of people. We truly would not be able to do all that WE do without the MANY people who help us in all the ways that THEY do:

  • Audiences who purchase tickets for our concerts
  • Parents and grandparents who introduce their children to the beauty of dance through our performances
  • Fashion lovers who donate clothes for our flea markets and then the many who come and buy
  • Volunteers who sew costumes, staff ticket tables, hand out programs… just do whatever is needed!

And, of course, we could not survive without financial support.  We are grateful to each, and every person and organization listed below, but we also are sustained and energized by everyone who supports our Danco Dollar Days or gives us the proceeds of their bake sale, lemonade stand, or donates a few stamps to the office.  If your name is not included below from this past year, our apologies for the oversight, but please know that you are part of the community that keeps us going… day in and day out… for over 52 years now. 

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

PHILADANCO! Funders and Donors 2021-2022

$500,000 and above
Mellon Foundation
Philadelphia Cultural Treasures, the regional component of the Ford Foundation’s American Cultural Treasures initiative, made possible through a collaborative effort of The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family Foundation, The PEW Center for Arts and Heritage, William Penn Foundation, and Wyncote Foundation
William Penn Foundation

$100,000 – $499,999
(IABD) International Association of Blacks in Dance – COHI|MOVE program supported by the Ford Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts, American Rescue Plan
US Small Business Association – Paycheck Protection Program, Shuttered Venue Operators Grant
Wallace Foundation

$25,000 – $99,999
Anonymous
National Endowment for the Arts
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
The Philadelphia Foundation

$10,000 – $24,999
Jeanne Fisher/Ayco Foundation
Davis Dauray Family Fund
The Sylvia W. and Randle M. Kauders Foundation
Lincoln Financial Foundation
PECO
Philadelphia Cultural Fund
PNC Arts Alive
Suzanne Roberts Cultural Development Fund

$5,000 – $9,999
Always Best Care Senior Services/Bryant Greene
Fulton Bank
Dolores Browne
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (support provided by the American Rescue Plan through the National Endowment for the Arts)
Linda Richardson Foundation
Randy R. Robinson
Rosenlund Family Foundation
Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation


$1,000 – $4,999

Ivory Allison
Alston-Beech Foundation
The Director’s Grant Program of The Barra Foundation
Robert W. and Marie K. Bogle Foundation
Ronald Caplan
Robert Cerceo
Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation
Dube Charitable Fund
GlaxoSmithKline
Gregory Gosfield
Mary Hurtig
Judy Jordan
Jean A. McCray
Kelly Mobley
Adam Rom
Brenecia Watson
Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial
Spencer Werthheimer
Benjamin Zuckerman
United Bank

$500 – $999
Cynthia Bullock
Angela Brown
James Edward Cambron
Barbara Katz Chobert
Jerilyn Keit Dressler
Colette deChalus Lee
Zandra L. Maffett
Valerie Hamilton
Beverly Harper
Linda J. Jacobsen
Robert Newton
Debra Piasecki
Ezra Porter
J. P. Scott
Susan Stromquist
Ellen S. Varenhorst

$200 – $499
C. Gloria Akers
Edvige Barrie
Samantha Butts
Nathinee Chen
Leslie Coney
John DeCarlos
Thomas Di Nardo
Elise Drake
Kate Durnan
Carol Henderson
Iris Henry
LeeAne Huggins
Gloria Jeffers
Legacy Realty Corporation
Ann Lesch
The Links, Philadelphia Chapter
Suzanne McFadden
Harold New
Patricia Panichas
Heather Peeler
Debra Piasecki
Ronald Picciotti
Delisa Purnell
Dan & Barbara Rottenberg
Janice Scott
D Screws
Ellen Varenhorst
Sheila A. Ward
Robert Wendelgass
L. Williams
Boris Willis

$100 – 199
Stanton Bizzell
Chandra A. Butler
Countryside Consulting, Inc.
Jocelyn D. DuPont
Margaret W. Harris
The Malmud-Kravitz Foundation
Lynne Malone
Jennifer Mauser
Robert Ranalli
Reho Satchell

Up to $99
Lawrence Allen
Anisha Ali
Amazon Smile
Kim Bears Bailey
Zane Booker
Ingrid Broadnax
Karen Brown
Stephanie Brown
Kimberly Carter
Letitia Coleman
Carmen Cooper
Catch 3 Consulting
Michael DiSandro
Kirk Dorn
Harry Downey
Diedre Farmbry
Vivian Gandy
William Goldberg
Wilma Harris
CarlaAnn Henry
Joseph Henson
Angela Bonita Hollis
Shakeema Hudwell
Meghan Ignatosky
Kim Johnson
Kenneth Kay
Pamela Kane
Denise Lewis
Joseph Lewis
Teri Lewis
Nancy Massey
Elouise Moore
Hillary Murray
Deanna Murphy
Dawn Olivaria
Nadine Patterson
Beverly Prendergast
Donna Robinson
Carol Rudisell
Angela Scott
Karen Scott
Jill Staufer
Gillian Stickney Swann
Rosemary Thomas
Stephanie Thomas
Barbara Thompson
Elizabeth Thornton
Shakia White
George Williams
Heather Williams
Iris Williams
Charlene Wiltshire

In Kind Donations
Kimmel Cultural Campus
Jerilyn Keit Dressler
Dr. Robert Pullen
Jacqueline M. Roberts
Spencer Werthheimer

Matching Gift Companies
GlaxoSmithKlein
Johnson & Johnson
PECO, an Excelon Company
PEW Charitable Trusts
Thomas Reuters
United Bank