Institutional Funders

Weeksville Heritage Center is a not-for-profit corporation whose Trustees operate the Museum in a building owned by the City of New York. The People of the City of New York provide major funding for WHC’s operations through the City’s Department of Cultural Affairs. The combined generosity of WHC’s Members, Trustees, and visitors, as well as that of corporate, foundation, government, and individual donors, underwrites WHC’s programs and activities each year.

Special thanks to the following elected officials and government bodies:

The Brooklyn Borough President
The City of New York
The Governor of the State of New York
The Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Mayor of the City of New York
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City
The National Parks Service 
The National Trust for Historic Preservation 
The New York City Council and its Brooklyn Delegation
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
The New York City Department of Youth & Community Development
The New York State Council for the Arts
The New York State Senate and its Brooklyn Delegation
The State of New York
The United States Government

Special thanks to the following institutional funders:

Altman Foundation
Altschul Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Brooklyn Community Foundation
Booth Ferris Foundation
Charina Foundation
Cheswatyr Foundation
Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust
Ford Foundation
Howard Gilman Foundation
Humanities New York
Hyde and Watson Foundation
William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust 
Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Lily Auchincloss Foundation
May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
New York Landmarks Conservancy
Norman Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation

Special thanks to the following corporate donors:

American Express Foundation 
ArchiveSpace Diversity Partnership
Consolidated Edison
Equinox Open Library Initiative
Lifetime Arts, Inc.
National Grid
Osei Rubie Charitable Fund

Individual Donors

Sustainers ($100-$499) 
ELC Beauty LLC
Parent Association of Millennium Brooklyn
High School
National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. 
Theta Chapter
Olanike Alabi
Lauren Allman
Kenn Ashley
Muriel Ayanaba
Andrew Bailey
Pauline Barfield
Lauren Barnes
James Basili
Linda Bass
Rachel Bauer
Nathaniel Beck
Jo Ann Benoit
Daniel M. Bernstein
Leslie-Ann Bolden
Pamela Bolen
Rachel Bonsignore
Fitzgerald Boyce
Jonathan Brady
William Bragin
Celeste Brewer
Mackenzie Bronk
Andrew Broussard
Lisa Brundage
Dorothy Bukantz
Nadia Burgard
Keri Butler
Sara Caples
Lila Carpenter
Eileen Casterline
Renee Chu
Sonya Chung
Matthew Clarke
Raymond Codrington
Jeremy Colangelo-Bryan
Jean Cook
Lucy Cook
Amanda Cordell
Nora Daniel
Erica Davis
Renata de Carvalho Gaui
Jordan Dominguez
Kate Donahue
Michael Donnay
Phyllis Dozier
Marcella Durand
Roxanne Fagan
Kristen Fairey
Meg Fellerath
Quincy and Steffani Flowers and Jemison*
Rose Fox
Margaret Frick
Ann Friedman
Barbara Futter
Glenda Garrick
Karen Gleeson
Eleni Glekas
Sheila Glover
Donna Grant
Pamela Green
Leah Grossman
Daphna Gutman
Cheri Hawkins
Ursula Hegewisch
Susan Henderson
Caitlin Henningsen
Steven Henry
Peter Hogness
Whitney Hunter
Maureen Hyland
Suzanne Igarteburu
Olukemi Ilesanmi
Elizabeth Indek
Krista  Jahn
Lucy Joffe
Valencia Johnson
Christina Jorge
Sidney Joyner
Mitra Kaboli
Prithi Kanakamedala
Jezra Kaye
William Keefer
John Keene
Laine Kendall
Fern Khan
Arlene King-Robinson
Evan Kingsley
Jody Kuh

*Indicates a Weeksville Ambassador
List in formation as of February 1, 2022

sustainers, continued
Carin Kuoni
Troy Lambert
Marcia Lawrence
Amanda Leake Lewis*
Arden Levine
Charlotte Levitt
Zoe Lister-Jones
Tracey Little
Aleksey Lukyanov Cherny
Eileen MacDougall
Waciuma Maina
Raquel Malmberg
Mary Mann
Ann Marcus
Rebecca Mason
Lorna Mason
Christen Mathern
Diane Max
Jerry McCall
Robin McElheny
Nicole McGarrell
Leslie McKinley
Brian Merlis
Jo Anne Meyers
Amanda Miller
Bonne Mogulescu
Kangela Moore
Martha Moore
John Noonan
Ann Ogle
Brightstar Ohlson
Okwuchukwu Okpokwasili
Christopher Owens
Lily Paulina
Chelsea Peterson
George Petras
Charlotte Phillips
Raffaella Pierson
Ada Potter
Achebe Powell
Edward Prussack
Kathleen Quarto
Ed Ravin
Kate Reggev
David Warren
Rhona Lyons
Valerie Rosenberg
Helen Rosner
Howard Rubinstein
Val Schaffner
Mona Schnitzler
Katherine Schoonover
Leonard Schwartz
Anne Schwartz
Willy Schwenzfeier
Joseph Scully
Cidra Sebastien
Jamie Serlin
Ainka Shackleford
Megan Shand
Don Shearn
Elizabeth Shepherd
Andrew Shih
Katie Shuford
Kandace Simmons
Nona Simmons
Dana Simmons-Greco
Douglas Singleton
Cathleen Snyder
Joel Snyder
Betty Staton
Emily Stern
Fran Streich
Elizabeth Streitz
Shandra Tate
Alexandra Tell
Leith ter Meulen
Blythe Terrell
Avi Terry
Tupper Thomas
Marcella Tillett
Ainka Turner
David & Ellie Tweedy
Jessica Vitali
Alison Wade
Anita Warren
Nancy Weber
Stephanie Wilchfort
Holly Williams
Regina Winans
Elizabeth Zieminski

And 2 anonymous donors.