Our Donors
Thanks to these kind supporters during the past year: November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2021.Benefactor
(lifetime gifts of $100,000+)
Anonymous estate gift
The Richard Barnhart Estate
Angel
($10,000+)
- Mark Olson, The Purple Crayon (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Pisgah Banjo Company (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Lee Zapis, Z Mandolins (IBMA Bluegrass College Scholarship)
Multi-Platinum
($5,000-$9,999)
- Rick & Wendy Lang (includes Rick Lang Music Songwriter Scholarship)
- Richard Spratt (includes banjo donation for Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle 2022)
Platinum
($1,000-$4,999)
- Anonymous (instrument donation)
- Gloria (Janie) Boyd, in memory of Mac Wiseman
- Tom Brown, Fat Shirley’s Trailer Park Opry (Sally Ann Forrester College Scholarship, instrument donation)
- Megan Brugger (Sally Ann Forrester College Scholarship)
- The Marguerite Cole Foundation
- The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (teacher workshop grant)
- Crandall Creek Bluegrass Band (Crandall Creek College Scholarship)
- Katy Daley (Sally Ann Forrester College Scholarship)
- Mike & Susan Ford (IBMA Foundation project grant in VA and Bluegrass in the Schools mini-grant in WV)
- Robert Forrester (Sally Ann Forrester College Scholarship)
- Laurie Greenberg
- Arthur Hancock, IV
- The John Hartford Family (Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award)
- Peter Salovey & Martha Elisa Moret
- Robb & Elizabeth Tyler Foundation
Gold
($750-$999)
- Casey Henry (Arnold Shultz Fund)
Silver
($500-$749)
- Fred & Joy Bartenstein
- Bill Brown (IBMA Bluegrass College Scholarship, in honor of Katy Daley)
- Ryan Craft
- Dan Dorschel
- General Electric (employee match)
- Bob Jeannin
- Ruth McLain
- Alan Tompkins
Patron
($100-$499)
- David Benedict (Sally Ann Forrester College Scholarship)
- The Break Room (Lexington, KY)
- Peggy Cabe
- Nancy Cardwell
- Susan Comstock (Arnold Shultz Fund, in memory of Michael Lee Alexander)
- Margaret Conrad (in memory of Sam Marshall)
- Brent Davis
- Regina Derzon
- Malcomb Edwards
- Adam Engelhardt
- Jay Faber
- Bill Foster (IBMA Bluegrass College Scholarship, Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Raymond Hopkins
- Chris Joslin
- Kathy Kallick (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Bill Knowlton (in memory of Bill Vernon)
- Jeffrey Koontz
- Maurice Lesses (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Lluis Gomez Marinez
- McCeney Trust
- Kirstin Morris, The Charlotte Symphony (Sally Ann Forrester Scholarship, in memory of Shadrach Thomas Gibson)
- Mary Mueller
- Joe Mullins
- Shauna Nefos
- Christine Oricchio, in memory of Tony Williams
- Joe Osborn
- Mark Panfil
- Jeff Poss, Calton Cases
- James Reams (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- John Robertson (in memory of Randy Miller)
- Leah Ross (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Annie Savage (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Paul Schiminger
- Michael Simpson
- Travis Stimeling (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Joshua Taylor
- Peter Thompson
- Tom Thorpe
- Ian Watkins (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Peter Wernick (Discover Bluegrass)
- Wolfpen Branch (pop-up fundraiser concert)
- John & Ellen Wright
…PLUS many more donors in the $1-99 range. We appreciate you all!
Our gratitude is also extended to the following members of our Legacy Society who have included the Foundation in their estate planning/wills:
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Anonymous (2)
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The late Richard Barnhart
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Fred Bartenstein
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The late Harry Edwards
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Leuk Friglink
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Laurie Greenberg
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The late John Kaparakis
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Tom Kopp
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The late Barbara Bremmer Taylor
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Tom Thorpe
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Alan Tompkins
-
Bob and Nancy Cardwell Webster
If we have accidentally left your name off the list or listed you in the wrong level, please let us know.
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