Our Donors
Thanks to these kind donors during the past year: October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024.Benefactor
(lifetime gifts of $100,000+)
Anonymous estate gift
The Pisgah Banjo Company (Arnold Shultz Fund)
The Richard Barnhart Estate
The Relgalf Foundation
Angel
($10,000+)
- Cindy Baucom (in memory of Terry Baucom)
- Katy Daley & Bill Brown (Katy Daley Broadcast Media/Sound Engineering Scholarship, Sally Ann Forrester Scholarship, IBMA Bluegrass College Scholarship)
- Faraway Foundation
- Benjamin Gilmore estate (Fletcher Bright grants, Sally Ann Forrester Scholarship, Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Jim & Kathy Kortge (Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship)
Multi-Platinum
($5,000-$9,999)
- Eppes-Jefferson Foundation (Emcee Masterclass webinar – 2024)
- Laurie Greenberg (In honor of Fred Bartenstein, including Gloria Belle Scholarship, Fletcher Bright Grant for Young Musicians, IBMA)
- John & Trisha Tubbs (includes Arnold Shultz Fund, Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar sponsor 2023, in honor of Fred Bartenstein)
Platinum
($1,000-$4,999)
- Fred & Joy Bartenstein (includes Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship)
- Jerry Barush
- Town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia (guitar raffle at Blue Highway Fest)
- Dr. Richard Brown
- Timothy P. Connell (Bluegrass in the Schools Mini-grant sponsor)
- Dan Dorschel
- Malcolm Edwards
- Robert Forrester (Sally Ann Forrester Scholarship
- Elizabeth (Lizzer) and Scott Graham (Fletcher Bright grants)
- Tom and Barb Laing
- John Marchi (in-kind instrument donation)
- Doug & Pat Miller (Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship)
- Peter Salovey & Marta Elisa Moret (in honor of Fred Bartenstein)
- Mark Schuster (includes Fletcher Bright Memorial Grant for Young Musicians)
- Alan Tompkins, Bluegrass Heritage Foundation
- Wendy and Tom Tyner (in honor of Fred Bartenstein)
- John Young (includes Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship, Arnold Shultz Fund, in honor of Fred Bartenstein)
Gold
($750-$999)
Silver
($500-$749)
- Kissy Black (includes Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Bluegrass for the Next Generation (Katy Daley Broadcast Media/Sound Engineering Scholarship)
- Richard Bowden (J. D. Crowe Banjo Scholarship)
- Nancy Cardwell (In honor of Fred Bartenstein, Rick Lang Music Songwriter Scholarship, Gloria Belle Scholarship, Fletcher Bright Memorial Grant for Young Musicians)
- Leila Finn (banjo donation)
- Bill Foster (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Charles Gerhman (in honor of Peter Salovey)
- Lucy B. Griffin (Fletcher Bright grants)
- Bob Jeannin
- George Matthews
- Ruth McLain
- Neil Rosenberg (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Janelle Whitefield
- Dwight Worden (Arnold Shultz Fund)
Patron
($100-$499)
- Anni Beach (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Robert Beggs
- Laura Boosinger
- Gloria Boyd
- James Brittain
- Phyllis Bryant
- Kyle Cantrell, BanjoRadio.com
- Cynthia Clark (in memory of Gerry Higbie)
- Garnet Davis (in memory of Gerry Higbie)
- Lee Michael Demsey, in memory of Laurie Demsey
- Claudia Ferguson (in memory of Gerry Higbie)
- Bill Foster
- Elizabeth Grzanka (in memory of Gerry Higbie)
- Priscilla Guild
- Marie Harrington
- William Helm (in memory of Gerry Higbie)
- William Herrington (in memory of Gerry Higbie)
- James Hurster
- Bill Knowlton (Arnold Shultz Fund, in memory of Bill Vernon)
- Gwen Koelemeyer (in memory of Dave Shattuck)
- Marianne Kovatch (in honor of Fred Bartenstein)
- Margaret LeDuff (in memory of Gerry Higbie)
- Mary Jo Leet (Gloria Belle Scholarship)
- Jeff Long (in memory of Ben Eldridge)
- David Macemon
- Tom & Gail McGowen (in honor of Nancy Cardwell)
- Celia Millington-Wyckoff
- Mark Nash
- Jennifer Preston (Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship)
- Leah Ross (in honor of Nancy Cardwell)
- Mike & Yvonne Tatar
- Peter Thompson (Arnold Shultz Fund, Katy Daley Broadcast Media/ Sound Engineering Scholarship)
- William Veilette
- Werter Willis
- Bob Wright
- Lee Zapis (Arnold Shultz Fund)
- Plus many more donors in the $1-99 “Supporters” range. We appreciate you all!
Legacy Society
Our gratitute is also extended to the following members of our Legacy Society, who have included the Foundation in their estate planning and wills:
- Anonymous (2)
- The late Richard Barnhart
- Fred Bartenstein
- The late Harry Edwards
- Leuk Friglink
- The late Benjamin T. Gilmore
- Laurie Greenberg
- The late John Kaparakis
- Tom Kopp
- Penny Parsons
- Joyce Shelleman
- The late Barbara Bremmer Taylor
- Tom Thorpe
- Alan Tompkins
- Trisha and John Tubbs
- Bob Webster and Nancy Cardwell Webster
If we have accidentally left your name off the list or listed you in the wrong level, please email info@bluegrassfoundation.org and let us know.
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