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Funders, Sponsors & Donors

Annual Support

Porchlight Music Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following individuals, businesses, foundations, and corporations. This list includes donor gifts received August 10, 2008 through April 20, 2009. We regret any errors in the listing of contributors’ names. If you would like your name to appear differently or prefer to remain anonymous, please contact us at info@porchlighttheatre.com or phone 773-325-9884.

Porchlight is especially grateful to the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation for another Challenge Grant! To be completed June 2009 the grant will match new donor gifts and increased gifts from previous donors. Please consider helping us meet that challenge.

Porchlight appreciates the grants from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Porchlight encourages its audience members to thank their alderman, state representative, and state senator for supporting such vital government funding for the arts.

Porchlight Music Theatre is grateful to the A.R.T. League and the Seabury Foundation for grants to help underwrite our community outreach program which provides complimentary and subsidized tickets for individuals and groups, especially youth, from underserved communities. For these audience members, Porchlight is often their first experience of live, professional theater.

Foundation/Corporate Sponsors

A.R.T. League
Arts Work Fund at the Chicago Community Trust
Bespoke Cuisine
William Blair & Company Foundation
Capri Capital Partners LLC
CityArts Program 2 Grant/City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Illinois Arts Council - A State Agency
The MacArthur Fund for Art & Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
National Association of Realtors
900 North Michigan Surgery Center
Peoples Energy

Season Major In-Kind Donors & Sponsors

Arts & Business Council of Chicago
Bespoke Cuisine
Cooper’s - A Neighborhood Eatery
The Drake Hotel
Hunter Douglas Hospitality
Jason Groh - Lexoria Studios
Sisson Design
John Yesko - Website Design

($2,500+)

Anonymous (2)
Arts Work Fund at the Chicago
Community Trust
William Blair & Company Foundation
Chicago City Arts Grant
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Illinois Arts Council - A State Agency
The MacArthur Fund for Art & Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Peoples Energy
Avy & Marcie Stein

Presto ($1,000+)

Anonymous (1)
Capri Capital Partners LLC
Mary Kay Conley+
Brenda Didier
Leonora Dickson+
Harvey Friedman & Freddi Baron
Kevin & Jan Holland
IBM*
Jerry McCann
Eileen Meyer
National Association of Realtors
Angela & John Robinson+
L. Walter Stearns
Ward & Christine Weichert+
Kristi Zimmermann+
900 North Michigan Surgery Center Larry & Eileen Frederick

Support

Vivo ($500-$999)

A.R.T. League
Eric Decator & Robert Andrew+
David Dorton & Christin Boulette+
William Finn
Jeannie Lukow+
Rob & Vi Oberwise
Pepsico*
Tom & Margi Rice
Rhoda Reeling+
David Shapiro
Donald E. Sprague+
UBS*

Allegro ($250-$499)

Richard Boyum
Donney & Susan Dorton
Sharon & Peter Flanagan-Hyde
Trudy Giesel
Jack Hakman
Winifred Martin
William Morey & Chris Tisone
Chuck & Becky Sisson+
Jan & David Tjepkema

Moderato ($100-$249)

Anonymous
Frank & Marjorie Alschuler+
Allan & Jan Bergman+
Elic & Carrie Beth Bramlett+
Eric & Kristi Bramlett
Richard T. Brannegan
Robert Coad
Carlos Costa & Tom Askounis
Jamie Curcio & Brian Denner+
Maureen Daw
CJ Devero+
Edmund & Marcela Dizon
Jeffrey & Julie Echt
Julie Fenton
Rhonda & Henry Frank
Larry & Eileen Frederick
General Mills*
Jo Gilbride
Richard & Gayle Guzik
Bil Ingraham & Brad McCormick+
Georgann Joseph & David Marker
Wayne Koepke
Bill Konczyk & Stan Conlon
Michael Kunnari
Thomas W. Lengacher
Avis L. Marcum
Sarah Marino & James Geren
Nancy McCarty
Jill Moore+
Sarah Morello & Scott Zemaitis
Charlotte Newfeld
Sheldon Patinkin
Jane Purdy
Ben & Barbara Rooks
Cathy Ross
Rosemary Schnell
Tamara Schiller & Charles Hoffman
Kim Shambrook
Jay & Tamara Sims+
Joan Stearns
Carol Trout
Michele & Darren Utyro
Jean Valerius+

Adagio ($50-$99)

Christa Buck & Thom Van Ermen
Inara Bundza
Richard Carmel
David Chinitz
Magdalyn Cohn
Frank M. Covey, Jr.
Eugene Dizon
Janet Elkins
John C. Fitzgerald
Charles Giglio
Robert Harnach
Noreen Heron
Katherine & Gary Klein
Arlene & Walter Mikol
Charlotte Newfeld
Mary Troxell+
Alexander Wayne
Carol Weinrich
Mardi & Garry Woodward

Largo ($25-$49)

Barbara Bernard
Howard Clauser
Abby Trabue Epperson
Patricia Griffith & Thomas Moore III
Sarah Hayes+
Brooke & Matt Jaeky
Claudia Katz
William Kirchmeyer
Gary & Kathy Klein
Joann Kraft
Ryan Lanning+
Steve Lyons
Henry & Florine Marks
Sue & Tom Murray
Tom Sinkovic
Sandra & Stanley Sklar

Others

Robert Austin
Jeanne Berkowitz
Judy Rosenblum
Diane Ross
Jeffrey Segal
Thomas Troup II
Allen & Susan Wishnick

*Denotes Corporate Matching Gifts
+Donors to Benefit 2009 Fund-an-Item.
These donations will help underwrite the cost of costumes for Pacific Overtures.

Gift Recognition Program

The Porchlight Music Theatre Gift Recognition Program affords donors the opportunity to remember their beloved deceased with a memorial gift or to honor a friend on a special or not so special occasion with a gift in their name. Acknowledgements are sent to those memorialized or honored.

Memorials Gifts in Honor of:

Harold Decator
Stanley Guzik

Gifts to Honor the Following Individuals:

Donald E. Sprague
L. Walter Stearns

Mildred Claire Reeling Memorial Endowment Fund Donors:

Freda Baron & Harvey Friedman
Jason & Renee Carver
Mary Kay Conley
Eugene Dizon
Suzanne Duffy (RIP)
Diane Dunne
The Hoffman Family
Tom & Kathy Lengacher
Andrea & Steven Marx
Rhoda Reeling
Kim Shambrook
Donald E. Sprague+
L.Walter Stearns
Darren & Michele Utyro

+Denotes donations made within current reporting period.


Please Give!

Donations are the lifeblood of a theater organization. Porchlight welcomes donations to the Annual Fund which meets the production expenses that ticket sales cannot cover and to the Endowment Fund.We are happy to complete paperwork for matching gift programs.

Please contact:
Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago
Business Office
2814 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago IL 60657-4202
773-325-9884
info@porchlighttheatre.com

As a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, all gifts are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Porchlight acknowledges all gifts with a letter recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as an appropriate record for donations.

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