Dec. 22, 2025: Today we launched our new ticketing system and updated website! Tickets available now. Questions? Contact us at 408-295-4200 or info@cltc.org.

Our Donors

Corporate, foundation and organization supporters

Many thanks to these generous supporters of City Lights! Here’s a partial list.

Individual Donors

Donate Now Online

The Inspiration Circle ($75,000+)

Anonymous
City Of San Jose, Office Cultural Affairs
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
The William And Flora Hewlett Foundation

The Trailblazers ($50,000+)

Knight Foundation Fund, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Urban Community

The Groundbreakers ($25,000+)

Applied Materials Community Foundation, a corporate advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Chris Heinbokel
Jonathan Karpf and Kathleen Zaretsky*
Sandra Moll
The Shubert Foundation
Anita Kapadia and Feroze Taraporevala

The Innovators ($10,000+)

Susan Barker

Ken Krechmer & Elaine Baskin

Cheryl Booton and Bob Mannell

Constance & Paul Boulay

Anonymous

Anonymous

Kevin and Noelle GM Gibbs

Google Matching Gifts

Dan Hill

Karen S. Leonard & Cheryl Lander

Christy Martin & Cindy Melter

Charlie McCollum

Nan Ho & Gary Miner

Nancy B. Coleman and Paul M. Resch

The Resilience Initiative, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Santa Clara County

Mary Lou Torre and Richard Hagan

Kevin Ung

The Game Changers ($5,000+)

Apple Matching Gifts Fund

Marv & Bonnie Bamburg

Rick & Violet Boyle, in honor of Lisa Mallette

Sarah Clish*

Karen DeHart

Benjamin Hemmen

The Hunter-Garcia Family Donor Advised Fund

Wanda Kownacki Fund, a donor advised fund, in memory of Rick Holden

Kuechler-Montes De Oca Family Fund, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Mission City Community Fund

Clint Moore

Brian & Christine O’Neill’s Giving Fund

Bill Porter

The Reis Foundation

Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation

Silicon Valley Creates

Stella B. Gross Charitable Trust

The Valley Foundation Donor Advised Fund

Virginia Walbot

Mohamed Ismail & Jessica Whittemore

The Movers & Shakers ($2,500+)

Niall Adler

The Joel Dean Foundation

John and Barbara Harriman

David and Cheryl Heiman

Cayce Hill & Joe Zullo

Jan & Sofia M. Laskowski

Cliff Maas

David & Ada May

Lyle Merithew and Sandy Swirsky

Douglas Moore

Gillian Moran

Nvidia Matching Gifts

Meredith Orr

Mark & Karen Anderson Phillips

Matt & Samantha Resch

San Jose Water Company

The Thermond Philanthropy Fund

Suzanne Wittrig and Alfonso Banuelos

The Engagers ($1000+)

Linda Anderson

Cheryl Barker

Dena Behnam

Iris Berke

Steven & Karin Chase

Laura Colunga In honor of Cheryl Barker

Sandi & Richard Conniff

Patricia Curia

Pat Diamond, in memory of Robert Diamond

April Durrett & Matt Reilly

Brad & Candace Eggleston

Laura and Glenn Ellingson

Sandra & Clayton Feldman

Steven & Dawn Gerdt

John & Lucia Gilbert

Lucille Glassman Gifting Trust

Tom Gough and Luisa Sermol

Steve Grant and Marni Kamzan, in memory of Rick Holden

The Kieve Foundation

Kate & Tim Leehane

Marla Lipschultz

Christine Lyon

McGeever Family Giving Trust

Christine Mengarelli and Dale Elliott

Vickie Moore

Richard Newton

Molly & James Olivas

Anonymous

Noah & Heather Price

Barbara Reynolds

Myles Rowland

Carl & Marianne Salas

ServiceNow

Seymour Family Charitable Account

Alexx Smith

John & Amanda Straigis

Synopsys Matching Gifts

TheatreDNA

Carol & Dan Turner*

Anonymous

Geri Weimers, in memory of Rick Holden

Nancy Wheeler

The Dreamers ($500+)

4imprint

Adonna J. Amoroso. In memory of Rick Holden

Chloë Angst & Ray Burks

Anonymous

Martha C. Beattie

Susan Benjamin

Jason and Laura Bennert

Janice Berling

Tom and Larel Bondi

Lisa Buchanan & John Blair

Erica Bulycz

Barbara Canup

Janice L & Gary H Cherrier

City of San Jose District 3

Rosalee Clarke, in memory of Bob Clarke*

Patricia A. Corr

Teryn Corsiglia

Joseph & Michelle Dittberner

William Ereneta*

Joan Escover

Martin & Barbara Fishman

Dan Flynn

Pam Foley

Jane Frommer and Stephen Boyer

Carol Garvey

Keith Garvey Good Democrat Foundation

The Goldman/Singer Family Fund

David & Kate Gross

Marcie Gugenheim

Nicole Hawkins

Susan Hayes

Catherine and Judd Heape

Rose & John Henderson

Brian and Jocelyn Herndon

Adriana Hokk

Michael Kelley & Jill Huchital

James Kleinrath & Melody Singleton

Alison & Richard Lane

Anna Lee

Roy Leonard & Tadashi Oguchi

Nicole Letellier

Kathleen Magid

Judith Marlin

Toby McChesney

Jason Molenda

John Moody & John Morton

Michael Mulhern & Glen Cantrell

Barbara Murray*

Ross Nelson*

Cindy Panelli

Daniel Pappone

Susan Petit Donor Advised Fund

Maryellen Petrich*

Phil Kurjan Fund, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Sal, Amy, Mia and Alex Pizarro

Glenn Reed

Ray and Katie Renati

The Roble Road Fund

Ellen and Bryan Shaner*

Christopher Slater

Andrew Smith & Brian Savard

Suits Litigation

Susan Tatro

Cathy & Randy Warshawsky

Winnie Weng

Laurie Whittemore

James D. Williams

Kendall Williams

Susan Wong

Paul and Anne Younan

ZenBusiness

The Doers ($250+)

Bill & Marsha Adler

Anonymous

Applied Materials Corporation

Barry Swenson Builder

Nancy & Clayton Bavor

Jan & Mike Bergkamp

Jeffrey Bracco

Anonymous

Doug Brook

Scott Brown and Alex Fitzpatrick

Anonymous

The Burns Family

Anonymous

Alice & Bill Cody

Dirzo Family

Cheryl Duncan & Jit Kapur

Anonymous

Anonymous

Nancy Batiloro Felder

Barb & Bob Fraser

Bill & Lynn Fuller

Ron Gasparinetti & Steve Cortopassi

Google Corporation

John Angell Grant

Phil and Diane Griego

Linda Guyer

Meredy & Bruce Halen

Craig Hamilton

Ross Arden Harkness

David Heine & Chrisula Bloore

Heritage Bank of Commerce

Kimberly Mohne Hill

Intel Matching Gifts

Richard & Peggy James

Jon Jenkins and Renee Schell

Janikke Klem & Leon Glover

Johnny & Katie Kolasinski

Sandra Krakowski

Jon Kull

Anonymous

Bill & Rhonda Lakatos

Mike Lambert

Heather Lerner

Sarah & Joshua Levy

Andy MacDonald & Renee Verhaegen

Lisa Mallette

Joyce Manina

Gary & Debbi Maxwell

Walter Mayes*

Hugh & Debbie McDevitt, a donor advised fund

Andrea McDonald

Bruce McLeod & Carla Befera

Charles & Jean Mendoza

Micron Technologies

Judith Miller

Robert Miller

The Margot Minnium Olsen Foundation

Guillermo Morales

Teresa & Dan Morley

Neil & Phyllis Newman

Vivian and Kevin O’Connell

Marlene O

Caitlin Papp

Lee Ann Payne & Chris Reber

Bart Perry

Alex Powers

Kelly & Velma Priest

Sophia Quinlan

Jenny Redo

The Eddie Reynolds & Hernán Correa Family Fund, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Michael Rhone

Kimberly Ridgeway

Sherri R. Sager

AJ Eiserloh & Emily Schwing

Sally Scofield

Anonymous

Joe Singer*

Kyle Smith

David Snow & Rosemary Elliott-Snow

Anonymous

Erin Southard

Allison & Jonathan Stanton

Carl & Frances Stremmel

Victoria Taketa

Lynn K. Telford

James Towery and Karyn Sinunu-Towery, in honor of Caitlin & Olivia for a backstage peek

Anonymous

Harrison-Ullmann Philanthropic Fund, a donor advised fund at the Jewish Silicon Valley

Paul Vallerga

Damian I. Vega

Tom Wagner

Kim Walesh & Steve Polcyn, in memory of Rick Holden

Geoffrey Webster

Elisa Wells

Maggie Wilde

Amanda Williams

David & Julie Yick-Koppel

Susan Zaslaw and Martin Liss

Tianbi Zhang

Dana Zook

The Believers ($100+)

Ameriprise Employee Giving Program

Robert B. Ames

Deb and Paul Anderson

Anonymous

Rosalie Arntzen

Alex Bailey

Tigran Bakchagyan

Jamie Baker

Rachel & Tom Bakker

Jim & Laurie Bamburg in honor of Marvin Bamburg

Barb and Bob Baum

Thomas Becker

Michael Berckart

Anonymous

Steve Borkenhagen

Anonymous

Kirsten Brandt

Don & Becky Brownson

Jospeh Buck & Christine Welsh-Buck Donor Fund

Alyssa Byrkit

Kendall Callaghan, in honor of John Callaghan

Carrier Matching Gifts

Anonymous

John & Agnes Caulfield

Anonymous

Barbara Clemmensen

Nicholas Cochran

Robin Cole

Darryl and Carolyn Compton

Carolyn Coulson, in memory of Joan Coulson

Steve & Suzanne Cowan

Mark and Terrie Creamer

Elsa Cumpton

Bill and Alicia Davidovich

Chris del Pilar

Denise Delong

Louis Delucas

Jerry Di Salvo

Ramon & Jennifer Diaz-Arrastia, in memory of Jean Buchanan

Anonymous

Anonymous

Rob & Teri Francis

Kim Gardner

Wayne & Estelle Glass

Barbara Goldstein

Kathy Gutberlet

Beverly Hansberry

Brittney Harter

Susan Hartt

Denise & Jim Heick

Leigh Henderson

Jane Hiatt

Angie Higgins & Tom Shamrell

Anonymous

Vilma Huertas

Anonymous

The James Family Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund

Holly Johnson

Russell Johnson

Kathleen Kawakami

Katherine Kessler In memory of James Beseau

Carol & Roland King

Harvey & Perla Kohs, in memory of Rose Kohs

Lee Kopp

Lucinda Lawson

Colleen & Brian Lewis

Katherine Linnemann

Anonymous

Amoreena Lucero

Miles Mallette

Anonymous

Maria & Steve Marquis

Jim & Chris Martin

Martinka Charitable Fund

Lynda Maynard

Bill McCraw & Janet Muscio

Scott McQueen

Anonymous

Lisa K. Miller

Michael Mitnick

Darrel Monda

Michael Munck

Michael Norris

Ed O’Brien

Susan Overland In honor of Deb Anderson

Anonymous

Karen Altree Piemme

Basab Pradhan

Roneet Rahamim & Max Tachis

Jorge L. Reyes

Jackie Roach

Anonymous

Suzanne Rostamizadeh

Kirkwood Rough

Marko Rukonic

Doug and Elizabeth Santana

Shannon & Scott Santandrea

Anonymous

Ken & Margaret Schieck

Joyce & Campbell Scott

Sempra Engery Matching Fund

Ed & Kereli Sengstack

Anonymous, in honor of Christy Martin

Sally A Slocum

Janet Smick

Collette Son

Harold & Linda Spencer

Dave & RuthE Stein, in memory of Todd Wright

Laura Sternberg

Larry & Carmen Stone

David Taylor & Valerie Merklin

John & Cici Teter

Della Thurgood

Ann Timoney

Patricia Toft

C. Trupski

Zach & Christian Vaughn-Munck

Patrick Vernaelde

Christine Weldon

Richard & Carol Wells

Laura Westley

DJ & Linda Whipple

Gerrye and Calvin Wong

Charnnee’ Young & Joseph Hidde

William Zavlaris In honor of Marv Bamburg

Jennifer Zeyl

* Sustained Giving Program

Those donors marked with an asterisk () are members of City Lights’ Sustained Giving Program, and have their donations charged automatically each month to provide invaluable, ongoing support throughout the year.