DONOR RECOGNITION WALL


Our supporters make all the difference.
YIVO gratefully acknowledges the following individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies for their commitment in 2025. The list below reflects pledges and cash payments. In addition, we extend our gratitude to all YIVO members, each of whom is critical to our success.

$500,000+

Amy Starck and Jack Cogen
Miriam Cohen z"l
Ruth and David Levine
Manat Foundation


$100,000-$499,999

Anonymous (2)
Atran Foundation
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, The German Federal Ministry of Finance, and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future
First Hungarian Literary Society, Inc.
Howard Gerson Goldberg z"l
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Mirka Knaster and Larry Jacobs
Susanne and Jacob J. Morowitz
Elisa New and Lawrence Summers
NRW Entertainment Properties, LLC
Mark Padnos z'l
Irene Pletka
Sylvia A. Scher z"l
Suzanne Schwimmer z"l


$50,000-$99,999

Anonymous
Adrienne and Michael Alexander
Ed Blank
Michelle Brody and Hal Blumenfeld
Doris S. Fromberg
Gayle and Paul Gross Foundation
Estelle Guzik z"l
Ruth Hochberger and Martin Flumenbaum
Sima Katz z"l
The Kronhill Pletka Foundation
Anne E. Leibowitz Fund
Rachel Brody and Michael Lustig
Samuel Miller
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Historical Publications and Records Commission


$25,000-$49,999

Stephen Baker
Charles Cahn
Toby Clyman
The Derfner Foundation
Linda Witham Finkin and Eugene F. Finkin
Gelman Family Foundation
Elisabeth and Max Gitter
The Alice Lawrence Foundation, Inc.
Beth Lief and Michael Simonson
Sharon and Alan Lipworth
New York State Council on the Arts
Kate Rothko Prizel and Ilya Prizel
Frank and Jeanne Trainer
The Wagner Family Foundation
Myra and Harry Wagner
Judith E. Weisfuse and Michael B. Wax


$10,000-$24,999

Anonymous
Nancy and Andrew Adelson
Nan C. Bases
Dr. Georgette Bennett
Lisa Cohen and Christopher H. Rothko
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Duboier Young Men's Program Association Inc.
Falconwood Foundation, Inc.
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation
Joan and Robert Goldstein
Elizabeth Gordon and Warren M. Heller
Roger and Susan Hertog
Hittman Family Foundation
Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation
Indian Trail Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Marcia Israel Foundation, Inc.
Marcia Kaplan-Mann
Joanna and Emil Kleinhaus
Alys Kremer and Arthur Grossman
Jennifer Levine-Smith
Barry Liebowitz
Jean and Mark Mandell
Betty and Leo Melamed
Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund
Howard and Abby Milstein
Audrey and Mark Mlotek
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Barbara Seril
The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc.
Phyllis Tobin
Deborah Veach
Leon Wagner and Family
Laurence & Frances Weinstein Foundation Inc.
SB Wolf Family Foundation
Carol and Lawrence Zicklin


$5,000-$9,999

Anonymous (3)
Gerald Z. Barad
Bolivar Builders
Brenda and Martin Brenner
Center for Jewish History
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Colen-Bonaventure Charitable Endowment Fund
Miranda Cooper
Naomi Weisberg Siegel and Eric C. Cooper
Cooper-Siegel Family Foundation
Tedda Fenichel and Steven Marcus
Forward Association, Inc.
The Gelb Family Foundation
The Stanley & Ethel Glen Family Foundation
The GNVang Charitable Foundation
Steven A. Gold Charitable Educational Institutions Trust
Tara and Arthur Goldfrank
Diana S. Goldin
The William P. Goldman and Brothers Foundation, Inc.
The Harold Reich Goldmann Charitable Trust
Rita and Leo Greenland Family Foundation
Andrea and Warren Grover
Charles Grunfeld Foundation, Inc.
Halderstein Owl Trust
Carol Chave and Robert Hand
The Heisman Memorial Trophy
Judythe and Martin Isserlis
Karen and Peter Jakes
Sam Judlo
Judy and Steven Kaye
The Kupferstein Family
Harry and Sadie Lasky Foundation
Reeva and Ezra Mager
Jody and Giulio Martini
Bella Meyer
Lillian and Andrew Meyers
Paul S. Nadler Family Charitable Trust
Deborah Ugoretz and Samuel Norich
Donna and Elye Palevsky
Janet Pavloff and Lisa Kartzman
Martin D. Payson
Sidney Perloe z"l
Evelyn and Michael Pollack
Reva and Edward Potter
Lori Reszutek
Minia and Norman Sas
Manuel Schiffres
The Schnitzer Family Foundation
Chaim Schwartz Foundation
Barbara Segal and Howard Brown
Emily Selter
Jonathan Silin
The Shine Trust
The Doris & Stanley Tananbaum Foundation
Marci and Norman Tarle
Barbara and Steve Wolf
Sanford and Rella Stuart-Hunt Wurmfeld
Lester Yassky
Lotty Zucker Foundation


$1,000-$4,999

Anonymous (4)
Rochelle and Sheldon Abelson
Janet Abrams
Alan J. Ackerman
Helen K. Adams
Michael C. Alcamo
Terri and Bruce Alpert
Ira & Mary Lou Alpert Foundation, Inc.
Margaret and David E. Altschul
Estelle Apelberg
Arch Reinsurance Company
Robert and Toni Bader Charitable  Foundation
Diane and Jean-Loup Baer
Barbara Brooke Manning Charitable Fund
Barak Bassman
Baxt Family Foundation, Inc
Emile A. Bendit
Colleen Maloney Berman and Harvey A. Berman
Judy and Abraham Bernanke
John C. Bierbusse
Lewis Black
Sheldon Botoshansky
Frances and Jonathan Brent
Miriam and Alan Brody
Susan Bronson
Bonnie Burt and Mark Liss
Sonia and Philip Marc Burton
Ruth Holzer and Michael Byowitz
Andew W. Cassel
Irving Chase
Barbara Chasen
Jay Chazanoff
Jack Chester Foundation
Sharon and Steven Chrust
Michael Singer and Adina Cimet
Melissa S. Cohen
Steven J. Cohen
Cohn Family Philanthropic Fund
David-Horodoker Organization
Susan Denbo and David Serlin
Dorothy Devlin and Steve Alpert
Alexander R. Domanskis
Pamela and Martin Edel
Dr. Mark Russ and Eve Edelman Russ
Audrey and David Egger
Dr. Katie Eisenstadt
Irwin Epstein
Sandy Fainer
Suzanne and Enrique Fefer
Dean R. Feldman
Lewis J. Feldman
Jim A. Feldman
Michael J. Feldman
Feuerring Foundation
Merle and David H. Fishman 
Peggy Flaum
Deborah Forte and Peter Stone
Dylan Fotiadis and Christopher Willmeth
Stephen Freed and Jill Mortensen
Ernest Fried
Anne and Alan Friedman
Lily Friedman
Howard Friedner
Lloyd Fruchtman
Christina and Neil Garfinkle
Jill Gellerman and Avi Pandey
GFF Foundation
Judith Gold
Joyce & Irving Goldman Family Foundation, Inc.
David I. Goldstein
Ettie and Abe Goldwasser
Vit Gorodetsky
Ellen J. Greenberg
Eduard Gutkin
Dina Gutkowicz-Krusin and Bruce Draine
Ariel Hantin
Davis Haupt
Herbert and Lillian Heilpern Family Foundation
Jeffrey Herf and Sonya Michel
Rochelle and David A. Hirsch Foundation
Cynthia A. Hoddeson
The Deborah K. Holmes Family Foundation
Valerie and Allen Hyman
Judith B. and Jerome B. Ingber
Susan J. Milamed and Jack L. Jacobs
Joelson Foundation
Bonnie Kaplan
Lisa and Samuel Kassow
Jonathan Katz
Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, Inc.
Steven L. Kessler
E. Leon Kier
Naomi Kinsler
Ellen Tobey Klass
The Kranzdorf Family Foundation
Tova Kristal
Arthur Krystal
Kyla Kupferstein
Marc Kushner
Cecile Esther Kuznitz
Luis Lainer
Andrea and Jeffrey Landes
Leona Laskin
Elizabeth and Masai Leonard
Joshua Levin
Ruth Dieleman-Levine and Ben Levine
Corinne and Cyril Levitt
Ellen and Michael Levitt
Carol and Joel J. Levy
Judith Lewis
Rita Lieberman
Jane Ellis and Jack Litewka
The Litewka Foundation
David Loeb
Sana Loue
Joseph Mace
Claire and David Maklan
Marks and Powell Family Fund
Morris Mauer
Barbara and Leonard Mazur
Rita and Steven Meed
Nancy Metzger
Ethel Meyer
Sally Minard
Danny and Penny Mintz
Arline Greenfield Murad
Nelco Foundation Inc.
Natanya Nobel and Ron Murch
Michael Ochs
Ellen J. Odoner and Edward Kerson
Marta Olchyk
The Ronald A. & Eileen S. Oleet Family Foundation
Ethel Salonen Ollin and Harold Z. Ollin
 Dan Opatoshu and Anne Spielberg
Keith Orloff
Virginia Papaioannou and Simon M. Schama
Daniel I. Peters
Lydia Phillips and Charles Evans
Naomi Pinchuk
Vita and Raymond Pliskow
Marion and Robert Pollack
Joseph Porder
Susan Portes
Reva and Edward Potter
Arleen and Aaron Priest
Romana and Charles Primus
Eda Rak and Richard Neugebauer
Zelda Reeber
Michael Reiff and Tatiana Simonova-Reiff
Gail Twersky Reimer and Joseph Reimer
Micki and Jonathan Reiss
Annabelle Robbins
Rosaly Roffman
Bella Rosenberg
Judy Rosenberg
Elif Rosenfeld
Ruth and Gabriel Ross
Judy Rottersman
Nicole Simmons and Eric S. Rubin
Ruth R. Rubin
Phillip Rubin
The Robert Russell Memorial Foundation
Anna Sabat
Barbara Saidel and Edward Goldberg
Sanky Communications
Renee and Albert Sattin
Erica Schiffman and Benjamin Tandowski
Sandra Schipior
Rhea S. Schwartz and Paul Wolff
Esther J. Schwartz
Theodore Segal
Minna and Mark Seitelman
Sharon Selinger and Dennis Lowenstein
Joshua Shapiro
Shavelson Family Charitable Fund
Darci Sheena
Dr. Michael Siegal and Nomi P. Ghez
Nancy Sills and Franklin Moss
Mark Silverman
Mark and Darcy Singer
Janet Solberg
Suzanne Wolbers and Julius Spiegel
Adrienne Squillante
Danielle Squillante
Stanlee Stahl
Pamela Stanley
Ruth Stark and Abraham Malz
Renee S. and Stephen N. Steinig
Jeanne M. Stellman
Susan and Warren Stern
Cynthia Stone
Julie Abraham Stone and Lewis Stone
Philip Strongin
Renuka Sukdeo
Dorothy and Andrew Tananbaum
Carol and Steven Tannenbaum
Linda Levy Tarlow and Steven Tarlow
Lottie Tartell
Ilene Chester and Frank L. Tobin
Martha Tolpin
Kathy and Alan Trager
Randy and Robert Wagman
Roselin and David Wagner
Lauren and Elliot Wagner
Dorothy Wahl
Irene and Robert S. Walters
Rita and Ken Warner
Carol and Robert Weber
Benjamin Weedon
Rochelle Weinstein
Rivka and Seth Weisberg
Irving Weiser
Evelyn Horn and Isaac B. Weisfuse
Jane Weitzman
David Werdegar
Bernard and Anne R. Werner Foundation
Nathaniel A. Wice
Lynn Bartner and Elisha Wiesel
Steven Wildstein
Judith and Leonard M. Wilson
Vicki and Andrew Wittenstein
Yiddish Book Center
Vivian Zamel and David Goldman
Irina Zhabinskaya and Mattias Zhabinskiy
Melvin Zwillenberg


Contributions received January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025

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