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Over 50 years ago, LuEsther T. Mertz recognized and supported Joe Papp’s vision of theater as a vital art form, reflecting the values of society and also as a way to encourage and suggest shaping and changing that society. Serving as Board Chair for many years, she worked alongside Joe as The Public grew into a vibrant cultural force and a vehicle of change. The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust is honored to continue this work.
$500,000+
Susan & David Edelstein
The Blavatnik Family Foundation
Edgerton Foundation Hilary & Joe Feshbach
Ford Foundation
Candia Fisher
The Philip & Janice Levin Foundation
The Howard Gilman Foundation
The Ian Madover & Arielle Tepper Madover Family Foundation
Rhoda R. Herrick
$50,000$99,999
The New York Community Trust
Zach Buchwald & Buddy Hammonds
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
News Corporation
American Council of Learned Societies
One World Fund
Shawn and Brook Byers
Gail Furman
The Palette Fund
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Matt Pincus & Sarah Min
Annenberg Foundation
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Jim Chervenak
The Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Philanthropic Fund
Luigi Caiola & Sean McGill
Penguin Random House
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Mark Rosenthal & Lisa Roumell
Barbara Manocherian
Julia Pershan and Jonathan Cohen
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
The George T. Delacorte Fund for Maintenance
Bernard & Anne Spitzer
Ted & Mary Jo Shen
David Droga
The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust
$100,000$499,999 American Express Company Arcus Foundation Patty & Jay Baker Bank of America Timothy & Michele Barakett Foundation Bloomberg Philanthropies
Laurents / Hatcher Foundation
Alexandra Shiva & Jonathan Marc Sherman
The Ruth Easton Fund of the Edelstein Family Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
One57 and Extell Development Company
Anne & Adam Shulman The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.
Theater Subdistrict Council, LDC
Rebecca Gold
Theatre Communications Group Time Warner Inc.
The New York Community Trust -The George T. Delacorte Fund for Performance at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park
The Tow Foundation
Delta Air Lines
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Teresa Tsai Venable LLP Audrey and Zygi Wilf
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation LuEsther T. Mertz, photo by Frederic Ohringer.
Faith Gay Herman Goldman Foundation The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation William & Eileen Kornreich
Roslyn Goldstein
Playwrights of New York Lisa Garcia Quiroz Judith B. Resnick
The Marc Haas Foundation
The SHS Foundation
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Maxine Isaacs
Tiger Baron Foundation
Gordon J. Davis and Peggy Cooper Davis
Sharon Karmazin
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Steve Klein
Lisa Schultz
The Mark Krueger Charitable Fund
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Judi & Douglas Krupp
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
TodayTix Ted & Anne Clarke Wolff Anonymous (2) $25,000$49,999 The Lenore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts as a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, funded by the Annenberg Foundation Jody and John Arnhold
Debby & Rocco Landesman
Renée Beaumont
Ashley Leeds and Christopher M. Harland Kim Bendheim, The Leon Lowenstein Foundation
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
The Paiko Foundation
Scott M. Delman The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Sally Horchow JANA Partners LLC
James G. Dinan
Gary K. Lippman
Fritz and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation
Frederick Loewe Foundation
Eric Ellenbogen
William & Aimee Maroney
Embrey Family Foundation EMC Arts The Lehoczky Escobar Family The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Sally Klingenstein Martell Diane & Adam Max McKinsey & Company, Inc. MetLife Foundation
Wendi Rose May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Ruffino Celia Rumsey
The Starr Foundation Sullivan and Cromwell, LLP Alexa Suskin, The Robert and Mercedes Eicholz Foundation The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation The Walt Disney Company
Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Newhouse
Warner Music Group
BlackRock
Pat Fili-Krushel & Kenneth Krushel
The Blackstone Group
Barbara H. Freitag
The Jerome A. & Estelle R. Newman Assistance Fund
Frances & Frank Wilkinson
Andi & Tom Bernstein
The Boston Consulting Group
Timothy A. Wilkins
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