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Donors

2024 (updated 4/25/2024)

$25,000+

Scott and Meredith Belford in Memory of Their Mothers Judith Mullis Farrell and Laura Stevens Devendorf
The Solomons Fund

$10,000–$24,999

Fund for Investigative Journalism
SNF Holding Company

$5,000–$9,999

Chatham Foundation
D.L. Webster Fund
Drs. Robert and Sandra Hodge
Griffiths Family Fund
James Butler

$2,500–$4,999

Stephen Spears
Susan and Howard Hunter

$1,000–$2,499

Altschiller Family Charitable Trust
James Van Epps
Leda Chong and Kevin Dewalt
Leslie and Philip Graitcer
Martin and Sheila Grossman Charitable Fund
Rebecca Rowden
Robin and Hyde Post
William Kelso

$500–$999

Connie Darbyshire
David and Nancy Weitnauer
Greg Plaunt
Robert Penniman
Scott Center

$250–$499

Birchrock Foundation
Brian Bailey
Carol Bowen
Deborah and Daniel Luginbuhl
Gayle McAlister
James Frasche
James Waterman
Joan Chalikian
Laura Nathanson Knobloch
Les Vann
Marie Frasche
Mary Coker
Rodney Gibbs
Susan Shipman

$100–$249

AL Addington
Alfred McGuire
Ann Bell
Ann Crowther
Ann Woolner and Spencer Lawton
Beth Martin and Martijn van de Rijdt
Bruce Cohen
Bruce Walker
C.M. McCall
Carolyn and Jim McInerney
Charles Milmine
Cheryl Chip
Cindy Copland
Claire Cox
Clinton Edminster
Dale Thorpe
Daniel Nelson
David Rasmussen
Donald and Lynne Howe Charitable Fund
Eleanor Hinz Radue
Elizabeth McCullar
Ellen Hatcher
Erle Norton
Frances Middleberg
Frances Smith
Gail Eskew
Gordon Paulus
Iris Dayoub
Jennifer Shearer
Jimmy Alston
John Griem
John Maclean
Joseph Langlais
Kathryn Golan
Kathryn Kemp
Kathy and Greg Smith
Keith Ketting Galloway
Kevin Kiernan
Kevin Squier Austin
Kris Rice
Kristen Goodman
Kristen Lindemer
Lawrence Silverman
Leo Peloquin
Louis Marrero
Louise Herrick
Lynda Mellin
Margaret and Michael Chanin
Margaret Coker and Craig Nelson
Maria Elaina Massey
Mark Toth
Martha Nesbit
Mary Adams
Mary Mowry
Melissa and David Solomon
Monica Hughes
Nancy Berk-Axelson
Norman Jacobs
Patrice Cole
Patricia Chadwick
Patti George
R. Keegan Federal Jr.
Raphael Semmes
Rebecca Rolfes
Rena Patton
Rita Spalding
Robert Spell
Roslynn Harrell
Russ Wigh
Ruth Wilson
Sarah Fedota
Stephen Weeks
Susan and Don Myers
Susan Busby Thornton
Susan Danner
The Mary Ellen & Lauren Sprague Foundation Fund
Tom Kohler
Tracey Lewis
William Broker
William Dismer
William Osborne

$1–$99

Adeane Bregman
Alan Seidman
Alex Zipperer
Amanda Crowell
Andi Mincer
Andrea Shane
Andrew Amendola
Ann Fenstermacher
Anne Berryman
Anne Cordeiro
Anne Wasse-Lyon
Anonymous
Anthony Burton
Ashley Winkler
Audrey Haynes
Austin Kennedy
Barbara and John Hurst
Barbara Cogdell
Barbara Ormond
Barbara Sayer
Becky Flaxer
Ben Goggins
Beverly Blake
Beverly Flanagan
Beverly Waters
Blair Bealey
Bob Shelley
Bonnie and David Springer
Brynn Grant
Carol Chambers
Carole Johnston
Caroline Cay Powell
Carolyn Colvin
Carolyn Farley
Carter Hubbard
Catherine Simprini
Charles Eyler
Charles Hopkins
Christiana Turner
Christie Clevenger
Christopher Feeney
Christopher Walls
Chrysis Graham
Claudia Schlottman
Colin Mcrae
Cynthia Gilbert
David Galloway
David Harper
David Hobbs
David Kyler
David Price
David Smith
David Springer
DeAnn Komanecky
Deborah Cahill
Debra Hughes
Dee James
Dianne Lawton
Dina Burke
Dona Barth
Donali Howell
Donna Gruenbeck-Black
Dorothy Courington
Dorothy Madison
Edward Kubicka
Eileen Matyjasik
Elaine Barrow
Elizabeth Cowell
Elizabeth DuBose
Elizabeth Howard
Elizabeth Nelson
Elizabeth Sutton
Emily Ellison and Chuck Perry
Emily Ellison and Chuck Perry
Eric Curl
Ernest Lee
Ethel Argiriou
Eva Blachere
Gail Krueger
Gary Tate
Geoffrey Bowden
George Pruden
George Ragsdale
Gloria Zocchi
Greg Davis
Holland Judkins
In memory of Jim Kemp
Jack Daniel
James Abely
James Desmond
Jan Yoder
Jane Espy
Jane Hansen
Jane Mackenzie
Jay Paszamant
Jeanne Hutton
Jenifer Hilburn
Jennifer Giddens
Jenny Long
Jerald Gottlieb
Jessica Osborne
Jill Wright
Jim Goodgame
Jim Middleton
Jim Renner
Jo Fraser
Joan Shinnick
Joanne Lukacher
Joe Thomas
John Bennett
John Cowlishaw
John Kosiewicz
John Mattingly
John Neely
John Williams
Johnny Bailey
Joyce Murlless
Judith Downing
Judith More
Judith Wade
Julia Muller
Julie Hamilton
Julie Rogers Varland
June Nelson
Karen Harrell
Karen Wood
Katherine Simmons
Kathleen Gee
Keith Wilson
Kelly Caudle
Ken Copi
Kenneth Hartlage
Kent Urness
Kim Iocovozzi
Lare Dean
Laura Aiken
Laura Edenfield
Laura Khurana
Laura Lane McKinnon
Lauren Blatt
Lawrence Staab
Lawson Calhoun
Linda Daniels
Linda Gravitt
Louisa Abbot
Margaret Betz
Margaret Lee
Mari Perla
Mark & Kathy Schaefer Charitable Fund
Marti Jeffers
Mary Beth Hannan
Mary Eckwall
Mary Helen Moses
Mary Kovats
Mary Shell
Mary Watson
Mary-Kay Lindquist
Maureen Hersey
Maureen O’Brien
Meaghan Gerard
Melinda Roughton
Michael Brown
Michael Edwards
Michael Gardner
Michael Schwartz
Michele Springsteen
Michelle Haberland
Mike Harrell
Mike Vaquer
Nan Taylor
Nancy Daves
Nancy Kitchin
Nancy Tamarack
Natalie GaNun
Neela Banerjee
Nicki O’Connell
Nicole Bagley
Nina Braziel
Pamela Harness
Pat Wallace
Patricia Bowman
Patrick Meehan
Patrick Skinner
Paul Armstrong
Paula Galland
Peter Brodhead
Peter Knobloch
Philip L. & Janet E Fortune Charitable Fund
Philip Walker
Raleigh Hussmann
Raymond Miller
Rebecca Shortland
Rhea Hurwitz
Richard Colvin
Rick Doner
Robert Bush
Robert Byrd
Robert Rhodes
Robin Gunn
Robin Hoy
Roger Gregory
Roger White
Ron Melander
Roxane George
Roy Maynard
Sabrina Newby
Sally Revoile
Sandra Huncke
Sandra Saseen-Smith
Sandy LaFoy
Scott Smith
Seth Golbey
Sharon and Rick Hindery
Sharon Ehle
Sherrie Collins
Sheryl StGermain
Stephen Langston
Stephen Morton
Stephen Willis
Steve Beauvais
Steve Handelsman
Sue Ellen Collins
Susan and Jeff Catron
Susan Myers
Suzanne Ashmore
Sylvia Pannell
Terry De Simone
Terry Kelly
Tharon Lambert
The Sapelo Foundation
Thomas Stephenson
Tina Ridley
Tom Van de Ven
Vicki Greene
Victoria Weeks
Vincent Farley
Ward Schaumberg
Warren Cunningham
Wayne Sheridan
Wesley Woolf
Weston Davis
William Harrell
William Kent
William Lewis
Willie Sapp
Wynton Ezelle
Zoveida Serrano-Jenkins

2023

$25,000+

Anonymous in Honor of Susan and Don Myers
Emerson Collective
Inasmuch Foundation
Medill School of Journalism
NewsMatch
ProPublica
R. Howard Dobbs Jr. Foundation
Report for America Criminal Justice
Scott and Meredith Belford in Memory of Their Mothers Judith Mullis Farrell and Laura Stevens Devendorf
The Atticus Fund
The Solomons Fund