Our Donors
We thank the many investors and donors who make our work possible. Because of you, students’ lives are being changed every day!
When donors invest in Umoja, their support has a direct and immediate impact on our students, teachers, schools, and communities. Umoja is possible because of the generous support of the following foundations and corporations. We invite you to join this group. If we may answer questions or provide additional information about contributing to Umoja, please contact Tessa Zevallos, .
Read about two of our donors, Betsy and Mark Westhoff.
Read about the involvement of another family, the Heibergers.
Hear from Steve Fortier on his partnership with Umoja.
Find out why Umoja is important to Evan Newton.
OUR FY16 FOUNDATION/CORPORATION DONORS
(Received between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016)
$50,000 or more
Anonymous Family Foundation
Boeing
The Chicago Community Trust
Cook County Justice Advisory Council
The Crown Family
Klimczak Foundation Education Fund
The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation
MB Financial Charitable Foundation
Mcdougal Family Foundation
Paul M. Angell Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Speh Foundation
$25,000–$49,999
Chicago Blackhawks Community Fund, a McCormick Foundation fund
Field Foundation of Illinois
Generation All
Michael Reese Health Trust
Steans Family Foundation
Topfer Family Foundation
WGN Radio Neediest Kids Fund
$10,000–$24,999
Aon Foundation
Backstop Foundation
Chicago White Sox Community Fund, a McCormick Foundation fund
ComEd
John R. Houlsby Foundation
Kenilworth Union Church
KPMG
Peoples Gas
The PrivateBank
W.P. & H.B. White Foundation
Under $10,000
Adams Street Partners
Albany Park Neighborhood Council
Anderson & Shah Roofing, Inc.
Anonymous
Apogee Services, Inc.
Augustana Henze Fund
Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. Family Charitable Trust
AT&T Illinois
Bi Design LLC
Blue Cross Blue Shield Of IL
BMO Harris Bank N.A.
Boston Consulting Group
CDW Corporation
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
DLA Piper
Fortress Investment Group LLC
Generations Fund
Gertrude B. Nielsen Charitable Trust
Grand Appliance
H.W. Wilson Foundation
Kohl Feinerman Family Charitable Trust
McMaster-Carr
Mulvihill Family Foundation
New Frontiers Foundation
Northern Trust
Pierce Family Charitable Foundation
Prince Charitable Trusts
Protiviti
The Retirement Research Foundation
Robert Okin Foundation
Siragusa Foundation
Walgreens
W.W. Grainger, Inc.
OUR FY16 INDIVIDUAL DONORS ($100 OR MORE)
(Received between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017)
Unity Circle: $2,500 or more
Lisa and Bob Aiken
Donald Allen
Maria and Nathan Amoruso
Anonymous
Steve and Meg Berger
Becky and Steve Betts
Dan Krohm and Lindsay Chim
Priscilla and Cliff Christians
Angela and Darryl Cobb
David and Kirsten Cunningham
April and Jeff Diehl
Alicia and Doug Draeger
Susan Aiken Fortier and Steve Fortier
Marin and Kate Gjaja
Mike Graham
Holly Harralson
Lara and John D. Heiberger
Michael Kasdin
Jennifer Steans and Jim Kastenholz
Maureen and Colin Kebo
Sharon Lindstrom
Kim Morgan
Michael and Angie Murray
Elizabeth and Evan Newton
Ken Okin
David Petersen
Kelly Schaefer
Chirag Shah
Leo Smith
Heather and Lois Steans
Robin Steans
Danny Strauss
Ellen and Jerry Upton
Anne Murdoch and Michael Walker
Betsy and Mark Westhoff
Unity Circle: $1,000- $2,499
Ellen and Michael Alter
Anonymous
Steve Fleischmann and Jane Boyce
Marla and Steve Brown
Lynn and Jeff Chookaszian
Marisa Novara and Ted Christians
Julie Collishaw
Paula Conrad
Caryn Curry
Neha Dakwala-Shah
Greg Darnieder
Amy Downey
Kimberly Dunn
Carolyn Eggert
Ben Felt
Sean and Susan Gallagher
Nancy and David Gehlbach
Linda and Chuck Glew
Goldman Sachs Gives
Jen Bierman and Jim Griffin
Glen and Susan Haeflinger
Shannon and Dominik Hajverov
Valerie Avery and Melvin Hargrett
Jayne Hultman
Matthew Ihle
Jay Javors
Maria and Tom Keefe
Judith Kula
John Risko and Lila Leff
Gail and Robert Loveman
Sheila and Dave Moser
Tom Dennis and Meagan Novara
Dan O'Neill
Julie and Mike Palac
Chuck Pembroke
Kirby and Ann Roberts
Sara and Eric Salzman
Nancee Siegel and Ken Schmetterer
David Schulte
Lynn Stetson
William and Ilana Walden
Susan White
Heather and John Williams
Nancy and Lawrence Wojcik
Thomas Zollo
$500-$999
Jonathan and Jeanine Batt
Nicole and Gerald Beechum
Judith Brantley
Katrina Crane
Elizabeth Rizza and John Cimaroli
Christy Clark
Marie Devlin
Arlene DeYoung
Tom McDougal and Sarah Duncan
Imah Effiong
Suzanne and Harry Eschel
Lisa Fabes
Michael and Marlene Fishman Family Fund
Joe Grossmann
Jimmy Harvard
Andres and Christine Hernandez
Kevin Holl
Ashley Kelly
Alexandra King
Michael Lawler
Ed Siskin and Alison Lorber
David and Lindsay Lucas-Kamm
Phil and Meg McDonnell
Sandy Wang and Chris McGowan
Dori and Kwame Mensah
Alina and Brad Merrill
Michael Kraut/Lynn Madorsky Philanthropic Fund
Christine and Drew Mitchell
Christina Moore
Carol Mulvihill
Monica Mulvihill
Wayland Ni
Sheila and Arthur Nielsen
Molly and Mark O’Farrell
Marianne Philbin
Presbyterian Church of Western Springs
Derek Purdo
Sendhil Revuluri
Steven Reynolds
Paul and Jamie Rossman
Rebecca Russo
Nora and Marty Salzman
George and Carmita Semaan
Dipak Shah
Raaj Shah
Rory Shea
Janet and Dan Summins
Julie Swerdlow Albino
Karen Tiemann
Charles Twichell
Christine Villoch
Barbara Von Molnar
Jaclyn Winkel
Erik Zaugg
$100-$499
Kenan Abosch
Joshua Allen
Sandy Almeyda
Steven and Barbara Arentsen
Vicky Arroyo
Lester Barclay
Anne Badgley
Stacey Badley
Cara Bean
Deborah Beggan
Greg Beihl
John Berghorst
Quincy Black
Jason Blumberg
Jeffrey and Marzena Castillo
Doug and Margaret Christians
Paul Christians
Anand Christopher
Audrey Cole
Kathleen Denning
Jeremy DeSilva
Dana DesJardins
Cheryl DeYoung
Madonna Doheny
Lance Donenberg
Paige and Joe Dooley
Pat Doyle
DeQuan Drane
Debbi and Aaron Dworin
Ellen and John Eiffert
Dan Englert
Matt and Lisa Fasana
Denise Ference
Robert Ferguson
Sheila Finnegan
Peter Flynn
Maureen and Jim Forhan
Michael Fortier
Velencia Freeman
Douglas and Marybeth Gaffney
Bert Ganzon
Patrick Gattari
Tanya and Flavio Gentile
Lana and Thomas Geselbracht
Homer Goldberg
Thomas and Gretchen Golebiewski
Vivian Vahlberg and Richard Gordon
Alice Grant
Marshall and Delores Grant
Donna and Marcus Hargrett
TC Harney
Marrietta Harrison
Kevin Hartleben
Holly and Steve Hester
Rosellen Brown and Marvin Hoffman
Megan Hougard
Kimberly Howard
Nicola Halsall Idehen
Olu Ishmael
Lashana Jackson
Karen Egerer and Richard Johnson
Ryan Jones
Yvonne Jones
Harry Joseph
Matthew Kadzie
Kathy Kaporis
David Kelly
Ellen Kennedy
Yvette Kennedy
Maria Kim
Debbie Kobak
Fran and Greg Kohut
George Koll
Kim and Dino Kourelis
Brian Kramer
Matthew and Erin Krentz
Marcia and Warren Kunstler
Michael Kurtzon
Eric Leff
Judy Leff
David Levinson
Patricia Lewis
Maralynn Lindstrom
Tashiara Little
Alison Upton Lopez
Anne and Dave Lowell
Monisha and Chris Lozier
Carmen Mahon
Marlo Martin-Jackson
Greg Spear and Mary Kelly
Dasha Masherava
Liz McAlphin
Anthony McCain
Liz McDermott
Karen Melchert
Jane Menendez
Akua Mensah
Mark Miller
Ardie Moore
Michelle Morales
Don Moseley
Katie and Charlie Mowry
Vivian Mumaw
Ciaran Murphy
Sonya Naar
Paul and Sandy Nesvig
Marcy Nicholson
Jeanne and Barry Nohalty
Lucia Novara
Rosalie Novara
Lisa Okopu Busumbru
Jay Orlowski
Kris and Bill Osterbur
Karen Shevitz and Brian O’Sullivan
Debra Parker
Anne Pillion
Ryan Platt
Clifford Pointer
Jackson Potter
Jake Proctor
Deborah Quazzo
Andrea and David Rahija
Rob and Kristy Rauch
Cole Richter
Laurie Riggin
Amy Riggins
Paula Riggins
Mike Riordan
Lauren Robinson
Jennifer Keys and Jeff Rosen
Patrick Ryan
Judge Jack B. Schmetterer
Michelle and Oren Schumaker
Noeli Serna
Jodi Shachar
Kate Shehan
Loren Simmons
Chris Singer
Justin Skolnick
Meredith and Andrew Slater
Lawrence Bass and Paula Sneed
Paul Steadman
Rod and Lorri Stephens
Anna Sterk
Michael Tansey
John and Gail Thomason
Marcus Thymian
Flor Torres
Kit and Juergen Tossmann
Kenneth Tracey
Travis Hernandez and Emily Todd
Melanie Trombley
Matthew Tschanz
Christian Villadolid
Jim Walenda
Bryant Wallace
James Walsh
Manervia Walton-Newman
Susan Welter
Jessica Westhoff
Hugh Williams
Laura Wise
William Teale and Junko Yokota
Heather and Brennan Young
Laura Youngren
Marty Zafran
Alice White Zarov
Tessa and Manuel Zevallos
Christie Zielinski
Jonathan Zimbler