Our Donors
We are grateful to the many friends and alumni who sustain our research and educational endeavors through their financial contributions. Annual support is critical to the advancement of our mission, the stability and ongoing operations of the Observatory, and the maintenance and stewardship of our campus.
With deep appreciation, we acknowledge the generosity of our donors for gifts made during our fiscal year between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020.
$1,000,000 +
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
$500,000 to $999,999
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation
- The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation
$100,000 to $499,999
- Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
- Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
- George and Wendy David
- George and Wendy David
- Nippon Foundation
- Nippon Foundation
$50,000 to $99,999
- AllianceBernstein, LP
- Comer Family Foundation
- The Pinkerton Foundation
- Anonymous
- Joshua and Marjorie Harris
- Riverkeeper, Inc.
- Edward Botwinick and Victoria Brown
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- The Simons Foundation
- Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation, Inc.
- Hudson River Foundation for Science& Environmental Research
- University of Hawaii Foundation
- The Brinson Foundation
- Peter G. Joseph
- Carnegie Institution for Science
- Dr. Rudolph & Mildred Joseph Foundation
$10,000 to $49,999
- The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
- Great American Insurance Companies
- Daniel and Heidi Spitzer
- American Endowment Foundation
- Frank J. and Joanne M. Gumper*
- Sprague Foundation
- Anonymous
- The JCT Foundation
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Anonymous*
- Dennis V. and Carolyn Kent
- University of Washington
- Donald D. Beane
- Michael Mader and Mariam Naficy
- Volkswagenwerk Stiftung
- Daniel Bennett
- Florentin J-M. R. Maurrasse
- Bennett Family Foundation
- Terry A. Plank
- John J. and Katharine Broesamle
- Potsdam Institute for ClimateImpact Research
- Chevron
- Seismological Society of America
- Ferriday Fund
- Mark and Laura A. Smoliar
$5,000 to $9,999
- Dennis M. Adler and Robin Aronow
- Karen M. Ho-Smith
- Haralambos Raftopoulos andAmelia Estelle Prounis-Raftopoulos
- Anonymous
- Marshall F. Kwong and Vivian Yeh
- Verizon Foundation
- Paul B. Barton, Jr.
- Arthur and Eva Lerner-Lam
- John Peter de Neufville
- Chuan Ping
$1,000 to $4,999
- 4th Bin
- Jishu Deng and Yuan Yuan
- Kenneth Wayne and Jeanne Levy-Church
- O. Roger Anderson*
- Stanley B. Fertig
- Lisa Meyer
- Anonymous
- Andre Henrique Moscal Fiorotto
- Mizuho USA Foundation, Inc.
- Anonymous
- Bill P. Glass
- Gregory S. and Carol S. Mountain
- Anonymous
- Lorellen Marie Green
- Cary L. and Dianna Mrozowski
- Joseph F. Azrack
- Steven H. Hirth
- Virginia McConn Oversby*
- Emil S. Bahary
- Holly Hodder*
- Marna Schrader and Bob Alan Page, Jr.
- The Braewold Fund
- Bärbel Hönisch
- William S. Reeburgh
- Robert Bruce Buchanan
- Lawrence L. and Mary Ann Hope
- James H. and Virginia E. Robertson
- John V. Byrne
- Stanley S. Jacobs
- Sean C. and Pamela H. Solomon
- Kathleen Christina Callahan
- Michelle Estilo Kaiser and Michael Guenther Kaiser
- Qian Song
- Charles V. and Mary J. Callan
- Robert W. Kay
- Yongjun Su and Xiong Wen
- Margaret C. Chi
- Richard J. Kuczkowski and Jean Mia Leo
- Alexandra Suppes
- Millard F. Coffin
- Jonathan Scott and Jeannie B. Lavine
- Taylor Rental
- Alfredo O. deAngelis and Maya M. deAngelis
- Arthur O. Lee
- James Wood
$500 to $999
- Anonymous
- Joseph P. D. Hull, Jr.
- Marc L. Sbar
- Thomas F. Anderson*
- Lynn J. Jehle
- Emily Senay
- Richard Benfield
- George W. Kipphut
- Superior Audio Visual
- Loyd Case
- Emily Klein and Nicholas Louis Bogen+
- Nanette Wachter
- Peter Bedloe deMenocal
- Carla LaGrassa
- Thomas V. Wagner
- William B. and Eileen A. Dieck
- Michael J. and Kate S. Lombardi
- Howard Worzel
- Maria Luiza Gagos
- Kira Gordon Olsen
- Guo Consulting LLC
- James Sawyer
Up to $499
- Alina Abazova
- Paul J. and Muriel S. Grim
- Michael R. and Renee Perfit
- Mark Jay and Polina Adelson
- Jianping Gu
- David and Agnes M. Peterson
- Warren and Mary Adis
- Edward Haas
- Stephen G. Peterson
- Robert S. Agatston
- Anita J. Hall
- Bruce and Karen Pfeffer
- Arthur S. Ainsberg
- John Kendrick Hall
- Lucille Posner
- Robert J. and Paula M. Alexander
- John Patrick Halpin
- Sandra Power
- Peter Ferenc Almasi
- Douglas E. Hammond
- Stephanie Power
- Rafael Vladimir Almeida
- Karen Harnesk
- Julianne Quinn
- Michael and Barbara S. Amdurer
- Ryan Hart
- Richard C. and Denise Packer Quittmeyer
- Alexander and Andrea Anesko
- Timothy B. Harwood
- Emma Clare Rainforth
- Marie DeNoia Aronsohn
- James D. and Nancy Hays
- Robert and Beatrice Rasmussen
- Nancy Atherton
- Robert Hinton
- G. Carleton Ray
- Jacqueline Austermann
- Lofton and Ruby Holder, Jr.
- Carol Anne Raymond
- Noelle Bannister
- Susan M. Holgate and Robert S. Barron
- Frank Revetta
- Muawia and Nimat H. Barazangi
- Therese Horn
- Stephen L. and Diane S. Richter
- Anna Barranca-Burke
- Harriet Joyce Hyams
- Ricardo A. Rodriguez
- Olivia Rose Barry
- Kathy Iger
- Heather Rollins
- Matthew C. Baum
- Elyas F. Isaacs
- William D. Romaine
- Laura Bazeley
- Robert D. Jacobi
- Seth Rosenberg
- Ruth Beckman
- Max Jayapaul
- Stephen Rosenfield
- Suzanne Corkedale Belmore
- Jefferies & Company, Inc.
- Jay B. Rosenstein
- David O. and Sharon F. Belser
- Jane Johnston
- Daniel Rostan
- Richard L. Berger
- Joel and Joan D. Kaplan
- William F. and Virginia C. Ruddiman
- Ellen and Stuart A. Berman
- Bibi A. Karim
- Andrew Russakoff
- Margo Antoinette Bettencourt
- Florence Katzenstein
- Gray Russell
- Werner and Christa Bischoff
- M. Whitney and Fred Jacob Keen
- Raymond Ruth
- J. Ernest Breeding, Jr. andRebecca D. Breeding
- Peter B. Kelemen
- Barbara K. Sacks
- Carl Brenner
- Pamela Kelley
- Christine Irene Sacks
- Deborah E. Brown
- Adrienne M. Kenyon
- Robert Samuels
- Hannes and Mary Ann Brueckner
- Lydia V. Kesler
- Tara Savino
- Donna Louise Buono
- Dimitra Kessenides
- Ronald G. and Phyllis D. Schmidt
- Peter R. Buseck
- John Kettles
- Daniel J. Schnaidt and Cynthia Tucker
- Elliot S. Cafritz
- Jonathan and Jennifer Kingslake
- Robert C. Schneider and Regina Marie Mullahy
- Steven C. Cande
- Rudolph W. and Jean Maxwell Kohler
- Naomi Jessica Schrag
- Eric Daniel Chasser
- John Tsung-Fen Kuo
- Isabelle Seckler
- Kim Fatt Cheong
- Stephen J. and Audrey S. Kurtz
- Guenther Seidel
- Edward Choi
- Henry B. Lacey
- Eleanor F. Seminara
- Sarah Choi
- Heather Anna Langsner
- Robert Mehmel and Patrice M. Serret-Mehmel
- George L. Choy
- Leo F. Laporte
- V. Eugene Shahan
- Louis Cizek, Jr.
- Susan Lau
- Ashley Sheed
- Jennifer Clark
- Stephen Dana Lewis
- Kevin Shelley
- Jordan Frey Clark andDorothy Kim Pak
- Anyi Li
- Donna Jean Shillington
- James Coddington
- Mayra Lindemann
- Jason E. Smerdon
- Jonathan and Cynthia Cohen
- Caitlin Locke
- Eugene K. and Janis K. Smith
- Robert Cohn
- Thornton C. and Lenora McGinn Lockwood
- Gabriella Marie Smith
- Maria Collins
- James D. Lowell
- Gavin C. and Ellen Smith
- David A. Conant
- Virginia Marie Maher
- Jennifer Maria Sobolewski
- Robert B. Cook
- Janet J. and Charles A. Mangano
- Dongping Song
- David W. Cooke
- Glenna Marra
- Todd Moreland Spitz
- Patricia A. Daly
- Stephen and Kathryn G. Marshak
- Stamford Mineralogical Society, Inc.
- Jan Dash
- George Martin
- Stanley W. Stillman
- Irene C. Davis
- Veronica Ruth Martini
- Helen Stoddard
- The Delta Air Lines Foundation
- Douglas and Rhonda+ Martinson
- Terry Stone
- Yushuo Ding
- Rachel Marzen
- Oscar Strongin
- Martha C. Drake
- Maria Matasar-Padilla
- Ronald H. Sugarman
- Wenxuan Du
- Charles C. and Martha R. Matteo
- Ingrid Tamm
- Ximena Duenas
- Cecilia M. G. McHugh
- Frank Thai
- Emilie Dufour
- Louise McMath
- Barret Tirona
- Stephen L. and Carole Ann Eittreim
- Nicholas Charles Mehmel
- Don G. and Mary L. Tobin
- Patrick and Lynn A. English
- Estelle K. Meislich
- Kevin T. Uno
- Jacqueline A. Erickson
- Marian V. Mellin
- Michael and Xenia Valitzky
- Craig C. Evans
- Regina M. Mendez
- Maria Vallejo-Nguyen
- Michael Neil Evans
- Alyssa Nicole Meyers
- Pamela Van Hoven Clark
- Meghan Fay
- Peter John Michael and Rebecca P. Roe
- Stacey L. Vassallo
- Betsy Franco Feeney
- Donald S. Miller
- The Walt Disney Company Foundation
- Scott Christopher Filipkowski
- Susan L. Moeller
- Hongyan Wang
- Michael F. Forlenza
- Martin W. and Jacqueline C. Molloy
- John F. Wehmiller and Paula Lawrence-Wehmiller
- Deborah Friend
- Piyawit Moonkham
- Robert A. Went
- David Kristen Funkhouser
- Emily Bellinger Morris
- Kevin Thad Wheeler
- James B. Gaherty
- Kenneth A. Moss
- William M. and Shirley Wilcox
- Edward A. Garvey
- Russell Muller
- Stephen and Debbie K. Wilkowski
- John Geddie
- Rose Nappi-Wasser
- Gail S. Williams and Jack Williams
- Jennifer Genrich
- Amir Nathoo
- Matthew K. Williams
- Alice H. Gerard
- Suzanne Bridget O'Connell andThomas A. Christopher
- Joan Wing
- Hans and Gloria Gesell
- Marjorie W. Opdyke
- Wenchang Yang
- Susan B. Glantz
- Peter and Susi Orbanowski
- Laura Anne Yeung
- Glenn and Elizabeth Goldman
- Tuula Pasola-Alberino
- Matthew Marcus Yospin
- Thomas A. Graves
- Michael J. and Nancy Reinish Passow
- Gary W. Zielinski
- Patricia Greene
- Robert and Mary Patricia Pavia
*Torrey Cliff Society Members are supporters who have included the observatory in their estate plans. If you have made provisions for the observatory, or would like more information about planned giving opportunities, please contact Stacey Vassallo.
+Deceased
We have made every effort to ensure this listing of gift contributions is complete, and we apologize for any errors or omissions. To report corrections, please contact us.