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Cooke School and Institute

Annual Report of Gifts 2024-25

$100,000+

Robert and Kate Niehaus Foundation
Taft Foundation
Andrea Pollack and Adam Usdan

$25,000-$99,999

BTIG
Diego and Victoria Dayenoff
Stacey and Andrew Feller
George Mykoniatis
Daniel and Claire O'Toole
Karen and Tom Robards
O. Griffith and Barbara Sexton
Tongwei Liu and Julia Tung

$10,000-$24,999

Anonymous
Benno Ansbacher
Scott and Roxanne Bok
David and Robyn Epstein
Brian Farrell
Brian Pfefferman and Mindy Gibber
Lori and Elliot Kloper
Helen Lee-Warren and David Warren
Leslie and Victor Lewkow
Debbie and Andrew Morris
Sarah Paul and Mark Nachamie
New York Presbyterian | Weill Cornell
Tracy Nixon and James Lyle
David and Janet Offensend
Robert and Tracey Pruzan
Martin Quirno and Stephanie Heilborn
Ozzie and Alina Ramos
Rebecca Kutchins Fund
Diane and Todd Restivo
Shawn Watts and Rosemary Suh
Kimberly and Ian Treibick
Ellen and Morris Zedeck

$5,000-$9,999

SoJin Bae and Jay Kim
Jeffrey Block
Andrea and Paul Compton
Benjamin and Zachary Goldberg
Sailaja Sastry and Jason Gottlieb
Noelle Ibrahim and Kahlid Abu-Eideh
Brian and Robin Leach
Carolyn Malcolm
Bob and Cornelia Marakovits
June Niklus and David Murphy
Louise Parent and John Casaly
Rosemary and Sanford Talkin
Webster Bank
Ken Wirfel and June Eichbaum

$1,000-$4,999

Nora and Alex Abularach
Suzanne and James Aisenberg
Steven Alizio
Burak Alpaslan
Wendy Banner and Geoffrey Wiener
Ellen Banner
Khamsy Khowong and Fanny Barbarena
Joseph and Raneet Barr
Kenneth Bartels and Jane Condon
Marcia and Michael Beck
Robert Begleiter and Diana Lopez
Patricia Berrios
Julie Berta
Ellen Bickal
Kimberly and Peter Brooks
Devin Burdo
William Burdo
Shuet Ying Choi and Zhengrong Chiu
Debbie Cooper and Daniel Sternberg
Allan and Heather Damon
Michael Dow and Kimberly Albright
Ann Dowd and Lawrence Arancio
Mike Durney
Epic Games
Tony Ferraro
Dagnall Folger and Erika Serow
Rachel Gallagher
Herschel Garfein and Vicki Bernstein
Paul Garrity and Marcia Goldberg
Marc Miller and Stephanie Gayden Miller
Lara Gerstein and Ann Hairston
John Glanzman
Jeffrey Goodman
Valerie Harris
Randall and Cindy Heck
Robert Hempel and E. Ann Gill
Adrienne Hepler
Nicholas and Jennifer Jerez
Meredith Kane
Paul Kenney
Melanie and Vik Khanderia
Jamie Bassel and Jacqueline Kotler-Bassel
Sandra Lan
Carrie Peterson and Jay Lien
Christopher Hamilton and Jaqueline Lobo de Hamilton
Wilson Madden and Deirdre Featherstone
Beth Maher
Scott McFarlane
Eric and Vanessa Mendelson
Roger Miller and Patricia Nooy
Jason Scharfspitz and Michelle Mintz
Laura Moore Brown and Paul Brown
Elizabeth Moore
Patrick Mullin and Thomas Delaney
Nancy and Daniel Neff
Bill and Lisa Nelson
Judith Newman and John Snowdon
Peter Neyland
Andrew Buchsbaum and Elizabeth Ostrow Buchsbaum
Ellen Palop
Joyce and Daniel Pariser
David Paterson and Mary Sliwa
Eric and Jennifer Poma
Paul Portsmore
Stephen Powers
William and Susan Rifkin
Barbara and Victor Rocco
Susan Roque-Moss
Randal Goldstein and Tamara Rosenthal
David Salsberg
Carolina Sandoval-Ciferni
Amy and Joshua Schindler
Harvey Shapiro
Michael Grazidei and Yelena Sionova
Arthur Skelskie and Nan Molofsky
Chrystia Slywotzky
Alex Smith
Thomas Stagg
Sharon Sullivan
Raymond Suris
Robert and Nancy Swain
Gino Tadiar and Ester Mae Leonardia Tadiar
The Cousins' Charitable Foundation
The Esther and William Benenson Family Foundation
Leah and Robert Wilcox
Barbara Wolf
Henry Zachary and Margaret Downs
Michael and Barbara Zimmerman
Denise and Stuart Zwerling

$500-$999

Andrew Amer and Catherine Manning
Frederick Aranki
Stacy and Lance Boge
William Braun and Alex Golden
Scot and Ulka Campbell
Mary Clancy and Jamie Riches
Roderick Coyne
Donna Sue De Coursey
Karla and Ray Devonish
Erika and Todd Drezner
David Ehrlich
Jonathan Elks
Sean Farley
Joe Festa
Jacquelyn and Glenn Fittante
Marc Gee
Phyllis Gerstein
Bernard and Susannah Goldstein
Eugene Goman
Thomas Graziano
Emily Greene
Michael Griffin
Daniel and Anna Hecht
Michael Hoagland and Michael Eaton
Daniel Irwin
Rolande Jadotte and Nicholas Tangney
Carol and Mark Jaffe
Lawrence Mattis and Frances Kamien
Eric Kang
Robin Krause
Elaina LaRusso and Richard Ferrari
Lisa Liberatore
Daniel Liberty
John Maddie
Ken and Susie Mandelbaum
Roanne Mann
William McLaughlin
Bob Meindl
Frank Morivich
Bob & Beth Murray
Sean O'Connor
John and Jessica O'hagan
Kristina Palop Maya
Laurie and David Pauker
Bryan Pendrick
Eileen Red
Jeffrey Rubin
Madeleine Schachter
Nina Silfen
Amy Sohnen
Sarah Speechley
Spela Sterle
Timothy and Kim Sullivan
Bari Swartz
Sierra and Zeke Tell
Richard Trabulsi
William and Kathleen Weigel
Jonathan Werz
Donna Williams

$250-$499

Mary Lindley Burton
Caren Byrd
Michael Cairo
Mary Walsh and Paul Chester
Carrie Cohen and Richard Lipsey
Anthony Brown and Latoya Cook
Harry Demiris
Joseph Di Salvo
Maria Downey
Gayle Spear and David Eisen
Martha and Stephen Ellman
Tekla Evans
Barry and Debra Frank
Debbie Greenwald
Stephanie Guzowski
Nancy Guzowski
Wai Man Hui
Erin and Kevin Kinsella
Laurin and Norman Kleiman
Samuel Majekodunmi
Bob Manthy and Jacqueline Osborn
Nicole Mastellone
Tomoko Hagane-Mullins and Timothy Mullins
Jacob Oresky
Jeremy Paul and Laurel Leff
Zamira Rahimova
Lewis and Patricia Raibley
Eddie Fernandez and Dana Riddick-Fernandez
Richard Schoolman and Joyce Ellman
Joyce Visceglia

Up to $249

Hanif Abdur-Rahman and Hana Abdurahman
Andrew Heller and Harley Abrevaya
David and Alisa Ackerman
Alucinda Ahmed
Catherine Alvarado
Carolina Amaya
Esther and Esther Arden
Kim Asner Self
Ekaterina Balakireva
Elizabeth Barlow and William Bedwell
Vassilysa and Daniel Basov
Blanche Benenson and Andy Roth
James Bennett
John Beyrer
Mehriban Bije
Paul Binder
Frances and Leonard Blackman
Tonya Blazio and Sean Licorish
Tonya Blazio-Licorish
Vjekoslava Bosanac-Popovic and Zack Popovic
Alan Brown and Joe Crea
Yulia Burgardt and Sergio Bayona
Trinidad Otero and Sheila Bustamante
Vanessa Cabrera
Leslie Caraballo
Cathy Wong and Keath Chan
Cindy Chau
Christopher and Marie Elena Corrao
Oliver and Sheila Cromwell
Angela Cruz
Dola Daoud
Kadiatou Diallo and Ibrahima Bah
Lisa Dillon
Terri Dinney
Geoff Doig-Marx and Jim Cullen
Betina Dowdell
Matt Downing
Evan Dunn
Roy Duque and Josephine Farinas
Joanne Fernhoff Powell
Craig Ferrante
Nancy Finton
Kareen and Ronsard Foucault
Deidre Freeman
Leah Fried
Robert Gally
Albert Garcia
Emily Giese
Rhonda Glenn
Kathy and Eric Goldberg
Angelica Zeno and JayLee Gonzalez
Adrienne Stewart-Gordon and Galen Gordon
Steve and Harris Greer
Carol and Gregory Hanna
Richard Hartmann
Bao Ho and Joshua Schneyer
John Hobbs
Kenneth Hochman and Pam Hutto
Jill Hodge
David and Madeline Holder
Omni Hornedo and Cassie Manzo
Allen and Lindsay Hornthal
Joanne Hsieh and Edward Lee
Marlene Hungria
Frank Iannelli
Michael Jackson
Mica Bloom and Saul Jacobson
Charlene Johnson
Belinda Johnson
Philip Kalafatis
Andrea Kantor
Sharon Kaye-O'Connor
Rebecca King
Bernadette Kinkele
Michele Kule-Korgood
Evan and Aliza Kushner
Edward and Alvina Lau
Barbara Laudadio
Betty Levinson
Jieping Liu
Don Lupo
Abigail Maguire
Miriam and Robert Mahler
Jonathan Major
James Marcinek
George and Anne Mathew
Nijah Mcclain
Kimberly McCoy and Rasheim Freeman
Catherine McKenzie
Brian McManus
Michelle McManus
Rashida Meggett
Jonathan and Lisa Meyers
Leah Meyers-Spector
Ki Shin and Megumi Mizusawa
Gaylen Mohre
Susana Montes and Socrates Aquino
Jennifer Moon
Keren Mor-Rosenbloom and Adam Rosenbloom
Guido and Yolanda Naranjo
Annie O'Brien
Andrea Odintz and Michael Rosenberg
Yvette Pabon
Michael Palitz
Joseph Parise
Louis Craco and Jennifer Patterson
Jesse Phillips
Johnny Price
Mohommed and Maria Rahman
Hilda Rayas
Beverly James-Reese and Beverly Reese
Bonnie Reiss
Carrie and Antonio Rengifo
Daniel Rivas Chumpitaz and Lupiysabel Rivas
Hector and Wendy Rosa
Robert and Laurie Rotman
Jacqueline Rush
Leonor and Victor Sarmiento
Marcel Caussin and Monica Sarmiento
Judith and Jacob Saulig
Kristina Seidenstein
Susan and Joel Shapiro
James Silberman
Jeffrey and Debbie Stevenson
Amy and Robert Stone
Francis Tabone
Angela Tear
Patricia Thorpe-Niasse and Aly Niasse
Anthony Tita
Todd Toler and Jennifer Difiglia
Taylor Torres
Karen and Patrice Trotman
Lonneke van Heyst
Marco Vescio
Aida Villanueva
Raul Ramirez Brana
Graziella Villarreal Garza
Michele Vindigni
Garrett Walsh
Olivia Watterson
Emily and Richard Westle
Carolyn Weston and Robert Teuscher
Kathleen Whittle
Natasha and Chanze Williams
James and Diane Woods
Steve Wyche
Chrys Zhou
Ana Zuniga

Internship Host Partners

ABC (Association to Benefit Children) -- Cassidy Place

ABC (Association to Benefit Children) -- Graham School

Animal Haven

Barry’s Chelsea

Barry’s Noho

Beacon’s Closet

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music

Brooklyn Kindergarten Society

Butter Beans

Cafe Grumpy

Carter Burden Senior Center (Harlem)

Carter Burden Senior Center (Upper East Side)

Children’s Aid (Taft Center)

Costco

CVS

Dandy Farmer

Dr. Tal Dagan’s Office

Dr. Shai Shinhar

EPIC Players

Fire Studio

FLY Center

Food Bank for NYC

Friends of Morningside Park

Gallop NYC

Gigi’s Playhouse

Gleason's Gym

Harry Belafonte Library

Levain Bakery

New York Common Pantry

PAWS

Reelabilities

Riverside Park Conservatory

Shuka

Silicon Harlem

Spring ACT

St John’s University

Steak Frites Bistro

Tarzian Hardware

The Sherri Show

Trane Technologies

WillyB Fitness

Corporate and Foundation Partners

Food for Thought Gala Chef and Restaurant Partners

8282
Bong Le Jo
Instagram - @8282nyc
https://www.eightwoeightwo.com/

 

Barbuto
Heather Miller & Jack Cesari
Instagram - @barbutonyc
https://www.barbutonyc.com/

 

Cafe Commerce
Harold Moore
Instagram - @cafecommercenyc.com
https://cafecommercenyc.com/

 

Caviarteria
Walter Drobenko & Lucas Santos
Instagram - @caviarteria

 

Chevere!
Michael & Miriam Petrovitch
Instagram - @chevernyc
https://www.cheverenyc.com/

 

Chinese Tuxedo
Paul Donnelly
Instagram - @chinesetuxedo
http://www.chinesetuxedo.com/

 

Cook Shop
Wil Fernandez
Instagram - @cookshopnyc
http://cookshopny.com

 

David Waltuck
Instagram - @davidwaltuck
http://chefdavidwaltuck.com

 

 

Dhamaka
Vijay Bhardwaj
Instagram - @dhamakanyc
https://www.dhamaka.nyc/

 

Duchess of Cameron
Grace "Grey" Pak
Instagram - @duchessofcameron
http://www.duchessofcameron.com

 

Frenchette
Michelle Palazzo
Instagram - @frenchettenyc
http://frenchettenyc.com

 

Hainan Chicken House
Chris Low
Instagram - @hainanchickenhouse
https://www.hainanchickenhouse.com/

 

Harlem Shake
Jelena Pasic
Instagram - @harlemshakenyc
http://www.harlemshake.com/


KRU Brooklyn
Ohm Suansilphong
Instagram - @kru.bk
http://www.krubrooklyn.com

 

Noi Due Gelato
Golan Chetrit
Instagram - @noiduegelato
http://www.noiduegelato.com/

 

Nobu Fifty Seven
Taku Sato
Instagram - @noburestaurants
https://noburestaurants.com/fifty-seven

 

Nowon
Jae Lee
Instagram - @nowon.usa
https://www.nowonusa.com/

Oceana
Tim Jocz
Instagram - @oceananyc
https://www.oceanarestaurant.com/

 

Pecking House
Eric Huang
Instagram - @pecking_house
http://www.peckinghouse.com/

 

Pier Sixty Collection
Instagram - @thepiersixtycollection
https://piersixty.com/

 

Saigon Social
Helen Nguyen
Instagram - @saigonsocialnyc
https://www.saigonsocialnyc.com/


Shuka & Shukette
Ayesha Nurdjaja
Instagram - @shukanyc and @shukettenyc
https://www.shukettenyc.com/

 

Skirt Steak, Second & Back Bar
Laurent Tourondel
Instagram - @Skirtsteak.nyc @Second,nyc @backbar851
secondfloornyc.com, skirtsteaknyc.com, backbarnyc.com

 

Soothr
Joel Watthanawongwat
Instagram - @soothr_nyc
http://www.soothrnyc.com/

 

Taverna di Bacca
Maurizio Crescenzo
Instagram - @Tavernadibacco
http://www.tavernadibacco.com

 

Financials 2024-25 Donations By Constituent

KEY

  • Board
  • Cooke Parents
  • Corporations
  • Foundations
  • Friends and Alumni

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