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$350,000 and above (1998-2010)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$100,000 and above
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$50,000 and above
The Boeing Company
Kemper Development Company
Microsoft
Stan McNaughton/PEMCO
Peter A. Horvitz/PAH Foundation
$25,000 and above
Apex Foundation/Bruce & Jolene McCaw
Fremont Dock Company
Bob & Pat Herbold Foundation
Premera
Preston Gates & Ellis (K&L Gates)
Puget Sound Energy
Sandy Schoolfield & Jon Kechejian
Charles Simonyi Fund
Weyerhaeuser
$10,000 and above
Alaska Airlines
Sharon Gantz Bloome
Chateau Ste. Michelle
Clear Channel Outdoor
Costco
Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation
The Gallatin Group (includes in-kind)
Lynden Inc.
Mike Marshall
Medina Foundation
Bill & Sally Neukom
Charles Nordhoff
Northern Trust Bank
Northwest Airlines
Pacific Futures Trading Company
Rowley Properties
Seattle Mariners
State Farm Insurance
Symetra Financial
Doug & Janet True
U-Park System
Washington Mutual
Virginia Wright
Ann Wyckoff
$2,500 and above
Aramark Sports & Entertainment
Stan Barer
Tom Barwick
James Bianco
Brown Bear Car Wash
Steve Boyer
Herb Bridge
The Bullitt Foundation
Jim & Doris Cassan
Pedro & Laura Celis
Tom Cock Jr.
Jane & David Davis
Dollar Development
Jennifer Dunn (deceased)
Tom Downey
Patty Edwards
Jim Ellis
GLY Construction
Margo & Andy Gordon
Austin F. Hamer
Ken & Cathi Hatch
Tom & Peggy Hayward
Martha Kongsgaard & Peter Goldman
Richard & Elizabeth Hedreen
Betsy Lieberman & Richard Groomer
Deanie Larsen
Grant & Marci Larsen
Martin Neeb
Chuck & Cathy Novak
Mary & Vic Odermat
Mary Pigott
Joe & Jaynie Putnam
Ann Pryde
Steve & Paula Reynolds
Sarah & John Rindlaub
Karen Seinfeld
Lester M.Smith Foundation
Bill & Jill Ruckelshaus
Alan & Nancy Sclater
Helen Silha
Stephen Silha
Sid Snyder
Jim & Fawn Spady
John Stanton & Theresa Gillespie
Wes Uhlman Associates
Wallace Properties
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Wallingford Boys & Girls Club
Washington Dairy Products Association
Craig & Joan Watjen
The Weiss Company
Wells Fargo Bank
Women of Washington
$1,000 and above
ABC Enterprises
Association of Washington Business
At-sea Processors Association
Baldwin Resource Group
Dr. Richard & Edwina Baxter
Chris & Cynthia Bayley
The Benaroya Company
Berntson Porter
Charles Bingham
Susan Bond
Bill Bryant
Building Industry Association of WA
Suzy Burke
Martha Choe
Patsy Bullitt Collins (deceased)
Carney Badley Spellman
Discovery Institute
Tom Downey
Reagan Dunn
Eastside Harley Davidson
Dan Evans Alumni
Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
FarWest Agribusiness Association
Jack Fay
Fish Northwest
Fisher Broadcasting Inc.
Floyd and Delores Jones Foundation
Mike Flynn
Sue & Bob Frause
Fremont Chamber of Commerce
Fremont Rotary
Fremont Tugboat Company
Gorton Legacy Group
Jane Hague & Ed Springman
Susan Han
Holy Names Academy
Walt & Teddy Howe
Ken & Marlene Jones
The Keller Group
KPLU-FM
Barry Mitzman
Merriman Capital Management
Moore Ink.
Noble House Hotels
Northwest Seattle Industrial Association
Overlake Hospital
Patti Payne
PACE
Molly Pengra
Pinkerton Brown
Port of Seattle
Regal Financial Bank
Republican Radio
Herb Robinson (deceased)
Rockey Hill & Knowlton
Russell Investment Group
SAFECO
Herman & Faye Sarkowsky
David Schaefer
Pepper Schwartz
Seattle Aquarium Society
SEIU #775
George and Ruth Scott
Seattle Parks Foundation
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle University
Frank Shrontz
Hunter Simpson (deceased)
Starbucks Coffee Company
Technology Alliance
Turner Construction Company
TVW
University of Washington
University of Washington Law School
US West
Vulcan Northwest
Washington Agriculture Legal Foundation
Washington Beef Commission
Washington Policy Center
Washington PUD Association
Washington Restaurant Association
Washington State Farm Bureau
Washington State Grange
Washington State Labor Council
Washington State Potato Commission
Washington State Trial Lawyers Association
Washington State University
The Westin Bellevue
Wingood Foundation
Rick White
YWCA
$500 and above
Adobe Systems Inc. (in-kind)
Bank of America
Russ Brooks
Jack Broom
Steve & Jodi Brown
Dorothy Bullitt
Gwen Bulthaup
Steve Buri
Larry & Suzanne Cali
Steve Cherkas
Chuck & Judy Dunsire
Robert English
Lynn & Mark Erickson
Suzanne Dale Estey
Vicki G. Fabre
John Fluke
Gogerty Stark Marriott
Suzanne Hartman
Jeannette Hayner
David Horsey (in-kind)
KING 5 Television
KIRO 7 Television
KOMO 4 Television
Paul Merriman
Bill & Judy Morton
Shan & Lee Mullin
Port Blakely Tree Farms
Mike & Barbara Poulson
Eddie & Beverly Reed
Chuck Rehberg
Charles & Penny Robinson
Rita Ryder
Jim & Mary Shenfield
Steve Shulman
Bob & Betty Utter
William Van Valkenberg
Bob & Joan Wallace
Scott Wallace
Jim Warjone
$250 and above
Sidney & Marika Abrams
Maria Ackley & Jay Uchida
Bill & Nancy Bain
Putnam Barber
Ken & Virginia Billington
Bob & Suzanne Carlile
Robert Cihak
Pat Coryell
Don & Marilyn Covey
Dan Cummings
Aubrey & Henrietta Davis
John Dimitriou
Carolyn Duncan
Grover & Linda Ellis
Dick & Sharon Friel
Carver Gayton
Shirl E. Gilbert
Rick Goodman
Slade & Sally Gorton
Charles Hasse
Jeff Idler
Sandeep Kaushik
Lee Keller
Jim & Betty King
Jon Magnusson
Nancy L. Mar
David Marriott
Virginia McCarty
Joe McGavick
Vincent Mullally
Harold Pelton
Dick & Margaret Pryne
Victor & Marcia Rosellini
Cliff & Jille Rowe
Shelby Scates & Joan Hansen
Roger & Darlene Simmons
Karen Sutherland
Ted Van Dyk
Ada Lou Wheeler
R.Y. Woodhouse
Under $250
Tadahiro Abe
Julie Adams
Evonne Agnello
Bruce Agnew
James & Billie Andersen
Norm Arkans & Mona Modiano
Bill Asbury
Jorgen Bader
Paul & Jamel Barden
Carol Barnard
John Betrozoff
Greg Bever
Becky & Ernie Bianco
Katia Blackburn
Robert Blake
Patricia Bowman
Susan Braukus Hempstead
Dan Caldwell
Bruce Chapman
John & Mary Charles
Chiechi & Associates
Tina Chin
Ed Clark
Lawrence Cock
Brian Comstock
Dow Constantine
Michael & Lucy Copass
Susan & James Daly
Pat Davenport
Brewster Denny
Jack DeYonge
Diane Aboulafia-D’Jaen
Kevin O. Donohoe
Maggie Dorsey
Jack Doughty
C.R. Douglas
Steve Dunphy
Paul Dziedic
Larry Ehl
Stuart Elway
Pat Emerson
Adam Faber
Denny Fleenor
Steven Friederich
Bernie Friedman (deceased)
Maureen Frisch
Judy Goldberg
Thomas Goldstein
Ann Goos
Catalina & James Gorman
Gerald M. Greenberg
Paul Guppy
Anne Haenni & Ralph Cranston
Jerry Hanna
Gene Hannula
Charlene Hansen
Scott & Pattei Hardman
David Hargreaves
Laird Harris
Peter Heinz
Jill Hodges
Caroline Holmes
Maryann & Roy Huhs
Dan Hungate
Barbara Huston
Diana Sick Ingman
Glenda Inman
John Irby
David Irons
Ward & Lois Irwin
David Ishii
Joyce Jackson
Wallace & Sonna Lee James
Anne Johnson
Elizabeth & William Johnston
Pat Jenkins
Anne Johnson
George & Karen Kargianis
Tom Keefe
Donald Kelts
Jim Keough
Gil Kerlikowske
Charles & Jeannie Krohn
Robert & Ruth Kildall
Dr. Ann Marie Kimball
Robert S. Klein
Jan Knutson
Paul Kraabel
Taso Lagos
Karen Lane
Otto Lang (deceased)
Art Langlie
Jeff Lanning
Steve Leahy
Jean & Roger Leed
John & Claire Lein
Walter Liang
Dick Lilly
Mike Lowry
Gene V. Lux
Lenore & Robert Lyle
Peter Machno
Mimi MacLeod
Norm Maleng (deceased)
Frances Malone
Christy Martin
Kenneth Martin
Carol Matzke
Rosemary & Jim McAuliffe
David McCallum
Peter McCarrell
Larry McCracken
Andy & Cheryl McLauchlan
Pat McMahon
Ralph & Karen Munro
Patrick & Kay Murray
Neil & Nancy McReynolds
Joe Mentor
David Messerschmidt
Jerry & Judy Miller
G.L. Monahan
Teresa Moore
Duncan & Lai Morrell
Brock Mullins
Robert & Tracey Neat
Sherry Nebel
Mary M. Neilson
Assunta Ng
R.T. Nelson
Toby Nixon
Colleen Nordlund
Nick O’Connell
R.A. O’Donnell
Shannon O’Leary
Mark Oggel
Tom (deceased) & Angela Owens
Dick & Alinda Page
Noriko Palmer
Penny & Gerald Peabody
Gary Pearson
Randy & Sidney Pepple
Kathleen Pierce
Frank & Janet Ploof
Jim Potter
Eugene Prince
Jan Quintrall
Andrea Rabinowitz
Raymond & Kay Ramming
Bill Robinson
Chuck Robinson
Jennifer Roseman
Robert Rosencrantz
Bob Rosner
David Samp
Richard Sandaas
Vicki Scharlau
Dwight (deceased) & Helga Schear
Jon Schorr
Bob Schulman (deceased)
Randy Scott
Iantha Sidell
Art Siegal
Dann Mead Smith
Mohamed Douaiaia
Lisa Lynn Sowder
Stephen Spoonamore
Bill & Stephanie Stafford
Margaret Stanley & Tom Bleakney
Mary Ellen & Mark Stinskist
Rev. William J. Sullivan
Phil Talmadge
Jesse T. Tam
Don Theiler
Paul Thomas
Harold Thoreen
Kathleen & David Thorne
Robert Thorpe
Dean Tonkin
Bob & Barbara Tourtillotte
Don Vandervelde
Keith & Lori VanderZanden
Michael Verchot
Michael Vranizan
Washington Food Processors Council
Phil Watkins
Barbara & Jack Williams
Hill & Mary Williams
Heidi Wills & Kobi Yamada
David Wood
Dan Youmans
Russ Young
