Our Donors

Annual Donor List

Each year, Madison Children’s Museum continues to connect children to their families, community, and their wonder-filled world. Thankfully, this vision has been shared by individual, corporate, and foundation supporters. Madison Children’s Museum is grateful to our committed donors for their generous support in fiscal year 2012.
(7/1/10-6/30/11)

*We thank these Annual Leaders who have made multi-year pledges of $5,000 or more to our annual operating fund.

$25,000 and above
The Estate of Bonnie Berman
Institute of Museum and Library Services

$10,000 – $24,999
Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.
Anne Bolz
Jan & William DeAtley
Google
Carroll Heideman*
Lois Krantz*
Jack Lussier
Madison Gas & Electric Foundation, Inc.
Charles & Sally Miley*
Monsanto Fund
Amy & Jerry Nickles*
Peggy & Tom Pyle
Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation
Jane & David Villa
Wells Fargo Bank

$5,000 – $9,999
American Family Insurance
American Girl
Anonymous
Anonymous
Berbee Technology Education Foundation
Eliot Butler & Sara Cotton
Craig & Lea Culver Family and Culver’s VIP Foundation
Dane Arts
Dean & St. Mary’s
Jane Doughty & David Wood
Walter A. & Dorothy Jones Frautschi Trust
Aris & Marta Gialamas
The Gilkison Family Foundation
Richard Goldberg & Lisa Munro
Hausmann-Johnson Insurance, Inc.
J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.
The Madigan Family
Madison Avenue Worldwide, LLC
Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP
Middleton Tourism Commission
Dan Sidney & Naomi Chesler
Standard Process
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Sylvia & James Vaccaro
Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin
and the National Endowment for the Arts

$2,500 – $4,999
Alliant Energy Foundation
American Transmission Company
Benjamin Appen & Leslie Chang
Jim & Susan Bakke
BMO Harris Bank
CUNA Mutual Group
Nick & Rebecca Curran
Dentistry for Madison
Valerie & Dan Drye
Endres Manufacturing Company
John J. Frautschi Family Foundation
W. Jerome Frautschi
The Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company, Inc.
Great Wolf Resorts, Inc.
Ho-Chunk Madison
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Al Lozier & Ann Schwede
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Shawn & Colleen McGuire
Pam Murphy & Randy Grobe
Park Bank
Triumph Wealth Management, LLC
Uniek, Inc.
Urban Land Interests
US Bank
US Bankcorp Foundation
Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.

$1,000 – $2,499
Academy for Little Learners Inc.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anne Arnesen
Atterbury, Kammer & Haag, S.C.
Norman Bassett Foundation
Bell, Moore & Richter, S.C.
Boardman & Clark LLP
Buttonwood Partners, Chris Bugg & Greg Rademacher
Sue & Rich Clack
CN
Complete Mobile Dentistry, Inc.
Cresa
Marjorie Devereaux & David Hall
Andrew Engel
Penelope & Thomas Gialamas
The Gialamas Company, Inc.
Elizabeth & Jim Greer
Mary & Carl Gulbrandsen
Jana Gyurina & Glen Bever
Terry L. Haller
Katie & Matthew Hargrove
Curt & Dawn Hastings
Ideal Builders, Inc.
K-Line Trucking, Inc.
Terry & Mary Kelly
Knupp & Watson & Wallman
The Laufman Weinbach Group
José Madera & Kim Santiago de Madera
Thomas & Audrey Martorana
Adriana Mateus
McGladrey & Pullen, LLP
Dawn & Matthew Meier
Dan & Pam Millmann
Richard Moll
Monona Plumbing and Fire Protection, Inc.
Mortenson Investment Group, LLC
Stephen Morton
Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Parks
Sherrie & Jerome Mullins
Murphy Desmond, S.C.
The Noel Group
Oak Park Dental
Optimist Club of Downtown Madison, Inc.
Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation
Placon Corporation
Robin Provost
The QTI Group
Barb & Ben Scharpf
Marv & Judy Siegert
Mike & Linda Slepica
Daniel & Kristine Sperling
Shelly & Trey Sprinkman
St. Mary’s Hospital
Subway
The Suby Group
TJK Design Build, Inc.
UW Health
Jeff Venden
Vennsys LLC
WEA Trust
Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation
Wegner LLP, CPAs & Consultants
Theran & Julie Welsh
Welton Enterprises
West Bend Mutual Insurance Company
WIPFLi LLP
Catherine Zdeblick
Jennifer & Bill Zorr

$500 – $999
Matt & Samantha Apter
Amy Arenz
Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
Heidi & John Bollinger
Jack & Marian Bolz
Peter & Gretchen Brown
Cheri & Brian Buckner
Cost Cutters of Madison
Karen & Alan Crossley
Dane County Environmental Council
John & Amy Dean
Jan Eddy
Engineered Construction, Inc.
EZ Office Products
Eve & Marc Galanter
Claire Gervais
Gingras, Cates & Luebke, S.C.
Gordon Flesch Company
Patricia Hackworthy
Paul & Vanessa Hees
Perry & Virginia Henderson
Donna & Jim Katen-Bahensky
Valerie & Andreas Kazamias
The Keller Family Charitable Trust
Herbert H. Kohl Charities
Ron & Deborah Krantz
Jenny & Jeffrey Krueger
Matt Kutz
Law Advisors, S.C.
Sandra & Allan Levin
Jay & Laura Liebe
Griff & Mary Beth Madigan
Madison South Rotary Foundation
Edward Meachen
Paul & Judith Moriarty
Dana Mosling
The North Central Group
Julie & Gerald Pavelich
Greg Pfluger & Connie McElrone
Marija & Jim Pientka
Rusty & Teresa Raatz
Gordon & Janet Renschler
The Roman Candle
James & Carol Ruhly
Jane & Robert Salinger
Leesa & Jesse Schlimgen
John & Mary Schroeder
Mary Ellyn & Joe Sensenbrenner
Ann & Lee Sensenbrenner, David & Deborah Penn
Kristin & Shawyon Shadman
Ruth & Kevin Shelly
Weber L. Smith
Denes & John Tobie
John & Carol Toussaint
Nikki & Phil Tucker
Tim & Karen Weltzin
Wisconsin Distributors LLC
Pam & Clint Woodman
John & Linda Wright
Stephen & Dawn Zanoni

$250 – $499
Suresh & Deborah Agarwal
Greg Anderson & Laura Peck
Anonymous
Richard & Alice Appen
Jeff & Debbie Armstrong
Todd & Dana Asmuth
Jessica Bartell & William Ehrhardt
William & Sylvia Beckman
Lisa M. Bender
Sandi & Louis Bernhardt
Jessica & Steven Beyler
Lilly & John Bickers
Christie Bourne & Jonathan Koch
Heidi & Howard Bregman
Julianne & Chad Brickl
Benjamin & Susan Brooks
Carole & Christopher Brown
Colleen & Ryan Burke
Peter & Colleen Chase
Heather Clefisch
Anne & Tim Connor
Megan & Nick Correll
Betty Custer & J. Corkey Custer
Timothy Deering & Diane Mical-Deering
DEMCO, Inc.
Jane Englund
Debbie & Dale Evans
Mary Ann Fahl
Michael & Jane Ferris
Amy Flesch
James Flood
Gary M. Frings
Deirdre Wilson Garton
Leonard & Terrie Goren
James & Michelle Hackworthy
Thomas Haig
Wayne & Cindy Hammer
Lisa & Chad Hanmer
Jeff & June Hausmann
Kate & Patrick Heaney
Corrine & Kevin Hendrickson
Michelle & Justin Herman
Paul & Cora Higginbotham
Mark Hill & Sue Dentinger
Jeffrey Hirsch
Riley & Scott Hoselton
Jaclyn Hoveland
Hype Communications
Jennifer & Herb Ilk
Nick & Kristin Jackson
Amanda & Dan Jackson
Jeffrey John
Ben Johnson & Courtney Lenz
Cedric Johnson
Barbara Karlen
Matthew D. Karls, Ph.D.
Norma Tirado Kellenberger & Kevin Kellenberger
Lissa Koop
Amy & Andy Kramer
Stacey & Sharon Kuipek
Amy & Mark Lanham
Mary Carr Lee
Jim Lins & Patricia McKinney-Lins
Elizabeth Tucker Long & Christopher Long
Kirstin & Joseph Lukasik
Marilyn & Guy Martin
Jeff Masciopinto & Sarah Groessl
Joe McCormick
Meyer Family Foundation
Donald Moynihan & Pamela Herd
Mona Muldowney
Brian & Amanda Mullen
Murphy Insurance Group
Gregory Nemet & Linda Briesemeister
Fawn & Jeremy O’Brien
Barbara Olson
Bonnie Orvick
Ted & Julia Peterson
Perry & Bethney Pickhardt
Holly & Michael Pomraning
Jason & Heather Potter
Kelly Prescott & Matt Prescott
Anna Purnell & Greg Smith
William A. Raabe
Tracy & Ross Radel
Sheryl Renslo
Sverre Roang
Jonathan Rozenfeld & Jill Korey
Leah & William Sandholm
Karthikeyan Sankaralingam
Stephanie Schanel
Sandra & Steven Schettl
Susan Schmitz & Gary Peterson
Todd Schwanke
Sekelsky Family Fund
Pete & Audrey Shay
Joyce Siefering
Eric Siegal & Jeanne Howard
Dennis Lund & Cynthia Spencer
Sprinkman Real Estate
Bambi & John Statz
Ken Strasma & Karisa Johnson
Anne N. Stoelting
Terra Experience
Rebecca Thousand & Eric Anderson
Ann & Russ Tieman
Chad Torkelson & Sarah Evans
John & Sharon Torrens
Amy & Shane Tracy
Mary C. Turke
Michael Urso
Homer & Elaine Vick
Carol Viviani
Ellen & Arnold Wald
Jim & Mary Wartinbee
Kimberley & Michael Waterfield
Patricia Baer-Watts & Jerry Watts
Faith Windsor-Leonard
Kari Wisinski
James & Mary Yeager
Sansun Yeh
Carmine Zarlenga
Tom & Marykay Zimbrick
Jonathan & Jennifer Zuk

Gifts-in-Kind
Ale Asylum
American Girl
American Girl Benefit Sale Volunteers
American Printing
The AT&T Real Yellow Pages
Backflip Films
Ballweg Automotive Group
Bauch Wealth Management
Bishops Bay Country Club
The Bull at Pinehurst Farms Golf Course
First Choice Dental Group
Nancy Forster
Google
The Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company, Inc.
Chulee Hallick
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
Gordon P. Hanson
Harbor Athletic Club
Paul & Cora Higginbotham
Intercontinental Milwaukee
Johnny Delmonico’s
Kollege Klub
Learning Shop
John & Holly Madigan
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison Gas & Electric Foundation, Inc.
Madison Handymen
Madison Mallards
Mansion Hill Inn
Maple Bluff Country Club
Middleton Fire Department
Milwaukee Bucks
Nakoma Golf Club
Nutzy Mutz & Crazy Catz
Oak Park Dental
Odana Hills Dental
Pepsi-Cola of Madison
Prairie Athletic Club
The Roman Candle
Joyce Siefering
Matthew Sintchak & Melissa Reiser
Mike & Linda Slepica
Steep & Brew
Subway
Roy Vivian
Wisconsin Distributors LLC
yp.com
Zander’s Interiors, Inc.

Tribute Gifts
Drew Buan
Ted & Virginia Cardon
Roland DuPuis
Candy Gialamas
Richard Read “Nick” Graebel
Rozelle Henkel
Jackson & Truman Mankowski
Melvin & Olive Moore
Laura Mueller
The Ness/Rafferty Family: Peter, Jill, Truman, and Baxter
Ted & Sande Richards
Dean & Carol Schroeder
Harrison Straka

Fund for the Future

We thank the following who contributed to our Fund for the Future Endowment for their leadership and commitment. Their gifts will be invested in perpetuity and the investment earnings will be used to create innovative programs and exhibits to inspire children and adults of all ages to explore, create, discover and learn in the years to come.

The DeAtley Family Foundation
Diane K. Ballweg
W. Jerome Frautschi
Anonymous
Jim & Sue Bakke
Madison Community Foundation
Tom & Margaret Pyle
Sylvia & James Vaccaro
The Sensenbrenner Family
Joyce Siefering

Cumulative Giving List

The Cumulative Giving Board on the museum’s Rowland Rooftop Ramble recognizes all donors who have given sums of $5,000 or more since July 2007. This amount reflects the many ways to support Madison Children’s Museum, including memberships, annual and capital gifts, event sponsorships, and more. The donor list below will be updated once a year and is located on the rooftop veranda.

Over $1 Million
American Girl’s Fund for Children
Jan & William DeAtley
W. Jerome Frautschi
The Kresge Foundation
Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation

$500,000-999,999
The Evjue Foundation, charitable arm of The Capital Times

$250,000-499,999
Anne & Robert Bolz
Eugenie Mayer Bolz Family Foundation
Nathan F. Brand Family and Regina Millner
Walter A. & Dorothy Jones Frautschi Trust
Madison Community Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
State of Wisconsin

$100,000-249,999
Affiliated Engineers, Inc.
Anonymous
Jim & Susan Bakke
Diane Endres Ballweg
Eliot Butler and the Marilyn & Marshall Butler Foundation
Craig & Lea Culver Family and Culver’s VIP Foundation
CUNA Mutual Foundation
Jane Doughty & David Wood
John J. Frautschi Family Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.
Schomer Lichtner Trust and Kohler Foundation, Inc.
Tim & Liz Kritter
The Madigan Family
Madison Gas & Electric Foundation, Inc.
Mid-West Family Broadcasting and The Walker Family
Purple Moon Foundation
Peggy & Tom Pyle
Oscar Rennebohm Foundation
Vaccaro Family Foundation
John E. Wall Family and DEMCO

$50,000-99,999
American Honda Foundation
The AT&T Real Yellow Pages
CN
Betty Harris Custer & J. Corkey Custer
Hausmann-Johnson Insurance, Inc.
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Linda & John Hughes
Jack Lussier
Stephen Morton
Mullins Group, LLC
Park Bank
Sara & Patrick Riha and Madison Avenue Worldwide
Steve Schmitt, The Shoe Box
Joyce Siefering
Trek Bicycle
Marvin P. Verhulst Family Foundation
Kurt & Maria Welton
Wisconsin Arts Board
Tom & Catherine Zdeblick

$25,000-49,999
The 1772 Foundation
American Family Insurance
Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.
Heidi & John Bollinger
Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission
Focus on Energy
Christopher & Ann Frautschi
The Great Dane Pub and Brewing Co.
Jeff & June Hausmann
Jay, Ada & Zoë Hazen
Lois A. Krantz
M&I Foundation
Griff & Mary Beth Madigan
City of Madison
Christy & Hal Mayer
Charles & Sally Miley
The Nature Conservancy
Noel Group
Steinhauer Charitable Trust
Summit Credit Union
Mirko R. Tancredi
The John Taylor Family: John, Leslie, Annelies & Saskia
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Tom Lindsay Designs
The Train Team
Two Men and a Truck
Urban Land Interests

$10,000-24,999
Alliant Energy Foundation
American Girl Benefit Sale Volunteers
American Transmission Company
Anne Arnesen
Anonymous
AT&T
The Estate of Bonnie Berman
Jack & Marian Bolz
Quinn & Aiden Burgess
Kevin & Jill Carey
Mildred & Marv Conney
Courtier Foundation, Inc.
Covance Laboratories Inc.
Nicholas & Rebecca Curran
Dean & St. Mary’s
Dental Health Associates of Madison
Design Coalition, Inc.
Alexandra & William Dove
Famous Footwear
GE Healthcare
Aris & Marta Gialamas
Google
Randy Grobe & Pam Murphy
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin
Hackworthy Family
Tom & Bobbie Haig
Wayne, Lindsay & Brian Harris
Curt & Dawn Hastings
Bob & Carroll Heideman
Lynn Hobbie & Kevin Little
Nick & Kristin Jackson
Jenkins Research & Manufacturing Corporation
Johnny Delmonico’s
Johnson Bank
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Kelly Family Foundation
David & Brice Kettner
K12 Inc.
KEVA Sports Center
Kraft Foods
James Laudon
Mark & Ilene Laufman
Rich & Mary Lynch
Madison Junior Woman’s Club
Madison Mallards
Mansion Hill Inn
Mendota Financial Group, LLC
MetLife Foundation
MetLife Foundation and Association of Children’s Museums
Regina Millner
David & Teri Mills
Monsanto Fund
National Endowment for the Arts
National Guardian Life Insurance Company
Amy & Jerry Nickles
Sally & John Ouellette
Pepsi-Cola of Madison
The Peters-Michaud Family
Carol & Andy Phelps
Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.
Hamilton Roddis Foundation, Inc.
Anne & Victor Rodriguez
John & Mary Schroeder
The Family of Mary Ellyn & Joe Sensenbrenner
Dan Sidney & Naomi Chesler
Silverline Digital
JoAnn Six Plesko & E.J. Plesko
Theda Clark Smith Family Foundation, Inc.
Sony Creative Software
Stone House Development, Inc.
Darrell, Annie, Danielle & Sydney Stroud
Sub-Zero Corporation
Target
The Estate of Fannie T. Taylor
TDS Telecommunications Corporation
Techline – Workspace Studio
The Terry Family Foundation
Denes & John Tobie
Upstairs & Downstairs Catering
US Bank
U.S. EPA, Region V
Tom & Laura Weigand
Wells Fargo Bank
Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.
Wisconsin Department of Tourism
Wisconsin Environmental Education Board
Wisconsin Humanities Council
John & Linda Wright
Yellowbook
Tom & Mary Kay Zimbrick

$5,000-9,999
Barry & Cindy Alvarez
American Girl, LLC
Anonymous
Helen Bader Foundation
Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
Sally & Tom Basting Family Fund
Boomtown Communications, LLC
Jim & Libby Bradley
Nathan & Chris Brinkman
Rich & Angie Brown
Shane & Laura Brunner
Tom & Sue Bush
The Capital Times Kids Fund
Sarah Dunn Carpenter
Mary Carr Lee
Cogdell Spencer Erdman
Anne & Tim Connor
Stan Davis
Valerie & Dan Drye
Scott & Lynne Faulkner, Edgewater Hotel
A Fund For Women
General Casualty Insurance Company
Elizabeth & Jim Greer
Sara Guyer & Scott Straus in memory of Bruce Waterfall
Perry & Virginia Henderson
Home Savings Bank
Geoffrey & Kimberly Hurtado
Janus Galleries
Barbara Karlen
Valerie & Andreas Kazamias
Chris & Michelle Kelly
Herbert H. Kohl Charities
KW2 – Knupp & Watson & Wallman
Jeff Masciopinto & Sarah Groessl
M&I
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Middleton Tourism Commission
Monona Plumbing and Fire Protection, Inc.
Neider & Boucher, S.C.
Organic Valley
The QTI Group
Quarles & Brady LLP
Sarah & Michael Reiter
Robert W. Baird Foundation
Jonathan Rozenfeld & Jill Korey
RSM McGladrey, Inc.
Sandra & Steve Schettl
Dean & Orange Schroeder
Kristin & Shawyon Shadman
Ruth & Kevin Shelly
Daniel & Kristine Sperling
Springs Window Fashions
Shelly & Trey Sprinkman
Standard Process
Daniel Stewart
Deborah & Thomas Still
Swiss Colony
Carol & John Toussaint
Underground Food Collective
Uniek, Inc.
United Way of Dane County
University of Wisconsin Foundation
University of Wisconsin Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
UW Health and American Family Children’s Hospital
Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation
West Bend Insurance
WIPFLi LLP
Wrycha Family