Funding Sources

Jacob's Pillow's family of supporters provides the very foundation on which we dance. These are the champions who sustain us with annual gifts and with endowment support.

Jacob's Pillow thanks its Foundation and Government supporters, Corporate Sponsors, and members of the Pillow's Business Alliance.

As of December 2007, major annual funding for Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival 2007-2008 has been provided by:

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The National Endowment for the Arts

Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency

New England Foundation for the Arts

American Masterpieces initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The Leir Charitable Foundations, in memory of Henry J. Leir

Mertz Gilmore Foundation

The Starr Foundation

The Shubert Foundation, Inc.

The Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism

The Dana Foundation

The Barrington Foundation

Frances Alexander Foundation

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

Howard Gilman Foundation

The Harkness Foundation for Dance

Surdna Foundation

ALEX® Toys

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Foundation

The Prospect Hill Foundation

Tourism Cares

Annual support has also been provided by The Netherland-America Foundation, Big Y World Class Market, Capezio® Ballet Makers Dance Foundation, Marshall Frankel Foundation, Legacy Banks Foundation, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation, Berkshire Bank Foundation, Royal Danish Ballet, Xeric Foundation, Arch W. Shaw Foundation, Central Berkshire Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Greylock Federal Credit Union, The Pillow Business Alliance, and our members.

Major endowment support comes from the Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Surdna Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Onota Foundation; The William Randolph Hearst Foundation; The Leir Charitable Foundations, in memory of Henry J. Leir; Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; The Puffin Foundation; Arch W. Shaw Foundation; The Prospect Hill Foundation; The Barrington Foundation; and our members.