CORNERSTONE ($100,000 and above) 
The Cannon Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CIC/UPS Educational Endowment Fund
SAS Institute*

BENEFACTOR ($50,000-$99,999) 
Truist

PARTNER ($25,000-$49,999) 
The Council of Independent Colleges
Kontoor Foundation

ASSOCIATE ($10,000- $24,999) 
The Alwinell Foundation Trust
The Bolick Foundation
Broyhill Family Foundation
James E. and Mary Z. Bryan Foundation
Coca-Cola Consolidated
Constellation Quality Health
Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
Jeremy and Katie Fisher
The George Foundation
JPMorgan Chase
North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association
The Universal Leaf Foundation
Thomas and Ashley Varnadore 

SUSTAINER ($5,000- $9,999) 
Aramark Corporation
BDO, USA, LLP
BHDP Architecture
Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund
The R.A. Bryan Foundation, Inc.
Cherry Bekaert, LLC
The Dickson Foundation, Inc.
The Duke Energy Foundation
Frank and Jan Harrison
IMA Financial Group, Inc.
Jenny L. Semans Koortbojian Trust
McMillan Pazdan Smith, LLC
Mt. Olive Pickle Company 

North Carolina Electric Membership Cooperative
W. Trent Ragland, Jr. Foundation
E.T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Foundation
TIAA
A. Hope Williams
Womble Bond Dickinson 
The Wren Foundation 

CONTRIBUTOR ($3,000 – $4,999)
The Budd Group
The Center for Principled Problem Solving and Excellence in Teaching
College Foundation, Inc.
Duke Health
French Broad Electric Membership Corporation
Grady-White Boards, Inc.
Google*
Hikma Community Health
Jesse and Kay McCartney
McGriff Insurance Broker
Old North State Fund, LLC
The Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation
Sherrod and Margaret Salsbury Foundation
Matthew and Erin Socha 

FRIENDS (up to $2,999)
AdvancementEDU
Alera Group
Ads Infinitum
Suzanne Bartels 
Bernhardt Furniture Company
Biltmore Farms, LLC
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina
Boldyn Networks
The Borden Fund, Inc.
Sam and Dixie Boyce
James E. Brown, Jr.
Brown, Edwards, & Company, LLP
Martha Bunch
Allan Burrows
Bill Bryan

CapinCrouse, LLP
Capital Development Services
CAPTRUST
Lauren Castleberry
Central Electric Membership Corporation
Melanie Chrisp
Cintas
Melissa Clodfelter 
Corporate Risk Management, Inc.
Barbara Corwin 
Coursedog
CPL Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architect and Surveyor, D.P.C.
Daly Seven
The Jeff and Juli Dave Family Donor Advised Fund
Laura Davidson
Margaret Wren de St. Aubin
DLR Group
EDC
Edsight
Lindsay Efrid
The Eremos Group
First American Education Finance
First Carolina Bank
Erica Blomgren Forrester
Forvis Mazars
Jack and Sherry Frost
Robert Garofalo
Robert Gauthier
Anne Glenn
Laura George
Gray DI
Jana Gottlieb Hartenstine
Harvest Table Culinary Group*
Leslie Hayes
Suzanne Hening
Gwenn H. Hobbs
Hornwood, Inc.
HRP Associates Inc.
HUB Investments
Vicki Humphreys
Inceptia
InterVision
Jenzabar, Inc.

Laura Johnson
Beth Tyner Jones
Phil Kirk
Kathryn Kotler 
Rebecca Leggett
Chris Leng
Amanda Livingston
Julian Macaulay, Jr.
M&J Foundation
Kenneth C. Mayer
Thomas Maze
Mercer
Microsoft
Jason Modlin
Iyailu Moses
Murfreesboro Rotary Club
National Management Resources
North Carolina Technology Association
Rane Parr
Mitchell and Laura Perry
Pfizer
Pharos Resources, LLC
Brooks and Stephanie Raiford
Valerie Shepard
Delores Sides
Timothy Smith
Robert Springer
Jeff and Jan Stoddard
Marilyn Sutton-Haywood
Mary Thornton
Cheryl Todd 
Transact
Tri-Tronics Pro Electronics, LLC
USI Insurance, Inc.
VisionPoint Marketing
Wells Fargo
Tom and Dana West
Debra Yeatts 

*Gifts in Kind
Increased Gift

Alwinell Foundation
Clancy & Theys Construction Co.
Mr. Brooks T. Raiford
Dr. A. Hope Williams
Grady-White Boats, Inc.
Southco Distributing Company

Philip L. Van Every Foundation
Best Commercial Development
Carolina Foods, Inc.
Wren Foundation, Inc.

Mount Olive Pickle Company, Inc.
UPS Foundation, Inc.
Sherrod and Margaret Salsbury Foundation
Garris Evans Lumber Co., Inc.
AC Corporation

Wyatt-Quarles Seed Company
SunTrust Banks, now Truist
Coca-Cola Consolidated
Stephenson Millwork Company, Inc.
Honeywell Business Solutions

The A.B. Carter, Inc. Fund, 50
The Borden Fund, Inc., 52
Broyhill Family Foundation, Inc., 53
Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation, 54
Blumenthal Foundation, 55
Glenn E. and Addie G. Ketner Family Foundation, 55

Hornwood, Inc., 54
The Dickson Foundation, Inc., 55
Biltmore Farms, LLC, 56
George Foundation, 58
Burlington Industries Foundation, 58

Dominion Energy Foundation, 59
Bridgestone Americas Trust fund, 61
R.A. Bryan Foundation, Inc., 61
The Universal Leaf Foundation, 61
Stonecutter Foundation, Inc., 61

Bernhardt Furniture Company, 63
Duke Energy, 63
Wells Fargo, 63
W. Trent Ragland, Jr. Foundation, 62
The Bolick Foundation, 67
The Jeff and Juli Dave Family Fund, 68