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2023 Annual Report

Did you know that the Foundation for Dane County Parks has raised $2,400,000 to support Dane County Parks? As of last year, the Foundation raised over $800,000 for the endowment to sustain the Parks for years to come, and awarded over $52,000 in grants to Friends and volunteer groups. You can read about the impact of these funds in our 2023 Annual Report.

Our 2023 donors

Thank you to everyone who supported the Foundation for Dane County Parks' mission in 2023.

$25,000+

Anonymous

Dean Health Plan by Medica

Frances R. Dewing Foundation

Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison

Thomas and Margie Krauskopf

Madison Community Foundation

SSM Health

TruStage Foundation

Sally Wilmeth and Terry Geurkink

$5,000 - $24,999

American Family Insurance Dreams Foundation

Bat Conservation of Wisconsin

Capital Times - Evjue Foundation

Doug and Sherry Caves

DeAtley Family Foundation, a component fund at Madison Community Foundation

Tim and Sandy Docter

Douglas and Sharon Marschalek

Veridian Homes Foundation

$1,000 - $4,999

Anonymous

Dean and Ann Bowles

CapSpecialty

Matt and Clare Carlson

Dane County Conservation League

Frank and Delores Emspak

Daniel W. Erdman Advised Fund, a component fund at Madison Community Foundation

Heckmann Financial Services

Matthew Heckmann

Madison Gas & Electric Foundation

Jamie's Hearts and Stars Fund, a component fund at Madison Community Foundation

Fritz Kruger

David and Hilda Kuter

Lakeland Oaks Fund, a component fund at Madison Community Foundation

Jack Lawton and Bonnie McMullin-Lawton

Andrew and Pamela Lewis

The Capital Group at Lincoln Financial Advisors

William Lunney and Judie Pfeifer

Wisconsin Surplus Online Auction

J. H. Findorff & Son, Inc.

Darren and Dawn Marsh

The Burish Group UBS Financial Services Inc.

Dan and Kellie Miller

County of Dane

Patricia Paska

Mel and Mary Pearlman

Judie Pfeifer and William Lunney

Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation

Fred and Nancy Risser

Madison Fishing Expo

Mark Rooney and Gail Morton

James Schad and Celia Kiela

Carol and Dean Schroeder

Gail and Dan Shea

Mike and Linda Slavney

Lon and Sue Sprecher

OneEnergy Renewables

Tom and Kim Thoresen

Peter Tropman and Ginny Graves

Mike and Jill Weber

Michael Williamson and Mary Ann Doll

WPS Health Solutions

Up to $999

Nancy and Russell Allen

Paula and Robert Alt

Amazon Smile

Anonymous

Michelle Armstrong and James Lesniak

Barbara Jeanne Arnold

Marcella and Sally Averkamp

Linda Baier

Karen Bailey

Joe Balles

Merl Banks

Janet Battista

James Berbee and Karen Walsh

Harold Bergan and M. Susan Hundt-Bergan

Jack and Marian Bolz

Julia Bolz

Doug Booher and Michelle Somes-Booher

Judy and Ed Borke

Michael and Joann Bradley

Bruce and Nancy Braun

Waltraud Brinkmann

Jay and Dianne Brooks

Nancy and Lou Bruch

Denny Caneff

David Carbon and DH Chen

Deborah Cardinal and Walter Burt

Catalent Pharma Solutions LLC - Catalent Cares

GE HealthCare

John and Carol Christian

Colleen Clark Bernhardt

Allen and Arrietta Clauss

Marsha Cohen and Michael Pressman

Ann Coyne

Bruce Cray

Frances Degraff

Cal and Ruth Dewitt

Larry and Kathy Dickerson

Christopher Dolan

Matthew Dregne and Claire Silverman

Karen and Jim Dreyer

Michael Drilias

Rick and Sheila Dunn

Sarah Dunning and David Siebert

Retired Madison Police Officers Association

Judy Dvorak

Lloyd and Pat Eagan

Bill and Gina Eggert

Natalie Eisner and Victor Brar

Jim and Jean Elvekrog

Kristine Euclide and Douglas Steege

Marty and Terry Evanson

Diane Everson

Amy Ewing

Al Fish

William Foss

John Franz

Larry and Barbara Freidig

Ronald French

Kathleen Fullin

Mike and Claudia Gerner

Janet Gilmore

Alice and Daniel Gould

Tony and Linda Granato

Diane and Alan Greene

Randall Grobe and Pam Murphy

Paul Grossberg and Dean Ziemke

Susan Gruber

Joseph and Bette Guastella

Randy and Kim Hackbarth

Wayne Hanson and Janet Beach Hanson

Joann Hayes and Alan Penn

Nancy Heiden

Nancy Christy and Neil Heinen

Timothy and Patricia Henneman

Laura and Chuck Hicklin

Lorne Hillier

Estate of Donna Jean Hilgendorf

Debra Holm

Kathleen Hornemann

Jim and Sharel Hubing

Jay Huemmer

Bruce Huibregtse

Patricia Hung

Esther and Jim Huntoon

Judith and John Hutchinson

Greg and Jane Hyer

Sara Ifert

Mike Ivey and Vicki Elkin

Anne Iwata

Nathan Jandl

Bruce Janvenoski

Barbara Doll Johnson

William and VIcki Kalscheur

Teri and George Keeler

Janice Kellogg

Alyson Kenny

Vance and Betty Kepley

Daniel and Linda Kerkman

Jody and Daniel Ketter

Joe Kollar

Doug and Joan Kozel

Kurt and Ann Krumholz

Renee Lauber

Madelyn Leopold and Claude Kazanski

Vic and Sue Levy

Patricia Loew

Vernon and Sylvia Lowell

David Lucey

Pete and Jill Lundberg

Michael Lunney

Michael and Carol Lutz

Anita Mancilla

Mary Manering and Dennis Tande

Mathew G. Marty and Katherine L. Wiggins

Dorla Mayer

Jody McCann and Peg Smelser

Marilyn Meade and Barbara Whitney

Todd Micholic

Ann and David Moffat

Aaron Mullins

Alinda and Robert Nelson

Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Charles O'HareKaren Oberhauser

Tom and Lynn Parker

Barbara Pearson

Anne Perrote

William Peterson

Pamela Porter

Lee Pray

Janice and Fred Redford

Rebecca Ressl

Scott and Georgia Roeming

Cathy and Ron Rotter

Paul Rusk

Ruth Saecker

Barbara and Donald Sanford

Sinikka Santala

American Family Insurance

Jim and Deb Schumaker

Diane Seder and Bruce Rosen

Jean and Jerry Sieling

Margaret Skinner

Bob and Lisa Sorge

Mary Spaay

Mad City Ventures Fund, a component fund at Madison Community Foundation

Summit Credit Union

Susan Springman

David and Marcie Stark

William Stebbins

Joleen and Everette Stinson

Nancy and Tom Sundal

Ruth Sybers

Nancy Tahtinen

Ellen Taylor-Powell

Judith Temby

Stan Temple

The CNJ Charitable Fund

Donna and Chet Thomas

Harv Thompson

Paul Thoresen and Janice Singles

Marian Timmerman

Samuel and Catherine Tobis

Susan Troller Cosgrove and Howard Cosgrove

Patricia Tuckwell and William Muehl

Karen and Tim Turino

Lyle Updike

Gail Van Haren

Lorette Wambach

Robert Waterman

Nicholas and Susan Weber

Joan Weckmueller

Alan Weiss and Cheryl Smith

Topf Wells and Sally Probasco

Jim WelshLyman and Lynn Wible

William Williams and Jean Marie Wiencek

Arleen Wolek and Chuck Vetzner

Barbara Wolfe

Levi Wood

Ben Yahr

Jim Young

Hyuk Yu

Jan Zimmerman

In Honor Of

Max

Tucker and Toby

Friends of Cherokee Marsh

Phil and Libby Lewis

Paul Thoresen

Craig and Edie Vitale

In Memory Of

Badger, who loved running in parks

Gunnan, Marley, and Jordy

Tucker and Sydney

Mrs. Norma Bacon

Jeff Ballweg

Gary Clark

Harland and Helen Everson

Kim Gruebling

Donna Hilgendorf

Dean Hustad

Russell and Judy Jacobson

Joyce C. Mael

William Peter McCarthy

Craig Monroe

Karen and Tom Ragatz

Paul Rusk

Kathryn Trudell

Randy Weber

Daniel Wisniewski

In-kind Gifts and Services

Carlson Black O'Callaghan & Battenberg LLP

Dane County Parks

Dean Health Plan by Medica

SSM Health

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