Centennial Campaign
Ensuring the future of The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is thrilled to have completed our successful Centennial Campaign, which raised critical funds for the museum’s endowment, capital needs, and special projects in conjunction with our Centennial in 2021. We are grateful to all those who contributed and celebrated the Centennial with us. The achievements of the campaign will continue to reverberate for years to come, and we look forward to another century of lasting impact.
Centennial Campaign by the Numbers
- $64.4 million committed to the campaign in support of the endowment, capital needs, and special projects
- 180 donors
- 62 planned gifts
- 4 endowed positions – the first at the Phillips!
- Vradenburg Director & CEO
- Horning Chair of Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion
- Lucretia Dewey Tanner Internship
- Makeba Clay Diversity Fellowship
- 4 newly endowed funds, including 2 exhibition funds and 2 program funds
- 99 interns and 12 fellows since the launch of the paid internship and fellowship programs in 2018
- 4 Centennial Art Commissions–by Angela Bulloch and Wesley Clark, Nekisha Durrett, and Victor Ekpuk
- 7 Centennial Exhibitions
- 8 Centennial Music Commissions inspired by works in the collection premiering during the 2020/21 80th Anniversary Season of Phillips Music
- 1 endowed annual Centennial Concert
- Launch of the Bloomberg Connects mobile app
- Over 100,000 items in the Phillips’s archives, including important historic photographs and Duncan and Marjorie Phillips’s correspondence
- 2 capital improvement projects completed
- Thermal upgrades in the 1897 Phillips House
- Refurbishment of the historic House elevator
Victor Ekpuk in his installation State of the Union: Things have fallen apart, can the center still hold?, 2021
The Phillips House during the 2017 thermal upgrades renovation
Dr. Yuma Tomes, Horning Chair for Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
Angela Bulloch with her sculpture Heavy Metal Stack: Fat Cyan Three (2018)
The first cohort of paid interns, fall 2018
Nekisha Durrett in her installation Airshaft (2021)
Thank you to all Centennial Campaign donors for your generous support
Anonymous (8)
Esthy and James Adler*
Carolyn S. Alper
Sam and Ruth Alward
Michael J. Armstrong
Terry Beaty and Anne Mehringer
C. Richard Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger
Scott Douglas Bellard*
Mary Kay Blake
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Barbara Brown and Robert Berish
Estate of Dorothy Bunevich*
James Burks and Bette Pappas*
Susan and Dixon Butler*
The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Mr. John P. Cahill*
Estate of Dennis Cannaday*
Bruce D. Carlson
Dr. Nils Carlson and Mrs. Dianne Carlson
Judith and Thomas Chused*
Nancy and Charles Clarvit
Estate of Helen and Charles Crowder*
Crozier Fine Arts
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Cutler
Brian D. Dailey
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Frauke de Looper Trust*
Bill DeGraff*
L. William Derrow*
John and Gina Despres*
Joseph P. DiGangi*
Robert and Debra Drumheller
Christopher Duff and Mark A. Westman*
Nina Chung Dwyer*
Anne and Gus Edwards
Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation
Lindsay and Henry Ellenbogen
Michelle and Glenn Engelmann
Sherman Fairchild Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Fischer
Dr. Helene C. Freeman*
Galena-Yorktown Foundation
Henry H. and Carol Brown Goldberg
The Marion F. Goldin Charitable Fund*
Ellen L. Goldstein*
Philip L. Graham Fund
Ann Greer*
Pamela Gwaltney*
Barbara and Bob Hall*
Barbara Brown Hawthorn
Lynne and Joseph Horning*
Deborah Shore Houlihan
Institute for Contemporary Expression
Institute of Museum and Library Services
William N. Jackson Irrevocable Trust*
Martha R. Johnston
Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan
Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
Helen and David T. Kenney
Robert and Arlene Kogod
Sachiko Kuno Philanthropic Fund
Leonard Lauder
Susan Lee*
Martin Less*
Mirella and Dani Levinas
Estate of R. Robert and Ada H. Linowes*
Henry Luce Foundation
Wendy Luke*
Sandra L. Mabry*
Estate of Raymond Machesney*
Mr. John D. Macomber*
Bradford Maupin*
Cathy and Scot McCulloch
Charles McKittrick, Jr.
Amy and Marc Meadows
Mellon Foundation
Carol Melton and Joseph M. Hassett
Estate of Mercedes Mestre*
Inna and William Metler
Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
A. Fenner Milton*
Morgan Stanley
Estate of Sheila A. Morgenstern*
Monica D. and Samuel A. Morley*
Joan and Dan Mulcahy
Robert Oaks
James D. Parker*
Dr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Paul
Dina and George Perry
Estate of Gifford Phillips*
Judy Pomeranz
Prince Charitable Trusts
Estate of Jack Rachlin*
Carol Myers Ravenal Irrevocable Trust*
Robert C. Rea*
Lisa A. Reiner
Renee Reiner and Michael DeSanto
Eric Richter
Toni Averett Ritzenberg Estate*
Sharon Percy Rockefeller
Ednah Root Foundation
Ricki and Joe Rosenberg
Harvey Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr.*
Victoria and Roger Sant*
Leslie Sawin*
Richard Sawyer and Jeffrey Beaty*
Estate of Peter Sheldon*
Jodie H. and David A. Slaughter*
Riley St. Claire*
Barbara Stallings
Ronald Stern and Elisse Walter
George Swygert and Lori Jenkins*
The William & Lucretia Tanner Fidelity Charitable Trust
Eileen and Michael Tanner
Richard E. Thompson*
Annie Simonian Totah*
George Vradenburg and The Vradenburg Foundation*
Linda and Steve Weitz
Sally Wells*
Leslie Whipkey and Lee Hoffman
Elizabeth H. Williams and Thomas Moore
Ken and Dottie Woodcock
Alan and Irene Wurtzel*
Lee M. Yarbro
The Zickler Family Foundation
*Indicates planned gift