CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT

The generous support of these organizations allows First State Ballet Theatre to continue to offer spectacular professional ballet productions and high-quality ballet training, outreach and experiences to thousands of Delawareans each year. The following list represents contributions from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024.

To find out how your foundation or organization can support First State Ballet Theatre, please contact Joan Beatson at 302-658-7897 x 3851 or jbeatson@firststateballet.org.

First State Ballet Theatre thanks the following for their invaluable support of the establishment of The School of FSBT at The Town of Whitehall:

Longwood Foundation

EDiS Company

Welfare Foundation

Crestlea Foundation

Delaware Division of the Arts

First State Ballet Theatre thanks the following for their support of our 2024-2025 programming:

Parquet ($25,000 and up)

Delaware Division of the Arts

Parquet Circle ($10,000 to $24,999)

Chichester duPont Foundation

The Laffey-McHugh Foundation

The Shubert Foundation 

Dress Circle ($2,500 to $9,999)

Barclay’s Bank of Delaware

City of Wilmington

The Carl M. Freeman Foundation

Delaware Community Foundation

Family Circle ($1,000 to $2,499)

Kent County Fund for the Arts

United Way of Delaware

WSFS CARES Foundation

Benefactors (up to $1,000)

The Benevity Community Impact Fund

Bloom Energy

DANA

United Way of Delaware

Wegman’s

Matching Gift Companies

Boeing

CSC Matching Gifts

Exelon

GE Matching Gifts

Glenmede Corp.

Incyte

J.P. Morgan Chase

Merrill Lynch

USAA


This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com


Community Partners