AMERICAN IDEALIST: FUNDERS
- Essilor Vision Foundation
- Public Welfare Foundation
- Wolf Foundation
- Omega Foundation
- Shriver Peace Worker Program, Inc.
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, & Jacobson Law Firm
- Chicago Video Project
- Paul L. Newman
- Senator and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller
- Joseph and Karen Hakim
- Rockefeller Bros. Fund
- The Robert Stuart Family Foundation
- The Joyce Foundation
- Blue Ridge Foundation
- CityBridge Foundation
- Gregg Petersmeyer (N.Y. Community Trust)
- The Whitehead Foundation
- Adlai Stevenson
- Agnes Williams
- Herb Miller
- Ken Lehman
- William Daley
- Alexander Forger