Annual Donors

Our donors are critical to CHM, providing flexible resources to support immediate needs, including collections, live programming, and educational programs. 

Just as magnetic-core memory was the heart of early computers, Core donors are the heart of CHM, providing the largest source of annual support. Giving levels are inspired by the standard binary sizes of computer memory.

This listing recognizes the generosity of donors who made gifts to the Museum between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026.

*CHM Board of Trustees

Core Circle

$65,536+

Bell Family Foundation
Kevin and Gayla Compton
Scott Cook and Signe Ostby
Yogen and Peggy Dalal
John and Ann Doerr
Donna Dubinsky and Len Shustek
Robert and Bette Finnigan
Ron Frederick
Tom* and Carolyn Friel
Lore Harp McGovern
Gardner C. Hendrie*
Dave L. House*, House Family Foundation
Jensen and Lori Huang
Mad Scientists Anonymous
Chris and Melody Malachowsky
Gary and Eileen Morgenthaler
Scott Sandell
Grant* and Dorrit Saviers
Stephen S.* and Paula K. Smith
Mark and Mary Stevens
Christopher* and Nina Wanstrath
Anthony and Susan Wood

$32,768−$65,535

Philip Freidin
Margo and Bill* Harding
Raj Kapany
Brian and Patricia Latimer
Paul and Antje Newhagen
Meredith and Ray* Rothrock
Duane Sand
Rich Seifert
Larry Sonsini*
Raymie Stata
Jim and Susan Swartz

$16,384−$32,767

Whitney Ames*
Allen Baum and Donya White
Anne Bertaud-Peuto
Ron and Penny Blake
David Bohnett Foundation
Jack and Casey Carsten
Stephen and Karen Casner
Paul R. Daugherty*
Anonymous
Eileen Fagan*
Joseph P. and Barbara B. Fredrick
Elaine and Eric Hahn
Urs Hölzle and Geeske Joel
Marc and Francine Hopkins
Thomas Kornei
Bill and Gay Krause
Neil* and Kristie MacDonald
Michael and Margaret McCaffery
Cristina M. Morgan
Jim and Becky Morgan
The Nachtsheim Family Foundation
Jeffrey and Emily Risberg
Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock
John and Sheree Shoch
David Yarnold*

Core Club

$8,192−$16,383

Ginny and Greg*
Sheila and John Banning
Ned and Jimi Barnholt
Andrea Cunningham* and Rand Siegfried
David N. Cutler
William and Sonja Davidow
Anonymous
Ken Goldman and Susan Valeriote
Nahum E. Guzik
Brian and Carolyn Halla
Janet Handley*
Hitz Foundation
Curtis A. Jones and Lucille M. Boone
Alan and Jill Knapp
David* and Roben Martin
Deedee McMurtry
Mary Meeker
Mendelsohn Family Fund
Robyn and Bob Metcalfe
Ike* and Ronee Nassi
Sameer Padala
Greg* and Laurie Papadopoulos
Edward and Pamela Taft
Audrey and Andy Thanos
The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation
Sandy Wu and Shioupyn Shen

$4,096−$8,191

The Amidon-Menon Family
Paul Baran
Craig and Barbara Barrett Foundation
John and Maggie Best
Alexander and Olena Burnos
Rodney Brooks
Jarred and Amy Capellman
Gene P. and Patricia Carter
The Cismas Foundation
Gabriel Clothier
Colligan-Burns Family Fund
Lloyd and Eleanor Dickman
Carol and Chris Espinosa
Greg Estes
Chris and Irma Fralic
David and Jennifer Gillespie
Jeff Hawkins and Janet Strauss
Marcian and Judith Hoff
Joan and Irwin Jacobs
Ann and Bobby Johnson
Peter* and Beth Karpas
Rudi Katz
Charles and Melissa Kemp
Jerry and Judy Klein
Denis Laprise
Sofia Milner and Jan J. Laskowski
Needham and Litzler Charities Fund
The Long Family Charitable Foundation
Wade Loo* and Chisato Tomotsune
Rosemarie and Dale Luck
Regis and Dianne McKenna
Bob Murching
Debra Paget and Jeffrey Berg
Dave Rossetti and Jan Avent
Simon and Rachel Segars
Diane L. Souvaine*
Robert and Lee Sproull
John and Gail Squires
Thomas Stoiber
Sue Talley
Paul Winalski
Wade and Brenda Woodson

$2,048−$4,095

Robert Abbe
Latif Alam
Al and Katie Alcorn
Mary Artibee and Milt Mallory
Chitra Balasubramanian* and Sunil V. Rajaraman
Luc O. and Irène I. Bauer
danah boyd*
John Seely Brown and Susan Haviland
Richard M. Burnes, Jr.
Bill Byrom
Peter Capek
Dixie Ching and Marc Etkind
John and Maureen Chowning
Cohan-Jacobs Family Fund
Lynn and Bill Crane
Steve and Beth Crocker
Charles S. Cronce and Deborah C. Maxwell
James and Nancy Dempsey
Jean Elliott and Bob Williams
David* and Han Emerson
Irwin and Concepcion Federman
Guy C. Fedorkow
Jim, Kenna, and Celeste Fenton
Sara and Eric Filipek
Rob and Yukari Haitani
Anonymous
Bertha Higa-Baral
Jeffrey Hungerford
Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
Tineke Graafland-Ehrman
Matthew and Connie Ives Family Fund
Derry and Charlene Kabcenell
Robert Kahn and Patrice Lyons
Ray and Laurel Kaleda
Larry and Patti Kenyon
Hyojin Kim and Nirav Patel
Leslie Lamport
James and Katherine Lau
Harvey Lehtman
Loewenstern Fund
Monica Lopez and Sameer Gandhi
Thomas Lyon and JoAnn Kahn
Juanita Mah and Steve Mink
May Family Foundation
The McElwee Family
Norm Meyrowitz
Nancy S. Mueller
Randy and Chris Nelson
Ronald and Jennifer Nicholson
Donald and Helen Nielson
Duane Northcutt and Monica Lam
Suhas and Jayashree Patil Family Fund
The Pond Family
Harry and Carol Saal
Jean Shuler
Chris Turkstra
Jan and Sylvia Uddenfeldt
Marc and Lori Verdiell
Bill and Sue Worthington
John Zeisler and Jennifer Bailey

$1,024−$2,047

ID and RE Allan
Eric Allman and Kirk McKusick
David L. Anderson
Erna Arnesen
Molly and Rick Bahr
Janet and Christopher Bajorek
Paul and Debbie Baker
Alexander Barna
Christian Behrenbruch
Robin Beresford and Robert Garner
Brian Berg and Joyce Avery
Nancy Blachman and David desJardins
Janie Boone
M. Helen Bradley and Steve Kleiman
Michael and Leslie Braun
Nathan Brookwood and Patricia Hendriks
Leonid Broukhis
Bill Burns
William Carrico
Satjiv Chahil
Elaine Chapin and Michael Fitzsimmons
Tu and Pi-Fang Chen
Harry Chesley and Suzana Seban
Jack and Susan Choquette
George Cogan and Fannie Allen
John and Norma Crawford
Peter O. Crisp
Wynne and John Dobyns
Roger Doering
Drexler Estate Fund
Raymond Duncan
Josephine and Henri Dyner
William Ferry
Robert Frankston
Robert Freitas
David B. and Deanna L. Gustavson
Peter Handsman
Patrick Hanrahan and Delle Rae Maxwell
Larry Hara
John Howard
Thomas and Diane Howell
Joseph Hurd*
Jeanne Ichnowski
Dr. John Impagliazzo
Brendan and Sarah Ittelson
Emily and George Jaquette
John and Jacque Jarve
Franklin P. Johnson, Jr.
Suzanne Johnson
Leonard and Stella Kleinrock
PM Kohn Family DAF
Tom Kopec and Leah Carneiro
Murray Kucherawy
Bernard Lacroute
Jean and David Laws Family Foundation
Anonymous
TL Trust
Lawrence B. Levy and Hillary B. Levy
Dan'l Lewin
Lev and Galina Leytes
John and Marion Lowrance
Kevin Lynch
John Markoff and Leslie Terzian Markoff
John Mashey and Angela Hey
Kathie and Dennis McGinn
Debby Meredith and Curtis Cole
Michelle M. Mertz
Jane and Malachy Moynihan
Margaret* and Jeff O'Mara
Eric Pizarro
William Pollock
Donald* and Victoria Proctor
David Ramsey
Miriam and Bruce
Arnold Reinhold
Glenn Ricart and Patricia Guenther
Tim and Lisa Robinson
In Memory of David M. Roisman
Mark Roos and Catherine Rossi-Roos
Peter and Valerie Samson
Joseph and Nancy Schoendorf
Benn Schreiber and Liz Hunt
Eaton Scripps
Bertrand Serlet and Carolyn Foss
Margaret and Brent Simor
Richard Sites and Lucey Bowen
Alvy Ray Smith and Alison Gopnik
Stephen L. Smith and Diana T. Go
Greg Stikeleather
Gordon and Valori Stitt
Jim and Bea Strickland
Bob and Martha Supnik
Tom Szolyga
Marty and Sandy Tenenbaum
Fritz and Nomi Trapnell
Jeanie Nieri Treichel
Laura and Steve Trimberger, The Trimberger Family Foundation
Sarah Vance
Michael Ward and Karen Schaffer
Andrew Watterson
Richard Weber
David and Rebecca Weekly
Ari Weinstein
Peter and Deborah Wexler
Al Whaley
Donald Whittemore
L. Curtis Widdoes Jr.
Linda Williams
Helen and Dan Wolf
Chuck Worley and Mary Jo Sullivan Worley
Lawrence Yang and Jennifer Kuan
Warren Yogi
Benjamin Zotto

Friends

$500−$1,023

James and Abby Althoff
Peter Arnold and Deirdre Moore
Bruce Artwick
Erica Banks
Bob Baxley
John Board
Nancy and Charles Boesenberg
Eric A. Brewer
Thomas Brunner
Terence Carroll
Hatcher Chalkley
Lynn and David Conroy
David E. Cortesi
Ray and Lori Kulvin Crawford
William R. Danielson
Peter and Dorothy Denning
Daniel Drake
Martin and Carolyn Eberhard
Jerome and Linda Elkind
Joseph Eykholt
Markus Fromherz
Stuart Gannes
Erik Granlund
Geri Hadley and Ron Cote
Fred Half
Professor Martin Edward Hellman and Dorothie Lorene Hellman
Gregory Hopwood
Maiia Ivanova
Kris and Shelly Kafka
Kathail Family Foundation
Rohit Khare and Smruti Vidwans
KR Kishore
Eric and Angela Korpela
Kevin Kranzusch
Kevin La Ra
Janette Loomis
Andy Ludwick
Larry Lunetta
Pierre-Olivier Martel and Lillian Chen
Donald and Barbara Mattson
Christina and Harry McKinney
Miguel Micheltorena
Jeffrey Moore
Robert and Jane Morse
Bas Ording
Frances H. Perry
Christian and Maryanne Pfeffer
Orville Plum
Thomas Rindfleisch
Charles and Judy Rino
Michael M. and Lenore L. Roberts
Javier Rojas
John and Anne Rollins
Larry Rosenstein
Constantine Sapuntzakis
Karen Shannon
Tammy and Geoffrey Shearer
Daniel and Karon Siewiorek
Chad Simpson
Jeffrey Starr
Jennifer Stromsten and David Brock
James Sutherland
Leonard and Preeva Tramiel
Shanker Trivedi
Jim and Julia Vandermade
Andrew W. Verhalen and Janet L. Brownstone
Kyle G. Welch
Keith Wells
Eric Werme
Paul and Gail Wesling
Nancy Wheeler
Steven Winegarden
Murali Yalamanchi
Paul Zander
John Zasio
Jamie Zawinski

$250−$499

Juan Pablo Acosta Arreaza
Andrew Adams
George B. Adams III and Leah H. Jamieson
Corry Addison
Paul Anagnostopoulos
Paula Ashley
David Augsburger
Jesse and Maria Aweida
Eric Barbour
Anonymous
Tom Becker and Patricia Parsons
Dave Bennet
Eric M. Berg
Rob Borek
Daniel S. Bricklin
Gayle Brugler
David Cardinal and Lorrie Duval
James Cassidy
Tommy Chang
Anonymous
Mainak Chowdhury
Helmut Clemm
Mr. & Mrs. George E. Comstock
William Coughran
George Crow
Todd and Cynthia Daniels
Sirshak Das
Irwin Derman
John and Gayle Dilley
Kenneth Eddings
Erik Fair
Mary Jo and Harold V. Feeney, Jr.
Joseph Feng
Don and Margaret Ann Fidler
James Fruchterman
Bill Gage
Kelly Garner
Tom Garvey
Robert and Carrie Glorioso
Steve Golson
James Gosling and Judith Borcz
Charles Gousha
Andrew Grad
Anonymous
Chris Hanson
James Heeger and Daryll Messinger
David Heine
Ralph Hill and Winnie Chu
Lee Hirsch
Peter Hirshberg
Doug Hohbach
William and Cathy Holland
Jim Holtman
Afzal Hossain and Nasima Parveen
Stephen and Colleen Hudgens
V. Bruce and Debra Hunt
William and Yvonne Jacobson
Chuan Ji
Daniel Keogan
Alfred Key
Charles and Cary Kissner
Charles Kline
Joe Kmoch
Koodli Raichur Charitable Fund
Sirisha Koppula
Ketan and Sheila Kothari
Shantanu Kothavale
Lawrence Lam
Michael Lampe
Rita Larson
Robert Lashley
Ellen Layendecker
Martin Levy
Trudy Levy and Mike Gutman
Tony Ley
Yiming Li
Einar and Grace Lorentzen
Steve Lurya
Joseph Lynch
Edmond MacAluso
James and Patricia Markevitch
Daniel Matlin
Bob McNamara
Mark G. Merrill
Nikhil Mitra
John L. Mudge
Hal Murray
Kathryn M. Neri
Bill Nitzberg
Donald North
David Novak
Jukka Paajanen
Jay Patel
Raymond Perrault and Elizabeth Trueman
Michael Pique
Bill and Susan Poduska
Aveek Purohit
Andris and Betty Ramans
Phillip Remaker
King and Gwen Rhoton
Doug Richards
Scott C. Roberts
Oliver Robinson
David and Karla Robson
Luis Rocha
Paul Rosenbloom
Jonathan S. Rotenberg
John and Christine Sanguinetti
James and Maureen Sansbury
Brian Schunck
John Scull
William Scull and Catherine Povejsil
Leslie Seymour
Charlie Sheets
Chris Shipley
Anonymous
Alan Smith
Barbara Smith-Thomas
Barry Smith
Ben Smith
Dag Spicer
Keith Stattenfield
Maureen Stone
William Stubkjaer
David Tarabar
Sami Tolvanen
Angela Tran*
John Treichler and Sally Wood
Joseph C. Tullio
Stephen Ursenbach
Bud Warashina
Jeff Williams
Atsushi and Tomoko Yamazaki

*CHM Board of Trustees

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