2025 Contributors
We extend our deep thanks and special recognition to the following individuals and institutions who supported our work in 2025, as well as Watertown’s Food Pantries. Your generosity makes the critical difference in bringing positive change to people’s lives in Watertown.*
*We make every effort to accurately recognize your contributions. We last updated this list on December 31, 2025. We apologize for any error or oversight.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Anonymous
The SENS Foundation
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Eileen Hsü-Balzer and Family
Emily Barclay and John Hawes
ButcherBox
Janet Penn
Enanta Pharmaceuticals
Bob and Missy Shay
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Anonymous
Boylston Properties
C4 Therapeutics, Inc
Kymera Therapeutics
James McGlennon
Watertown Savings Bank
Webb-Seidel Family Fund
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Albrik Avanessian
Arsenal Yards Holding, LLC
Jonathan Baker
Jeffrey and Nancy Bilezikian
Andrew Bundy and Karen Hansen
Clayton Chamberlain
Anna and William Clark
Chris Clark
Liz Cremens
Joseph and Lissa Ferreira
First Parish of Watertown
FM Global Foundation
Nicole and David Gardner
Leonard and Deborah Holt
Micha Josephy and Kelly McCoy
Judith Katz and Dean Solomon
Nazli Kfoury and Roderick McMullen
Mary Ann Mulligan and Francis Carito
Katherine Klosowski
Heather Leary and John Lenihan
Peter Levin and Nancy Pepper
Kathryn Madden and Roger Herzog
Sara Moorman
Simon Murphy-Holroyd
Naya Group LLC
Helen Oliver and Taylor Boas
Tony and Maureen Paolillo
Eric Parker
Dwayne and Maria Parmley
Mark Peterson and Deborah Demsy-Peterson
Vincent Piccirilli and Anita Meiklejohn
Chris Richards
Maria Saiz and Athelia Tilson
Joanne Shapiro
David Siegel and Erika Geetter
David Simon
John Straus and Liza Ketchum
Jennifer Stuart
Trip Advisor
Darshna Varia and Gerard D'Souza
Michael Ward and Laura Horn
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Alessandra Arace
The Arsenal Project
Rebecca Balder
Sarah Bansen and Daniel Grossman
Kelsey Barber
Gary and Jen Beatty
Carole Biewener
Phyllis Birnbaum
Jonathan Bockian and Sharon Teitelbaum
Lynn Bratley and Seldon Chuck Dickinson
Lisa Capoccia and Gideon Schreiber
Mary Jean Capodanno
Sandra Cooke
Jason and Deborah Dunklee
Gail Franck and Stephen Teager
Colette Glennon
George Green
Hampton Inn and Suites
Alan Hoskinson
Amanda and John Husson
Christopher Leitz
Sheila J. Lukesh
Jason Mathers and Nathalie M. Highland
Greg and Ellen Menounos
David Meshoulam and Rebecca Lowenhaupt
Roberta Ann Miller and Alan Medville
Patrice Moskow
Carolyn G. Mugar
Amit Mukherjee
Christina Murphy
Craig Murphy and Joanne Yates
Leah and Jason Pennino
John Petrowsky
Alice Poltorick
John Portz and Meredith Montague
Barbara and Jeremy Ruskin
Thea Sahr and Patrick Field
Joan Savitsky and Anita Karcz
Jan and Steve Singer
Glorian Sorensen
Lauren and Dan Unsworth
Jennifer Viera
Nora Viskin
Jane Wang
Joel Wolff
Corinne Zimmermann and Paul Worthington
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Laura Adams
Andreas Aeppli and Lisa Cole
Sasha Albert
Noor Al-Kiliddar
Thomas Ballou
Sharon Bauer and David Breakstone
Jeri and Valy Bayer
Barbara Beck
Anne Benaquist
Christopher Brice
Peter Bucklin
Rachel Bunner
Katherine Button
Aline Chaprazian
Rita Colafella
James P. Collins and Jill A. Grabowski
Andy Compagna
Judith Connell
Nicole Connelly
Beth and John Coughlin
Eleanor and Anthony Donato
Jeffrey Follett
John Foote
Eli and Megan Freiman
Marian Friedman
John Gannon
Dr. Amy Gazin-Schwartz
Jean Hammond and Mike Krasner
Cynthia Hanson
Eric and Kate Hanson-Plass
Constance Holmes
Deb Hooper and Katherine Codega
Andrew Izsak
Sandra Jaffe and Jay Blitzman
Tracy Jennings
Teresa Kohlenberg and Thomas Goodwillie
Katherine Kopp
Anna Kuperman
Bernard Lebow
Nicole Ledoux and Steve Byrnes
Michael Lepera
Carolyn Levinson
Mia Lieberman
Eric Maillis
Melissa Maslin
Gillian McCabe
Thalia Meehan and Dr. Gretchen Grimshaw
Ann Munson
Susan Musinsky and David Krieger MD
The Nardozzi Family
Brendan Nicholas
Karen Parshley
Nicholas Poser
Larry Raskin and Ingrid Joy Wolfson
Todd Rivers
Stanley Sack
Axel Schmidt
Corey Schofield
Beth Shugert
Mark and Marybeth Sideris
David and Laura Stokes
Tiffany Stoloff
Margaret Jeanne Trubek
Mary Truscott
Tali Tukachinsky
Lydia Vagts
Peter and Kristen Vallieres
Jacqueline vanLeeuwen
Scott Waldron
Cynthia Wentz Charitable Trust
Katie White
Thomas Williams
Ellen Wineberg
Jennifer Wolfrum
Elizabeth Yong
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Shelby Abrams
Emma Arnold
Arsenal Financial, LLC
Beth Barrett and Deborah L. Cavalier
Jessica Barton
Ann Bellefontaine and James Beaton
Judy Bernstein
Thomas Berryman and Joan Ellersick
Monica Betjemann
Laura Blustein and John Gibbons
Terri Bogage and Terence Belli
Susan Boghoian
Meghan Broadstone
Janet and Paul Buck
Heather Caldwell and Paul Farnell
Marianne Cameron
Kevin Carboni and Francesca Simon-Carboni
Bethany Carland-Adams
Ji Chong
Susan Chudd
Calandra Clark
Josh Cohen
Charles Collins and Anne Childs
Althea Cranston
Bevin Croft and Ivy Croft-Pereira
Yasmin Daikh
Susan and Jay Darby
Chris Darmody
Sophie Dasinger
Eamon Dawes
Doreen and Mark Dawson
Adrienne de Jonge
Stephen DeCamp
Peter Del Tredici
Robert A Deleo
Jeff Deyette
Richard and Katherine Diamond
Robert Diehl
Julie DiMilla
David and Helen Downes
Aaron and Arlenin Dushku
Shay Elbaum
John Emery and Ilana Hardesty
Daniel Evans Pritchard
Jane Ewing
Stephanie Fagnani
Sam Falkoff
Susan Falkoff
Marie Farrar
Victor Farutin
Sheila Fay
Joseph Ferreira
Jamie Field
Judi Fitts
George Fosque
Mary Ruth Flynn
Deborah Frazer
Cynthia Galligan
Laurie Garden
Lenore and Reginald Gibson
Nyla Gislason
Keith Glavash and Marylene Altieri
Ora Grodsky and Jonathan Rosenthal
Jacqui Gross
Rebecca Grow and Jeff Krasner
Megan Halmo
Diego Hammerschlag
Shaunna Harrington and Grigoris Zarbis-Papastoitsis
Scott Hebert and Barbara Epstein
Maura A. Henry and Anne Sudbay
Brian Henthorn
Sarah Herman
Nicole Higgins
Chris Hill
Laura Hof
Ellen Isenstein
Sandra Kasabian-Hoffman and George Hoffman
Jane Holden
Randall Hoover
John Hostage
Jean M. and Paul A. Humez
Reno James
Margo Jay
Laurie Kahn
Lisa Kaloostian
Kathleen V. and Robert V. Kashian
Deborah Kaup
Anthony F. Kelley and Joan Parks Kelley
Robert Kelly
Daphne A. Kenyon
Najib and Alexis Khalil
Cara Kimberg
Alison Kobierski
Abbey Koplovitz
Sheila Krishnan
Philip Lambert
Angela LeBlanc
Dante Leone
Mishy Lesser
Margaret Lim
Little Local Conversations
Beth Ilana Mainelli
Alan and Marion Malkasian
Barbara Marino
Ed and Pam McCourt
Owen Mcelhinney
James McMahon
Jessica Middlebrook and David Weintraub
Christina Mikulka
Jerrine Milke
Kanika Minocha
Dolores Mitchell
Grace Mlady
Mirah Model
David Morrison and Martha Scott
Robin Nachman
Barbara and Steve Neel
Anne Nelson
Samuel Newmark
Karen Nickel
Ellen and Robert Norton
Rebecca O’Hara
Elizabeth Oppenheim
Mark Ottensmeyer
Pia and Steven Owens
William Partridge
Lise A. Paul
Katja and Brad Pearse
Diane Pellagrini
Sarah Eliza Petrow
Pam Phillips
Dan Pinkney
Sarah Pohorecky
Joseph Pranevich
Kristi Preston
Madeline Reagan
Carolyn Reckman
Linda Relson
Erin Reynolds
Chris Richards
Mary Rose
Kristin Rosner and Christopher Oalmann
Rotary Club of Watertown
Kristen Rupert and John Foote
Sara Sadownik
Rebecca Salmaso
Erin Saucke-Lacelle
Anna Scherling
Katelynn Schultz
Sharon Schumack and Michael Luckens
Katherine Segal
Michael Seif
Elisabeth Shaw
Rosemary Sheehan
Drs. Susannah Sherry and Rafael Ornstein
Jayda Siegler
Bridget Simonson
Susan Sommer and Kendra Moore
Lori Sorial
Ruth Spack
Emma Spencer
Alexandra Steinert-Evoy
Mark Steinwinter and Diana Kierein
Shawn Stevens
Harry and Joan Stoddard
Carina Taufiq
Janice Taylor
Carol Tierney and Joel Rosenberg
John Tognarelli
Warren Tolman
Thomas Edward Torrance
James Toth
Karl Twelker
Elsa VanHove
Stephanie and Steven Venizelos
Bonnie Waltch and Paul Rocklin
Drew Warren
Daniel Watson
Amy Weinstock
Julie White
Sarah Wiedeman
Laurie Williams
Jeffery Wilson-Braun
Rhonda Wittels
Allison Wu
Anna Yoo and Guido Guidotti
Kim Young
Shelly Ziegelman
Elizabeth Zwick
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Patricia Ahern
Carol O. and George Airasian
Lorraine Anastos
Margaret Anderson
Kyle Angstadt
Camille Arvisu
Devon and Bill Beckett
Brianne Belschner
Rachel Bennett
Mara Bentman
Mary Bisbee
Eileen Botti
Matthew Boxer
Margaret Bridge
Erin Britt
Gary Brock
Carol Ginsberg and Eric Brown
Roberta Brown
Kerri Brummel
Jamie Burke
Andrew Calafut
Madison Chan
Abby Cohen
Committee to Elect Tony Palomba
Susan Cooke
Lisa and Eric Cordeiro
Emily Cotenoff
Silvia and George Coughlin
Bonnie Creinin
Alison Daige
Laura Daly
Paula Davis
Matthew Demers
Tamar Diesendruck
Anita Roy Dobbs
Klavs Dolmer
Patrick and Monica Fairbairn
Judy Fallows
Bridget Fama
Lisa Feltner
Joshua Fiedler
Susan Fish
Jodi Fisher
Laura Frader
Sharon Gallagher
Alisa Gardner-Todreas
Leslie Genszler
Rebecca Gillespie
Suzanne Giroux and George Balesdent
Allison Godsey
Margo Guernsey
Joanne Hammil
Leanne Hammonds
Ninos and Maya Hanna
Molly Hansen
Laurie Harris
Anna Heller
Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin
Michael J. and Patricia G. Horn
Qi Huang
Kylie Hull
David Jay
Susan B. Jones
Rachel Kay
Sharlene Kennedy
Kyle Korman
Leah Kosch
Dorothea and George Kourafalos
Teri Kowiak
Joel Krieg
Anonymous
Maya Landi
Eileen Leary
Benjamin Leung
Rachel Loughran
Laura Luther
Halet Lyons
Michael MacMann and Patricia Randall
Rajat Malhotra
Edward Marcus
Emery Markles
Geoff and Katherine Martin
Amanda Maynard
Kate McCann
Eileen McCluskey
Heather R. McManus, PhD
Merle Kummer
Patrick Mertens
Marilyn Mikulka
Jonathan Mitchell
Shohreh Modanlou
Paul Morganthall
Lisa Mosca
Lisa Mullin
Angelina Musetti and Diane Campedelli
Kristina Muskiewicz
Susan Nebel and Mark Fogel
Ruth Nelson
Kaihla Olivar
Mamushka Pant
Nyssa Patten
Brian Pereira
Kelly Phillips
Patricia Rathbone
Jill Reurs
Laurie B. Rosenblum
Eileen Ryan
Koy Saeteurn
Phyllis Sandell
Victoria Sax
Andrea Schuler
Karen Schwartz and Jay Thornton
Devan Scott
Douglas and Patricia Sederquist
Rebecca Selch
Deborah Smith
Geraldine and Thomas Sullivan
Daniel Super
Courtney Tomaselli
Sosi Toomajanian
Martha Tubinis
Will and Susan Twombly
Serena Valentin
Ann M. Walters
Marjorie Wayne
Madeline Weikel
Nina and Kent Werth
Rebecca Westall
Abby Woltman
Stephen Wood
Karen Yoshida
Kirtley Young
Candy and Roy Zito-Wolf
Nicole and Jeff Zupka
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Caroline Bays
The Cocca Family
Angela DeVecchi
The Diehl and Wainwright Family
Evie Goryshina and Antoine Damlincourt
J. Lyons
David and Ann MacLaughlin
Charlie Morton
Audrey Middlebrook
Samar Sikka
All people struggling with basic needs this holiday season.
The Deafblind team at Perkins!
Tia Tilson, Heather McManus and all the hard-working staff of WCF
Watertown Climate Activists
Watertown Police
Watertown Savings Bank
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Charlie, Ellie, Jack, Wendy, Pam
Allene Baker
David Breakstone
Esther Brudo
Jacky Czel
John DiMilla
Robert Kaprielian
Amalie Kass
Susan Klaw
Sue Kuder
Jan Leder
Joe C. LoPresti
Nena
Louis and Ruth Smullin
Philip S. Taylor
Ivan Tcherepnin