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Annual Fund 2021-2022 Progress Tracker

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All Parents

Trustees

Funds

$1,412,850

exceeding our goal!… with

91%

Parent participation

Supporters

Donors whose names are followed by this icon have also contributed to the PBS COVID Fund.

Individuals

Chuck Adams • Asawari RaoRane Agrawal and Ashu Agrawal • Alexandra Goodyear and Alex Albert • Julia and Wiley Anderson • Kelly and Rob Arditi • Jackie and Agustin Arreaga • Anonymous • Sharon Sha and Brian Ash • Jennifer Ayer and Scott Sandell • Anonymous • Dana and Jon Bailey • Laurel and Robbie Banks • Cecily Zhang and Junwei Bao • Valerie and Eric Barnett • Puja Batra and Rohan Nageswaran • Susie and Riley Bechtel • Rachel and James Beck • Malvika and Nikhil Behl • Rasika Mathur and Sharad Bhargava • Ming Tam and Stewart Bond • Joan and Nick Boodrookas • Meher and Marcelo Bossi • Lisa and Quin Boulger • Sabrina and Andrew Bowers • Anonymous • Jenny and Matt Brokaw • Amy and Grady Burnett • Megan Rodgers and David Caragliano • Pati and Alex Carobus • Karen and Arnaldo Castillo • Armando Cerrillo • Vinesha Perera and Brett Chabot • Stefanie and Tom Chalberg • Emily and O'Brien Chalmers • Ashley and John Chambers • Lorianne and Nick Chammas • Annette and David Chan • Priyanka Goel and Chaitanya Chandrasekharan • Melinda Lu and Lee Chen • Wanying Li and Wei Chen • Yoohee and Joonwon Choe • Jenny Dinsmore and Casey Clegg • Anonymous • Celeste Malia and Tony Craun • Stephanie Jie and Min Cui • Jenifer Culver • Shruti Sheth and Richard de Silva • Sneha and Kandarp Desai • Sumbul and Sanjay Desai • Rachna and Vic Dharna • Robert and Cindy Dodd • Michelle and Thomas Donahoe • Anonymous • Lenia Dritsoula and Petros Venetis • Anonymous • Abby and Egon Durban • Robin and Basil Enan • Adriana and Ryan Erickson • Scott and Ryan Erickson • Malinda Lee and Brady Evans • Cristina Floriani • Natalie and Karrie Ford • Kathleen and Stephen Forte • Melissa and Rob Francis • Michelle Dudycha and Brandon Freiman • Anonymous • Meeta and Dayal Gaitonde • Lynda and Pat Galligan • Nadia and Max Gazor • Renata Aryanti and Igor Geller • Irina and Leo Genyuk • Daniela Gil and Josh Diaz • Ruchi and Rajeev Goel • Khori Dastoor and BenJoaquin Gouverneur • Catherine and Matthew Green • Jackie Haas • Anonymous • David Handler and Doug Pawliuk • Sally and Brad Hauser • Ellen Davis and Aaron Hayes-Roth • Brooke and Christian Heim • Katie McMahon and Amaury Heresztyn • Katharine and Ryan Hillerson • Meng Yang and Lloyd Ho • Anonymous • Mandy and Seth Hollander • Injung and Max Hong • Courtney Chandler and Tage Howerton • Debbie Kan and Lee Hsieh • Elise and Chad Hurley • Annie Lin and Renny Hwang • Anonymous • Melanie and Dave Jackson • Ana and Nick Janof • Sherry Xie and Bryan Jin • Stephie and Ward Johnson • Yinghua Lu and Michael Jones • Anonymous • Juliette Lee and Daniel Kanada • Ridhika and Anil Kapur • Deva and Andrew Karam • Kat Dykeman and Ron Karpovich • Susannah Howard and Malcolm Katz • Angie and Joe Kauffman • Misha Aima and Puneith Kaul • Marie and Ayan Kayal • Anonymous • Cooper Ketsdever • Anonymous • Reese Ketsdever • Shea Ketsdever • Olana and Zain Khan • Kate Surman and Mike Kiedel • Lindsay and Sam Kitamura • Maeve Knoth • Beatriz Mendoza and Fernando Kovar • Jenn and Mike Kramer • Karen and Wendy Kridel • Puja Singh and Dharmendra Kumar • Hana and Manu Kumar • Eva and Tarun Kumar • Hana and Alex Kvamme • Anonymous • Francesca and Ryan Lanpher • Margaret and Leo Laporte • Lauren and Michael Lavigne • Kellie Beakey and Glenn Leach • Leslie Kilgore and Jonathan Leblang • Jaci and Demian Lee • Anonymous • Mary Sheu and Mike Lim • Nicole Wang and Elmer Lin • Kirsten and Max Lin • Annie Nguyen-Lin and Steve Lin • Victoria and Edmund Louie • Sarah Cooper Lundell and John Lundell • Jory Steele and Sidney Majalya • Laleh Gharahbaghian and Ahsan Malik • Anonymous • Meenakshi Balagopal and Shibu Mathew • Ann Rubin and Spencer Maughan • Phoebe Mauricio • Jessica and Sean McBride • Adrienne and Blake McCallister • Anna and Andy McKeon • Leila and Vineet Mehra • Anonymous • Dafina Toncheva and Todd Meyerrose • Chris and Jason Mironov • Ghazaleh and Shawn Modarresi • Shadan and Braden More • Jen and Corey Mulloy • Romi Mahajan and Brad Murphy • Mina Yazdi and Morteza Nassiri • Maryam and Chris Neil • Keri and Darren Ng • Melissa and Oggie Nikolic • Kathleen and Kim Normington • Mary and Mark O'Carroll • Maya Dani and Dunigan O'Keeffe • Saletha and Jasen Okunnuga • Ginger and Dan Oros • Kerry O'Rourke Bischof and George Bischof • Eriko and Kaz Ota • Chelsea Sun and Michael Pao • Anonymous • Megha Saini and Vasu Pasupuleti • Mayuri and Kunaal Patel • Vaishnavi Kareddy and Vasusen Patil • Ming Mao and Yefei Peng • Preeti Chiluvuri and Arun Penmetsa • Erika and Jan Pietzsch • Mary Elisabeth Plowden and George Poultsides • Jenny and Luke Proskine • Diljot Kaur and Vishesh Puvadi • Vidhya Thyagarajan and Vivek Raghunathan • Anonymous • Anonymous • Deepa and Adrian Rich • Archana and Adrian Ridner • Lama Rimawi and Bilal Zuberi • Amy Lit and Andy Rittenberg • Fereshta and Mark Roberts • Parinaz Mohamadi and Mostafa Ronaghi • Susan and Cullen Rose • Alex Lopez and Jorge Ruiz • Olivia Nottebohm and TJ Rylander • Alaka Rao and Vijit Sabnis • Anonymous • Hema Sareen Mohan and Neal Mohan • Tracy and Ali Satvat • Beatriz and Leonardo Schneiderman • Anonymous • Evelyn and David Semenza • Hester and Neil Seth • Sharon and Christopher Shen • Angela Sibley • Prarthna Advani and Puneet Singh • Anonymous • Taruna and Shant Sood • Judith Duval and Hari Srinivasan • Jocelynn and Jeff Staley • Sevan Suni and Henry Ward • Amanda Tachis • Emily Lopez and Andy Tang • Nicole and Charley Taylor • Ben Thomasian • Neetu and Neil Tolaney • Amy Torre • An Tran and Toby Brown • Rachel Tridas • Olympia and Brandon Tulloch • Cindy and Harrison Turner • Jazmin Valdiosera • Parul Kapoor and Adi Vanam • Neha and Parag Vedawala • Sarah Rachlin and Balazs Veress • Anh and Jan Weber • Tyler Webster and Matthew McNenly • Neda and Kris Weems • Stacia and Kevin Wells • Amelia Schultz and Jason Werlin • Carol and Roy Whitfield • Hannah Widgren • Susan Winter • Karen Wolfe • Janice and Jonathan Wong • Sarah and Merrett Wong • Rex Xian • Doris Sun and Wei Xiong • Anonymous • Jessica and Derek Yecies • Anonymous • Charlotte Zanders Waxman and Alan Waxman • Laraine Zappert • Rachael and David Zats • Sujiang Zhang and David Xu • Jiena Li and Qi Zhong • Cassidy Ziemke-Maner and Tarkan Maner

Organizations

Apple Inc. • Applied Materials, Inc. • Bristol-Myers Squibb • Clif Bar & Company • Coursera • Electronic Arts • Gilead Sciences, Inc. • Google Inc. • Intel Corp. • JP Morgan Chase • KKR & Co. Inc. • Lawrence Livermore National Security • Lightspeed Venture Partners • LinkedIn • Microsoft Corp. • PayPal Inc. • Salesforce.com Foundation

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2021–2022 Annual Fund

PBS COVID Fund

The Impact of Your Support

By helping us meet our Annual Fund goals, you allow PBS…

…to INSPIRE every child at PBS by ensuring access to exceptional teachers and top-notch learning resources

…to INNOVATE in teaching through investment in ongoing professional and curricular development, and

…to VALUE our faculty with attractive compensation packages – a significant challenge given the Bay Area’s high cost of living.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is the Annual Fund needed? Why not simply fund the school’s needs through tuition and fees?

During the budgeting process, the Board of Trustees projects the school’s operating expenses for the upcoming year and its sources of revenue, including tuition, fees, and contributions from the Annual Fund. The PBS Annual Fund comprises an important part of the total school budget, and allows PBS to provide an extraordinary educational experience.

Funding the school through the Annual Fund offers many additional benefits compared to funding the school through tuition alone, such as tax-deductibility for parents and the potential for employer matching gifts. Additionally, the school would like to keep tuition at a level that is affordable for a greater number of families, and generous contributions to the Annual Fund made by families who are able to do so help reduce the need for significant tuition increases.

How does the Annual Fund differ from the Spring Benefit?

The Annual Fund is an appeal for unrestricted gifts to support all programs at PBS.

The Spring Benefit is an annual event with ticket sales and sponsorships to cover the cost of the event. The live and silent auctions and Fund-a-Student paddle-raise supports financial aid for families who qualify. Both are important components of the school’s revenue structure and are integral to meeting our budgetary commitments each year.

Is our gift tax-deductible?

Most likely – though everyone’s tax situation is unique, PBS is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and all contributions to the Annual Fund qualify as charitable gifts that are made without exchange for goods or services, in keeping with IRS regulations. The school’s tax ID number is 94-2494458. Each donation is recognized with a formal tax letter that can be used to document the gift for tax purposes.

Why is 100% participation important?

How much should we give?

We hope that each family will make a gift that is meaningful to them and places PBS among their top philanthropic priorities for the year. Everyone has a unique ability to contribute, so we recognize that a meaningful gift will look different for each family. Every gift is important to the school, and every gift makes a difference.

The school asks returning families for a specific amount based on their previous giving history. New families who would like guidance on how much to give are encouraged to reach out to Olana Khan or Meiko Lunetta in the Advancement Office to schedule a conversation about how PBS can fit into their philanthropic priorities.

What are corporate matching gifts?

To encourage philanthropy and show their community support, many companies match the charitable donations of their employees; some will even double or triple the size of your gift. You can obtain a matching gift form from your employer. Send the completed form or notification of intent to match to the Advancement Office with your gift. We will complete the form, if needed, and return it to your employer, who then completes the match. Examples of companies that offer matching gifts are Apple, Google, and Intuit. More information is available on the Matching Gifts page on the PBS website, including a search engine to find out if your employer is known to match contributions.

How should we divide our gift between the AF and the COVID Fund?

Returning families

What we are hoping most families will consider is at least matching their previous giving to the Annual Fund – we are counting on the unrestricted support you mentioned to hit our regular budget goals – and then dividing up any supplemental gift in whatever way they prefer.

New Families

Because the Annual Fund is a yearly event, we recommend deciding on a gift level that puts PBS among your top philanthropic priorities and represents a sustainable commitment for coming years. (See the FAQ "How much should we give?" above.)

Once you’ve decided on an annual commitment that feels meaningful and right for your family, we would ask that anything additional you can give this year go to the PBS COVID Fund.

More information for All

The Annual Fund Co-chairs or the PBS Advancement Team would be glad to discuss any of this in greater detail with you, if you'd like, and answer any other questions you may have. Please reach out using the contact information in the “I still have questions…” section of this page.

I still have questions, or would like to discuss my Annual Fund or COVID Fund gift in more detail.

As you consider your gift, there are a number of resources at your disposal to help you get answers you haven’t been able to find here:

Each grade level has assigned Annual Fund Class Captains, parent ambassadors who have signed up to help their classes achieve 100% participation. They are eager to share why the Annual Fund is important to them and to get you answers to your questions.
You can also reach out to the Annual Fund Co-chairs, Jo Kauffman or Lauren Banks.
The professional staff of the school’s Advancement Team – led by Olana Khan, Assistant Head of School for Advancement and Strategy, and Meiko Lunetta, Advancement Manager– are also happy to set up time to chat.