Sponsorship and Donations
As a nonprofit corporation, STEPOLOGY depends on public support for the Bay Area Tap Festival, Santa Fe Tap Festival, and other activities designed to promote tap dance.

 

Download Sponsor Info Form and Mail-In Contribution

STEPOLOGY is a nonprofit corporation with tax exempt status under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in section 501(c)(3). Donations are deductible to the extent provided by law. Please consult a tax professional for details.

STEPOLOGY Sponsorship Benefits
(rev. 11.1.08; benefits remain in effect for one full year from the date of contribution.)

 

“Everything is Copasetic ($10,000 +)

 

  • Top sponsorship billing, with company logo on over 1,000+ brochures, 3,000+ postcards, all print ads, on the STEPOLOGY website, and all online marketing
  • Acknowledgment of support from the stage at each performance 
  • Acknowledgment of sponsorship and company logo in 1,500+ Festival programs
  • Full Page ad in 1,500+ Festival programs
  • VIP seating and tickets for 20
  • Four passes to concert rehearsal
  • In-lobby display promoting sponsorship and table for exclusive use of benefactor 
  • Ten Festival t-shirts

“Laying Down Some Iron” ($5,000 – 9,999)

  • Sponsorship billing on STEPOLOGY website; company logo on 1,000+ brochures, 3,000+ postcards, all print ads, and all online marketing
  • Acknowledgment of sponsorship and company logo in 1,500+ Festival programs
  • Full page ad in Festival program
  • VIP seating and tickets for 16
  • Two passes to concert rehearsal
  • Eight Festival T-shirts

“Jamming” ($1,000 – 4,999)

  • Sponsorship billing on STEPOLOGY website; company logo on over 1,000+ brochures, 3,000+ postcards, all print ads, and all online marketing 
  • Acknowledgment of sponsorship and company logo in 1,500+ Festival programs
  • Half page ad in Festival program
  • VIP seating and tickets for 12
  • Four Festival T-shirts

 “Hittin' the Groove” ($500 – 999)

  • Acknowledgment of support on STEPOLOGY website and in Festival program
  • Quarter page ad in Festival program
  • VIP seating and tickets for 8
  • Two Festival T-shirts

 “Feelin’ the Swing” ($250 – 499)

  • Acknowledgment of support on STEPOLOGY website and in Festival program 
  • VIP seating and tickets for 4
  • One Festival T-shirt

 “Shufflin’ to the Beat” ($100 – 249)

  • Acknowledgment of support on STEPOLOGY website and in Festival program
  • VIP seating and tickets for 2

“Keepin’ Time” ($1 – 99)

  • Acknowledgment of support on STEPOLOGY website and in Festival program

For each sponsor level, the amount of contribution that is tax deductible will be reduced by the market value of sponsor benefits.  The market values of sponsor benefits for the above sponsor levels are: “Keepin’ Time” -- $0; “Shufflin to the Beat” -- $30; “Feelin’ the Swing” -- $80; “Hittin’ the Groove” -- $160.  For additional information regarding tax deductibility and or other Sponsorship levels, please contact STEPOLOGY and/or a tax professional.

 

Sponsor Archive (2010-2006) 

 

      

 

 

                   

 

 

 

                 

 

                   

 

         

            

 

Danielle Alexander, Layla Amis, Anonymous, Anthony's Shoe Repair, Makiko Asano, Willie Jean "Bessie" Barnes, Kris Bell, Linda and Anthony Bonino, Constance Brons, Cherrylyn Bulosan, Kathe Burick, Cameron Veterinary Hospital, Capezio Dance Theater Shop,  Marion Cardinal, James & Lorene Coconas, In Honor & Memory of Leon Collins, Dominique Coote, Jane Corbett, Carol Dagostino, Dance Mode Studio, Dance With Sherry Studio,  Joe DePasqual, Michael Ellard and Michael Ingrassia, Laura Elaine-Ellis, Virginia Erck, Nan Farrell & Kent Marshall, Kathleen FreemanKate Cameron Froeberg, Kelly Gaynor, Mary Hancock, Joan Hill/Leon Collins West, Alex & Paige Hengl, Sheila and Grace Hitchens, Kathy Horan, Adam Jaffe, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Caryn, Lianna, and Victor Kali, In Memory of Stan Kahn, Esther Ali Karpilow, John Kloss, Patricia Kloss, Richard Kilker, Jr., Lesley and Peter Lane, Roberta Lighty, Jason Lopata, Theresa Lopez, The Losito Family, Multiple Contributions In Memory of Joyce Lozano, In Honor of Susan Main, Steven and Grace Mariani, Karin McClune, Ed McJunkin, Richard Millet, www.mysoncandance.wordpress.com, Barbara Muselli, Barbara Newman, Ben Oong, Susan & Ted Oppenheimer, Patricia Pallas, Joshua Robison, Elissa & Rocket Sloan Perry, Sonoo Petty, Jeri Pierson, In Memory of Eleanor Powell, Jessica Rauscher, Terry Rillera,    Robert Rubenstein, Kirstin Sarfde, Susan Snow, Donna Sund-Caldwell, Ai Tamanaha, TAP Plastics, Sara Templeton, Robyn Tribuzi, Jason Wertheimer, Donor Williams, Timothy Williams, Marilyn Windfeldt, Marina Yu, City Ballet School, San Francisco Dancewear, San Francisco Tap Dance Center,  Tap Explosion, Purple Spirit Productions, Danzahoy, The Pickwick Hotel San Francisco.  Also made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, San Francisco Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Commission, New Mexico Jazz Festival, the Lensic Performing Arts Center, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in partnership with the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the James Irvine Foundation.

 

Our Sponsors

STEPOLOGY would like to thank the following sponsors:

 

 

STEPOLOGY is sponsored in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund

 

2012 Bay Area Tap Festival

This project is made possible in part by support from the San Francisco Arts Commission; the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in partnership with the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,  the James Irvine Foundation, and the Surdna Foundation; the Zellerbach Family Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation; and the support of generous individuals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012 Santa Fe Tap Festival

This project is made possible in part by support from the  City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, National Dance Institute of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Reporter, and through a Lensic Community Sponsorship.