Thank you to the many families who have invested in our local Manhattan Beach schools through the MBEF Annual Appeal. All donors will be recognized in the Annual Report and Honor Roll, available in both digital and print form at the close of the fiscal year.
This list reflects donations as of 10/12/2026. Donors 5+ consecutive years of giving are bolded.
CHAMPIONS ($50,000+)
Anonymous (1)
Chevron
SKECHERS
VISIONARIES ($25,000+)
Lundberg Kaba Family
Schmale Family
INNOVATORS ($15,000+)
Lauren and Erik Benny
Bjelajac Family
Ally and Casper Choffat
Janna and Stephen Dormer
Dana and Greg Hartmann
Angela and Christopher Jones
Monica and Vivek Khurana
Lauren Estabrook and Andrew Kwasnowski
Ania Borysiewicz and John Mistler
Angie and Jared Smith
Stepanovich Family
Alyse and Erik Stranberg
Limor and Dave Vidor
BENEFACTORS ($10,000+)
Ashley and Charles Atkinson
Ilissa Howard and Greg Austin
Marlene and Troy Bailey
Cravatt Family
Davidson Family
Natasha and Robert Derow
Kimberly and Matthew Friesl
Jessica and Ted Holzman
Trisha and Michael Husson
Ella and Phil Kenney
Liesl Taylor Leikarts and Martins Leikarts
Ariel Boorstin and Scott Leslie
Patricia and Richard Lucy
Kristina Fernandez Mabrie and Cameron Mabrie
Romina and Jeffrey Manson
Marsha and George Mansour
Mause Family
Erin and Sanjeev Mehta
Kelly and Edward Moyzes
Peto Family
Nadia Sarkis and Chris Piazzola
Colleen and CJ Pipkin
Alison and Scott Rosenthal
Tucker Family
Wander Morris Family
Wysh and Dan Weinstein
Jennifer and Michael West
Withycombe Family
Alexa and Matt Young
LEADERS ($7,500+)
Accordino Family
Anjili Singh and Sandeep Acharya
Yujin and Curtis Anderson
Ivane Chou and Alex Beregovsky
Hayley and Clay Blockley
Emily and Mike Brunick
Erica and Rob Buxton
Joanna and Jason Cardema
Heather and Brett Dallas
Alyse and John DeCarlo
Jun and Tim Fogaren
Kara and David Fox
Carolyn Nguyen and Mark Francisco
Stacey and John Fundingsland
Rachel and Garret Giglia
Azadeh and Brendan Gilbert
Vanessa Camelo and Dean Gray
Katherine and Thomas Harwood
Hayes Family
Alexis and Chris Howard
Mariya and Matt Levy
Caitlin and Montgomery McNair
Messer Family
Jacqueline Ho and Ryan Nageotte
Jennifer and Tony Nguyen
Pickett Family
Lisa and Adam Quarello
Tiffany and David Quick
Alison and Jason Quinn
Jenn and Jeff Remillard
Nathalie and Jim Rosen
Allison and AJ Scarinzi
Donne and James Segil
Mojgan Vakili and Paul Shaheen
Sheline Family
Christine and Jeffrey Shultz
Dorothee and Daniel Silvera
Melissa and Cory Stahl
Starling Family
Rebecca Foster and Jonathan Straub
Katie and Ned Tomasevic
Karen and Scott Van Cleave
Lena and Bryan Vann
Zipperman Family
ADVOCATE ($5,000+)
Anonymous (3)
Jess and Zach Aaronson
Adler Family
Ahdoot Family
Annie and Mike Alexander
Lauren and Bill Allred
Jaisimaran Sidhu and John Angell
Anvaripour Family
Armstrong Family
Heather and Paul Baboolal
Kailee and Terence Balagia
Melanie and Ryan Barrows
Vanessa and Michael Beckett
Lara and Kyle Bender
Lisa Bennett
Melanie and Todd Bennett
Birkhofer Family
Yifat and Michael Block
Borow Family
Bruning Family
Dajana and Darren Buonaguidi
Amy Gimlen and Scott Burrin
Jennifer Jackson and Wayne Bush
Butler Family
Sarah Gippin and Renny Cabreros
Jessica and Chase Cairncross
Robert Caldwell
Connie Lee and Thomas Calvert
Alison and Ross Cardell
Cernosek Family
Chau Family
Mary Wu and Alex Chen
Kirsten and Michael Chen
Caroline and Dan Chon
Clawson Family
Erin and Brian Coppola
Jen and Bill Cram
Cunningham Family
Danielle and Robert Curzi
Kenna and Michael Davis
Lana Choi and Kurt Decko
Kristen and Mike Del Pero
Andrea and Kevin Donahue
Courtney and Bill Dramis
Dunbar Family
Claire and Juan Carlos Durand
Ence Family
Lauren and Christopher Fagan
Fayzano Family
Christie Ly and Bruce Feldman
Lisa and Daniel Fetters
Carla and Ryan Flynn
Foltz Family
Andrea and Amir Fouladgar
Bethany and Kelsey Francis
Lindsey and John Fraumeni
Catherine and Nolan Gallagher
Yumiko and Jason Geiger
Theresa and David Gendron
Goulding Family
Heather and Rick Grandy
Kelli and James Granello
Green Family
Linda and Benjamin Green
Apar and Jason Gupta
Halem Family
Holly Masel and Chris Handman
Audra and Mike Hatch
Ashley and Nathanael Heiselt
Hennessy Family
Janine and Thomas Higbie
Monika and Scott Hoffman
Jennifer Peterson and Hanley Holcomb
Jordan and Brad Holtmeier
Kristi and Brent Horstman
Jen and Jim Hunt
Gianna and Rick Ingram
Swati and Sukesh Jakharia
James Family
Caroline and Douglas Johnson
Katherine and Britt Joyce
Jennifer Hodulik and Andy Jurkowski
Alyne and Michael Kassardjian
April Lane and Ethan Kaufman
Eileen and Kyle Kellar
Caroline and George Ketigian
Caroline and Lorcan Kilmartin
Lisa and Simon Kim
Joanne Lee and Steve Kim
April and Michael Kinninger
Christy Tillman and Brian Kniffel
Kristin and Kevin Kolodinsky
Elizabeth and Mark Krojansky
Jennifer and Neil Laws
Lazor Family
Irene and Bernard Lee
Jukyung Kim and Brian Lee
Julie Wilner and Ben Lewis
Erica and Randy Lewis
Jamie and Matt Lipson
Jenny and Andrew Loeb
Lubner Family
Tracy and James Lundie
Lyon Family
Julie and Loren Macklem
Hilary and Rob Mahan
Cynthia and Jaime Marian
Samantha and Scott Maynard
Katherine McClure
Laura and Brian McDonnell
Danielle Sterrenberg and Ryan McGuire
Kristi and John Meek
Shivani and Raj Mehrotra
Elizabeth and Rajan Mehta
Nancy and Jon Meislin
Catherine and Kyle Messman
Lauren and Ryan Miller
Mothner Family
Monika and Aaron Mugg
Deborah and Gerry Mullins
Lynn and David Murray
Lauren and Devon Murray
Namnath Family
Maria Crisanta Castro and Justin Naoe
Danielle and Branden Neal
Noroski Family
Jeanell and Alex Novak
Karen and Daniel Novotny
Melody Hildebrandt and Thomas O'Brien
Nikhil and Sapna Pandya
Marsha and Kevin Panzica
Pasquali Family
Nisha Parikh and Ravi Patna
Jamie and Andrew Patton
Kelly and Nicholas Pellico
Genevieve and Jose Perez
Kristina Iskander and Cory Pike
Katie and Brian Pincus
Raful Family
Mary Elizabeth and Claude Rankin
Katie and Jason Ranne
Maria and Justin Reese
Reese Pak Family
Jaime and Ian Reichbach
Jennifer and Adam Reiss
Robin and Brett Rice
Ashley Schiller Rossmann
Shipra and Neal Sainani
Sondra and Russell Samuels
Dina and Evan Sauer
Alyssa and Hari Sawker
Schlehuber Family
Candice and Michael Schmitt
Emilie and Steve Schroeder
Sarah and Jason Schulberg
Ashley and Steve Scott
Kavi and Aaron Settipane
Shamji Family
Summer and Tom Sheets
Michiko and Akibo Shieh
Shymansky Family
Sandesha and Kapil Singh
Skaar Family
Sara and Troy Smildzins
Laurel and Colin Smith
Kimberly and Justin Solomon
Ravin and Charu Soni
Leah and Cory Stigile
Megan Stokke
Ursula Ster and Phil Stover
Katherine and Alex Suh
Ronnie and Adam Sullins
Tina Kim and Jimmy Suruki
Taubman Family
Kimi and Michael Thompson
Swati Mehta and Karteek Tirumalasetti
T'Kindt Family
Pegah Ashrafi and Vartkes Torunyan
Chloe and Scott Trebilco
Unruh Family
Isaura and Andre Albuquerque Vaz
Nikki and Dave Venouziou
Katie Osley and Kushagra Verma
Anita Isanto and Pieter Viljoen
Walsh Poston Family
Virginia Chan and Edward Wang
Maria and Alexander Wheeler
Shannon and Michael Williams
Mayuko and Casey Winn
Yee Family
Yoffe Family
Christina Lee and Jason Yoo
Maddie Woods and Evan Zarider
Angelica Ortega Zelada and Jorge Zelada Getty
Zink Family
Laurie and Michael Zugay
PATRONS ($2,500+)
Anonymous (18)
Abrishamian Family
Allocca Family
Nikki and Ted Allred
Almajed Family
Ameln Family
Amir Family
Ashley and Steven Anderson
Arroyo Family
Atkins Family
Taylor and Francois Auzerais
Ela Choina and Bartosz Bachorski
Bast Family
Kate and Grant Bechtold
Behan Family
Bergsma Family
Melissa and Andrew Bernstein
Berry Family
Maryl and Dave Binney
Hayley and Michael Blanchard
Alisann Blood
Daniela Salazar and Tyson Bolliger
Bower Family
Bowyer-Greene Family
Bradley Family
Brennan Family
Aarti and Kyle Brinkman
Brozost Family
Justine O'Neill and Michael Brunner
Cathleen and Leif Brustuen
Buzas Family
Caes-Luksacheer Family
Jennifer and Peter Calabrese
Elizabeth and Brian Carroll
Betsy and Scott Castle
Chamberlain Family
Sangeeta Muthu and Vivek Chandra
Lorelei and Jason Chao
Chen Family
Tiffany Liu and Alan Chen
Rachel Cho and Stephen Chen
Linda and Gene Cheng
Valerie and Ben Chou
Jennifer Vaux and Jonathan Christofaris
Lisa and Peter Chu
Clay Family
Ashley Judge and Gautier Colin
Comas Family
Mindy and Drew Crenshaw
Kelly and Chris de Virgilio
Elizabeth and Scott Denham
Faith Derbyshire
Ying Liang and Suguang Dong
Elefant Family
Elenitsky Family
Eslambolchi Family
Christy and Mike Fach
Dow-Li Kou and Steven Farber
Chelsea and Mohsin Fidai
Lisa Hvolboll and Gregory Fink
Denise Kwok and Roy Fu
Jody and Brandon Gale
Ganchev Family
Garma Family
Gurveen Sandhu and Neil Gehlawat
Meghan and Grover Geiselman
Nicole and Chance Goldberg
Andrea and Greg Golovko
Cathey and Tim Graves
Elena Buchkovsky and Shawn Groshans
Johanna and Jesse Guzman
Bre and Brandon Hance
Susie and Mark Harriott
Hasson Family
Christine Woodin and Travis Haussler
Betty Wei and Brent Hawkins
Bri and Matt Haydis
Heather and Jason Hearne
Tracie and Brian Held
Helou Family
Katie Patton Herdman and Jeff Herdman
Katie and Cory Hill
Victoria and Patrick Hill
Hilt Family
Hannah and Clayton Hovivian
Wendy and Brian Huang
Christen Hughes
Kathleen Paralusz and Brad Jacobson
Lisa and Mike Jadon
Laura and Christopher Jenks
Jesman Family
Brooke and Philip Johnson
Komal and Puneet Kapoor
Michelle and Jason Katzen
Claire and Robert Keane
Vivian and Matt Kelly
Nicole and Tom Kelly
Meegan and Levant Kenney
Ines and Hicham Khoumsi
Kim Family
Julie and Brian Kim
Amy and Sam Kim
King Family
Corinne and Edward King
Ellen and Marc Klein
Carol and Quentin Kluthe
Kraines Family
Anicia Mendez and Adam Krikorian
Niki Desai and Tushar Kumar
Kristal and Martin Lane
Amy and Bill Lange
Izumi and Mark LaRoque
Leite Family
Amelia and Scott Lentz
Marsha Brown and Adam Lerner
Lim Family
Lovell Family
Candice and Culbert Lu
Catherine Lucy
Nicole and John Mack
Anna Vitale and David Makharadze
Mandelbaum Family
Ai Yaegashi and Sam Mannan
Julia Mao
Maggie and Cliff Maraschino
Kimberly and Michal Marczak
Marescalchi Family
Micki and Eric Marseglia
Katy and Andrew Martin
Matai Family
Katherine and Bojan Matovic
Vanessa and Ricardo Mazry
McCollester Family
Valerie and Paul Mellinger
Lauren and Scott Moffat
Mokhtari Family
Moller Family
Munoz Family
Alex and Jon Murphy
Musselman Family
Rachel Apirian and Keith Myers
Nelson Family
Nowicki Family
Aubrie McDonald and Terrence O'Connor
O'Gorman Family
Diana and Benjamin Olano
Alison and David Orkin
Ou Family
Ellen and Benjamin Padnos
Maria and Ale Palma
Pazzia Family
Kate and Nick Pennino
Cindy and Sean Phillips
Port Family
Prelle Family
Mylien and Scott Rackett
Patrice and Andy Radden
Jackie and Bradley Rainey
Didi and Mark Rayman
Iris and Chris Reekie
Roberts Family
Jocelyn and Orion Robinson
Rachel Henderson and Douglas Rusnack
Darlene and Jeff Sammon
Bunta and Bret Sarnoff
Doreen and Loren Saxby
Schachter Family
Schlager Family
Serena and Ted Scott
Seto Family
Ankita and Nilay Shah
Jennifer and Jason Shamaly
Shepard Family
Casey and Jason Sherman
Shimizu Keller Family
Meryl and Eli Silverman
Natalie Zelta and Ron Sklash
Smith Family
Tamara and Eric Smith
Tracey Smith
Sarah and Paul Snow
Solinger Sapienza Family
Melissa and Rod Spiegel
Spiegle Family
Stanisich Family
Tracie and Michael Stearns
Cassaundra and Bradley Steinberg
Judy and Erick Stella
Stephanie and Benjamin Stewart
Urmi and Kevin Storli
Jewels and Jeff Strnad
Lauren and Justin Takata
Tina and Mel Tang
Thomas Family
Heidi and Justin Thompson
Kelly and Timothy Tran
Alanna and Chris Trautner
Stephanie and Sean Tretiak
Alisa and Nathaniel True-Daniels
Trutanich Family
Nattiya and Vadym Tyemirov
Megan and Mark Udis
Elissa and Michael Unton
Olga Gonzalez-Silen and Jonathan Uslaner
Jennifer and Eric Van Fossen
Connie Teng and Tom Visistsri
Saloni and Raman Walia
Betty and Raymond Wan
Ivana Darmawan and Arthur Wang
Rebecca Warfield
Michelle and Simon Waters
Mariam Karim and Walter Watkins IV
Jacqueline Brabyn and Chris Weber
Fara and Steve Weiner
Ming-Ming Xu and Yomal Wijekoon
Sonia and John Wilmarth
Lauren and Robert Wilt
Nancy and Scott Witlin
Courtney and Christopher Wolf
Erin and Adam Wolfson
Lynn Garofalo-Wright and Hamish Wright
Yang Family
Tiffany and Hans Yang
Jacqueline and Joshua Yang
Julieta and Roberto Isaias Zanatta
Bea and Larry Zimbalist
Tracy and Brian Zirbel
PARTNERS ($500+)
Anonymous (8)
Anselem-Okorie Family
Jenna Stark and Matthew Antle
Aranda Family
Balik Family
Stephanie and Brendan Beirne
Kristi and Jeff Benjenk
Sarah and Brian Beran
Marianne Herman and Steve Bogoyevac
Jami and Derek Brauch
Browning Family
Budde Family
Janis Burroughs
Araceli and Steve Charelian
Heather and Chris Conaway
Crista and Christopher Cordeiro
Stephanie and Kevin Covert
Amanda and Christopher Coye
Shuwei Wang and Hao Cui
Suyan Zheng and Brian Czapor
Michelle and Ben Dale
Erika and Matthew Deuel
Jacqueline and Mark Dewey
Jieying and Evan Dobrowolski
Neda and Matthew Elijah
Lindsay and Joel Everman
Jennifer and Matthew Faulk
Bob Fielding
Catherine and Ted Frymark
Gordon Family
Hajar Family
Cheryl and Michael Hauck
Dr. Kerri Hill
Hiranburana Family
Ann Ly and William Ho
Sarah and Andrew Horn
Johnson Family
Kanders Family
Lisa and Mitchel Karp
Emily Hsu and Gabriel Kim
Ji Young and Joon Kim
Knijn Gonzalez Family
Melissa and Jeff Koskinen
Heather and Dev Krishnan
Dr. Prakash and Pallavi Kulkarni
Pooja Naithani and Sanjeev Kumar
Jiyeon and Andrew Kwon
Monica and Christopher Lachance
Nancy and Tyler Le
Lisa Stott and Daniel Lemieux
Carey and Greg Lesser
Katherine and Steve Lin
Yiwei Huang and Rong Liu
Stacia Long
Lupton Family
McGuinness Family
Michaels Family
Michelsen Family
Vicki and Rocky Miller
Nadya Montoya
Xiaoya Liu and Junhong Nie
Teresa and Brian Nielsen
Blakeley and Scott Oranburg
Nicky Painter
Paquin Family
Toral and Rick Patel
Tricia and Marlon Pearce
Sally and Jason Peel
Jaimie Siegel and Matthew Pernice
Jen and Carlos Ramirez
Reeves Family
Kelly and Tony Rogondino
Romagnoli Family
Stefanie and Brandon Roque
Oany Ravelo and Martin Salomon
Inna and David Schwartz
Shin Family
Manette and Stephen Sinkus
Cindy and Michael Smith
Jessie Hale and Thomas Smith
Jeanne Marks and Peter Somberg
Marjorie and Frank Soto
Sabine and Tim Stickelbrucks
Stone Family
Anne and Bruce Timmer
Diana and Jeffrey Tran
Christie and Stephan Tran
Sophia Lapidus and Tim Walling
Heidi and Jim Walsh
Weinbaum Family
Heather Wilcox
Melanie Cook and Woody Woods
Xiaolin Lei Family
Nancy Huh and Isaac Yang
Sudi and Omid Yazdi
Sana Muttalib and Mujtaba Ziauddin
FRIENDS ($499 AND BELOW )
Anonymous (15)
Alexander Family
Lori and Brad Angeleri
Dave Barakat
Erin and Adam Bernstein
Blake Family
Michelle and Scott Champagne
Chauvin Family
Nora Amaral and Robert Collins
Sandra and Brent Conkling
Lisa and Thomas Cook
Alyson and Kyle Darr
Angela De Cenzo
De Leon Family
Dill Family
Penny and Mike Earnest
Erzen Family
Jia and Danny Fong
Gretchen and Andrew Fowler
Franke Family
Jacqueline and Nathan Gapp
Maroua Habchi and Johncarlos Garcia
Shelley and Nicholas Gil
Graham Family
Melissa and Collin Grant
Hansen Family
Erynne and Ryan Hart
Meike and Blake Hennon
Jessie Yu and Jeff Huang
Nina Huckabay
Mary and Michael Hughes
Amy Jensen
Juge Family
Cecilia and Mick Kim
Heather and Brian Krueger
Kirby and Josh Lottman
Lindsay and Miguel Marco
Nancy Uaje and Larry Mathewson
Obe and Chris Maydaniuk
Fiona McCarthy
Tim McClellan
Jon-Kane and Sian McCullough
Haley Mehren
Chelsea and Sam Michaels
Megan Montz
Murashko Family
Jacqueline Murphy
Molly and Eric Norberg
Kara and Mike Norkus
Lolly Enriquez and Dennis Ortiz-Luis
Brittney and Trevor Oystrick
Bita Sadeghi and Michael Pearson
Ann and Mike Pitts
Sumire and Bradley Polito
Asucena and Jose Rodriguez
Neeraj and Sam Rotondo
Salomone Family
Seib Family
Sinay Family
Lindsay Newby-Snode and Ryan Snode
Allison and Richard Sootkoos
Ashley and Sean Stell
Laurie and Benjamin Stern
Janelle and Cody Strange
Lisa and Joshua Taub
Mathilde and Mathias Tourne
Katherine Brechtelsbauer and Michael Truong
Yesim and Ozgur Turkgench
Ustick Family
Jennifer and Peter Van Mieghem
Vanacore Family
Sofia and Jacob Waern
Hilary and Jeffrey Weston
Hasmig Derderian and Tom Williams
Sharon and Mike Witzansky