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Due to a planned New York Harbor closure and planned street closures in Lower Manhattan, Governors Island will close at 3PM on Friday, July 4, 2025. More info.

Due to a planned New York Harbor closure and planned street closures in Lower Manhattan, Governors Island will close at 3PM on Friday, July 4, 2025. More info.

The Governors Island Foundation

The mis­sion of the Gov­er­nors Island Foun­da­tion, for­mer­ly the Friends of Gov­er­nors Island, is to secure phil­an­thropic sup­port to strength­en Gov­er­nors Island as a vibrant resource for all New York­ers. As the ded­i­cat­ed fundrais­ing part­ner to the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island, the Foun­da­tion works with vision­ary sup­port­ers to fund an award-win­ning park and open space care, arts and cul­tur­al expe­ri­ences, pro­grams that gen­er­ate solu­tions to the cli­mate cri­sis, and broad­er ini­tia­tives that sup­port the Island’s con­tin­ued role as a pub­lic destination.

Board of Directors

EB Kel­ly, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Tish­man Spey­er (Chair)
Daniel C. Reynolds, Part­ner, Cleary Got­tlieb Steen & Hamil­ton LLP (Vice Chair)
Justin Gins­burgh, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Infra­struc­ture, Prop­er­ties and Devel­op­ment, Jet­Blue (Trea­sur­er)
Han­nah Blu­men­thal, Founder & Prin­ci­pal, Han­nah Blu­men­thal Design (Sec­re­tary)
Bet­ty Chen, Prin­ci­pal, BYC Projects
Jesse Damashek, SVP, Head of Inno­va­tion, Dia­geo
Car­rie Den­ning Jack­son, Direc­tor of Tech & Inno­va­tion, Jamestown
Jan Foo, Gen­er­al Coun­sel at Col­lec­tive [i]
Lau­ra Fox, Co-Founder & Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Streetlife Ven­tures
Adam Freed, Prin­ci­pal, Bloomberg Asso­ciates
Alizeh Gangji, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Cove and Facet, Thir­ty Madi­son
David Gil­ford, Head of Pol­i­cy and Strate­gic Part­ner­ships, Side­walk Infra­struc­ture Part­ners
Tal Golomb, Part­ner, Fried, Frank, Har­ris, Shriv­er & Jacob­son
Chris Grosso, CEO, Inter­sec­tion Co.
Melanie Katz­man, Founder, Katz­man Con­sult­ing
Jus­tine Lee, Pres­i­dent & CEO, Cli­mate­Haven
Robert Levine, Chair­man & CEO, RAL Com­pa­nies and Affil­i­ates LLC
Xiao Lin­da Liu, Part­ner, McK­in­sey & Co.
Bri­an Miller, Chief Rev­enue Offi­cer, TuneCore
Jame­son Mon­es, Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Black­stone
Rachel Mor­ri­son Mon­toya, Asso­ciate Direc­tor, Oxford Prop­er­ties Group
Phil Nor­man, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent – GCS Prod­uct Devel­op­ment and Enter­prise Solu­tions, Amer­i­can Express
Tim­o­thy O’Brien, SVP, Fer­ries and Trans­porta­tion, NYC Fer­ry
Kon­stan­ti­nos Riza­kos, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Gold­man Sachs
Dar­ren Schluter, Prin­ci­pal, PJT Park Hill
Marc Tre­viño,Part­ner, Sul­li­van & Cromwell
Carl Weis­brod, Senior Advi­sor, HR&A Advi­sors
Lau­ren Wolf, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent, NYC Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Corp

Ex Offi­cio
Pat­ti Davis, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Gov­er­nors Island Foun­da­tion
Clare New­man, Pres­i­dent & CEO, the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island
Willa Pad­gett, Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer, the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island

Finan­cials

The Friends of Gov­er­nors Island’s audit­ed finan­cial state­ments are below. Note: the orga­ni­za­tion received its inde­pen­dent 501(c)(3) sta­tus at the end of 2014 and com­plet­ed its first inde­pen­dent fis­cal audit in 2015. For addi­tion­al finan­cial infor­ma­tion, please con­tact Foundation@​govisland.​org.

2020 – 2021 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

2018 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

2017 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

2016 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

2015 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

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