Our Donors

Thank you to the following individuals and companies who have committed to creating globally responsible citizens through travel with a donation to the SYTA Youth Foundation. These gifts have been received by the Foundation as of October 1, 2024.

Annual Giving Society

Creating a lifetime of passionate travelers

Voyager – $50,000+

Group Collect

Trailblazer – $20,000 – $49,999

WorldStrides

Pathfinder – $10,000 – $19,999

Bob Rogers Travel • Educational Travel Adventures  • Fly My Group • Kaleidoscope Adventures • SUMMIT One Vanderbilt • Travel Insured International • Visit Savannah

Adventurer – $5,000 – $9,999

AFC Travel • Broadway Inbound  • Dance the Magic! • In Honor of Marvin Gerber • The Empire State Building • Trip Mate, Inc. • Universal Orlando Youth Programs

Discoverer – $2,000 – $4,999

Amie Schuler • AON Travel Practice • AdvantEdge Tours  • Boston Duck Tours • Branson Convention & Visitors Bureau • CCIS, Inc. • Disney On Broadway • Disney Imagination Campus – Disneyland • Disney Imagination Campus – Walt Disney World • Golden Corral • Group Photos, Inc. • International Motorcoach Group • Jagger Shuler • Melissa Ardales • Merlin Entertainments • Music Travel Consultants • Polynesian Adventure Tours • Receptively Yours • Royal Coach • Summit Travel and Tours • Super Holiday Tours • The Green Lion • The Track Family Fun Parks • Tour Resource Consultants • Transportation Charter Services (TCS) • Travelin’ Coupons • Visit Orlando

Explorer – $1,000-$1,999

Academic and Performance Travel • Destination Niagara • Educational Tours, Inc. (Holt, MI) • Ethan Screnock • Florida Film Academy • Group Sales Box Office at Broadway.com • Group Travel Network • Grueninger Music Tours • Heart of America • H & L Charter Company, Inc. • Luray Caverns • Nowak Tours • PhotoVision, Inc. • Primo Family Restaurant  • Robin Parker • Titanic Museum Attraction • Travel With Barb  • Wescott Family Fund

Wingman – $500 – $999

Adventure Student Travel • Amy Cannon • Allison French • American Travel Consulting • Amie Shuler • Ana Shirley • Anthony Hilden • Anthony Stacy • Barb Mock • Beth Beccone • Bruce Rickert • Bryan Cole • Bud Geissler • Cameron Parker • Carylann Assante • Cathleen Johnson • Christopher Rosenow • Cindy Brown • Claudia Boissonneault • Courtenay Betts • Debi Barr • Debra Borgwardt • Dayne Whitehurst • Denise George • Donna Adam • Elaine Moulder • Gaurav Namit • George Nimmo • Good News Tour & Travel • Greenspring Tours, Inc. • Greg Bottenhorn • Greg Takehara • GroupCollect • Heather Davis • Hollie Stevenson • Jane Tougouma • John Percy • Jon Kevin Gossett & Alex Urdaneta • Julia Smyth-Young • Justin Shuler • Karen Pitcherello • Karla Tomaszewski • Kasie Smith • Kathryn Fischer • Katie Conaway • Katy Summers • Kevin Herlihy • Kristen Schascheck • Leah Ann Ingram • Lisa Scalzo • Maury Schulte • Marcie Ellison Outerbridge • Melissa Ardales • Michael Grueninger • Michelle Hammock • Mitch Bach • Morgan Maravich • Nick Romeo • Norm Hull • Norman Rein • Pamela Sullivan • Paul Serra • PhotoVision, Inc. • Ripley Hunter • Rodolfo Elizondo • Robin Parker • Ryan Morris • Sandy May • Sara Hamlin • Shelly Cole • Stephanie Wessel • Steve Maehl • Steven Gross • Summit Travel and Tours • Tami Rogers • Tara Hippensteel • Teresa Crews • Teresa Vlasic • Tim Branson • Tom Merrill • Tom Vigna • Travelex Insurance •  Urte Land

Holiday Gift Giving Campaign

 Swap the Swag Campaign  

Donations received as of October 1, 2024.

Acorn Society

Giving to a lifetime of sustainability for youth travel experiences

Alliance Member Services • American Classic Tours & Music Festivals • Bob Rogers Travel • Broadway Inbound • Carylann Assante • Ethan Screnock • EXP Trips • Group Travel Network • In Memory of Othmar Grueninger • International Tour Management Institute (ITMI) • John Bissell • Nations Classroom • Neal Waldman • Receptively Yours • Ripley Hunter • St. Louis Ballpark Village • Travelin’ Coupons • Travel Insured International • Travel With Barb

Donations received as of October 1 2024.

Lifetime Giving Society

Broadening young minds through travel since 2010

$250,000+

Travel Insured International

$50,000+

Broadway Inbound • Educational Tours, Inc.  (Holt, MI) • The Empire State Building • Festival of Music/Music in the Parks • Gerber Tours, Inc. • GroupCollect • Kaleidoscope Adventures • Travel Women International Golf Society (TWIGS) • Trip Mate, Inc. • Disney Imagination Campus – Walt Disney World

$25,000+

Academic Travel Services • Boston Duck Tours • Bob Rogers Travel • Disney on Broadway • Fly My Group • GoPegasus • Hard Rock Café and Hard Rock Heals Foundation • International Motorcoach Group • Music USA Festivals • New York City Tourism + Conventions • Serendipity Media • Student Universe • Super Holiday Tours• Universal Orlando Youth Programs • WorldStrides

$10,000+

AFC Travel • American Tour & Travel • Andy Davidson • AON Travel Practice • Blue Man Productions • Boston Attractions Group • CCIS, Inc. • Choice Hotels International • Dance the Magic! • Disney Imagination Campus – Disneyland • Earl Grossman • Educational Travel Adventures • EF Explore America • Ellison Travel & Tours • Entertainment Marketing International, LLC • Ethan Screnock • Givenik.com • Group Photos, Inc. • Group Travel Network • Hersheypark • HSMAI Greater New York Chapter • Laser Quest Corporation • Luray Caverns • Mears Transportation • Michael Palmer • Music Travel Consultants • Neal Waldman • New England Aquarium • New Horizons Tour & Travel, Inc. • Nowak Tours • Peak Group Travel • Receptively Yours • Ripley Hunter • School Voyageurs • Sunsational Receptive Tours • The Air Travel Group • The Leaders Forum • The Track Family Fun Parks • Titanic Museum Attraction • Tony Saccaro, Jr. • Tourism Winnipeg • TourTools by DataVast Technologies • Transportation Charter Services (TCS) • Travel Adventures, Inc. • Travel Advocates • Travelin’ Coupons • Unique Travel & Tours • Wyndham Hotel Group

$5,000+

AdvantEdge Tours • Adventure Student Travel • American Classic Tours & Music Festivals • Branson Convention & Visitors Bureau • Branson On Stage Live! • Carylann Assante • Danny Lewandowski and Kevin Facklam • Discover Puerto Rico • Florida and Beyond Group Travel • Grueninger Music Tours • H & L Charter Company, Inc. •  Joel Keens • Leah Chandler • Legends Attractions • Medieval Times Entertainment, Inc. • Merlin Entertainments, PLC • Network for Good • PhotoVision, Inc. • Robin Parker • Visit Sacramento

Charter Member

Donations received as of December 31, 2023. 

SYTA Youth Foundation Past Chairs

2023-2024 Allison French, Broadway Inbound

2022-2023 Teresa DeFazio-Crews, Universal Destinations & Experiences

2021-2022 Debra Borgwardt, SYTA

2020-2021 Robin Parker, Kaleidoscope Adventures

2019-2020 Barbara McCormack

2018-2019 Bud Geissler, GroupCollect

2017-2018 Bruce Rickert, Peak Group Travel

2016-2017 Sheelagh Wylie, Go City

2015-2016 Kirk Troen

2013-2014 Denise George, Receptively Yours

2012-2013 Kevin Herlihy, Travel Insured International

2011-2012 Kerry Montgomery

2010-2011 Marie Martin

2009-2010 Kasie Smith, Serendipity Media

2008-2009 Bob Hofmann, Broadway Inbound

2007-2008 Jill Gleason-Knox

2006-2007 Keith Snode, Group Travel Odyssey

2005-2006 Bryan Cole, Super Holiday Tours

2004-2005 Neal Waldman

2003-2004 Cindy Brown, Boston Duck Tours*

2000-2003 Ripley Hunter*

*SYTA Youth Foundation Co-Founders

SYTA Youth Foundation Charter Members 

Academic Travel Services • American Tour & Travel • Boston Duck Tours • Broadway Inbound • Choice Hotels International • Disney Imagination Campus – Walt Disney World • Earl Grossman • EF Explore America • Ellison Travel & Tours • Gerber Tours, Inc. • Group Photos, Inc. • Kaleidoscope Adventures • Laser Quest Corporation • Mears Transportation • Michael Palmer • Neal Waldman • New Horizons Tour & Travel, Inc. • Ripley Hunter • School Voyageurs • Sunsational Receptive Tours • Super Holiday Tours • The Air Travel Group • The Leaders Forum • Tony Saccaro, Jr. • Travel Adventures, Inc. • Wyndham Hotel Group

The SYTA Youth Foundation proudly thanks our Program & Event Partners

Program Partners

DC Rites of Passage

American Experience Foundation • Educational Tours, Inc (Holt, MI)

Global Citizens Challenge

Funded by Kaleidoscope Adventures

American Experience Foundation • Group Sales Box Office at Broadway.com • Hershey’s Chocolate World Times Square • International Connector • Jassby • Music Travel Consultants • NAF • New York Tourism + Conventions • The Generator • Yard House • Your Big Year

Silver Linings

Jassby • Worldstrides

Students on Broadway

Disney on Broadway • Hard Rock Café • Peak Group Travel • Starr Bus Charter and Tours

Event Partners

A Silver Soiree

Event Partner

Golden Corral

Venue Partner

Rockefeller Center

Adventure Ambassador Partners 

AFC Travel • Alabama Tourism Department • Bob Rogers Travel • Broadway Inbound • Group Sales Box Office at Broadway.com • The Edge at Hudson Yards • Transportation Charter Services (TCS) • Travel Insured International

Everlasting Explorer Partners 

Discover Puerto Rico • Visit Orlando

Golf Classic

AFC Travel • Andretti Indoor Karting & Games • Destination Gettysburg • Fly My Group • Escot Bus Lines • GroundsPros Landscape Management  • IHG Hotels & Resorts • Island Hospitality Management • Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament • Merlin Entertainments • Group Travel Videos • Ment Law Group • Minuteman Press Sand Lake • Receptively Yours • Rosen Centre Orlando • Shaner Hotel Group • St. Augustine Ponte Vedra & The Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau • SYTA • Universal Orlando Resort Hotels • Visit Montgomery • Visit Orlando • Westgate Resorts

Program & Event Partners as of October 1, 2024.