In the realm of education, nothing represents excellence quite like a gold star. Any RAFT investor of $25,000 or more receives special "gold stars" and their name printed in foot high letters on our recognition wall - visible to over 10,000 people each year

The following list represents cumulative giving by RAFT's donors since the organization's inception and was last updated May, 2010.

Benefactor ($1,000,000 and above)
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation* Sobrato Development Companies - 5 million dollar donation of RAFT's Sunnyvale Warehouse (Sobrato Center) TOSA Foundation*

Pacesetter ($500,000 to $999,999)
Cadence Design Systems Healthy Neighborhoods Venture Fund William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Hewlett Packard The Kresge Foundation Morgan Family Foundation* National Semiconductor Corp. City of San Jose

Philanthropist ($250,000 to $499,000)
Agilent Technologies Foundation Applied Materials Cisco Systems Intel Mericos Foundation Oracle* Sand Hill Foundation U.S. Dept. of Education Valley Foundation

Investor ($100,000 to $249,999)
Adobe Alameda County Recycling Board Laura & Jesse Ambrose AMD S.H. Cowell Foundation Mary A. Crocker Trust* Nan & Chuck Geschke The Mark and Carolyn Guidry Foundation Joan & Michael Hackworth IBM Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation John and James Knight Foundation NetApp Rambus Community Fund Reddere Foundation Gordon Russell (Sequoia Capital) SanDisk San Jose Mercury News SGI Silicon Valley Charity Ball Foundation The Sobrato Family Foundation Wayne & Jean Suzuki Symantec Whitney Education Foundation The Hans and Elizabeth Wolf Foundation Yahoo Employee Foundation

Leader ($50,000 - $99,999)
Fatima D. AbuZayyad Aspect Communications Robert Brownlee Foundation eBay Foundation GM Nameplate David Hale & Laura Torres Handel Sunrise Foundation Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation* Estate of Burrel Leonard Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Microsoft Moore Family Foundation The Noyce Foundation Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme Peninsula Community Foundation PG&E Roche Bioscience Rossi Family Foundation Cynthia & Allen Ruby Seven Springs Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation Colleen & Geoff Tate The Varian Foundation Wells Fargo Xilinx

Partner ($25,000 - $49,999)
Affymetrix Agilent Technologies ALZA Corporation Asyst Technologies Atkinson Foundation* Ann & Alden Danner Ned & Jimi Barnholt BEA Foundation Boston Scientific Foundation John & Elaine Chambers The Chew Crew Civic Ventures Comerica Bank Compton Foundation Corrigan-Walla Foundation The County of San Mateo RecycleWorks* Ecolab Foundation E*Trade Financial Glenn & Bobbe George Howard Graham Family Stella B. Gross Charitable Trust Guidant Foundation Luke B. Hancock Foundation Kathryn & Kirk Hanson Heaven's Helping Hand Foundation Hitz Foundation Homestead Technologies The James Irvine Foundation KPMG LifeScan Life Technologies Foundation Timothy & Anne-Marie Lohse Mayfield Fund Chris & Webb McKinney Lynn and Susan Packard Orr Reve Foundation SAP Siemens Building Technologies, Inc. Mary & Ed Simon The Skoll Fund Synopsys Zane Taylor Donna Whitney & Uwe Kladde

Builder ($10,000 - $24,999)
Abbott Laboratories Fund Albert Acevedo Amgen Louis Bellardo Theodore M. Bowen Foundation California Casualty Group California Integrated Waste Management Board Calpine Foundation Chambers Family Foundation Diane & Stan Chinchen Peter Cross Allison & John Danner Yvette Del Prado J. Philip and Jennifer DiNapoli Foundation John & Deanne Ebner Electronic Arts, Inc. Flextronics Foundation Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation Genencor, A Danisco Division Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund Greater Bay Bancorp Foundation Amy Greenfield & Mike Santullo Bob & Marion Grimm Jean Halloran Anna Harris Judy Heyboer Hitachi High Technologies IDEO Integrated Device Technology Renee & Paul Jacobs Cynthia D. Johnson Junior League of San Jose Juniper Networks Kieve Foundation The Mary Lemmon Fund Sayang & Stan Lim Bob & Janice Lisbonne Meredith McClintock & Steve Humphreys Dean O. Morton NEC Electronics America, Inc. Northrop Grumman NVIDIA Palm, Inc. Palo Alto Community Fund Peery Foundation Randy Pond QUALCOMM Quantum Corporation Trudy & Terry Rose San Francisco Forty Niner Foundation Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union Seagate Technology, Inc. Sharks Foundation Stopwaste.org Levi Strauss & Co. Morris Stulsaft Foundation TRW Electromagnetic Systems Division Western Digital Foundation Wheatley Foundation Douglas White Hans and Elizabeth Wolf Foundation

Mentor ($5,000 - $9,999)
Adaptec, Inc. Altera Corporation Anonymous Ray Bingham Channels Fund William H. Cilker Family Foundation Ann & David Crockett Deloitte Drapkin California Charitable Foundation David Falkenburg & Michele Hemeryck First 5 Santa Clara County Bill Fletcher Peter & Patty Fletcher Flextronics Foundation General Electric Company Give Something Back Jan Half * Brian & Carolyn Halla Gail & Jim Hallenbeck Harari Family Charitable Fund Christine Harris Fund Patty Quillin Hastings Darlene Imazeki Kinetics Group Barbara & Michael Klausner Colleen Lukoff Nancy Mueller Anne & Ron Murphy Gib and Susan Myers Fund Novell, Inc. Jin & C.S. Park Hugh M. and Julie J. Pearce Foundation RMC Water and Environment Santa Clara County Office of Education SBC SEGA Spansion Star One Credit Union City of Sunnyvale Nancy Thomas Toole Family Trust Trimble Navigation Rebecca Wolf Mark Zamudio

*Also a member of the RAFT Redwood City Founders' Circle