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Governors Island is open from 7AM to 6PM on Indigenous Peoples' Day (Monday, October 12, 2026), with Governors Island ferries running on a weekend schedule from Manhattan and Brooklyn. For NYC Ferry info, visit ferry.nyc.

Governors Island is open from 7AM to 6PM on Indigenous Peoples' Day (Monday, October 12, 2026), with Governors Island ferries running on a weekend schedule from Manhattan and Brooklyn. For NYC Ferry info, visit ferry.nyc.

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, Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Tish­man Spey­er (Chair)
Daniel C. Reynolds, Part­ner, Cleary Got­tlieb Steen & Hamil­ton LLP (Vice Chair)
Justin Gins­burgh, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Infra­struc­ture, Prop­er­ties & Devel­op­ment, Jet­Blue (Trea­sur­er)
Han­nah Blu­men­thal, Founder & Prin­ci­pal, Stu­dio Olivine (Sec­re­tary)
Albert Bol­lard, Part­ner, McK­in­sey & Com­pa­ny
Bet­ty Chen, Prin­ci­pal, BYC Projects LLC
Sean Cort, Senior Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Black­stone
Jesse Damashek, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent, Mar­ket­ing, Whiskey Port­fo­lio, Dia­geo
Car­rie Den­ning Jack­son, Direc­tor of Tech & Inno­va­tion, Jamestown LLP
Janis Foo, Gen­er­al Coun­sel, Gen­er­al Intu­ition
Lau­ra Fox, Co-Founder & Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Streetlife Ven­tures
Adam Freed, Prin­ci­pal, Bloomberg Asso­ciates
Alizeh Gangji, Founder & CEO, Quilt
David Gil­ford, Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Pol­i­cyAl­pha
Chris Grosso, CEO, Inter­sec­tion Co.
Melanie Katz­man, Founder, Katz­man Con­sult­ing
Jus­tine Lee, Pres­i­dent & CEO, Cli­mate­Haven
Robert Levine, Chair­man & CEO, RAL Com­pa­nies & Affil­i­ates LLC
Xiao Lin­da Liu, Part­ner, McK­in­sey & Com­pa­ny
Rachel Mor­ri­son Mon­toya, Direc­tor, Oxford Prop­er­ties Group
Phil Nor­man, Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, Amer­i­can Express
Kim­ber­ly Pir­tle, Founder & Prin­ci­pal, Gabriel Advi­so­ry Group
Kon­stan­ti­nos Riza­kos, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Com­pli­ance, NiCE Sys­tems, Inc.
Dar­ren Schluter
Hilary Spann, Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent, BXP
Marc Tre­viño, Part­ner, Sul­li­van & Cromwell LLP
Kevin Val­lès, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, J.F. Lehman & Com­pa­ny
Carl Weis­brod, Senior Advi­sor, HR&A Advi­sors
Lau­ren Wolf, Senior Vice Pres­i­dent, NYC Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Corporation

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 Gov­er­nors Island Foundation’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.

2025 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

2024 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

2023 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

2022 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

2021 Audit­ed Finan­cial Statements

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