2004

• Lucille Clifton
• Tom Fontana
• Robby Takac
• Tops Markets, LLC
• The Cameron Baird Foundation

2003

• Gary Earl Ross
• Randall B. Kramer
• Nancy Weekly
• Wells V. Moot, Jr.
• Patrick Fagan
• Joan B. Williams
• Douglas Schultz

2002

• JoAnn Falletta
• Genia Las
• Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
• BlueCross BlueShield of WNY
• WNED

2001

• Lorna Hill
• Thomas Swan
• Theatre of Youth (TOY)
• Joanna Angie
• Hodgson Russ, LLP

2000

• J Warren Perry
• Albright Knox Art Gallery
• Darleen Pickering Hummert
• Knox Awards, M& T Bank 2000

1999

• Tony Conrad
• Studio Arena Theatre
• White Pine Press
• Fisher Price

1998

• Bell Atlantic
• Saul Elkin
• Irish Classical Theatre Company
• Arlette Rosen
• WBFO 88. 7FM

1997

• William Y. Cooper
• Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
• Mark E. Hamister
• Charles Rand Penney
• Walter A. Prochownik

1996

• Lynne Kurdziel
• Key Bank of New York
• Musicians of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
• Pick of the Crop Dance
• The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation

1995

• Amherst Saxophone Society
• Anthony Bannon
• Armand J. Castellani
• Virginia Cutbert Elliot
• Independent Health
• Virginia Tillou

1994

• Blossom Cohan
• Anthony Colucci, Jr. Esq.,
• Community Music School
• Stephen McKinley Henderson
• WKBW News Channel 7

1993

• African American Cultural Center
• C. Taylor Kew (posthumous)
• Wilfred J. Larson
• Philips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber
• Milton Rogovin

1992

• Burchfield Art Center
• Campos Photography Center
• Anne E. Hayes
• Allen Tinney

1991

• Arts in Education Institute of WNY
• Emmanuel Fried
• Goldome Bank
• Marine Midland Bank
• Reneé Perez

1990

• Wilhelmina Godfrey
• Graphic Controls Corporation
• just buffalo literary center
• Eleanor Millonzi

1989

• Nina Freudenheim
• Calvin Rand

1988

• CEPA Gallery
• William B. Hoyt
• Seymour H. Knox, III.
• Ujima Theatre Company
• Westwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Dr. Joseph Wincenc & Margaret Miller Wincenc

1987

• M& T Bank
• Molly Olga Neighborhood Art Classes, Inc.
• Franz T. Stone