Carlie Wilmans

Carlie Wilmans is the founder and director of the 500 Capp Street Foundation and executive director of the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, which has, for decades, provided generous support to Bay Area arts organizations, including the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Wilmans is active in local philanthropic and cultural organizations, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she’s served on the board since 2006. She’s also trustee emeritus of the American Conservatory Theater. Wilmans studied art history at Sonoma State University and pre-Columbian art at the graduate level at the University of Texas, Austin. She has deep roots in the California art scene, with ancestors who played a role in the arts dating back to the Gold Rush.