Support for this year's programs includes the Music Performance Fund with in-kind support for the Festival provided through Motorola, NEXTEL, WashingtonPost.com, WAMU 88.5 FM, Pegasus Radio Corp, and Icom America. 

Food Culture USA
Food Culture USA is possible through major contributions from:
 
Whole Foods Market 
Wallace Genetic Foundation
Silk Soy Milk
Horizon Organic Dairy

Additional funding is from the United States Department of Agriculture. Contributors include Vanns Spices, Honest Tea, Farm Aid, Guest Services, Inc., Chipotle Mexican Grill, The Rodale Institute, and Jean Louis Palladin Foundation. Major in-kind support comes from KitchenAid and collaborative support is from Marriot International and the Culinary Institute of America.

Forest Service, Culture and Community
The Forest Service, Culture and Community program is made possible through a partnership with the USDA Forest Service.

It is also produced in collaboration with the
National Endowment for the Arts.

Major support comes by way of:

National Forest Foundation
Honda
Whole Foods Market

Additional contributions are from IBM and the American Chestnut Foundation.

Oman: Desert, Oasis and Sea
The Oman program is produced in partnership with the Ministries of Heritage and Culture, Tourism, Information, and Foreign Affairs, and the Public Authority for Crafts Industries of the government of the Sultanate of Oman, and with the cooperation of the Middle East Institute (Washington, D.C.).

Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture
Nuestra Música has been generously funded by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Fund, NEXTEL, Joyce Foundation, and Univision and produced in collaboration with the Cultural Institute of México and the Ministry of External Relation of Mexico with media support from Radio Bilingüe.