On Wednesday, December 17, Ken and Nancy Kranzberg will be presented with the prestigious 2025 St. Louis Award for their transformational leadership and philanthropic support of the arts in the St. Louis Region. The Kranzbergs were chosen by members of the award’s selection committee.
The St. Louis Award was established anonymously in 1931 with a purpose to honor “the resident of metropolitan St. Louis who has contributed the most outstanding service for its development or…shall have performed such services as to bring greatest honor to the community. Funds were provided by the founder to maintain the continuance of this annual award. Only after his death in 1960 was the anonymous donor identified as David P. Wohl, a leading St. Louis Philanthropist who during his life had set high standards of service to the entire community.
Past recipients of the St. Louis Award include prominent local figures such as: Jack Taylor, John Danforth, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, James S. McDonnell, Leon R. Strauss, Lou Brock and August A. Busch, Jr., among others.
