Recipients
Idealism
"Where there is no vision the people perish."
"Where there is no vision the people perish."
Recipients
| 2010 | Alice Salomon Bast | ||
| 2009 | Joan Myers Brown | 2008 | Mr. H. Fitzgerald "Gerry" and Mrs. Marguerite Lenfest |
| 2007 | Marciene Mattleman | 2006 | Leonore Annenberg |
| 2005 | Paul R. Levy | 2004 | Gloria Guard |
| 2003 | Judith Rodin | 2002 | Lorene Cary |
| 2001 | Bernard C. Watson, Ph.D. | 2000 | Ernesta D. Ballard |
| 1999 | Cecilia Moy Yep | 1998 | Graham S. Finney |
| 1997 | Anne d'Harnoncourt | 1996 | Arlin M. Adams |
| Jane Golden | 1994 | Jeremy Nowak | |
| 1995 | Edward G. Rendell | 1992 | Denise Scott Brown |
| John F. Street | Robert Venturi | ||
| 1993 | The Hon. Walter H. Annenberg | 1990 | Herman Mattleman |
| 1991 | Sister Mary Scullion, RSM | 1988 | G. Stockton Strawbridge |
| 1989 | Hilary Koprowsky, M.D. | 1986 | Willard G. Rouse, III |
| 1987 | Elaine Brown | 1984 | Jennifer A. Allcock, M.D. |
| 1985 | Rev. Paul M. Washington | 1982 | Carolyn L. Johnson |
| 1983 | Edmund N. Bacon | 1980 | William M. Sample |
| 1981 | Edwin Wolf, II | 1978 | Michael J. Sherman |
| 1979 | Dr. Robert Austrian | Stephen Shutt | |
| 1977 | R. Stewart Rauch, Jr. | 1976 | Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads |
| 1975 | Robert W. Crawford | 1974 | William Henry Gastie |
| Perry C. Fennell, Jr. | 1972 | J. Presper Eckert | |
| Melvin Floyd | John W. Mauchly | ||
| John C. Haas | 1970 | Louis I. Kahn | |
| Ruth W. Hayre | 1968 | Marcus Albert Foster | |
| Floyd L. Logan | 1966 | Lessing J. Rosenwald | |
| Sol Schoenbach | 1964 | Gaylord P. Harnwell | |
| Irving W. Shandler | 1962 | George W. Taylor | |
| 1973 | Ruth Patrick | 1960 | Allston Jenkins |
| 1971 | Franklin C. Watkins | 1958 | Helen C. Bailey |
| 1969 | Eugene Ormandy | 1956 | Isidor S. Ravdin, M.D. |
| 1967 | Richardson Dilworth | 1954 | Esmond R. Long |
| 1965 | Rev. Leon H. Sullivan | 1952 | Francis Bosworth |
| 1963 | John H. Gibbon, Jr. | 1950 | Fiske Kimball |
| 1961 | Edwin O. Lewis | 1948 | No Award Made |
| 1959 | Harry A. Batten | 1946 | Maurice B. Fagan |
| 1957 | Catherine Drinker Bowen | Marjorie Penney | |
| 1955 | Joseph S. Clarke, Jr. | 1944 | William Draper Lewis |
| 1953 | George Wharton Pepper | 1942 | William Loren Batt |
| 1951 | Franklin H. Price | 1940 | Marian Anderson |
| 1949 | Frederick H. Allen | 1938 | Rufus M. Jones |
| 1947 | Samuel S. Fels | 1936 | George W. Wilkins |
| 1945 | Owen J. Roberts | 1934 | Charles M.B. Cadwalader |
| 1943 | James M. Skinner | 1932 | Earl D. Bond |
| 1941 | No Award Made | 1930 | Paul Philippe Cret |
| 1939 | Thomas Sovereign Gates | 1928 | Eli Kirk Price |
| 1937 | Alfred Newton Richards | 1926 | Chevalier Jackson |
| 1935 | Francis Fisher Kane | 1924 | Charles C. Harrison |
| 1933 | Lucy L. W. Wilson | 1922 | Russell H. Conwell |
| 1931 | The Unknown Citizen | ||
| 1929 | Cornelius McGillicuddy | ||
| 1927 | W. Herbert Burk | ||
| 1925 | Samuel Yellin | ||
| 1923 | Samuel S. Fleisher | ||
| 1921 | Leopold Stokowski |