2012 GRANTS The Achelis Foundation Arts and Culture American Ballet Theatre $25,000 Central Park Conservancy $25,000 Jewish Museum $25,000 For an exhibition, Crossing Borders: Medieval Manuscripts from the Bodleian Library Lincoln Center Theater $25,000 Magnum Foundation $15,000 For the Legacy Program Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden $10,000 (Fiduciary: Colonial Dames of America) National Lighthouse Museum $15,000 Staten Island, New York To support the start-up of this new museum New York City Ballet $25,000 Page 1
Noble Maritime Collection $5,000 For an exhibition of the Sailors Snug Harbor Collection Old Westbury Gardens $25,000 Old Westbury, New York For phase two of the restoration of the Orchard Hill Barn Prospect Park Alliance $25,000 School of American Ballet $25,000 Wave Hill $15,000 Wildlife Conservation Center $125,000 To support the new Ocean Wonders: Sharks! building at the New York Aquarium Education Academy for Teachers $15,000 Achievement First $50,000 To support the first-year expenses of the Achievement First Brownsville Middle School Ascend Learning $50,000 To support the start-up expenses of the Canarsie Ascend Charter School Page 2
Maura Clarke Ita Ford Center $15,000 Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School $25,000 Futures in Education Foundation $50,000 For scholarships through the Bishop s Scholarship Program Harlem Academy $25,000 Interschool Orchestras of New York $15,000 Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School $50,000 To support the first-year expenses of this new charter school in Bedford-Stuyvesant Marymount Manhattan College $25,000 For the Bedford Hills College Program Read Alliance $25,000 Reading Team $15,000 Resources for Children with Special Needs $30,000 To support the High School Match pilot program Saint Albans School $15,000 Page 3
Shakespeare Society $25,000 To support the Education Programs Student Sponsor Partners $75,000 Toward scholarships to students to attend Catholic high schools in New York City ($50,000) For the College Readiness pilot program ($25,000) Teach for America New York $25,000 Employment Grace Institute $25,000 To support an upgrade of the Data Management System Job Path $25,000 To support the Consortium for Customized Employment Health Cancer Research Institute $40,000 For the Cancer Vaccine Collaborative Lighthouse International $15,000 To support the Music Enrichment Program Visions/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired $25,000 To support the Financial Education and Workforce Development Program Page 4
Youth and Families Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City $25,000 To support the Juvenile Justice Mentoring Program Boys and Girls Harbor $25,000 To support Campaign Elevate Camp AmeriKids $15,000 Stamford, Connecticut For the 2012 summer camp Court Appointed Special Advocates NYC $25,000 Exalt Youth $25,000 Presbyterian Senior Services $30,000 To support the Strengthening Grandparent-led Families program Vernon Avenue Project $15,000 To support Project Re-Connect Others American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals $15,000 For Hurricane Sandy Response Efforts City Harvest $25,000 Page 5
Citymeals-on-Wheels $15,000 God s Love We Deliver $15,000 Guidestar $2,500 Williamsburg, Virginia For the Membership Program Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen $15,000 Lenox Hill Neighborhood House $2,500 (in memory of Guy Rutherfurd) New York Cares $50,000 For the Outer Borough Expansion Program ($25,000) For Hurricane Sandy Recovery Programming ($25,000) One Stop Senior Services $15,000 For the Care Management Program Volunteer Referral Center $10,000 West Side Campaign Against Hunger $15,000 Yorkville Common Pantry $15,000 Page 6
2012 GRANTS The Bodman Foundation Arts and Culture American Friends for the Preservation of Czech Culture $30,000 Dover, Massachusetts To support an exhibition of the Lobkowicz Music Collections at the Morgan Library and Museum American Theatre Wing $25,000 Carnegie Hall $50,000 To support The Academy Gotham Chamber Opera $15,000 Historic Districts Council $50,000 For the fabrication of 2,000 missing historic district street signs throughout New York City Historic House Trust $15,000 Historic Landmarks Preservation Center $50,000 To support the Cultural Medallions program Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum $50,000 To support Project Enterprise Page 7
Library of America $50,000 To support the publication of The War of 1812: Writings from America s Second War of Independence Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts $50,000 Mama Foundation for the Arts $30,000 To support the Gospel for Teens program Metropolitan Museum of Art $25,000 Metropolitan Opera Association $25,000 National Academy Museum and School $25,000 New York Botanical Garden $50,000 New York City Opera $25,000 New York University $25,000 Toward the establishment of the Center for the Study of Transformative Lives Old Westbury Gardens $50,000 Old Westbury, New York For phase two of the restoration of the Orchard Hill Barn Princeton University $25,000 Princeton, New Jersey To support the Index of Christian Art s project to catalogue the Medieval manuscript collection at the New York Public Library Page 8
Education Acting Company $15,000 For the Primary Shakespeare program American Council of Trustees and Alumni $50,000 Washington, DC For the Future of Academic Freedom project American Enterprise Institute $25,000 Washington, DC For the Future of American Education Project Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa $15,000 Washington, DC To support the fifth annual conference, History and the New Middle East and Africa, in Washington, DC Beloved Community Charter School $50,000 Jersey City, New Jersey To support the first-year expenses of this new charter school Central Queens Academy Charter School $50,000 Queens, New York To support the first-year expenses of this new charter school in Elmhurst Children s Orchestra Society $15,000 English-Speaking Union of the United States $30,000 To support the Shakespeare Set Free Institutes in New York City and the 2013 National Shakespeare Competition National Association of Scholars $20,000 To support the 25 th anniversary conference in New York City National Council on Teacher Quality $50,000 Washington, DC To support the National Review of Teacher Preparation Programs Page 9
New York Needs You $25,000 New York Theological Seminary $50,000 To support the Master of Professional Studies Program for inmates at Sing Sing Prison Seton Education Partners $50,000 San Francisco, California To support the start-up expenses of the new Brilla College Prep Charter School in the South Bronx Student/Partner Alliance $25,000 Milburn, New Jersey Toward scholarships for students to attend urban Catholic high schools in Essex and Hudson counties in New Jersey Success Academy Charter Schools $50,000 To support Teacher Success Academy Tri-County Scholarship Fund $50,000 Parsippany, New Jersey For scholarships to children to attend urban Catholic schools in Passaic, Morris and Sussex counties in New Jersey Employment Bowery Mission $25,000 To support the Employment Readiness Programs Horticultural Society of New York $25,000 To support the GreenTeam job training and placement program JobsFirstNYC $50,000 Page 10
Rising Tide Capital $25,000 Jersey City, New Jersey To support the Community Business Academy Health Celtic Charms $15,000 Howell, New Jersey CONTACT We Care $15,000 Westfield, New Jersey Daniel s Music Foundation $10,000 National Hypertension Association $15,000 New York University School of Medicine $25,000 To support the implementation of the Spirituality Group Program for patients with combined mental illness and addictive disorders at three New York City treatment facilities Rockefeller University $200,000 For the Technology Innovation Fund Public Policy Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty $25,000 Grand Rapids, Michigan To support the marketing of the PovertyCure documentary Page 11
American Council on Science and Health $40,000 To support a study, Hydraulic Fracturing: Myths and Realities Common Sense Institute of New Jersey $50,000 Randolph, New Jersey To support an initiative on public sector pension reform in New Jersey European Foundation for Democracy $50,000 Brussels, Belgium For the Network for a New European Generation Hudson Institute $50,000 Washington, DC To support a book, America s Secrecy Wars, by Gabriel Schoenfeld Institute for American Values $50,000 To support a study, The Social Costs and Benefits of Legalizing Commercial Casino Gambling in the State of New York Manhattan Institute for Policy Research $150,000 To support the Empire Center for New York State Policy ($50,000) Toward a study, The Economic Impacts of Closing the Indian Point Energy Center ($50,000) To support Rethinking New York ($50,000) George C. Marshall Institute $40,000 Arlington, Virginia For a new initiative, Examining the Energy Subsidies and Government Supports for Energy Technology Development Middle East Forum $50,000 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Moving Picture Institute $10,000 To support the marketing and distribution of a short film on public sector unions called The Machine Page 12
National Center for Policy Analysis $50,000 Dallas, Texas To support a study on how the states can restructure their Medicaid programs Philanthropic Enterprise $15,000 (Fiduciary: Project Liberty) Alexandria, Virginia To support the Trends in Social Innovation project Philanthropy Roundtable $25,000 Washington, DC To support a conference, From Income to Assets: Strategies to Help the Working Poor Develop Assets and Build Wealth, in New York City Riverside Films $25,000 (Fiduciary: The Ciesla Foundation) To support the production of a documentary, Don Quixote in Newark Texas A&M University $75,000 George Bush School of Government and Public Service College Station, Texas To support the Project on Religion and Politics in the Middle East Youth and Families Boy Scouts of America, Northern New Jersey Council $50,000 Oakland, New Jersey To support the Urban Scouting Initiative Boys and Girls Harbor $50,000 To support Campaign Elevate Lake Delaware Boys Camp $15,000 Delhi, New York For the 2012 summer camp Page 13
Madison Square Boys and Girls Club $50,000 Philanthropy Roundtable $25,000 Washington, DC To support the Veterans Initiative Police Athletic League $25,000 For the YouthLink Program Prison Fellowship Ministries $50,000 Lansdowne, Virginia To support a prisoner re-entry program on Rikers Island Others Charity Navigator $25,000 Glen Rock, New Jersey To support the development of Charity Navigator 3.0 Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties $25,000 Neptune, New Jersey Guidestar $2,500 Williamsburg, Virginia For the Membership Program Jersey Cares $25,000 Newark, New Jersey For Hurricane Sandy Response Efforts Lenox Hill Neighborhood House $2,500 (in memory of Guy Rutherfurd) Mustard Seed School $15,000 Hoboken, New Jersey For Emergency Tuition Assistance in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy Page 14