Recent Grants
 

Grant Distributions and Beneficiaries
for the year ended December 31, 2006.

In excess of $10.4 million was distributed in grants to charitable beneficiaries from restricted, designated and donor-advised funds. In that connection, Foundation donors recommended grants to over 1,000 local, national and international charitable organizations in support of religious, cultural, educational, social service and humanitarian causes. Distributions are made on the basis of donor recommendations and restrictions.

Please note: The Foundation cannot consider unsolicited grant proposals or requests for funds.
 
Beneficiaries

Grants

United Jewish Fund/Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo $ 1,024,170
Local Jewish Agencies:
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, Jewish Family Service,
Kadimah School, The Bureau of Jewish Education, The Holocaust Resource Center, Weinberg Campus and Area Temples and Synagogues
 3,578,214

Local Non-Jewish Organizations:
The United Way of Buffalo and E
rie County, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra,
State University of New York at Buffalo, Olmsted Center for the Visually Impaired
and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center

  3,260,883

National Non-Jewish Organizations:
The American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
, Carnegie-Mellon University, Hospice and the Museum of Modern Art

    1,579,946

National Jewish Organizations:
B'nai Brith, Interns for Peace, Jewish Braille Institute, United Jewish Communities
and the United States Holocaust Museum

  901,911

Scholarship Grants and Awards:
Academic Scholarships and  Israel Experience Grants

    128,645

Total Distributions

$10,473,769
   
   


 

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