Financial Data (yr. ended 12/31/06): Assets: $43,746,223; Total giving: $2,229,400

Limitations
Giving primarily in the New York, NY, area. Generally, no support for colleges and universities,
small art, dance, music, or theater groups, national health or mental health organizations,
housing, international projects, government agencies, public schools (except charter schools),
or nonprofit programs and services significantly funded or wholly reimbursed by the
government. No grants to individuals, or for annual appeals, dinner functions, fundraising
events, capital campaigns, deficit financing , or film or travel; no loans.

Purpose and Activities
Giving for social services, including child welfare and youth, the disabled, and issues of health,
including hospitals, medical research, drug abuse, and rehabilitation programs, literacy projects
and other educational agencies, with preference for school reforms, school choice, and charter
school projects rather than nonprofits that provide direct services in public schools, and the
arts, culture, and the media. Other interests include voluntarism, entrepreneurship,
strengthening the two-parent family, fatherhood (and father absence), private sector job
placement, self -help and self-reliance, economic development, promoting the institution of
marriage, faith-based programs, and prevention and early intervention. The foundation prefers
programs that emphasize measurable participant outcomes and program results, innovations
and new cost-saving approaches, consumer choice, and parental involvement.

Fields of Interest Subjects
Adult education--literacy, basic skills & GED Alcoholism
Arts
Children/youth, services
Children, adoption
Crime/violence prevention
Youth Education, reform Elementary/secondary school reform
Education
Employment
Family services

Geographic Focus
New York

Types of Support
Conferences/seminars
Curriculum development Equipment
General/operating support
Matching/challenge support
Program development Program evaluation Publication
Research Scholarship funds
Seed money

Technical assistance
Application Information
Do not send CDs, DVDs, discs or tapes, or proposals through the internet unless requested;
see foundation Web site for application guidelines and procedures. Application form not
required.
Initial approach: Letter or short proposal
Copies of proposal: 1
Board meeting date(s): Usually in May, Sept., and
Dec. Deadline(s): None
Final notification: 3 to 4 weeks

Selected Grants
The following grants were reported in 2007:

• $150,000 to Boys and Girls Harbor, New York, NY. To incorporate Core Knowledge
  Sequence into After -School and Summer Programs, payable over 2.25 years.
• $75,000 to Encounter for Culture and Education, Milwaukee, WI. For research, writing
  and publication of Freedom's Paper Trail, by Judge Robert H. Bork, payable over 1.75
  years.
• $75,000 to Kings Collegiate charter School, Brooklyn, NY. For start -up and first-year
  expenses, payable over 1.75 years.
• $75,000 to National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, TX. To monitor, assess, and
  respond to emerging state and national healthcare plans, and to produce Handbook on
  State Healthcare Reform, payable over 1.75 years.
• $50,000 to Core Knowledge Foundation, Charlottesville, VA. For Core Knowledge
  Reading Program, payable over 1.25 years.
• $50,000 to Getting Out and Staying Out, New York, NY. For general operating support,
  payable over 1.75 years.
• $50,000 to Helen Keller International, New York, NY. For ChildSight program In New
  York City, payable over 1.75 years.
• $50,000 to John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, New
  York, NY. For National Reentry Roundtable on Education, payable over 1.75 years.
• $35,000 to Foundation for Cultural Review, New York, NY. For New Criterion Website
  Redesign Project, payable over 1 year.
• $20,000 to Project Reach Youth, Brooklyn, NY. For Information and Referral Database,
  payable over 1.25 years.