Foundation Annual Reports

RICHARD AND RHODA GOLDMAN CHARITABLE FUNDS

1 Lombard Street, Suite 303
San Francisco, Calif. 94111
(415) 788-1090
http://www.goldmanfund.org

Period covered: Year ending December 31, 2002.

Purpose and areas of support: The funds comprise two entities: the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, established in 1951 by Richard N. Goldman and his wife, Rhoda, who died in 1996; and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Foundation, a supporting organization of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, and Marin and Sonoma Counties, endowed in 1996 by Mr. Goldman.

Mr. Goldman established Goldman Insurance Services, in San Francisco, and Mrs. Goldman was a descendant of Levi Strauss, the founder of the jeans and apparel company.

The funds focus primarily on programs that benefit residents of the San Francisco Bay Area in the following areas: children and youths, democracy and civil society, the elderly, the environment, Jewish affairs, population, social and human services, and violence prevention. Grants also go to organizations whose work benefits residents of Israel in the areas of civil society, the environment, Israelis originally from Ethiopia, higher education, and religious pluralism. In addition, some grants are awarded to national and international projects focusing on domestic and civil society, the environment, population issues, and violence prevention.

The funds awarded $46,854,552 in grants in 2002, representing more than 10 percent of its assets. Grants were awarded in the following program areas: the environment, which received $13,292,452; domestic Jewish affairs, $7,188,250; Israel program, $6,022,000; population, $3,472,500; children and youths, $2,786,500; violence prevention, $2,320,000; social and human services, $2,281,500; the arts, $1,693,000; education, $1,679,000; democracy and civil society, $1,620,750; the elderly, $1,345,500; health, $983,500; and other grants, $2,169,600.

Of the total amount awarded, $31,859,552 came from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, and $14,995,000 from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Foundation.

Grants under the program on the environment included awards to help purchase and preserve two large tracts of undeveloped property in California. The Mendocino Land Trust received $1-million to help purchase more than 7,000 acres of redwood forest for inclusion in the California State Park system, and the Resources Legacy Fund, in Sacramento, received $1-million to purchase 16,500 acres of salt ponds along the San Francisco Bay.

Grants for domestic Jewish affairs included $245,000 to the Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties for a project to increase the quantity and quality of programs for Jewish teenagers.

Under the Israel program, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, in Jerusalem, received a $155,000 grant for a project on the Israeli Interior Ministry’s policies and practices.

Population-related grants included $500,000 over two years to the Global Fund for Women, in San Francisco, to help international groups promote women’s safety and health, including reproductive-health services.

The Goldman Environmental Prize, created separately by Mr. Goldman, is given annually to six grass-roots environmental activists — one hailing from each of the world’s inhabited continents. The funds do not accept nominations for the prize, which awards a $125,000 stipend to each recipient. For additional information on the prize, visit its Web site at http://goldmanprize.org.

Application procedure: The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund accepts applications on behalf of both the fund and the foundation. Potential applicants should first review the funds’ current grant-making priorities, limitations, and application deadlines. Letters of inquiry must be sent via regular mail to Robert T. Gamble, executive director. The fund does not accept letters of inquiry for its programs in the arts, education, or health, and does not accept faxed or electronic submissions for any program. Additional information is available on the fund’s Web site.

Key officials: Robert T. Gamble, executive director; Amy Lyons, deputy director; Bonnie Boxer, Israel program representative; Debbie Findling and Eric Sloan, program officers; Philip Cohen, communications officer; Alison De Jung, grants manager; Richard N. Goldman, president of the Board of Directors.

JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATION

140 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Ill. 60603
(312) 726-8000
http://www.macfound.org

Period covered: Year ending December 31, 2002.

Purpose and areas of support: The foundation was endowed in 1978 following the death of John D. MacArthur, who amassed a fortune in insurance, real estate, and other businesses. Mr. MacArthur did not stipulate which areas the foundation should support, leaving that to the discretion of its inaugural board of directors. His wife, Catherine, held various positions in the family’s companies and served on the foundation board until her death in 1981.

In 2002, the foundation received 6,122 grant requests and made 657 grants, of which 480 went to organizations and 177 went to individuals. Eighty percent of grants went to U.S. organizations, and 20 percent went to foreign groups.

The foundation currently makes grants in four program areas: human and community development, which received $67,283,300 in 2002; global security and sustainability, $55,655,700; general-program grants, $27,620,295; and MacArthur fellowships, $12,228,051.

In addition, the foundation made program-related investments and grants totaling $20,900,000, and special grants totaling $42,250,000 to commemorate its 25th anniversary. Those one-time, unsolicited grants focused on the arts and culture in Chicago, Florida institutions, international relations, and public-interest media.

The program on human and community development is limited to projects in the United States. It focuses on low-cost housing, with an emphasis on preserving high-quality rental housing; community development, primarily in Chicago; juvenile justice; mental-health policy; public education; and regional policy. For example, the Chicago Rehab Network received $300,000 over three years to preserve affordable rental housing in the Chicago metropolitan area and nationally.

Grants made through the program on global security and sustainability emphasize conservation and sustainable development; the economic consequences of globalization; higher education, particularly in Russia and Nigeria; human rights; international issues, including peace and security; population and reproductive health; and research and writing. The program has offices in India, Mexico, and Nigeria, which focus primarily on issues related to human rights and population and reproductive health. It also maintains an office in Russia that focuses on human rights and scholarship. Grants included $220,000 over three years to the Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy, in Ikeja, Nigeria, for its work to prevent unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion.

The general program allocates grants for projects that fit the broad goals of the foundation but do not fall within other program categories. It also supports arts and cultural groups in the Chicago metropolitan area; projects to improve and diversify radio and television programs; and short-term projects in areas of special interest to the foundation, such as intellectual property and the public domain, and the reduction of gun-related injuries and deaths.

The MacArthur Fellowships — commonly dubbed the “genius awards” — are five-year, $500,000 unrestricted stipends made to exceptionally creative individuals working in various fields. Typically 24 to 30 new fellows are selected each year. Nominators serve anonymously, and the foundation does not accept applications or letters of inquiry regarding the fellowships.

Application procedure: Potential applicants should send a one-page summary and a two- to three-page letter of inquiry, mailed to the Office of Grants Management or e-mailed to LOI@macfound.org. Additional information is available on the foundation’s Web site.

Key officials: Jonathan Fanton, president; Susan Manske, vice president and chief investment officer; Joshua Mintz, vice president and general counsel; Arthur Sussman, vice president and secretary; Marc Yanchura, treasurer; William Lowry, vice president, human resources and administration; Julia Stasch, vice president, human and community development; John Hurley, acting vice president, global security and sustainability; Raymond Boyer, associate vice president, communications; Richard Kaplan, assistant vice president for institutional research and grants management; Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, chair of the Board of Directors.

Program directors: Kennette Benedict, international peace and security, and senior adviser in philanthropy; Herman Brewer, Chicago Working Group; Laurie Garduque, individuals and society; David Harris, Florida philanthropy and regional policy; Judith Helzner, population and reproductive health; Susan Lloyd, community capacity; Mary Page, global challenges; Elspeth Revere, general program; Debra Schwartz, program-related investments and housing; John Slocum and Tatiana Zhdanova, Initiative in the Russian Federation and Post-Soviet States; Daniel Socolow, MacArthur Fellows; R. Michael Wright, conservation and sustainable development.

ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION

140 East 62nd Street
New York, N.Y. 10021
(212) 838-8400
http://www.mellon.org

Period covered: Year ending December 31, 2002.

Purpose and areas of support: The foundation was established in 1969 through the merger of the Avalon Foundation, established in 1940 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of Andrew W. Mellon (1855-1937), and the Old Dominion Foundation, established in 1941 by her brother, Paul Mellon. Andrew W. Mellon had been active in banking, business, and politics, and helped found Alcoa and Gulf Oil.

In 2002, the foundation appropriated grants totaling $223,402,448 in the following program areas: higher education and scholarship, which received $109,405,205; population, $22,485,000; conservation and the environment, $16,851,000; performing arts, $16,299,450; museums and art conservation, $15,714,293; public affairs, $775,000; and other grants, $41,872,500. The foundation supports primarily programs in the United States but also makes some awards to groups in other countries.

Over the past three years, the program on higher education and scholarship has shifted its emphasis from support for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences to assistance for university faculty members working in those areas, and for prominent professors who continue their scholarly work after retirement. The program also supports higher education for minority students, liberal-arts colleges, libraries, research and humanistic scholarship, scholarly — including digital — communications, and teaching and technology.

One grant recipient, Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., was awarded $400,000 for an electronic publishing project for work in the fields of theoretical and applied mathematics.

The foundation is reducing and redefining its program on conservation and the environment. Future grant making will focus on research collaborations among universities and other institutions; environmental programs at liberal-arts colleges, including projects that allow students to spend time at major research laboratories; and the use of digital technology to increase the holdings of natural-history institutions and the collections of leading centers of botanical research. The foundation has begun to phase out its support for the Trust for Public Land, in San Francisco, which has received nearly $20-million from the fund since 1981, as well as its competitive research grants for plant-ecosystems ecology.

Performing-arts grants go to organizations that support and produce dance, music, opera, and theater programs. Grants in 2002 went solely to organizations in the United States, and included $850,000 to the Kansas City Symphony, in Missouri, for programs and organizational development.

Grants for museums and art conservation focus on curatorial scholarship through endowed positions and support for publications; postdoctoral programs for young scholars in art history; and the conservation of photographs and other artworks. For example, the Philadelphia Museum of Art received $2.5-million for its endowment for scholarly publications.

The foundation continues to support JSTOR, a nonprofit organization it established in 1995 to create an archive of scholarly journals, and it administers ARTstor, a project to develop, store, and distribute digital images and scholarly materials related to the study of art, architecture, and other fields in the humanities.

The foundation has begun to phase out its program on population and forced migration.

The fund made grants totaling $41,872,500 to New York arts and cultural institutions to help offset losses related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Recipients included the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Frick Collection, and the Jewish Museum.

Hanna H. Gray, president emeritus of the University of Chicago, completed 24 years of board service, including six years as chairman. The new chairman of the board is Anne M. Tatlock, chairman and chief executive officer of the Fiduciary Trust Company International, in New York.

Application procedure: The foundation rarely supports unsolicited proposals. Prospective applicants are encouraged to submit a one-page letter of inquiry to the appropriate program officer. Detailed information is available on the foundation’s Web site.

Key officials: William G. Bowen, president; Harriet Zuckerman, senior vice president; John Hull, vice president for finance; Patricia L. Irvin, vice president for operations and planning; Mary Patterson McPherson, vice president; Michele S. Warman, general counsel and secretary; Eileen M. Scott, treasurer; Anne M. Tatlock, chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Program officers: Danielle D. Carr, Lydia L. English, Saul Fisher, Ira H. Fuchs, Krista L. House, Suzanne M. Lodato, Catherine Maciariello, Joseph S. Meisel, Thomas I. Nygren, William Robertson IV, Angelica Zander Rudenstine, and Donald J. Waters.