Foundation Annual Reports

DUKE ENDOWMENT
100 North Tryon Street
Suite 3500
Charlotte, N.C. 28202-4012
(704) 376-0291
http://www.dukeendowment.org

Period covered: Year ending December 31, 2002.

Purpose and areas of support: This private foundation was established in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925), a North Carolina industrialist who, together with his older brother Benjamin Newton Duke, amassed a fortune based on tobacco, textiles, and electric power.

The endowment’s four grant-making divisions continue to reflect the specific institutions and individuals in North and South Carolina stipulated by Mr. Duke in his indenture. However, the endowment’s trustees have the discretion to award grants to other groups conducting charitable work similar to that of the institutions specified by Mr. Duke.

In 2002, the endowment allocated $116,554,908 as follows: the health-care division received $44,450,235; the education division, $37,693,677; the child-care division, $13,950,000; the rural-churches division, $10,962,638; endowment-wide programs, $7,813,987; and other, $1,684,371.

The health-care division supports nonprofit hospitals and health-care organizations in North Carolina and South Carolina. Grants are made in four areas: preventing and treating chronic and long-term illness; reimbursing hospitals for care provided to indigent patients; expanding programs that increase access to services and prevent disease; and strengthening and improving hospitals.

Awards included $350,000 to Edgefield County Hospital, in Edgefield, S.C., to renovate and expand its emergency department and related areas, and $30,000 to Novant Health, in Winston-Salem, N.C., for the Latino AIDS Care Outreach Project.

Education grants are restricted to Duke University, in Durham, N.C., which received $26,238,971; Johnson C. Smith University, in Charlotte, N.C., which received $4,910,056; Furman University, in Greenville, S.C., which received $3,315,225; and Davidson College, in Davidson, N.C., which received $3,229,425.

The child-care division makes grants to nonprofit child-care institutions and selected other groups in North and South Carolina that support child welfare. Awards focus on collaborative programs, early-intervention and family-preservation programs, general operating support, organizational effectiveness, and training and education. The largest new grant — $2,016,708 — went to the Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect Initiative, in Charlotte, N.C., for efforts to reduce cases of child abuse and neglect in Durham, N.C., and Greenville, N.C.

The rural-churches division provides capital and program support to United Methodist churches and related organizations in rural areas of North Carolina. For example, Glencoe United Methodist Church, in Summerfield, N.C., received $30,000 to expand a fellowship hall and add office space and classrooms.

The division also provides support to the Duke Divinity School, the two North Carolina conferences of the United Methodist Church, and certain retired ministers of the United Methodist Church in North Carolina and their surviving dependents.

Endowment-wide grants are joint efforts of some or all of the endowment’s four program divisions. For example, Duke University Medical Center’s Pastoral Services Department received $201,938 to provide pastoral care to HIV-positive patients.

Application procedure: After carefully considering the endowment’s guidelines, potential applicants may send a letter describing the proposed project to the president of the endowment. Eligible inquiries will be forwarded to the appropriate program officer, who may request a full proposal. Detailed information on the application process is available on the endowment’s Web site.

Key officials: Elizabeth H. Locke, president and director of the education division; Eugene W. Cochrane Jr., vice president and director of the health-care division; Janice C. Walker, chief financial officer and treasurer; Stephanie S. Lynch, chief investment officer; Rhett N. Mabry, director of the child-care division; W. Joseph Mann, director of the rural-churches division; David H. Roberson, director of communications; Russell M. Robinson II, chairman of the Board of Trustees; Mary D.B.T. Semans, chairman emeritus.

JESSIE BALL DUPONT FUND

1 Independent Drive
Suite 1400
Jacksonville, Fla. 32202-5011
(904) 353-0890 or (800) 252-3452
http://www.dupontfund.org

Period covered: Year ending October 31, 2002.*

* 2002 figures are for the 14-month period ending December 31, 2002.

Purpose and areas of support: The foundation was created in 1970 through the will of Jessie Ball duPont (1884-1970), the widow of the industrialist Alfred I. duPont. When Mr. duPont died in 1935, she assumed control of his business enterprises and became the principal trustee of his estate.

In her will, Mrs. duPont left $42-million to endow the fund and stipulated that grant recipients be limited to those institutions she supported from January 1, 1960, to December 31, 1964. More than 325 institutions qualify; they are primarily churches and organizations in the fields of cultural and historic preservation, education, health, religion, social services, or youths.

Many of the institutions eligible for grants are located in Delaware, Florida, and Virginia, the three states where Mrs. duPont lived most of her life.

Grants are typically designed to meet societal needs, or to strengthen or build capacity at organizations that meet those needs.

The foundation recently changed the end of its fiscal year from October 31 to December 31. To accommodate this change, its 2002 year covers 14 months, beginning November 1, 2001, and ending December 31, 2002.

During that period, the fund awarded 375 grants totaling $11,892,204 to 207 institutions. Of that amount, the fund awarded 78 grants totaling $9,225,888 through its competitive program; 276 “initiative grants” totaling $2,562,816; and 21 “feasibility grants” totaling $103,500.

The foundation’s grant making highlights six focus areas: strengthening organizational capacity; building the assets of people, families, and communities; organizing and nurturing philanthropy; stimulating community-based problem solving; bolstering the independent sector; and “helping people hold their communities accountable.”

Competitive grants tend to emphasize the following categories: arts and culture, community and economic development, education, organizational development, public policy, religion, social services, and technology. For example, the Archdiocese of Miami received $100,000 for the Creole Literacy Program, which teaches semi-literate and illiterate Haitian immigrants to read and write in their native language as a first step toward learning English.

Other awards included $138,975 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research on successful government-nonprofit relationships and $90,000 to Randolph-Macon College, in Ashland, Va., for efforts to revise its general-education curriculum.

The fund maintains four special initiatives that serve eligible religious institutions, nonprofit groups, small liberal-arts colleges, and private schools. For example, through the Small Liberal Arts Colleges Initiative, 37 colleges are eligible to receive grants for summer institutes, sabbaticals, and other programs.

Through its Religion Initiative, 94 churches and other religious institutions are eligible to receive funds for clergy and diocesan enrichment, direct aid for needy people, repairs and renovations, and technical assistance.

Through the Nonprofit Initiative, more than 150 groups are eligible to receive awards for technology training or other technical assistance, discretionary support, and training for board and staff members.

Through the Independent Schools Initiative, the fund supports 18 college-preparatory schools that are eligible to apply for unrestricted grants every other year, and for technical-assistance awards to help strengthen their operations.

During its fiscal year 2002, the fund helped create the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida, in Jacksonville, and the Florida Philanthropic Network, a coalition of seven foundations in the state.

Application procedure: First-time applicants must submit with their initial application proof that a contribution was received from Mrs. duPont between January 1, 1960, and December 31, 1964. Eligible organizations interested in applying for competitive grants should contact the fund’s program staff to discuss the proposed program, determine its merits, and obtain application guidelines. Additional information is available on the fund’s Web site.

Key officials: Sherry P. Magill, president; Sally Howard Douglass, Sharon E. Greene, and the Rev. Edward King Jr., senior program officers; Jo Ann P. Bennett, executive secretary and director of administration; Geana Potter, grants manager; the Right Rev. Frank S. Cerveny, clerical trustee and chair of the Board of Trustees.

CORPORATIONS

NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY FOUNDATION

229 West 43rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10036-3959
(212) 556-1091
http://www.nytco.com/company/foundation

Period covered: Year ending December 31, 2002.

Purpose and areas of support: The foundation’s grant making is concentrated in the New York area. It also makes grants in Boston through the Boston Globe Foundation and in other communities served by business units of the New York Times Company.

Each year, the foundation allocates grants totaling approximately $5-million in the following five program areas: education, which received $1,879,490 in 2002; community services, $1,119,588; culture, $1,070,000; journalism, $486,100; and the environment, $194,000.

Grants made through the education program focused on arts education, literacy, scholarships, and youth development. For example, the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, in New York, received $10,000 for arts-education programs in local public schools, and Kids Voting Boston received $5,000 for programs on voting and civic participation.

Under its community-services program, the fund awarded $10,000 to Goddard Riverside Community Center, in New York, to provide college-related guidance to students in overburdened high schools.

Grants for cultural activities included $15,000 to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, in New York, for general operating support.

Journalism grants included $25,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists, in New York, for programs that support journalists who are harassed or imprisoned abroad. The foundation also expanded its New York Times Institutes for Journalists, sponsoring five week-long immersion courses on homeland security, brain research, and other topics.

The foundation also contributed $1,313,655 through its matching-gifts program. The foundation donates $1.50 for each dollar given by any active or retired employee or director of the New York Times Company to nonprofit cultural and environmental groups, schools, and higher-education institutions, up to $3,000 a year per person.

Since mid-September 2001, the foundation has raised a total of $62.3-million for its New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund, established to help victims of the September 11 attacks. Of that amount, approximately $2.3-million was raised in 2002, including profits totaling $560,000 from the book Portraits 9/11/01, published in collaboration with Henry Holt and Company. Awards included $200,000 to the Fire Department of New York for a stress-management counseling program for New York City firefighters and their spouses.

Application procedure: Applications should be addressed to the president; for grants in areas outside New York, write to the nearest Times Company business unit. The foundation does not make grants to individuals or sectarian religious institutions and causes; it also does not support capital improvements or make grants for health or substance-abuse programs. Additional information is available on the foundation’s Web site.

Key officials: Jack Rosenthal, president; Russell T. Lewis, executive vice president; Leonard P. Forman, Michael Golden, and Solomon B. Watson IV, senior vice presidents; Clare Salvaggio, grants administrator; Randy Becker, program officer; Rita M. Wnuk, communications coordinator; Jacqueline H. Dryfoos, chairman of the Board of Directors.