September 11 Donations: How Much Charities Have Raised and Distributed

$72.4-million for immediate disaster relief, including food and counseling for victims and their families, as well as for rescue and recovery workers. $47.9-million to cover the immediate cash needs of families that lost at least one wage earner in the attacks. $14.7-million to provide information about terrorism to the public. $12-million to generate an adequate blood reserve for times of crisis, for the U.S. military as well as civilians in this country. $5.8-million for telecommunications, database management, fuel for emergency vehicles, and other overhead expenses incurred as part of responding to a disaster. $600,000 to help the families of people from outside the United States who died in the attacks. $400,000 to provide support for military families that are involved in the war on terrorism.

To provide general relief related to the attack on the World Trade Center (Aid for Terrorist Attack Victims). Money from the Heroes’ Fund has not yet been distributed, but is intended to support immediate family members of the New York firefighters, police officers, emergency-medical workers, and employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who died in the attacks. AmeriCares officials say money from the victims’ fund has been distributed, but that they can’t yet provide a tally.

To help victims and their families, as well as recovery workers, with long-term needs, including financial difficulties, counseling, job retraining, and emergency day care.

To help victims and their families pay for housing, utilities, food, transportation, insurance, employment, and other needs.

To provide training for trauma counselors, grants for widows and orphans of firefighters and police officers who were killed as a result of the attacks, and assistance to people who lost family members in the events of September 11 or became unemployed.

To help the spouses and children of victims of the World Trade Center attacks.

To support groups in the United States that are helping victims of the attacks and their families.

To help pay for the postsecondary education of the children and spouses of those killed or severely injured in the September 11 attacks. The fund plans to begin distributing money in January.

To help families of victims pay for travel and hotels to attend memorial and burial services, as well as to finance rent and loan repayments.

To provide financial help for victims and their families whose needs are not met by the other funds.

To support organizations in New York and Washington that are working directly with victims of the attacks and their families. Distributions currently have been made to people affected by the attacks who are living in the Washington area.

To support the families of people who died in the September 11 attacks.

Forty families in New York have received $1,500 each for expenses such as car payments and mortgage payments.

$20,000 was spent on supplies for relief workers in New York, and $10,000 for workers in Washington. The remainder will support the efforts of Lions Clubs in New York, Washington, and other affected cities to assist the victims and their families, as well as relief workers, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

$26.7-million has been distributed to assist families of attack victims and small and mid-size businesses; $2.6-million to assist charities with direct losses from the attacks; $2-million to help people who lost jobs or homes; $1.6-million for mental health and counseling services; and $1.5-million to reimburse charities that provided assistance at the site of the World Trade Center.

Has awarded grants of up to $20,000 apiece to 32 nonprofit groups to provide immediate assistance to working poor people who were affected by the attacks, to promote tolerance, civil liberties, and human rights, and to provide “alternative media voices to effectively frame the complex political, social, and economic history of this painful crisis.”

To reimburse local charities supported by Jewish federations for payments made to victims of the attacks and their families to cover mortgage, bereavement travel, counseling, and other expenses.

To benefit the victims of the terrorist attacks and their families.

Some money has been distributed to help people who do not have medical insurance pay for the treatment of respiratory illnesses resulting from the attacks. Money has also been used to support Operation Return Home, a program to inform residents about proper cleanup of dust and debris from their homes and businesses, and to distribute air purifiers and vacuums to buildings affected by the disaster.

To provide rescue assistance, medical treatment, and new or temporary homes for pets whose owners are missing or known dead as a result of the September 11 attacks. The relief fund is no longer accepting donations and though it has distributed money, says it cannot estimate how much.

To assist farmers who sustained losses after the attacks on the World Trade Center that were not covered by insurance. Distributions will also be made to help farmers who lost revenue at other markets in Manhattan that were closed following the attacks.

To pay for the educational needs of the children of firefighters, rescue workers, and medical personnel who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Plans to distribute about $40-million before Thanksgiving to families of members of the New York City Fire Department and its Emergency Medical Services Command, the New York City Police Department, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and other government offices who were injured or killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center. If resources permit, the families of the other people who were injured or killed on September 11 may also be included as beneficiaries.

To help meet the financial, physical, and psychological needs of police personnel and their families, as well as the emergency needs of the New York City Police Department.

To aid families and dependents of victims of the September 11 attacks.

To support injured police officers and the families of officers who died in the attacks. Officials of the fund say they have distributed a small amount to families but that most beneficiaries have said they are not yet at a stage where they are ready to accept the money.

To support low-income victims of the September 11 attacks and their families.

The fund has distributed less than $100,000 toward travel, funeral, educational, mortgage payments, and general living expenses for soldiers who were injured in the attack on the Pentagon, as well as the families of those who died.

To provide financial aid for the college education of dependent children and spouses of Navy personnel killed during the attack on the Pentagon.