GENERAL
GRANTS:
The first
column shows grants approved in 1971; the second, payments on new
grants or grants approved in earlier years. The original amounts
and dates of earlier grants that were not fully paid at the
beginning of fiscal 1971 are given in brackets [] after the names
of grant recipients.
|
Grants Approved
(Reductions) |
Payments
(Refunds) |
| Reductions and
refunds |
|
|
| Miscellaneous reductions
and refunds of less than $10,000 each from grants made under
various programs in past years |
$(227,569) |
$(227,569) |
| Chicago, University
of |
|
|
| Distribution of Peterson
Commission report on foundations |
2,500 |
|
| Council on
Foundations |
|
|
| General support
[$100,000-1968] |
|
21,250 |
| Edison Institute
(Michigan) |
|
|
| General support of
institute's collection of Americana and educational activities
[$20,000,000-1969] |
|
4,000,000 |
| United
Foundation |
|
|
| Detroit-area charitable
activities [$1,150,000-1966, 1970] |
300,000 |
550,000 |
| U.S.
Government |
|
|
| White House conference on
the industrial world ahead |
50,000 |
|
| Total grants, General |
$ 124,931 |
$ 4,343,681 |
| TOTAL GRANTS |
$176,178,236 |
$223,983,884 |
FOUNDATION MANAGED CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES
are administered directly by the Foundation rather than by
grantees. The first column shows activities approved during fiscal
1971; the second, total 1971 expenditures for activities approved
in fiscal 1971 or earlier.
|
Authorized
(Reductions) |
Expenditures |
| Ford Foundation oral
history research collection |
$ 232,800 |
$ 11,126 |
| Travel and study
grants |
843,807 |
2,227,228 |
| Total Foundation Managed
Charitable Activities, General |
$ 1,076,607 |
$
2,238,354 |
| TOTAL FOUNDATION
MANAGED CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES |
$ 18,890,372 |
$
19,234,059 |
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
The
Foundation carried well toward completion this year a special
transitional program of support for international training and
research at American universities. Through a series of major grants
in the 1950s and 1960s, the Foundation played a major role in
developing area studies centers and related international programs
at more than twenty universities. The interim program is continuing
limited assistance for some of these activities during a period
when expectations of alternative funding from the Federal
government or otherwise have been disappointed.
Sixteen
universities have thus far received grants totaling nearly $6
million under the program. Among them this year were the University
of California (Berkeley), and the Universities of Chicago,
Michigan, Pittsburgh, Washington, and Wisconsin. The grants
typically support faculty research and fellowships for study on
South and Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America,
and Europe.
The
Foundation also supports research and training on major
developmental problems. One such grant this year continued
assistance to Yale University's Economic Growth Center, which
emphasizes empirical and quantitative analyses of the development
process. Country studies have been prepared by Yale's development
economists on Brazil, Nigeria, Argentina, Mexico, and Israel, and
other research is going forward on the role of foreign investment,
stages of economic development, and income distribution.
The
Foundation continued to assist urban and regional studies at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology focusing on problems created
by rapid urbanization, a phenomenon common throughout the
developing world. The program offers a nine-month course for
mid-career urban specialists from the developing world.