Brooklyn Public Library
Amount
$15,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2009
Location
Brooklyn, NY
For the “Support our Shelves” campaign in five branch libraries.
Grants
Year 2009
Urban Affairs $325,000
Citizens Housing and Planning Council
Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support Phase III of “One Size Fits Some: A Fresh Look at Housing and Space Standards in New York City,” a project to expand housing choices, enhance access to housing, and improve safety in shared accommodations.
Columbia University
Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $2,355,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2006-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the Charles H. Revson Fellows Program on the Future of New York City.
Food Bank for New York City
Amount
$21,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the purchase of critically-needed food to help alleviate hunger in New York City.
Legal Aid Society
Amount
$100,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the “Economic Security Initiative,” which provides crucial legal assistance to meet economic challenges.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Amount
$0
Year 1 of eight-year grant totaling $4,000,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2006-2013
Location
New York, NY
To support the rebuilding and renaming of the Charles H. Revson Fountain.
Macaulay Honors College
Amount
$75,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To create the Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars Program, providing fellowship stipends to 10 Macaulay students interested in civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to New York City.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the development of a four-year financial plan that addresses the long-term structural problems associated with maintaining sound fiscal and budgetary policy in New York State.
New York Public Interest Research Group Fund
Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the 2010 efforts of the Straphangers Campaign to serve as advocates for millions of daily users of the New York City metropolitan transit system.
New York Public Library
Amount
$25,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the purchase of more than 600 new e-books and e-audiobooks for young readers.
New York University School of Law
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $1,727,700
Category
Urban Affairs
Years
2008-2010
Location
New York, NY
For continued support of the Charles H. Revson Law Students Public Interest Fellowship Program (LSPIN) , enabling at least 100 New York-area law students to work with public interest law organizations during the summer.
ReServe Elder Service
Amount
$14,000
Category
Urban Affairs
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To conduct a feasibility study on the use of retired professionals to restore program services in the New York City Public Library systems, supporting branch libraries as community centers of learning and communication.
Jewish Life $365,000
ACRI [New Israel Fund]
Amount
$10,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To investigate the establishment of Community Development Corporations and other nonprofit community-housing institutions in the United States for their potential application to the development of affordable housing for low- and medium-income residents in Israel.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Amount
$25,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support and upgrade core functions of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues.
Bema’aglei Tzedek
Amount
$20,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
Jerusalem, Israel
To support core work of educating and engaging young Israelis to be agents of social change, rooted in Jewish values, on behalf of workers’ rights and the rights of the disabled.
Brandeis University
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
Waltham, MA
To provide scholarships for incoming undergraduate students and to support the Krupp Scholarship Challenge grant.
Brooklyn Jews/Congregation Beth Elohim
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $100,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2009
Location
Brooklyn, NY
To support the continuation of the Next-Generation Leadership project.
Brooklyn Jews/Congregation Beth Elohim
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
Brooklyn, NY
To augment the capacity of the website to build community.
Congregation Kehillath Israel
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
Brookline, MA
To support a rabbinic hesed intern, who will organize the community in providing attention and care to members in crisis.
Friends of the Library of the Supreme Court of Israel
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $90,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2012
Location
Hartford, CT
To support the English translation and online posting of significant opinions of the 2008, 2009, and 2010 terms of the Supreme Court of Israel.
IKAR
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $100,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2009
Location
Los Angeles, CA
To support the continuation of the Next-Generation Leadership project.
Israel: Portrait of a Work in Progress [American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $75,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2009-2010
Location
New York, NY
To support 10 Israeli photography students from Bezalel Academy—five in 2009 and five in 2010—as apprentices to the master photographers in Frederic Brenner’s multi-year project, Israel: Portrait of a Work in Progress.
Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
Amount
$0
Year 1 of five-year grant totaling $4,700,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2007-2011
Location
Jerusalem, Israel
For continued support of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and its Environmental Policy Center.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Amount
$50,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To complete the funding for the JTA Digital News Database, making 90 years of JTA’s global journalism about the Jewish people available and searchable online.
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $500,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2009-2012
Location
New York, NY
To support the creation of the Center for Pastoral Education .
MEET: Middle East Education through Technology [PEF Israel Endowments]
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $500,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2009-2011
Location
New York, NY
To support Phase 2 of MEET’s organizational growth and capacity-building to expand regionally in Israel and increase the number of participants.
Natan Fund
Amount
$15,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
For general support.
Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development
Amount
$50,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
Beer Sheva, Israel
To support the two unique gap-year service-learning programs developed by NISPED’s Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation that enable Palestinian-Israeli youth to participate in civic service in Israel.
New York University – Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $325,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2011
Location
New York, NY
To support marketing and public education of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive (BJPA) , online and through conferences and lectures.
Piyut North America [Congregation B’nai Jeshurun]
Amount
$100,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
For support of ‘Invitation to Piyut: North America,’ to convene a working retreat in the New-York area of a national group of 80 rabbis, cantors, and leaders of established synagogues and independent prayer groups to learn the music of Piyut and disseminate it to North American communities.
United Jewish Communities
Amount
$50,000
Category
Jewish Life
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To participate in the UJC Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Amount
$0
Year 1 of four-year grant totaling $450,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2008-2011
Location
Washington, DC
To support the Charles H. Revson Fellowships for Archival Research at the US Holocaust Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies .
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amount
$0
Year 1 of ten-year grant totaling $250,000
Category
Jewish Life
Years
2003-2012
Location
Chapel Hill, NC
To support a program at the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies in honor of Eli N. Evans, President Emeritus of the Revson Foundation.
Biomedical Research $0
Columbia University Medical Center
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $333,322
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2008-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support two fellows in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Columbia University Medical Center
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $170,752
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2009-2010
Location
New York, NY
To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $141,514
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2008-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Rockefeller University
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $346,966
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2008-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support two fellows in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Rockefeller University
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $350,083
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2009-2010
Location
New York, NY
To support two fellows in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $155,901
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2008-2009
Location
New York, NY
To support a fellow in the Charles H. Revson Senior Fellowships in Biomedical Science Program.
Weizmann Institute of Science
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $252,000
Category
Biomedical Research
Years
2009-2011
Location
Rehovot, Israel
To contribute six awards to the Weizmann Institute of Science’s National Postdoctoral Program for Advancing Women in Science.
Education $195,000
American Democracy Institute
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2009
Location
Washington, DC
To design and launch ADI’s Mentoring Program for 2009.
Barnard College
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the implementation of an integrated, inquiry-based Biology Department curriculum, ‘The Functional Genomics of Manduca Sexta.’
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Amount
$5,000
Category
Education
Year
2009
Location
Washington, DC
To inaugurate the Open Communities Fund.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Amount
$0
Year 1 of three-year grant totaling $900,000
Category
Education
Years
2008-2010
Location
Washington, DC
To support the Center’s analytic, communications, and capacity-building activities related to important debates around federal budget priorities.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Amount
$50,000
Category
Education
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the launch of The Reconstruction of American Journalism, a report by Leonard Downie, Jr. and Michael Schudson with policy recommendations on the future of accountability reporting.
Elon University
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2009
Location
Elon, NC
To conduct a study on how best to teach first-year students the essential writing, technology, and research skills required for success in higher education and the workplace.
Fiscal Policy Institute
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $200,000
Category
Education
Years
2009-2010
Location
Albany, NY
For support of research, public education, and advocacy work on budget, economic, and related policy issues that affect low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.
Macaulay Honors College
Amount
$75,000
Category
Education
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To create the Lisa Goldberg/Revson Scholars Program, providing fellowship stipends to 10 Macaulay students interested in public and civic engagement, with a special emphasis on service to New York City.
National Coalition Against Censorship
Amount
$15,000
Category
Education
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the ‘Kids’ Right to Read Project’ and ‘The Knowledge Project: Censorship and Science.’
New York University – Tisch School of the Arts
Amount
$5,000
Category
Education
Year
2009
Location
New York, NY
To support the Red Burns Scholarship Fund at the Interactive Telecommunications Program.
State of the USA
Amount
$0
Year 1 of two-year grant totaling $250,000
Category
Education
Years
2009-2010
Location
Washington, DC
To support the development and launch of the website. xxx
Memberships $53,400
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Amount
$5,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2009
For membership in the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues in 2010.
Council on Foundations
Amount
$20,050
Category
Memberships
Year
2009
For membership in 2010.
Foundation Center
Amount
$7,500
Category
Memberships
Year
2009
For membership in 2010.
Jewish Funders Network
Amount
$8,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2009
For membership in 2010.
Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York
Amount
$3,000
Category
Memberships
Year
2009
For membership in 2010.
Philanthropy New York
Amount
$9,850
Category
Memberships
Year
2009
For membership in 2010.
Total: $938,400