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Although the number of trustees varied from time to time, during the most active years of the Foundation's work (1953 to 1958), the number of trustees stood at seven.
Emil Schwarzhaupt - August 5, 1936 to March 30, 1950 (Deceased)1
Leo Gerngross - August 5, 1936 to May 31, 1958 (Deceased)
Frederic P. Lee - August 5, 1936 to October 1968 (Deceased)
Pauline Gerngross - March 1, 1939 to August 24, 1949
Lillian Rumford - March 1, 1939 to October 1, 1942
Leonard Rieser - May 17, 1955 to March 10, 1958 (Deceased)
Hugo Sonnenschein - May 18, 1950 to September 1, 1956 (Deceased)
Charles H. Tuttle - September 15, 1953 to June 17, 1958
Ethel Wise - September 15, 1953 to September 12, 1954
Robert N. Montgomery - May 22, 1954 to April 27, 1967 (Deceased)
Richard Reid - September 15, 1953 to January 24, 1961 (Deceased)
Barbara Blincoe - December 4, 1968 to March 31, 1975
Adolph Hirsch - May 18, 1950 to present date
Ralph W. Tyler - May 27, 1957 to present date
Bernard H. Goldfluss - August 24, 1949 to May 18, 1950 and November 7, 1958 to present date
Sidney B. Becker - December 6, 1967 to present date
President
Emil Schwarzhaupt August 5, 1936 to March 30, 1950
Leo Gerngross May 18, 1950 to May 31, 1958
Adolph Hirsch June 17, 1958 to present dateVice-President
Leo Gerngross August 5, 1936 to May 18, 1950
Hugo Sonnenschein May 18, 1950 to April 27, 1953
Leonard Rieser - April 27, 1953 to March 10, 19582
Richard Reid - May 22, 1959 to January 24, 1961
Ralph W. Tyler - April 19, 1961 to present dateSecretary
Frederic P. Lee - August 5, 1946 to December 17, 1965
Bernard H. Goldfluss December 17, 1965 to present dateTreasurer
Emil Schwarzhaupt - August 5, 1936 to March 30, 1950
Adolph Hirsch - May 18, 1950 to May 22, 1959
Bernard H. Goldfluss - May 22, 1959 to present dateAssistant Treasurer
Marie H. Ganley - June 17, 1958 to November 5, 1960
Ruth McCullum - November 15, 1960 to November 1, 1962 (Deceased)
Therese M. Powell - December 27, 1962 to present dateAssistant Secretary
Therese M. Powell - December 27, 1962 to present date
Consultant and Executive Secretary
Carl Tjerandsen May 19, 1953 to present date
1The designation "Deceased" indicates
that the Trustee or officer served in that capacity until his
death.
2All officers (excluding the Assistant Secretary and
the Assistant Treasurers) were also Trustees, except Leonard
Rieser who served as Vice-President before he was elected as a
Trustee.
University of Chicago: To advise the Foundation on grant policy
December 1951 - $25,300
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Arrow Inc./American Indian Development: Community development work with Navajo at Crownpoint, N.M.
Calendar years 1956 and 1957 - $31,000
Annual renewals 1958, 1959 and 1960 - $93,000
Employ Navajo manager for Community House - $4,800
Total - $128,800
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University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology: Citizenship education among Fox Indians at Tama, Iowa
Four years beginning July 1954 - $60,000
One year beginning July 1958 (period extended until July 1960) - $14,000
Total - $74,000
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American Indian Center, Chicago: To assist acculturation of Indians
Three years beginning July 1957 - $45,000
Three years beginning 1959 - $22,500
Total - $67,500
University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology:
To support American Indian Chicago Conference, 1961 - $14,800
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Association on American Indian Affairs/American Indian Development: Workshops for American Indian College Students
Summers of 1959, 1960 and 1961 - $10,000
Preparation of final report - $900
Total - $10,900
Arrow, Inc.: Citizenship education among Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge, S.D.
Six months beginning July 1956 - $6,000
Renewal for six months - $2,500
Total - $8,500
American Friends Service Committee: Community organization, Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge, S.D.
Four annual grants beginning July 1954 - $34,400
Unitarian Service Committee: To provide voter information among Zuni and Navajo near Gallup, N.M.
One year-1956 - $11,800
Industrial Areas Foundation: Community organization activities among Mexican-Americans in California2
Three years beginning July 1953 - $150,000
Community Service Organization consolidation program
Three years beginning July 1955 - $186,000
CSO education program
Three years beginning July 1955 - $60,000
Expansion of CSO education program
Three years beginning July 1958 - $89,400
Special women's education program
Two years beginning January 1961 - $19,000
Consulting assistance to strengthen community service organizations
One year-1963 - $17,000
Preparation of final report - $5,000
Total - $526,400
Highlander Folk School: Community leader training in the South
Three years beginning July 1953 - $44,100
Renewal for three years beginning May 1956 - $56,150
Leader and team training for citizenship schools
April 1961 - $11,503
Preparation of final report - $15,000
Total - $126,753
Migrant Ministry, Division of Christian Life and Mission: Community organizing among agricultural migrants
Three years beginning January 1957 - $90,030
Preparation of final report - $4,000
Total - $94,030
Total grant support to assist citizens to secure and use their civic rights as citizens - $747,183
Industrial Areas Foundation: To establish a citizens organization in Woodlawn, South Chicago
For three years beginning January 1961 - $69,996
For services to Chelsea Community Council, New York City
One year beginning July 1959 ($14,800 less balance returned) - $12,090
Total - $82,086
National Conference of Catholic Charities: To establish citizen organizations in:
Lackawanna, N.Y.
Three years beginning July 1956 - $45,300
Butte, Montana
Two years beginning February 1959 ($63,771) and a supplemental grant for the same period ($18,000); one additional year beginning June 1961 ($16,800) - $98,571
Total - $143,871
Hudson Guild: To establish a citizens organization in Chelsea in New York City
Two years beginning July 1956 ($44,200);
One year beginning July 1958 ($6,200, less $1,653 returned upon dissolution of the CCC)
Total - $48,747
Preparation of final report - $6,400
Total - $55,147
Grants in support of efforts to apply IAF principles - $281,104
Neighborhood Houses
Hull House: To promote citizen participation in an urban planning program
Three years beginning November 1954; extended to end of 1958 - $41,100
Preparation of final report - $3,000
Total - $44,100
Kenwood-Ellis Community Center: To promote citizen participation in an urban planning and conservation program and in block organization
One year beginning September 1955 - $7,300
Three years beginning November 1956 - $63,300
Total - $70,600
Howell Neighborhood House: Strengthen Pilsen Neighbors and develop community leaders
Three years beginning September 1955 - $30,000
Two and one-half years beginning March 1956 - $11,250
Total - $41,250
South Chicago Community Center: To develop a citizen participation project in a public housing project
Three years beginning September 1955 - $68,700
Renewal for one year beginning September 1958 - $22,900
Renewal for one year beginning September 1959 - $22,900
Total - $114,500
Lower North Center: To develop a community organization in public housing project
Three years beginning January 1956 - $30,500
One year beginning January 1959 - $10,500
Total - $41,000
Freedom House: To develop citizen organization in Roxbury area of Boston
Two calendar years beginning January 1958 - $20,000
Renewal for two years beginning January 1960 - $16,000
Total - $36,000
Colony House: To develop citizen organization in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Three years beginning January 1958 - $35,250
Total grants to support learning to work with others through neighborhood houses - $382,700
Community/Metropolitan Associations
Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference: To further citizen participation in community improvement
Three years beginning July 1954 - $30,000
Renewal for three years beginning July 1957 - $24,000
Preparation, printing and promotion of sale of final report-1956- $7,300
Education program on housing rehabilitation for volunteers and block leaders-two years beginning July 1960 - $20,000
Total - $81,300
Citizens Planning and Housing Association of Baltimore: To expand citizen involvement in housing, planning and zoning programs in Baltimore County
Two years beginning July 1957 - $30,016
Renewal July 1959 to April 1961 - $11,000
Total - $41,016
United Community Fund of San Francisco: To assist citizens to form neighborhood councils
Two years beginning January 1958 - $36,000
Six months beginning May 1960 - $7,500
Total - $43,500
Better Housing League of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Inc.: To organize citizens in deteriorating neighborhoods
Two years beginning July 1959 - $18,000
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Welfare Council of Metropolitan Chicago: To strengthen citizen organizations in Chicago neighborhoods
Three years beginning November 1956 - $97,7784
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Metropolitan Housing and Planning Council of Chicago: To assist neighborhood organizations to use technical information and counsel effectively
Three years beginning March 1957 - $49,200
Preparation of final report - $2,500
Total - $51,700
Total grants to support learning to work with others through community /metropolitan associations - $333,294
Colleges
Earlham College: To assist citizens to organize to solve community problems
Three years beginning July 1957 - $36,156
Preparation of final report - $1,344
Total - $37,500
Goddard College: To assist citizens to cope with change in Vermont communities
Two years beginning September 1959 - $28,200
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Total grants to support learning to work with others through colleges and universities - $65,700
Grand total of grants to support learning to work with others toward common ends - $781,694
Adult Education Projects
Roosevelt University: To develop a functional grasp of English in the context of American culture
Two years beginning July 1953 - $29,500
To continue program and to adapt methods to public adult schools
Three years beginning July 1955 - $28,725
Preparation of final report - $750
Total - $58,975
American Council for Emigres in the Professions: To develop the ability of émigré professional-level persons to function in American society mo re effectively
One year grants between 1953 and 1974 - $117,500
University of Miami/School of Continuing Studies: To assist émigré to acquire a functional grasp of English
Varying grants between 1970 and 1977 - $41,173
Chicago Commons Association: To improve civic abilities through combining adult education with social group work
Three years beginning September 1958 - $18,400
Total grants to adult education projects - $236,048
Training Projects
Citizens Information Service of Chicago: To train citizens in the use of voter information as part of community action
Annual grants 1954-1958 - $65,000
Penn Community Center: For workshops to train leaders in civic affairs in black communities
One year beginning July 1958 - $2,000
Two years beginning July 1959 - $2,600
Total - $4,600
South Carolina Council on Human Relations: To train leadership in black organizations
Grant for 1960 - $5,000
Migrant Ministry: To train field staff to use a community focus for its program
Three years beginning January 1957 - $22,500
Supplemental grants 1959 and 1960 - $6,850
Total - $29,350
National Training Laboratories, Inc.: To establish laboratory in
community leadership training-1960 - $5,000
University of Chicago/Center for Community Leader Training/Human Relations Center: To train neighborhood leaders and professionals to work on community rehabilitation
Two years beginning September 1954 - $27,000
To cover added personnel costs and extend project to August 1957 - $7,500
Total - $34,500
New School for Social Research/Study Center in Community Participation: To train citizens and professionals to make community organizations more effective
Three annual grants beginning July 1954 - $36,000
New York University/Center for Community and Field Services: To help community leaders learn to make better use of community resources
Three years beginning July 1954 - $45,000
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Total of grants for training - $224,450
Research Project
University of Michigan/Survey Research Center:
To study patterns of leadership and motivation in the League of Women Voters-July 1956 - $110,000
To apply results of the study - $34,450
Total - $144,450
Total of grants for education, training and research - $604,948
Fellowship House, Philadelphia:
To expand intergroup relations program through training of adult leaders - $10,800
To assist other fellowship houses - $12,000
To prepare a final report - $2,000
Total for three years beginning July 1953 - $24,800
To expand Arrow Program into high schools
Three years beginning July 1956 - $12,000
To expand Arrow program outside of Philadelphia
Two years beginning July 1959 - $8,000
To print Arrow manual 1,350
Total - $46,150
Fellowship House, Cincinnati: To develop democratic attitudes in children
Annual grants for 1957, 1958 and 1959 - $5,600
Lincoln Filene Center for Civic Education-Tufts University: To produce curriculum materials on public issues for use in high schools
September 1953 - $25,000
November 1954 - $22,000
November 1957 - $1,000
Total - $48,000
Benton House, Chicago: To develop more responsible behavior through group work methods
Three years beginning July 1956 - $42,000
One year beginning July 1959 - $14,000
Total - $56,000
National 4-H Club Foundation: To explore possibility of basing 4-H citizenship program on human relations principles and train personnel in methods
Three years beginning January 1955 - $80,000
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.: To support experimental citizenship program efforts in low-income urban areas
Two years beginning July 1955 - $20,000
Two years beginning January 1958 - $15,000
Total - $35,000
New York City Mission Society: Citizenship training for Puerto Rican youth
One year beginning January 1957 - $2,000
YWCA of Mississippi: To expand citizenship program to black girls in rural areas
Three years beginning July 1959 - $31,700
Subtotal of grants in support of projects for children and adolescents - $304,450
Programs for Young Adults
American Friends Service Committee/Interns-in-Community Service: To heighten understanding of possibilities of solving public problems in low-income areas of Chicago and Oakland
Annual grants for period July 1953 to June 1960 in Oakland - $57,000
Annual grants for period July 1955 to August 1959 in Chicago - $29,500
Total - $86,500
National Opinion Research Center: To undertake study of AFSC Interns-in-Community Service program
1958-59 - $5,536
Encampment for Citizenship: Study to evaluate encampment public affairs program
Beginning 1955 - $10,000
To expand encampment program
Two years beginning July 1956 - $50,480
Two years beginning July 1958 - $24,000
Support for 1960 West Coast encampment - $5,000
Support for 1961 West Coast encampment - $5,000
Preparation of final report-1958-1960 - $5,000
Printing and distribution of final report - $2000
Total - $101,480
Citizenship Clearing House: To help college students gain understanding of party politics
One year beginning November 1954 - $13,400
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Springfield College: To improve citizenship through the extracurriculum
Three years beginning July 1956 - $32,400
Preparation of final report - $1,938
Total - $34,338
Subtotal of grants in support of projects for young adults - $241,254
Grand total of grants to support efforts to prepare for adult citizenship - $545,704
In addition to the grants recorded above, a few small grants were made which, though related to the Foundation's general purposes, did not fit into the categories comprising the overwhelming proportion of the projects for which funds were granted. Some projects grew out of the work of the University of Chicago's Committee on Education for American Citizenship; others were approved because they offered an opportunity to provide a significant benefit at small cost.
Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago: Support of national conference of Catholic interracial councils - $3,500
Columbia University/Legislative Drafting Research Fund: Preparation and publication of a compilation of state constitutions - $15,000
Highlander Education and Research Center: To begin citizen education program on legal rights of citizens in justice-of-the-peace courts - $10,000
Immigrant Service League of Chicago: To assist integration of immigrants into American society - $4,000
Muskingum College: Contribution to memorial for Dr. Robert N. Montgomery, former trustee - $1,200
National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers: Toward support of national workshop for settlement workers on citizen participation - $5,700
National Institute for Labor Education: To support meetings of task force to promote community involvement of labor union officials and members - $4,000
New York University/Center for Human Relations Studies: To print a report on problems of Puerto Ricans in New York City - $300
University of California at Santa Cruz/College Seven and Cowell College: To support Septima Clark's seminar on community involvement for advanced students - $3,000
University of Chicago/Department of Education: Travel funds for study on community development and adult education (conducted by Roy Ingham) - $740
Evaluative review of current practices in citizenship education (conducted by Leonard Gardner) - $200
Department of Political Science: Research study to develop more adequate body of principles for guiding and judging programs of citizen education (conducted by Robert Horwitz) - $3,000
Subtotal of Miscellaneous - $50,640
Grand total of grants made from restricted funds - $3,361,9735
1. This list (excluding the initial grant to the University of Chicago) shows the grants made pursuant to the policy adopted by the trustees of the Foundation based on the report of the Committee on Education for American Citizenship. In some cases, the grants shown are net amounts after reappropriations were made for other grant purposes, such as preparation, printing or duplication of reports or after unexpended balances were returned to the Foundation.
2. A three-year grant in the amount of $150,000 was made on April 27, 1953, on the basis of an application dated Sept. 14, 1951, for $100,000 per year for three years. Because of the time necessarily required by the Committee on Education for American Citizenship to complete its report, the trustees voted to make an interim grant from unrestricted funds of $15,000, which was forwarded on Dec. 3, 1951, to the lAF.
3. In Woodlawn, of course, the IAF was applying its own principles.
4. Of the original grant of - $130,653, the sum of - $32,875 was returned at the grantee's request.
5. Upon dissolution of the Foundation, any unexpended funds are to be conveyed to the American Council for Emigres in the Professions.
Cash on April 1, 1950 | $85,017.39 |
Other assets on April 1, 1950, including securities at cost | $27,112.50 |
Total assets at beginning of period under review |
$112,129.89 |
Add: IncomeDividends, interest and rent |
$436,233.73 |
Profit on sale of securities and unimproved land |
$991,739.70 |
Contributions received (in cash or securities)1 | |
Estate of Emil Schwarzhaupt | $2,318,345.98 |
Adolph Hirsch | $40,000.00 |
Others | $6,070.00 |
Total contributions received | $2,364,415.98 |
Total gross resources received as of December 31, 1978 | $3,904,519.30 |
Deduct: Disbursements | |
Salaries, consultant's fees, legal and accounting costs |
$223,646.90 |
Sales commissions on sales of unimproved land |
$9,899.11 |
Preparation of Foundation's final report and travel expenses |
$45,900.47 |
Internal Revenue Service excise taxes paid |
$1,860.34 |
Rent and sundry |
$46,452.35 |
Total administration and general expenses: | $ 327,759.17 |
Contributions paid:2 | $3,457,151.55 |
Total disbursements to December 31, 1978: | $3,784,910.72 |
Net assets as of December 31, 1978: | $119,608.58 |
Schedule of contributions made: |
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Contributions Since April 1, 1950 | Percentage of Total Grants |
Class A: $2,599,914.04 | 75.3 |
Class B: $140,435.95 | 4.0 |
Class C: $653,161.56 | 18.9 |
Unclassified: $63,640.00 | 1.8 |
Total: $3,457,151.55 | 100.0 |
For an explanation of Class A, etc., see Chapter 1. The unclassified category includes grants made prior to the grant policy decisions by the trustees pursuant to the report of the Com-mittee on Education for American Citizenship presented on April 27, 1953.