More than 60 Jewish hospitals and homes for the aged were the recipients of $7,284,100 in the record-breaking $500 million Ford Foundation grant to privately supported institutions announced here yesterday. In New York City, 22 institutions received $3,515,000 of the total figure. In addition, two Jewish-sponsored colleges received $865,400 of the grants to private institutions of higher learning.
Sharing in the college grants were Brandeis University, with $662,200, and Yeshiva University, with $203,200. In the hospitals category, the listings included those institutions which the Foundation believed to be eligible, with final determination of eligible hospitals and exact grants still to be made.
The Foundation itself did not list any breakdown of grants on the basis of sectarian affiliation. In addition to the grants listed, it was assumed here that Yeshiva University’s new Albert Einstein College of Medicine would receive a grant when the actual disposition of awards from a $90 million fund for privately supported medical schools is made.
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