Some $6,600,000 in grants to educational, medical and welfare agencies were announced here yesterday by the William J. Wollman Foundation, set up by Miss Kate Wollman, sister of the late Jewish financier and philanthropist. The grants virtually exhaust the foundation’s assets.
Among the grants were: $1,000,000 to Mt. Sinai Hospital; $200,000 to Montefiore Hospital; $250,000 to Maimonides Hospital; $92,000 to the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind; $100,000 to the Jewish Child Care Association of New York, $100,000 to the 92nd St. YM-YWHA and $100,000 to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University. All these institutions are located in New York.
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