City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $20 Million (original) (raw)

New York|City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $20 Million

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July 6, 2005

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has expanded the breadth of his personal philanthropy during each of his four years as mayor, has showered another $20 million on 400 New York City arts and social services groups through a gift to the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

The donation, announced yesterday, represents the largest of four gifts the mayor has made through the Carnegie Corporation, which has been his vehicle for giving $55 million to local charities, ostensibly anonymously. The donations will aid a vast array of local organizations across the city as the mayor seeks re-election this year.

While Mr. Bloomberg's record of philanthropy predates his mayoralty, community and cultural groups and social-service organizations in New York City are as likely to be beneficiaries these days as medical centers in Baltimore or professorships at Harvard.

Carnegie Foundation officials and an aide to the mayor confirmed, on the condition of anonymity, that Mr. Bloomberg had made the donations. That Mr. Bloomberg is the source of the Carnegie contributions has long been an open secret and cannot help but benefit the mayor politically. The donations doled out through Carnegie range from 10,000to10,000 to 10,000to100,000 per group.

"For the fourth consecutive year, through the generosity of an anonymous donor, Carnegie Corporation of New York is making grants to small- and medium-sized New York City arts and social service institutions in all five boroughs that contribute to the culture, health, welfare and vibrancy of the city," the corporation announced yesterday.

Vartan Gregorian, Carnegie's president, said that recipients of the 406 grants were determined by the corporation and "reflect the donor's wishes to reach out to a mixture of neighborhood organizations that touch the artistic life of the city and help to meet the myriad social needs of its citizens."

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