The Gladys Brooks Foundation was created under the Will of
Gladys Brooks Thayer of New York. Its purpose is to provide for the intellectual,
moral and physical welfare of the people of this country by establishing
and supporting non-profit libraries, educational institutions, hospitals
and clinics.
The grant making body of the Foundation is the Governing Board. As a matter of policy, the Foundation will make grants only to publicly supported, tax-exempt organizations. The Board follows the practice of determining at the beginning of each calendar year a limited scope of activities for which it will consider grant applications for that year.
In 2007 the Governing Board concentrated on grants to private not-for-profit publicly supported libraries, educational institutions, hospitals and clinics. The following institutions received major grant payments from the Foundation in 2007:
| Canterbury School New Milford, Connecticut |
$100,000.00 | |
| College of Saint Rose Albany, New York |
$100,000.00 | |
Fairbanks Museum &
Planetarium |
$100,000.00 | |
| Fairfield University Fairfield, Connecticut |
$100,000.00 | |
| Friends of the Randolph Public Library Gorham, New Hampshire |
$100,000.00 | |
| Georgetown University Washington, D.C. |
$100,000.00 | |
| Indian River Medical Center Vero Beach, Florida |
$105,000.00 | |
| Henry Viscardi School Albertson, New York |
$100,000.00 | |
| Morris-Jumel Mansion New York, New York |
$61,700.00 | |
| New York Academy of Medicine New York, New York |
$100,000.00 | |
| Rotacare, Inc. Uniondale, New York |
$50,000.00 | |
Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center |
$100,000.00 | |
| Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana |
$100,000.00 | |
| Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA |
$100,000.00 | |
| University of Notre Dame du Lac Notre Dame, Indiana |
$100,000.00 |
New York, New York
January 17, 2008