Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on February 21, 2013. New grants are posted every Thursday.

Announcements of grants can be sent to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.

Date Chronicle Announced Grant Maker Grant Maker's Location Subject How Much Was Given Description
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Disaster relief $185,000 To develop a disaster-preparedness and -response plan for older New Yorkers: $185,000 to the New York Academy of Medicine (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Disaster relief $60,000 To protect Superstorm Sandy workers from hazardous conditions: $60,000 to the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Disaster relief $50,000 To manage a community planning process for neighborhoods affected by Superstorm Sandy: $50,000 to the Pratt Institute (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Disaster relief $120,000 To provide online legal resources for people harmed by Superstorm Sandy: $120,000 to Pro Bono Net (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Housing $40,000 To advocate for improvements in the city's housing courts: $40,000 to New York U., Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Financial education $80,000 To coordinate a network of four financial education and counseling services for immigrant residents: $80,000 to the Northwestern Queens Financial Education Network (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Housing $40,000 For research and advocacy to move foreclosed and other vacant properties back on the market to house poor families and individuals: $40,000 to Picture the Homeless (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Financial education $70,000 To provide financial education and counseling to public-housing residents: $70,000 to Pratt Area Community Council (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Employment and training $50,000 For projects in East Harlem that will screen and refer job seekers, create an online guide of local social services, and design an online business-to-business directory: $50,000 to the Union Settlement Association (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Cancer $800,000 To provide financial assistance to needy cancer patients: $800,000 to Cancer Care (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Cancer $100,000 To provide nutritious meals for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation: $100,000 to God's Love We Deliver (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Cancer $100,000 To help people with cancer get treatment: $100,000 to New York Legal Assistance Group (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Health insurance $150,000 To advise state officials developing a health-insurance exchange: $150,000 to the United Hospital Fund of New York (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Health care and hospitals $75,000 To train young practicing physicians to advocate for changes in health care: $75,000 to Cornell U., Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. HIV/AIDS $50,000 For an exhibit and educational program about the first five years of the AIDS epidemic in New York City: $50,000 to New-York Historical Society (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Aging and health $100,000 To help this organization become a managed long-term care provider: $100,000 to Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Aging and health $100,000 To train home health aides to provide post-hospital rehabilitation services to chronically ill older adults: $100,000 to Visiting Nurse Service of New York (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy $35,000 To hire a new coordinator: $35,000 to the New York City Arts Coalition (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy $125,000 For an awards program promoting excellence in nonprofit management: $125,000 to the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 New York Community Trust N.Y. Arts and culture $50,000 To conduct and coordinate research and advocacy on places where artists can live and work together and promote their collective creativity: $50,000 to New York Naturally Occurring Cultural District Working Group (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 AARP Foundation D.C. Elderly $780,000 To provide home-repair services to needy homeowners ages 50 and older: $250,000 each to Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.), and Rebuilding Together (Washington, D.C.), $200,000 to Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (East Boston, Mass.), and $80,000 to the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition (Lansing, Mich.).
2/21/2013 Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation Va. Disabled $62,900 To extend its Autistic Campus Leadership Academy for autistic college students: $62,900 to the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (Washington, D.C.).
2/21/2013 Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation Va. Disabled $149,578 To enable college students and recent graduates with disabilities to be mentored by business professionals: $149,578 to the US Business Leadership Network (Alexandria, Va.).
2/21/2013 Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation Va. Disabled $159,990 To place college students with disabilities in summer internships with international-affairs organizations: $159,990 over two years to the U.S. International Council on Disability (Washington, D.C.).
2/21/2013 Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation Va. Disabled $37,502 To find and share ways to place students with serious disabilities in competitive jobs: $37,502 to the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio).
2/21/2013 Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation Va. Disabled $127,474 To provide adventure leadership training to high-school students with intellectual disabilities: $127,474 over two years to Wilderness Inquiry (Minneapolis, Minn.).
2/21/2013 Jewish Healthcare Foundation Pa. Health $50,000 To develop, coordinate, and convene a national health-care work force summit: $50,000 to the National Association of Workforce Board (Washington, D.C.).
2/21/2013 Jewish Healthcare Foundation Pa. Social services $100,000 To feed hungry people and provide shelter to the homeless: $100,000 to East End Cooperative Ministry (Pittsburgh, Pa.).
2/21/2013 Jewish Healthcare Foundation Pa. Social services $900,000 To help Jewish people with their health needs: $900,000 to the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pa.).
2/21/2013 Scripps Howard Foundation Ohio Journalism $250,000 To start a news service in south Florida: $250,000 to Florida International U., School of Journalism and Mass Communication (Miami, Fla.).
2/21/2013 TJX Companies Mass. Alzheimers disease and dementia $1,000,000 To care for people with the disease and for research: $1,000,000 to the Alzheimer's Association (Chicago, Ill.).
2/21/2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Higher education $1,190,000 To build associate's degree programs in information technology: $1,190,000 over three years to Western Governors U. Texas (Austin, Tex.).
2/21/2013 Ray Charles Foundation Calif. Music $3,000,000 For its music academic building: $3,000,000 to Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.).
2/21/2013 AXA Foundation N.Y. Disaster relief $250,000 For disaster-preparedness and -relief efforts: $250,000 to the American Red Cross (Washington, D.C.).
2/21/2013 Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Fla. Religion $200,000 For its Black Church Studies Program: $200,000 to Louisville Seminary (Louisville, Ky.).
2/21/2013 Mutual of Omaha Foundation Neb. Hunger $75,000 For general operating support: $75,000 to the Food Bank for the Heartland (Omaha, Neb.).
2/21/2013 Mutual of Omaha Foundation Neb. Housing $150,000 For its capital campaign: $150,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Omaha (Omaha, Neb.).
2/21/2013 New York Life Foundation N.Y. September 11 grant $5,000,000 For an education center: $5,000,000 to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum (New York, N.Y.).
2/21/2013 Alcoa Foundation Pa. Engineering $50,000 For outreach programs on five college campuses to inspire girls to pursue careers in engineering: $50,000 to the Society of Women Engineers.
2/21/2013 Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Md. Housing $1,000,000 To build low-cost, energy-efficient houses and parks in three neighborhoods in Baltimore: $1,000,000 over two years to Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake (Baltimore, Md.).
2/21/2013 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Mich. Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy $200,000 For general support: $200,000 over two years to BoardSource (Washington, D.C.).
2/21/2013 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Mich. Nonprofit organizations and philanthropy $75,000 To help local women's organizations: $75,000 to Pitseng Trust (Johannesburg, South Africa).
2/21/2013 Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund N.Y. Health $15,000,000 To increase access, availability, affordability, and knowledge of nutritious foods: $15,000,000 over five years to organizations in New York City.
2/21/2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Wash. Agriculture $1,000,000 To improve sorghum: $1,000,000 to Purdue U. (West Lafayette, Ind.).
2/21/2013 W.M. Keck Foundation Calif. Science $1,000,000 To create a material that forces electrons into rare states important to basic research and with potential applications for next-generation quantum computing: $1,000,000 to Purdue U. (West Lafayette, Ind.).
2/21/2013 United Health Foundation Minn. Child health $1,000,000 To improve children's access to oral health care: $1,000,000 to Temple U., Kornberg School of Dentistry (Philadelphia, Pa.).
2/21/2013 UnitedHealthcare Minn. Child health $750,000 To improve children's access to oral health care: $750,000 to Temple U., Kornberg School of Dentistry (Philadelphia, Pa.).
2/21/2013 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Mich. Health $75,000 To improve the quality of health journalism: $75,000 over three years to the Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism (Columbia, Mo.).
2/21/2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation N.J. Health $9,807,858 To advance policies to focus on the root causes of childhood obesity: $9,807,858 to the American Heart Association (Dallas, Tex.).
2/21/2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation N.J. Health $170,000 To examine student reactions to varied strategies for presenting and promoting healthy and unhealthy school-lunch offerings: $170,000 to Yale U. (New Haven, Conn.).
2/21/2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation N.J. Health $204,000 For a competition in which software developers from across the nation will create software applications that help health-care consumers and patients make informed decisions through the use of publicly available inpatient and outpatient measures of health-care quality: $204,000 to Internet Sexuality Information (Oakland, Calif.).
2/21/2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation N.J. Health $96,626 To develop a legal review and tool kit for reviewing the health claims for food marketed to children and their families: $96,626 to the Johns Hopkins U. (Baltimore, Md.).
2/21/2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation N.J. Health $150,000 To implement a nurse-residency program in Rhode Island: $150,000 over two years to the U. of Rhode Island (Kingston, R.I.).
2/21/2013 Wal-Mart Foundation Ark. Social services $157,500 To help needy people: $52,500 each to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas, Nev.), and the YMCA of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas, Nev.), $26,500 to the City Impact Foundation (Las Vegas, Nev.), and $26,000 to Bristlecone Family Resource (Reno, Nev.).
2/21/2013 Wal-Mart Foundation Ark. Business $25,000 To provide mentoring and education to minority-owned and small businesses that are struggling to maintain operations or get their businesses off the ground: $25,000 to Tabor 100 (Bellevue, Wash.).