The foundation awards grants to educational, medical and cultural institutions.

The foundation awards grants each year to young professionals in the performing arts.

Every year, more than 400 consultants and managers take part in the different stages of the Foundation Award.

He has been the recipient of several Foundation Awards.

The foundation awards grants from $1,000 to $100,000.

Foundation Award for his contributions to the understanding of the causes of mental retardation.

Foundation Awards celebrate significant achievement at different stages of artists' careers and are presented on an annual or biannual basis.

The $7,000 foundation award is especially gratifying, Ms. Johnson said, since she had unsuccessfully applied for it before.

His honors included the Viking Fund medal, an anthropological foundation award, in 1957.

The $1 million in total prize money is dwarfed by the millions of dollars in grants that his foundation awards to school districts each year.