The emphasis on individual grants is generally a good thing.
The Securities and Exchange Commission determined that more than 1,400 individual grants had been backdated.
The national endowment has given him three grants, the most recent in 1995, the year that individual grants were eliminated.
It didn't disclose the total awarded this year, or the amount of individual grants.
Each received $40 million in addition to individual grants that were evaluated by the regional councils and nine state agencies.
B1 The Sept. 11 Fund, which has made $175 million in direct payments to victims, will shift from individual grants to the financing of programs.
The program proposed by the organization, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, would make individual grants of up to $12,000 over two years.
Under the arrangement, the commonwealth would give states and territories a proportion of income tax revenue in exchange for individual grants and partnerships.
In all, the institute has more than 36 individual grants and cooperative agreements with NASA, said Thomas Pierson, chairman of the institute.
"We're just a small foundation serving Chattanooga, and the only individual grants we make are for college scholarships," Mr. Cooper said.
Individual grants range from $1,000 to $10,000, part of a program Patterson and Scholastic originally set at $1.25m but that now stands at $1.75m.
