Sonsoles Díez de Rivera, one of the museum's main donors, now holds a top foundation post.
Just weeks ago, top foundation officials denied that their powerful lobbying group was undergoing widespread internal conflict.
Throughout, Mrs. Clinton has offered "good, specific ideas" to the foundation when Mr. Clinton asks her to attend planning sessions, said Ira Magaziner, a top foundation executive and longtime Clinton adviser.
Seems the top foundation spot was tailored for the 57-year-old Ms. Berresford, whose absence of furrows and frown lines may be traceable to a higher authority than Manhattan's cutting-edge plastic surgeons: cutting-edge philanthropy.
Under Ms. Freeman's leadership, the Foundation's assets have grown six-fold since 1996 establishing the Foundation as the largest local grant maker in the metropolitan Washington region, and one of the top fifty foundations nationwide, with grants of nearly $56 million in fiscal year 2010.
That is less than 1 percent of the assets of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, No. 1 on a list of the top 100 foundations by assets compiled by the Foundation Center, which tracks philanthropy.
Shortly after four top United States foundations wrote him in November inquiring about his philanthropy, he called to set up a meeting, said C. R. Hibbs, director of the Mexican office of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Among other things, it has suffered from philosophical self-doubt (a report it commissioned in the 1970s in effect urged America to embrace European-style socialism) and the emergence of newer, bigger philanthropies (by assets, it now barely scrapes into America's top 20 foundations).
Krigsner also founded Fundacao Boticario de Protecao a Natureza, one of Brazil's top environmental foundations, which receives 1% of Grupo Boticario's gross income each year (R$26 million in 2014) to invest in social and environmental-related causes.
