Ms. Lorenz directs the Fassbinder Foundation in Berlin, which administers his estate and seeks to support young filmmakers.
A company spokeswoman, Devorah Goldblatt, said the programs are "completely within the boundaries of both ACT and SAT" guidelines, and a section on the Web site of the College Board, which administers the tests, supports her assertion.
In 2007, after English began promoting her concept on the Buoyant Foundation Project Web site, an official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the N.F.I.P., wrote to her.
In a letter to Jane Alexander, then chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts, which administers the award, she expressed her dismay, amid the "increasingly brutal impact of racial and economic injustice," that the government had chosen to honor "a few token artists while the people at large are so dishonored".
"Nobody will give you such a nice lehenga," Mumtaz Najmi, secretary of the Zakat Foundation, which administers the camp, told a woman handing her a pink-and-green skirt.
The Law School Admission Council, which administers the Law School Admission Test, refused to grant her special privileges, she says, even after she submitted medical records from her immunologists and letters from Santa Barbara.
Along with the check for $27,000, Ms. Guz gave Arthur Gelb, president of The New York Times Company Foundation, which administers the Neediest Cases Fund, a large stuffed teddy bear that had been donated to her by one of her suppliers.
Her father is the president and chief executive of Administrative Systems Inc., which administers trusts and taxes for banking corporations.
Her father, who works in New York and Washington, is the chief executive of the Institute of International Education, which administers the Fulbright scholarships and other exchange programs.
The money goes into a fund which administers the scheme.
