DETROIT (AP) — The foundation named for the late founder of the Buffalo Bills is giving 20 Detroit-area organizations a combined $17.4 million.
The grants announced recently by The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation range from $25,000 to $2 million.
Recipients include Angela Hospice, the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, Chandler Park Conservancy, the Grosse Pointe Historical Society, the Grosse Pointe
War Memorial, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, University Liggett School and Walsh College.
Ralph Wilson was 95 when he died at his Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, home in 2014.
The foundation is funded with proceeds from the sale of the Bills.
- Posted November 23, 2015
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Foundation gives $17M in area grants
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