SOURCE OF WEALTH: Sloate Weisman
FUNDING AREAS: Arts & Culture, Education & Youth, Health & Human Services
OVERVIEW: Laura Sloate moves her philanthropy through the Hermione Foundation, which available tax filings show, awarded $1.34 million in grants in 2017.. Sloate supports the arts, and has interests in music and museums. She also supports educational, health, and other select causes via her foundation. New York City serves as a region of giving.
BACKGROUND: Laura J. Sloate has a bachelor’s degree from Barnard and a master’s from Columbia. She began her career in 1968 as a security analyst at Scheinman, Hochstin & Trotta. She worked at Neuberger Berman and Drexel, Burham. In 1974, Sloate cofounded Sloate Weisman, where she was chairwoman, treasurer, CIO, and director of research. Sloate went on to work with Neuberger Berman.
ISSUES:
ARTS & CULTURE: Sloate has been a managing director of Metropolitan Opera Association. She appears to have a particular interest in opera and music. Via her foundation, she’s supported Met Opera, 92nd Street Y, Artists Space, Carnegie Hall Society, The Met, New York Philharmonic, Perlman Music Program, and Richard Tucker Music Foundation, a “nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of the great American tenor through the support and advancement of the careers of talented American opera singers by bringing opera into the community.”
EDUCATION & YOUTH: Sloate supports her alma mater Barnard College. Other grantees have included Junior Achievement of Palm Beaches, Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, and Breakthrough New York, a “nonprofit organization that transforms the lives of motivated, low-income students by preparing them for college graduation.”
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: Sloate has been blind since the age of six and moves around with a guide dog. She has supported The Seeing Eye, a guide dog school located in New Jersey. Other grantees have included Blythedale Children’s Hospital, Cancer Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Greyston Foundation, which works in employment.
LOOKING FORWARD: Expect Sloate to stick with her established interests.
CONTACT:
The Hermione Foundation accepts applications at the address below. Applicants should begin by calling for an information questionnaire:
Donna Leone
35 East 75th Street 16C
New York, NY 10021
(212) 476-9175
