The fund itself will provide about $600 million in 2003.
As of 2005, the fund had raised $140,000 and provided services for 140 people.
On average, the fund will provide $1.65 million for the 3,000 or so families of those who died in the attacks.
But, it doesn't have the funds to provide books to students in the classroom!
Each side wants more public funds to provide the services, but government has less to distribute.
European funds can and should at most provide a helping hand.
But such funds rarely provided more than $75,000 in a given year.
Funds such as this one, he said, "provide access to something that would be difficult for individuals to do themselves."
The fund has provided more than $1 million to help others in need since its founding.
Since 1877, the fund has provided country vacations to more than 1.6 million children.