Last year, the fund aided 118 organizations.
Some member groups organized funds to aid war resisters and people in the civil rights movement who had suffered reprisals.
The festival also honors outstanding members of the Los Angeles community and raises funds to aid needy children and families in the city.
The complaints intensified as soon as the Capital Corporation started assessing the healthier units to raise funds to aid others.
The funds will aid in purchases of equipment and officer overtime.
The declaration allocated federal funds to aid the affected citizens.
Through the seven beneficiary charities, the fund has also aided thousands of people who have lost homes or who live on the edge of eviction.
The fund has been aiding and comforting New York's homeless, gravely ill and poverty-stricken since 1912.
The fund, whose annual campaign starts today and runs through Jan. 31, has been aiding and comforting New Yorkers in distress since 1912.
The company was also offering $3.5 million in capital spending to build studios for public access groups, and a $250,000 annual fund to aid independent producers.