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Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation[edit]

In 1978, the year after their union, the Cantors founded the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation as a vehicle for their philanthropy.^[5] In 1996, after acrimonious litigation with her husband's successor,^[6] Mrs. Cantor sold her inherited 55% stake to the 170 limited partners of Cantor Fitzgerald, and the company agreed to additionally fund the foundation.^[7]

Over the years, the foundation has donated approximately 450 Rodin pieces to museums around the world, with many going to New York's Metropolitan Museum and Brooklyn Museum, Stanford University and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.^[5]

In addition to the artworks, the foundation has financed numerous museum and university expansions:

• Metropolitan Museum of Art: the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Galleries and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, with gifts of $11.5 million (as of 1994).^[8]
• Brooklyn Museum of Art: the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium.^[9]
• Stanford University: 268 Rodin pieces formed the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, with a $10 million donation in 1994.^[10]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 114 pieces plus the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden^[2]
• New York University's Tisch School of the Arts: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Film Center, plus permanent scholarship fund, and Faye's Cafe, named in honor of her mother.^[11]
• College of the Holy Cross - The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery^[12]

Since 1995, she has been a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum and the Brooklyn Museum, as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and North Carolina Museum of Art among others.^[13]

In recent years, she has focused on medicine, contributing most substantially to:

• UCLA Health System, forming the Iris-Cantor - UCLA Women's Health Center in 1995. She has been involved with the UCLA Foundation since 1989, serving as a Foundation Governor since 2005.^[14]
• NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, donating the funds for eleven birthing rooms, two operating rooms, and a waiting rooms in 1996,^[14] donating $5 million in 2002 to form the Iris Cantor Women's Health Center, and $20 million in 2010, to launch the Iris Cantor Men's Health Center,^[15] plus the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Ambulatory Surgery Center, and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Laboratory for Immunological Research in Diabetes.
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, funding a Senior Chair in 2007^[16]

Since 1989, she has served on the Board of Trustees of the NewYork-Presbyterian health system.^[17] Other board memberships include Exploring the Arts, and the Dean's Committee of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.