Organizational History
The oldest of the five Guggenheim foundations, the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation was established on January 14, 1924, as a charitable institution to support education, the arts, and medicine. After the dissolution of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics in 1930, the foundation continued sponsorship in the field of aviation and rocketry funding major advances in aviation safety and the rocketry research of rocket pioneer Robert Hutchings Goddard. In 1972, the foundation turned its attention to the criminal justice field, and for the next thirty-eight years funded research at Harvard University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, and Yale Law School, and community criminal justice programs. The foundation was dissolved on June 30, 2011.