$1,600,000 has been granted since the awards program's inception. Gold Medal Awards Each year since 1930, the association has presented its 'Gold Medal Award' "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York." While typically presented to a single individual, the award has been granted on occasion to more than one person or an organization. Past winners have been: 1930 Julius Miller 1931 Harvey Dow Gibson 1932 Justice Samuel Seabury 1933 Grover A. Whalen 1934 Robert Moses 1935 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 1936 Thomas E. Dewey 1937 James Speyer 1938 Eleanor Robson Belmont 1939 Cleveland E. Dodge (Phelps Dodge & Co.) 1940 Fiorello H. La Guardia 1946 Francis Spellman, Helen Rogers Reid 1947 Frederick H. Ecker 1948 William O'Dwyer 1949 Millicent C. McIntosh 1950 Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers 1951 Alfred P. Sloan 1952 Howard S. Cullman (Philip Morris, Port of New York Authority) 1953 John Hay Whitney 1954 Arthur Hays Sulzberger 1955 Brigadier General David Sarnoff 1956 Robert F. Wagner Jr. 1957 Keith S. McHugh (New York Telephone) 1958 Samuel D. Leidesdorf 1959 John D. Rockefeller III 1960 Howard A. Rusk 1961 Minnie Guggenheimer (music patron and philanthropist) 1962 James A. Farley 1963 Paul R. Screvane 1964 Edmund F. Wagner (Seamen's Bank for Savings) 1965 David Rockefeller 1966 Austin J. Tobin 1967 John A. Coleman 1968 Gustave Levy 1969 J. Victor Herd (Continental Insurance Company) 1970 Jack I. Straus (R. H. Macy & Company) 1971 William S. Renchard (Chemical Bank) 1972 Robert S. Curtiss (Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) 1973 Gilbert W. Fitzhugh 1974 Leonard H. Goldenson 1975 George Champion (Chase Manhattan Bank) 1976 William M. Ellinghaus (American Telephone and Telegraph Company) 1977 Ellmore C. Patterson (Morgan Guaranty Trust Company) 1978 J. Henry Smith (The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States) 1980 Harry Helmsley 1981 Richard R. Shinn (Metropolitan Life) 1982 Museum of the City of New York 1983 Edward J. Mortola 1984 J. Peter Grace 1985 Gene F. Jankowski (CBS Broadcasting) 1986 E. Virgil Conway 1987 Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. 1988 Delbert C. Staley (NYNEX) 1989 John J. Phelan, Jr. 1990 Felix G. Rohatyn 1991 Carnegie Hall 1992 William R. Chaney (Tiffany & Co.) 1993 Tony Randall 1994 John McGillicuddy 1995 David A. Olsen 1996 Kenneth J. Gorman 1997 Simon J. Critchell (Cartier, L'Oréal) 1998 Rudolph W. Giuliani 1999 Robert R. Douglass (Alliance for Downtown New York) 2000 Robert M. Johnson