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WASHINGTON — Nearly seven years after a hijacked airplane crashed into the Pentagon, the largest charity established to help Washington-area victims and their families is closing, becoming the last major Sept. 11-related charity to shut down.
The Survivors’ Fund raised $25 million from more than 12,000 area residents and businesses in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and spent it treating the grieving, the distressed and the traumatized.
The charity’s closure brings an unofficial end to the nation’s philanthropic response to the attacks, in which millions of people donated $2.7 billion to hundreds of charities.
