Funding search · EIN 136019226 · New York, NY
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Foundation website ↗Full IRS filings ↗
- $111.7M
- in grants paid
- 879
- grants
- 705
- recipients
- 2022–2024
- filing years
Recent grants
The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.
- $2.0M
New York-Presbyterian Hospital · New York, NY · 2024
To support new Cancer Building with a capital investment
- $1.0M
Norton Museum of Art · West Palm Beach, FL · 2024
To support the expansion and renovation of facility
- $500,000
The Juilliard School · New York, NY · 2024
To provide scholarships in the performing arts
- $500,000
Columbia University in the City of Ny · New York, NY · 2024
To establish the WRH Journalism scholarship
- $500,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support undergraduate financial aid through the Phobe Apperson Hearst Scholarship
- $500,000
Inner City Scholarship ( Partnership Schools) · New York, NY · 2024
To provide scholarships
- $500,000
Alamo Trust · San Antonio, TX · 2024
To support a capital campaign for the Vistors Ctr and 4D Theater Lobby
- $500,000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the Building LACMA capital campaign
- $500,000
The Paley Center for Media · New York, NY · 2024
To establish the Hearst HS Media Internship
- $500,000
Covenant House · New York, NY · 2024
To support Anti-Human trafficking program
- $375,000
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the Psychiatry Urology Depts.
- $375,000
The New York Botanical Garden · Bronx, NY · 2024
To support educational programs
- $350,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
To support RULER for recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing regulating emotions
- $350,000
Pioneer Works Art Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
To support the construction of a public observatory
- $300,000
Houston Grand Opera · Houston, TX · 2024
To provide the expansion of the Community and Learning programs
- $300,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To provide public service scholarships under the Tenney Scholarship Fund
- $300,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support the capital campaign for a Cold Lab in the College of Environment
- $300,000
Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To support the Pathways to Leadership and Advancement in Nursing
- $300,000
San Francisco General Hospital · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support a capital campaign for the Outpatient Heath Center
- $300,000
Habitat for Humanity International · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To support the implementation of Community Aging in Place
- $300,000
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support environmental education programs
- $300,000
Texas Children'S Hospital · Houston, TX · 2024
To support the pursue of youth mental heath care under the Bridge Clinic Program
- $300,000
Weill Medical College of Cornell University · New York, NY · 2024
To support the creation of the Center for the Study and Support of Caregivers
- $300,000
Sustainable Development Solutions Network · New York, NY · 2024
To support science sustainability development curricula
- $250,000
University of the Incarnate Word · San Antonio, TX · 2024
To provide equipment for the Health Professions Simulation Skills Center
- $250,000
Translational Genomics Research Institute Fdn · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
To support pancreatic cancer research program
- $250,000
San Francisco Symphony · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the music education programs
- $250,000
Brown University of Providence · Providence, RI · 2024
To provide support for Hearst Medical Scholars Program
- $250,000
Punahou School · Honolulu, HI · 2024
To provide capital support for the construction of the Academy Learning Commons
- $250,000
Beacon Education · Wilmington, NC · 2024
To support girls leadership programs at GLOWS Academy
- $250,000
Scripps Health · San Diego, CA · 2024
To support capital campaign to expand Scripps Memorial Hospital-Encinitas
- $250,000
Phoenix Children'S Hospital · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
To support implementation of a system-wide Suicide Screening Initiative
- $250,000
Hackensack Meridian Health · Edison, NJ · 2024
To support an early career investigator in Aging research
- $250,000
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2024
To support the Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship
- $250,000
New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2024
To support genomic research to cure disease
- $250,000
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024
To support the School of Nursings micro-credentialing program and the TV News Archive
- $250,000
San Francisco Film Society · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To provide general operating support
- $250,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2024
To support the Immuno-Oncology Fellowship program
- $225,000
American Federation for Aging Research · New York, NY · 2024
To support research in aging
- $225,000
Houston Symphony Society · Houston, TX · 2024
To support Education and Community Engagement initiatives
- $200,000
Venice Family Clinic · Venice, CA · 2024
To support the expansion of heath care and social services for patients
- $200,000
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support School, Teacher and Family initiatives in the arts
- $200,000
Moxi the Wolf Museum of Exploration Innovation · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024
To support School Programs
- $200,000
Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
To support CIH
- $200,000
Martin Luther King Jr Community Hospital · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the Community Healthcare Graduate Medical Education Program
- $200,000
Asheville Art Museum Association · Asheville, NC · 2024
To support conservation, digitization and education programming
- $200,000
Pacific Community Ventures · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support the Business Advising Program
- $200,000
Rodale Institute · Kutztown, PA · 2024
To support farmer education programs on organic and regenerative farming
- $200,000
Bridge Housing · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To provide Mental Health First Aid Certification Training
- $200,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2024
To provide support for the 10 arts organization within the Lincoln Center Campus
- $200,000
Utah Museum of Fine Arts · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
To support Learning and Engagement programs for art education
- $200,000
University of the Pacific · Stockton, CA · 2024
To provide scholarships for students in the Master of Physician Assistant Studies program
- $200,000
United Way of Greater Houston · Houston, TX · 2024
To support Navigator and Integrated Client Journey Services.
- $200,000
Otis College of Art and Design · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To provide enhanced support services vital for student retention and success
- $200,000
Bronx Childrens Museum · Bronx, NY · 2024
To support the Expanding Assess Initiative to encourage learning
- $200,000
University of Montana Missoula · Missoula, MT · 2024
To support Montana Media Lab Youth Voices program
- $200,000
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2024
To provide scholarship support for Avenue program participants
- $200,000
The Edible Schoolyard Project · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To support the development of new programs and expansion of the affiliate network
- $200,000
The Minnesota Opera · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
To support opera education and community programs
- $200,000
College Track · Oakland, CA · 2024
To support general operations
- $175,000
Zero To Three Natl Ctr for Infants Toddlers & Families · Washinton, DC · 2024
To support early childhood specialists through the HealthySteps program
- $175,000
Rubicon Programs · Richmond, CA · 2024
To provide comprehensive reentry services to justice-involved individuals
- $175,000
Whitney Museum of American Art · New York, NY · 2024
To support the Hearst internship
- $150,000
Oregon Coast Aquarium · Newport, OR · 2024
To support a capital campaign for the Sees-Ha Xwee-Nish Marine Wildlife Rehab Center
- $150,000
Avondale House · Houston, TX · 2024
To support the expansion of A Home to Call My Own initiative for individuals with autism
- $150,000
Museum of Jewish Heritage · New York, NY · 2024
To support the expansion of Holocaust education programs
- $150,000
Ca Court Appointed Special Advocates Assoc · San Diego, CA · 2024
To support general operations
- $150,000
The Children'S Place at Home Safe · Lake Worth, FL · 2024
To support renovations for specialized therapeutic group care home for foster youth
- $150,000
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art · Memphis, TN · 2024
To support the New Art Museum for Memphis capital campaign
- $150,000
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To provide general operating support
- $150,000
Stanford Medicine · Redwood City, CA · 2024
To support research on metastatic prostate cancer
- $150,000
Sundari Foundation · Miami Beach, FL · 2024
To support the development of the Childrens Village at Lotus House
- $150,000
Harmony Project · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To provide general operating support
- $150,000
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation · Woodbury, NY · 2024
To support the Career Development Awards in pancreatic cancer research
- $150,000
Simmons University · Boston, MA · 2024
To provide scholarships to undergraduate nursing students
- $150,000
Harbor House of Louisville · Louisville, KY · 2024
To support the creation of an Ingenerational Life Center for all ages and abilities
- $150,000
The Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Ny · New York, NY · 2024
To support Feeding Our Neighbors and eviction Prevention programs
- $150,000
Workshops for Warriors · San Diego, CA · 2024
To provide training and employment services for transitioning military veterans
- $150,000
Remote Area Medical · Rockford, TN · 2024
To support general operations
- $150,000
Eisner Health · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support capital campaign for Plaza del Valle community health center
- $150,000
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To support the Clinical Investigator Award Program
- $150,000
Tampa Bay Resiliency Fund · Clearwater, FL · 2024
To provide Emergency Hurricane Helene Aid
- $150,000
San Francisco Zoological Society · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the capital campaign for the Jaguar Jungle
- $150,000
Roundabout Theatre Company · New York, NY · 2024
To support arts education programs in public schools
- $150,000
Operation Smile · Virginia Beach, VA · 2024
To support an Operation Smile Surgical Fellow and Nursing Fellow
- $150,000
Church Health Center of Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2024
To support expansion for Eye Care
- $150,000
American Indian Health and Family of Se Mi · Detroit, MI · 2024
To support a new healthcare facility
- $150,000
Reach Out and Read · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the Building Connections Begins at Birth initiative
- $150,000
Literacy · New York, NY · 2024
To provide general support for operations
- $150,000
Greenville Free Medical Clinic · Greenville, SC · 2024
To support the expansion of three rural satellite clinics
- $150,000
Board of the University of Alabama · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2024
To provide scholarships under the Rural Medical Scholars program
- $150,000
Braver Angels · New York, NY · 2024
To support the College Debates and Discourse Alliance
- $150,000
Newport Hospital Foundation · Newport, RI · 2024
To support the establishment of an inpatient adolescent behavioral health unit
- $150,000
University of Nevada Las Vegas · Las Vegas, NV · 2024
To support the Empowering Schools Program to address youth mental health
- $150,000
University of Nebraska Foundation · Lincoln, NE · 2024
To support rural students enrolled in health sciences
- $150,000
Woodruff Arts Center · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To support the Experience Atlanta, Experience Woodruff capital campaign
- $150,000
Staten Island Museum · Staten Island, NY · 2024
To provide general operating support
- $150,000
Woodland Park Zoological Society · Seattle, WA · 2024
To support the Forest Trailhead exhibit
- $150,000
Nova Southeastern University · Fort Lauderdale, FL · 2024
To support scholarships for undergraduate nursing students with financial need
- $150,000
Home Builders Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To support pre-apprenticeship training programs at BuildStrong Academies
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