The Heising-Simons Foundation

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $3.6M

  Environmental Defense Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To advance climate and clean energy policies

• $3.3M

  Natural Resources Defense Council · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To advance climate and clean energy policies

• $2.1M

  Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the democracy frontlines fund

• $2.0M

  Global Impact · Alexandria, VA · 2024

  For the emerging bilingual collaborative

• $1.9M

  National Association for Family School and Community Engagement · Alexandria, VA · 2024

  For the center for family math

• $1.5M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the emerging bilingual collaborative

• $1.5M

  California Education Partners · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the preschool to third grade coherence collaboration (p3cc)

• $1.3M

  Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2024

  For the children's equity project

• $1.2M

  Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $1.2M

  Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  For the center for the study of child care employment

• $1.1M

  Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For practitioners' voice ca 2.0

• $1.0M

  Environmental Defense Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To validate methanesat measurements

• $1.0M

  Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To support quality upk implementation in california

• $1.0M

  International Council On Clean Transportation · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $1.0M

  Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

  For the four freedoms fund

• $1.0M

  Powermylearning · New York, NY · 2024

  For family playlists and organizational effectiveness support

• $1.0M

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

  For the raising child care fund

• $1.0M

  Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $1.0M

  Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2024

  To advance u.s. Power ($600,000) and transportation sector transformation ($400,000)

• $1.0M

  Alliance for Early Success · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $900,000

  Advanced Energy Institute · Washington, DC · 2024

  To reform wholesale power markets, expand transmission, engage in utility planning in key states ($800,000), and defend clean energy tax credits ($100,000).

• $850,000

  Climate Power Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $817,770

  Society for Research in Child Development · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the srcd policy fellowship

• $780,000

  Learning Policy Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $775,000

  The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2024

  For the stanford center on early childhood

• $750,000

  American Indian College Fund · Denver, CO · 2024

  To strengthen indigenous early childhood pedagogy and workforce pathways at tribal colleges

• $750,000

  United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To advance clean vehicle standards and transportation electrification

• $750,000

  English Learners Success Forum · Albuquerque, NM · 2024

  For general support

• $750,000

  Teachers College Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024

  For ecpihe phase iii

• $749,335

  Tntp · New York, NY · 2024

  To prototype a pipeline for tk educators ready to serve multilingual learners

• $700,000

  University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

  To continue implementing the district innovation and leadership for early education (dial ee)

• $700,000

  Center for American Progress · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the tackling climate and environmental injustice program

• $700,000

  Edsource · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $700,000

  Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To advance climate finance

• $700,000

  Gridlab · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $626,580

  Arizona Board of Regents University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024

  To support the second development phase of magaox

• $625,000

  Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the starfish institute's stem education work

• $611,983

  James Bell Associates · Arlington, VA · 2024

  For the national home visiting resource center

• $600,000

  Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the moving forward network

• $600,000

  Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido · Austin, TX · 2024

  For coalition work around operation lone star

• $600,000

  Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · New Brunswick, NJ · 2024

  For 2023 and 2024 state of preschool yearbook

• $600,000

  Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the pipeline education fund

• $600,000

  Arizona Board of Regents University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024

  For the nautilus space observatory

• $600,000

  Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For the just solutions

• $600,000

  Futuro Media Group · New York, NY · 2024

  For general support

• $582,899

  Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  To test the quantum coherence of gravity

• $549,998

  Regents of the University of California at San Diego · San Diego, CA · 2024

  For the data reduction pipeline for the high-resolution infrared spectrograph for exoplanet characterization (hispec) instrument

• $525,000

  Center for Applied Environmental Law & Policy · Boulder, CO · 2024

  For general support

• $505,000

  Union of Concerned Scientists · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To advance clean transportation and clean power

• $500,288

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

  For the development of skipper technology

• $500,000

  Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the georgetown center on poverty and inequality

• $500,000

  Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For parent voices ca

• $500,000

  Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the climate action campaign

• $500,000

  Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For capacity building support to education program grantees

• $500,000

  Center for Law and Social Policy · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $500,000

  Parent Institute for Quality Education · National City, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $500,000

  Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $500,000

  The Children'S Funding Project · Washington, DC · 2024

  For funding the next generation

• $500,000

  California Budget & Policy Center · Sacramento, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $500,000

  New York University · New York, NY · 2024

  To advance climate and clean energy regulations

• $500,000

  Houston in Action Network · Houston, TX · 2024

  For houston in action's youth justice transformation work and latinx/aapi organizing cohorts

• $500,000

  Regents of the University of California at Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024

  For community math

• $500,000

  Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network · Goleta, CA · 2024

  To provide community observing time access to the las cumbres observatory network

• $500,000

  National Women'S Law Center · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $495,000

  The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  To expand dreme teacher educator resources to support math in upk

• $489,968

  Stand for Children Leadership Center · Portland, OR · 2024

  For great first eight prek/tk

• $476,476

  Regents of the University of Colorado · Boulder, CO · 2024

  For studying how amo physics can inform the development of gravity theories

• $475,000

  Education Development Center · Waltham, MA · 2024

  For integration of math into community education programs

• $475,000

  Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024

  For the initiative for energy justice

• $475,000

  Citizens Utility Board Consumer Education and Research Fund · Chicago, IL · 2024

  For general support

• $450,000

  Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To seed a youth apprenticeship program starting in high schools in an effort to bring diverse youth into the ece workforce

• $432,931

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

  For research on the observational signatures of quantum gravity

• $429,643

  Formerly Incarcerated Convicted People and Families Movement · Windermere, FL · 2024

  For general support

• $425,000

  Ceres · Boston, MA · 2024

  To advance transportation electrification and climate finance sector reform

• $425,000

  National Association for Family Child Care Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  Gente Organizada · Pomona, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  United Way Santa Cruz County · Capitola, CA · 2024

  For cradle to career santa cruz county

• $400,000

  Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For la partnership for early childhood investment

• $400,000

  San Jose Grail Family Services · San Jose, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  Children'S Network of Solano County · Fairfield, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024

  For journalism training for the science communication program

• $400,000

  Community Asset Development Re-Defining Education · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  Family Resource Navigators · San Leandro, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  La Luz Center · Sonoma, CA · 2024

  For parents/padres lead

• $400,000

  Blu Educational Foundation · San Bernardino, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  Forth Mobility Fund · Portland, OR · 2024

  To advance equitable transportation electrification policies

• $400,000

  New Teacher Center · City of Industry, CA · 2024

  For the redesign of instructional coaching models to center mlls

• $400,000

  Natural Resources Defense Council · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the sustainable ferc project

• $400,000

  Momsrising Education Fund · Bellevue, WA · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  Building Decarbonization Coalition · North Petaluma, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

  To advance u.s. Climate policy

• $400,000

  Environmental Defense Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $400,000

  West Harlem Environmental Action · New York, NY · 2024

  For general support

• $398,891

  Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

  To collect in-situ data at the greenland ice sheet margin during the winter season

• $387,252

  American Physical Society · College Park, MD · 2024

  For the aps gender inclusive physics community

• $377,966

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

  For a molecular beam spin precession experiment searching for the cp-violating nuclear magnetic quadrupole moment (mqm)

• $375,000

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For early edge california

• $375,000

  Proteus Fund · New York, NY · 2024

  For embracerace

• $370,497

  Arizona Board of Regents University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024

  For the development of skipper technology

• $359,140

  University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024

  For the development of skipper technology