The Heising-Simons Foundation

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

68 grants matching “membership” · $1.8M

• $100,000

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

  For 2024 membership dues to the science philanthropy alliance

• $90,000

  Northern California Grantmakers · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For 2024 & 2025 membership dues

• $50,000

  Solidaire Network · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For 2024 membership dues

• $50,000

  Council On Foundations · Washington, DC · 2024

  For 2024 & 2025 membership dues ($48k) & general support ($2k)

• $36,000

  Grantmakers for Effective Organizations · Washington, DC · 2024

  For 2024 & 2025 membership dues

• $30,000

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

  For 2024 membership dues

• $30,000

  Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees · Petaluma, CA · 2024

  For 2024 membership dues

• $25,000

  National Public Education Support Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For 2024 membership dues for education funder strategy group

• $25,000

  Northern California Grantmakers · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For ccjfg membership

• $20,000

  Asian American-Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For 2024 & 2025 membership dues

• $20,000

  Peak Grantmaking · Washington, DC · 2024

  2024 & 2025 membership dues

• $19,000

  Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2024

  For 2024 & 2025 membership dues

• $15,000

  Justice Funders · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For 2024 membership dues

• $15,000

  Association of Black Foundation Executives · New York, NY · 2024

  For 2024 membership dues

• $12,400

  Foundation Financial Officers Group · Mount Royal, NJ · 2024

  For 2024 & 2025 membership dues ($7,000) and general support ($5,400)

• $10,000

  National Center for Family Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2024

  For 2024 membership dues

• $10,000

  Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For 2024 membership dues

• $10,000

  Asset Funders Network · Chicago, IL · 2024

  For 2024 bay area membership dues

• $5,000

  Consultative Group On Biological Diversity Dba Biodiversity Funders Group · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For 2024 climate and energy funders group membership dues

• $100,000

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

  For one year of full membership in the science philanthropy alliance

• $70,000

  National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2023

  For 2023 and 2024 membership dues

• $50,000

  Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits · San Jose, CA · 2023

  For 2023 and 2024 membership dues ($3,100) and general support ($46,900)

• $50,000

  Solidaire Network · Oakland, CA · 2023

  For 2023 membership dues

• $46,200

  Foundation Financial Officers Group · Mount Royal, NJ · 2023

  For 2023 membership dues ($6,200) and general support ($40,000)

• $33,000

  Southern California Grantmakers · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  For 2023 & 2024 membership dues

• $30,000

  Growth Philanthropy Network · New York, NY · 2023

  For 2023 membership dues for learning community on scaled impact

• $30,000

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

  For 2023 early childhood funders collaborative membership dues

• $25,000

  National Public Education Support Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

  For 2023 membership dues for education funder strategy group

• $25,000

  Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2023

  For 2023 funders for justice membership dues

• $25,000

  Media Impact Funders · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

  For 2023 and 2024 membership dues and 2023 conference sponsorship ($5,000)

• $22,400

  Grantmakers for Education · Portland, OR · 2023

  For 2023 and 2024 membership dues

• $15,000

  Foster Forward · East Providence, RI · 2023

  For the youth transition funders group membership dues

• $15,000

  Justice Funders · Oakland, CA · 2023

  For 2023 justice funders membership dues

• $15,000

  Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023

  For 2023 funders' committee for civic participation membership dues

• $10,000

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

  For building movement project for membership in the leadership funders group

• $10,000

  Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2023

  For 2023 bay area early childhood funders membership dues

• $10,000

  Asset Funders Network · Chicago, IL · 2023

  For 2023 bay area chapter membership dues

• $10,000

  National Center for Family Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2023

  For 2023 membership dues

• $6,000

  Hispanics in Philanthropy · Oakland, CA · 2023

  For 2023 and 2024 membership dues

• $5,000

  Consultative Group On Biological Diversity Dba Biodiversity Funders Group · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For 2023 climate and energy funders group membership dues

• $2,639

  Technology Association of Grantmakers · Chicago, IL · 2023

  For 2023 & 2024 membership dues

• $2,500

  Policy Impact · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  For 2023 democracy funders network membership dues

• $100,000

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · Washington, DC · 2022

  For three years of full membership in the science philanthropy alliance

• $56,000

  Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Sacramento, CA · 2022

  For 2022 and 2023 membership dues to california funders for boys and men of color

• $50,000

  Solidaire Network · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For 2022 membership dues

• $45,000

  Northern California Grantmakers · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For 2023 membership dues ($39,250) and general support ($5,750)

• $35,000

  National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2022

  For 2022 membership dues

• $30,000

  Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees · Petaluma, CA · 2022

  For 2022 membership dues

• $30,000

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2022

  For 2022 early childhood funders collaborative membership dues

• $30,000

  Growth Philanthropy Network · New York, NY · 2022

  For 2022 membership dues for learning community on scaled impact

• $25,000

  National Public Education Support Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

  For 2022 membership dues for education funder strategy group

• $25,000

  Northern California Grantmakers · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For 2022 california criminal justice funders membership dues

• $25,000

  Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2022

  For 2022 funders for justice membership dues

• $25,000

  Council On Foundations · Washington, DC · 2022

  For 2023 membership dues

• $20,000

  Peak Grantmaking · Washington, DC · 2022

  For 2023 membership dues ($9,250) and general support ($10,750)

• $18,000

  Grantmakers for Effective Organizations · Washington, DC · 2022

  For 2023 membership dues

• $15,000

  Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022

  For 2022 funders' committee for civic participation membership dues

• $15,000

  Justice Funders · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For justice funders 2022 membership dues

• $13,000

  Highlander Research & Education Center · New Market, TN · 2022

  For 2022 and 2023 membership dues

• $11,200

  Grantmakers for Education · Portland, OR · 2022

  For 2022 membership dues

• $10,000

  Technology Association of Grantmakers · Chicago, IL · 2022

  For 2022 membership dues

• $10,000

  Media Impact Funders · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  For 2022 membership dues

• $10,000

  Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For 2022 bay area early childhood funders membership dues

• $9,500

  Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For 2023 membership dues for emerging practitioners in philanthropy

• $5,000

  Asian American-Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For 2023 membership dues

• $5,000

  Consultative Group On Biological Diversity Dba Biodiversity Funders Group · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For 2022 climate and energy funders group membership dues

• $2,500

  Communications Network · Washington, DC · 2022

  For 2023 membership dues

• $2,500

  Policy Impact · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  For 2022 democracy funders network membership dues

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

• Environmental Defense Fund6 grants · $13.0M
• Natural Resources Defense Council6 grants · $10.6M
• Regents of the University of California at Berkeley31 grants · $9.5M
• New Venture Fund24 grants · $8.6M
• California Institute of Technology37 grants · $8.6M
• Tides Foundation29 grants · $6.9M
• Tides Center25 grants · $6.8M
• Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz37 grants · $6.0M
• Partnership Project13 grants · $5.6M
• Regents of the University of California at San Diego21 grants · $5.5M

Giving over time

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,038 grants.

• $4.0M

  Environmental Defense Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  To advance climate and clean energy policies

• $4.0M

  Environmental Defense Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $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

• $3.1M

  Natural Resources Defense Council · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  To advance climate and clean energy policies

• $3.0M

  Natural Resources Defense Council · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  To advance climate and clean energy policies

• $2.6M

  Alliance for Early Success · Leawood, KS · 2022

  For general support

• $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

• $2.0M

  California Education Partners · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For a multi-district, early grades continuous improvement collaboration

• $1.9M

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

  For the center for family math

• $1.6M

  Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network · Goleta, CA · 2022

  To fabricate, install, and commission the muscat4 imager on the faulkes south telescope

• $1.6M

  Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  To test the quantum coherence of gravity

• $1.6M

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2023

  For the early childhood investment collaborative

• $1.5M

  California Education Partners · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For the preschool to third grade coherence collaboration (p3cc)

• $1.5M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the emerging bilingual collaborative

• $1.5M

  California Education Partners · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For a multi-district early grades continuous improvement collaboration

• $1.5M

  Edvance · Modesto, CA · 2023

  For general support

• $1.5M

  Regents of the University of California at San Diego · San Diego, CA · 2023

  For the completion of the simons observatory

• $1.5M

  San Francisco State University · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For upgrading the planetarium at san francisco state university

• $1.3M

  The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

  For instrumentation and its application to carbonate clumped isotope analysis

• $1.3M

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

  For the children's equity project

• $1.3M

  Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  For the heising-simons foundation organizational capacity responsive fund

• $1.2M

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

  For general support

• $1.2M

  California Association for Research in Astronomy · Kamuela, HI · 2023

  To support development of the scales instrument

• $1.2M

  Powermylearning · New York, NY · 2022

  For family playlists in the early grades

• $1.2M

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

  For the center for the study of child care employment

• $1.2M

  Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  For the center for the study of child care employment

• $1.2M

  Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  For the center for the study of child care employment

• $1.1M

  Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  For practitioners' voice ca 2.0

• $1.1M

  Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

  For general support

• $1.1M

  Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  To advance climate finance, decarbonize global shipping, and support the mission of climateworks foundation

• $1.0M

  Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

  For the democracy frontlines fund

• $1.0M

  Family Values at Work a Multi-State Consortium · Milwaukee, WI · 2023

  For general support

• $1.0M

  Alliance for Early Success · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $1.0M

  Center for Community Change · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $1.0M

  Environmental Defense Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To validate methanesat measurements

• $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

  Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

  To support quality upk implementation in california

• $1.0M

  Powermylearning · New York, NY · 2024

  For family playlists and organizational effectiveness support

• $1.0M

  Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2024

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

• $1.0M

  Third Sector New England · Boston, MA · 2024

  For the raising child care fund

• $1.0M

  Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023

  For the four freedoms fund

• $1.0M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

  For child care for every family network

• $1.0M

  Powermylearning · New York, NY · 2023

  For family playlists in the early grades

• $1.0M

  Regents of the University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2023

  For the center for violence prevention research in honor of deanna gomby

• $1.0M

  Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  To advance climate finance ($700,000), decarbonize global shipping ($300,000), and support the mission of climateworks foundation ($100,000)

• $1.0M

  International Council On Clean Transportation · Washington, DC · 2022

  For general support

• $1.0M

  National Association for Family School and Community Engagement · Alexandria, VA · 2022

  For general support

• $1.0M

  Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022

  For the four freedoms fund

• $1.0M

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

  For the emerging bilingual collaborative

• $1.0M

  The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2022

  For rapid 2022 and the early learning initiative

• $950,000

  United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  To advance clean vehicle standards, transportation electrification, and equitable transportation policy

• $950,000

  Lowell Observatory · Flagstaff, AZ · 2022

  To support observing time for the expres 100 earths survey

• $950,000

  United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  To advance clean vehicle standards ($700,000), transportation electrification ($150,000), and equitable transportation policy ($100,000)

• $940,911

  California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2022

  To repurpose the caltech submillimeter observatory telescope

• $925,000

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

  For the early childhood governance and financing project

• $922,413

  Trustees of Purdue University · W Lafayette, IN · 2023

  To develop and evaluate math language resources for emerging bilinguals

• $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).

• $900,000

  Society for Research in Child Development · Washington, DC · 2022

  For the srcd policy fellowship

• $850,000

  Climate Power Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2024

  For general support

• $850,000

  Climate Power Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023

  For climate power education fund

• $850,000

  Climate Power Education Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2022

  For climate power education fund

• $828,100

  Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  For the heising simons capacity building fund

• $817,770

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

  For the srcd policy fellowship

• $810,113

  Education Development Center · Waltham, MA · 2022

  For young mathematicians in worcester

• $800,000

  Advanced Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2023

  To reform wholesale power markets, expand transmission, and engage in utility planning in key states

• $800,000

  Greenlining Institute · Oakland, CA · 2023

  For general support

• $800,000

  Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2023

  For the clean vehicles campaign

• $800,000

  Advanced Energy Economy Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

  To advance wholesale power market reform, transmission expansion, and utility regulatory reform

• $783,000

  Partnership Project · Washington, DC · 2023

  For the charge campaign

• $780,000

  Learning Policy Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $780,000

  Learning Policy Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2022

  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

• $775,000

  The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2023

  For the stanford center on early childhood

• $770,000

  Public Media Group of Southern California · Burbank, CA · 2023

  For the family math initiative

• $750,000

  American Indian College Fund · Denver, CO · 2024

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

• $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

• $750,000

  United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To advance clean vehicle standards and transportation electrification

• $750,000

  Mathtalk Pbc · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  For the math!everywhere! Project

• $749,335

  Tntp · New York, NY · 2024

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

• $746,000

  Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023

  For the center on poverty and inequality

• $725,345

  Carnegie Institution of Washington · Washington, DC · 2022

  For technology development and proof-of-concept demonstrations in support of the magellan infrared multi-object spectrograph

• $722,650

  El Education · New York, NY · 2022

  To build out a k-2 english language development curriculum for multilingual learners

• $721,735

  Oregon State University · Corvallis, OR · 2022

  To develop and test technologies for u/th radioisotope dating

• $717,770

  Society for Research in Child Development · Washington, DC · 2023

  For the srcd policy fellowship

• $700,000

  Center for American Progress · Washington, DC · 2024

  For the tackling climate and environmental injustice program

• $700,000

  Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To advance climate finance

• $700,000

  Edsource · Oakland, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $700,000

  Gridlab · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  For general support

• $700,000

  University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024

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

• $700,000

  Bipartisan Policy Center · Washington, DC · 2022

  For the tribal communities initiative

• $700,000

  Californians Dedicated To Education Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022

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

• $700,000

  Center for Applied Environmental Law & Policy · Boulder, CO · 2022

  For general support

• $700,000

  Edsource · Oakland, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $700,000

  Edvance · Modesto, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $700,000

  Gridlab · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  For general support

• $700,000

  Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Sacramento, CA · 2022

  To build community capacity in the central valley

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