Grants

We provide information about our grants directly to the public through our online database and other sources, such as Candid and the International Aid Transparency Initiative. The database below lists grants once they have been reported to and approved by our board of directors.

  • Education Resource Strategies

    Education

    for general operating support

    Active

    $1,250,000.00

    Term: 24.0 Months

    Awarded: July 16, 2025

    Education Resource Strategies (ERS) is a national nonprofit that partners with district, school, and state leaders to transform how they use resources (people, time, and money). They help create enabling conditions for transformation in state and local policy contexts and spread their work through lessons, tools, networks, and professional learning. ERS starts with an analysis of existing strategy and resource allocation in school systems mapped against best practices. They then help their partners reallocate resources to support high-leverage improvement strategies.
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  • Centre for Rights Education and Awareness

    Gender Equity and Governance

    for general operating support

    Active

    $1,200,000.00

    Term: 24.0 Months

    Awarded: July 16, 2025

    The mission of the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness is to champion, expand, and actualize women and girls’ rights and social justice.
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  • Center for Effective Philanthropy

    Effective Philanthropy

    for general operating support

    Active

    $1,200,000.00

    Term: 36.0 Months

    Awarded: July 16, 2025

    The Center for Effective Philanthropy provides data, feedback, programs, and insights for individual and institutional funders to improve their effectiveness and thus help them better address pressing social needs.
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  • American Economic Liberties Project

    Economy and Society

    for general operating support

    Active

    $2,000,000.00

    Term: 24.0 Months

    Awarded: July 16, 2025

    American Economic Liberties Project works to develop and advance a coherent framework of policy ideas and tools to ensure competitive markets. AELP organizes broad coalitions of business, labor, and civil society to protect workers, consumers, small businesses, communities, and democracy from anti-competitive harms.
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  • Learning Policy Institute

    Education

    for general operating support

    Active

    $2,750,000.00

    Term: 24.0 Months

    Awarded: July 16, 2025

    The Learning Policy Institute conducts and communicates independent, high-quality research to improve education policy and practice.
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  • San Francisco Foundation

    Special Projects

    for general operating support

    Active

    $7,500,000.00

    Term: 12.0 Months

    Awarded: July 16, 2025

    The San Francisco Foundation mobilizes resources and serves as a catalyst for change to build strong communities, foster civic leadership, and promote philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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  • Accountability Lab

    Gender Equity and Governance

    for work on strategic partnerships and mergers for civil society

    Active

    $200,000.00

    Term: 12.0 Months

    Awarded: May 23, 2025

    Accountability Lab supports individuals to develop and implement positive ideas for integrity in their communities as a way of promoting positive social and economic change. This grant will fund a partnership between Accountability Lab and Development Gateway: An IREX Venture to support any organizations impacted by declines in foreign assistance explore strategic partnerships and mergers.
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  • Californians for Justice

    Education

    for general operating support

    Active

    $350,000.00

    Term: 24.0 Months

    Awarded: May 23, 2025

    Californians for Justice works to build the power of youth, communities of color, immigrants, low-income families, and LGBT+ communities to create the healthy, just, and vibrant schools where children thrive and that all California communities deserve.
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  • KQED

    Education

    for support of the MindShift blog and digital reporting platform

    Active

    $150,000.00

    Term: 12.0 Months

    Awarded: May 23, 2025

    KQED informs and engages the public in California and nationwide with trustworthy journalism about key issues of community concern. This grant will support MindShift, a KQED digital reporting vertical that examines important developments and exciting practices in teaching and learning. As with all Hewlett media grants, this grant maintains editorial independence.
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  • Philanthropy Roundtable

    Effective Philanthropy

    for support of Federal Tax Initiative

    Active

    $200,000.00

    Term: 12.0 Months

    Awarded: May 23, 2025

    The Philanthropy Roundtable helps to build and sustain a vibrant American philanthropic movement through convening, peer networks, research and publications, and educational efforts. This grant is for the Philanthropy Roundtable’s project to support philanthropic freedom.
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