News & Stories Grants Approved in the First Quarter of 2019 Share By Jorge Cino on 4/29/2019 on 4/29/2019 At the Heising-Simons Foundation, we are proud of the grants and partnerships we develop to advance the issues we care about, and we believe in being transparent about our grantmaking with our partners and the public. As part of the content that is shared on this website, you can already search all of our grants and awards from the Foundation’s first grant in 2007 to the present, through our grants database. We also invite you to learn more about the Foundation’s grantmaking totals each year on our Year-at-a-Glance interactive infographic page. Starting this year, we also want to provide you with quarterly updates on the dollars we have awarded for the year thus far. In the first quarter of 2019, the Foundation awarded a total of $24,175,750, divided among our five programs as follows: Education: $2,998,765 Science: $15,126,573 Climate and Clean Energy: $3,750,000 Community and Opportunity: $495,412 Human Rights: $1,805,000 To search individual grants made in 2019 so far, please go to this pre-populated search in our grants database. Close Share this page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Email
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