News & Stories Grants Approved in the Fourth Quarter of 2019 Share By Nondas Paschos on 1/28/2020 on 1/28/2020 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. As we did last quarter, we also want to provide you with quarterly updates on the dollars we have awarded for the year thus far. In the fourth quarter of 2019, the Foundation awarded a total of $44,952,035, divided among our five programs as follows: Education: $23,287,925 Science: $3,942,539 Climate and Clean Energy: $6,089,971 Human Rights: $6,385,250 Community and Opportunity: $5,246,350 To search individual grants from this past quarter, please go to this pre-populated search listing year-to-date grants in our database. Close Share this page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Email
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