Funder Standing / The Hearst Foundation

The Hearst Foundation

NY · EIN 136161746 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

101 of 111 organizations The Hearst Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 92.2%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
92.2%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$150,000
Range $75,000 – $500,000
Repeat-dollar share
11.2%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
Children's Museum of Manhattannew$500,000
Save the Children Federationnew$500,000
New Museumnew$350,000
Center for Disability Services Incnew$300,000
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$250,000
National Park Foundationnew$250,000
Hunter College Foundation$250,000
NY Pubic Library$250,000
Crohns & Colitis Foundationnew$250,000
Exceptional Mindsnew$200,000
Harvesters - The Community Food Networknew$200,000
Haven for Hope of Bexar County$200,000
Kitchens for Goodnew$200,000
New World Symphonynew$200,000
New York Foundation for the Arts Incnew$200,000
Oklahoma State Universitynew$200,000
White Plains Hospital Medical Centernew$200,000
Family Gateway$200,000
New York City Centernew$200,000
School of the Art Institute of Chicagonew$200,000
Shasta Cascade Health Centersnew$200,000
University Hospitals Health Systemnew$200,000
University of Houstonnew$200,000
University of Missouri Columbianew$200,000
Covenant House New Orleansnew$175,000

Showing the 25 largest of 111 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The Hearst Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Flagged for review. A high share of this funder's recipients appear in only one year. That is what genuine turnover looks like, and also what a renamed grantee looks like, so the figure above may be overstated. Match rate cannot distinguish the two.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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