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Funder Directory›William Randolph Hearst Foundation

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Private foundation (trust)EIN 136019226Est. 1949-04

William Randolph Hearst Foundation

New York, NY 100193741

Accepts unsolicited proposals

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Total Assets

$942.7M

FY 2024

Annual Giving

$34.9M

FY 2024

Grants Made

264

FY 2024

Avg Grant

$132K

FY 2024

Grant Range

$1K–$2M

Typical

Deadlines

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Applications

Programs & Activities

Program 1

$2.8M

The Senate Youth Program is an annual $10,000 scholarship competition sponsored jointly by the U.S. Senate and the Foundation . After a testing and interview process, two high school students are selected from each state, DC, and the Dept of Defense's overseas educational activities. Each student receives a week long trip to DC.

Program 2

$1.5M

Journalism Awards Program provides scholarships for outstanding performance in college-level journalism. The program consists of five monthly writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, one audio competition, two television competitions and four multimedia competitions with championship finals in all divisions.

Focus Areas

Private Independent Foundations

Financial Snapshot

2024 filing

Total Revenue

$69.1M

Total Expenses

$44.9M

Qualifying Distributions

$41.7M

Distributable Amount

$43.4M

Min. Investment Return

$44.5M

Payout rate

Qualifying distributions as a share of distributable amount.

Grant Range

264 grants

Min

Median

Max

$1K$100K$2M

Logarithmic scale — typical grant portfolios span orders of magnitude, so distances are proportional to multiplicative change, not dollar gaps.

Giving Over Time

2 years

Total dollars recorded per filing year. Scale adjusts to the foundation's range.

Top Recipients

500 grants

The Metropolitan Opera

$2.5M

1 grant

New York-Presbyterian Hospital

$2M

1 grant

Norton Museum of Art

$2M

2 grants

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

$2M

1 grant

Pioneer Works Art Foundation

$1.4M

2 grants

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

$1M

2 grants

The Paley Center for Media

$1M

2 grants

Harvard University

$820K

3 grants

Grant Size Distribution

500 grants

<$10K

grants

$10–50K

grants

$50–250K

319

grants

$250K–1M

grants

$1–5M

grants

$5M+—

Geographic Focus

49 states

New York

$26.1M

36% of total

California

$12.5M

17% of total

Florida

$4.3M

6% of total

Texas

$3.5M

5% of total

Massachusetts

$3.2M

4% of total

North Carolina

$1.6M

2% of total

Georgia

$1.5M

2% of total

Illinois

$1.3M

2% of total

District of Columbia

$1.2M

2% of total

South Carolina

$1.1M

2% of total

+39 more states

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