Grantmaking
In 2007, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awarded a total of $482,778,000 in grants and disbursed $422,797,000* in grant and gift payments.
The Hewlett Foundation makes grants to help solve social and environmental problems in the United States and around the world, and to serve disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The purpose of this annual report is to articulate what the goals and strategies of our grantmaking programs were for 2007, and to report the extent to which we feel we achieved progress in achieving our goals.
Since its founding in 1966, the Hewlett Foundation has maintained a firm commitment to building and sustaining strong institutions in order to solve difficult social and environmental problems. This requires providing long term support to grantee organizations and whenever possible allowing grantees as much flexibility as possible to spend grant funds to go about their work. Thus the Foundation provides long term, general operating support to a large number of our grantees.
The Foundation concentrates its grantmaking in the following programs:
* This number is an estimate and does not include funding from the Gates Foundation for Quality Education in Developing Countries.