The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966. The Hewlett Foundation awards grants to support educational and cultural institutions and to advance certain social and environmental issues. It is one of the largest grant-giving institutions in the United States, with assets of over $7 billion.
The Foundation has grantmaking programs in education, the environment, global development and population, the performing arts, and philanthropy, and it also makes grants to aid disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its inception, the Hewlett Foundation has made grants of over $4.5 billion to thousands of organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the United States, and around the world.
In 2011, The Hewlett Foundation awarded a total of $202,844,000 in grants and disbursed $353,400,000 (estimate) in grant and gift payments. The Hewlett Foundation is based in Menlo Park, California.
The Hewlett Foundation is wholly independent of the Hewlett Packard Company and its Hewlett Packard Company Foundation.
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