Hearst gives $500,000 in grants to Bay Area

Ten organizations in California, including four from the Bay Area, were awarded more than $1.3 million in philanthropic grants from the Hearst Foundation.

The grants ranged from $75,000 to $250,000 and will support several schools, medical centers and other institutions, according to a statement from the Hearst Foundations, which operates separately from the Hearst Corporation. Hearst Corporation owns The Chronicle and SF Gate.

The awards are issued quarterly. In all of 2021, the foundations made 320 grants that totaled over $41 million, officials said.

Of the 10 institutions that received awards, four were based in the Bay Area.

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center in San Francisco, which provides resources to entrepreneurs, received a grant of $150,000, officials said.

In Oakland, the Basic Fund got $100,000 to support its scholars program. The Basic Fund provides scholarships to low-income children and families, according to the organization’s webpage.

The Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto received a $150,000 grant to support college readiness and alumni programming, officials said. The nonprofit school, funded by foundations and individuals, aims to get its students, many of whom are people of color and first in their families to go to college, admitted to four-year colleges or universities.

The Hearst Foundation

also granted $100,000 to the MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae to support its outpatient neurology practice expansion, officials said.

Other institutions awarded grants include the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia; the Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center, Marymount High School, Doheny Eye Institute and Partnership for Los Angeles Schools in Los Angeles County; and Chapman University in Orange County.