Hearst Foundations award Seattle Art Museum with $250,000 grant

The Hearst Foundations has awarded the Seattle Art Museum with a $250,000 grant.

The grant will help fund arts education programs in Title I schools, which are elementary and secondary schools that are eligible for additional funding to serve disadvantaged students.

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation and The Hearst Foundation Inc. are independent private philanthropies established in the 1940s by William Randolph Hearst, founder of the Hearst Corporation, which owns the SeattlePI. The two foundations act as a unified national philanthropic resource for nonprofit organizations and institutions working in the fields of education, health, culture and social service. The two foundations give the grants together.

In addition to grantmaking, two unique programs are administered and funded by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation: the United States Senate Youth Program for high school juniors and seniors and the Journalism Awards Program for undergraduates at accredited schools of journalism.

Over the past several years, the Hearst Foundations awarded millions of dollars in grants to organizations in Seattle and across the country impacted by the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The Hearst Foundations have awarded more than 21,500 grants to nearly 6,000 organizations since their founding. Last year, the Hearst Foundations gave 358 grants worth a total of $54 million.