The Hewlett Foundation’s survey is sent to active, U.S. based grantees. The foundation excluded non-U.S. grantees on the understanding that other countries and cultures may have very different questions and concerns when it comes to DEI. The foundation also excluded university grantees due to the complex hierarchy of departments and programs of these organizations.

The online tool includes data from 2018, when the survey was first launched on a voluntary basis, and 2019 when survey completion was required as a part of grant processing. While survey submission is now mandatory, respondents retain the option to opt out of reporting their data. As of 2019, the foundation requires grantees to fill out the survey once every three years, and expects close to 100% participation of the eligible survey population in 2021.

The data in this report is up to date as of December 31, 2019

Note on sample size:

• Of the 1,149 active grantees, 150 were exempt due to their location (non-US based) or their organization type. 999 were non-exempt. 
• "Total Active Grantees" includes all grantees who had an active grant within the respective calendar year as defined by project start and end dates.
• "Response Rate" is calculated by dividing the number of survey responses received (including opt outs) by the total number of grantees invited to the survey in a given year.
• "Number of grantees in report" includes all grantees who responded to the survey at any time and still had an active grant within the respective calendar year.

Subgroup Population: 

In addition to overall proportions, this report also shows 2019 proportions segmented by the following:

Program Area

Note: A grantee is included in each of the program areas based on their grants' primary program area coding. If a grantee received grants from more than one primary program in a single year (i.e. if a multi-issue think tank received grants from both Environment and U.S. Democracy), then their response is represented in multiple program areas.

The denominator of the response rates below is the total number of grantees who were active in 2019 and were invited to take the survey. Note that this includes grantees in the Harder survey and grantees who responded to the mandatory Hewlett survey. The numerator is the total number of grantees active in 2019 who responded to the survey.

Organizational Staff Size:

Annual Operating Budget

Investment Since 2015
These categories represent the total dollars that have been granted to surveyed grantees with an active grant in 2019 over the last five years (January 2015 to June 2020). The foundation awarded $2.3b in grants between January 2015 and June 2020. $1.3b of those dollars were to 2019 surveyed grantees, which represents about 57% of the total dollars awarded in this period.