The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation that was created in 1964 by David Packard (co-founder of HP) and his wife Lucile Salter Packard. Following David Packard's death in 1996, the Foundation became the beneficiary of part of his estate. The foundation's goals, through the use of grants, are to "improve the lives of young people, enable creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore earth’s natural systems.