All Funders

Achieving the Dream, Chapel Hill, NC


ATD is a national nonprofit dedicated to helping more community college students, particularly low-income students and students of color, stay in school and earn a college certificate or degree.

American Association of Community Colleges, Washington, DC


AACC is a nonprofit organization whose overriding mission is to "build a nation of learners by advancing America's community colleges."

American Council on Education, Washington, DC


Founded in 1918, ACE is the only higher education organization that represents presidents and chancellors of all types of U.S.-accredited, degree-granting institutions: community colleges and four-year institutions, private and public universities, and nonprofit and for-profit colleges.

Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD


Founded in 1948, the primary mission of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families. In pursuit of this goal, the foundation makes grants that help states, cities, and neighborhoods fashion more innovative, cost-effective responses to these needs.

Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Charlotte, NC


Bank of America is committed to creating meaningful change in the communities it serves through philanthropic efforts, associate volunteerism, community development activities and investing, support of arts and culture programming, and environmental initiatives.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bellevue, WA


To ensure that all people—no matter where they live—have the chance to live a healthy, productive life. The foundation is focused on using grantmaking and advocacy to help solve complex, entrenched problems that affect billions of people, including the AIDS and malaria epidemics, extreme poverty, and the poor state of American high schools.

Boston Foundation, Boston, MA


As Greater Boston’s community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes resources to building and sustaining a vital, prosperous city and region, where justice and opportunity are extended to everyone.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint, MI


Creating a just, equitable, and sustainable society is the basis upon which the Mott Foundation was established as a private foundation in 1926. While this remains the guiding principle of the foundation's grantmaking, it has refined and broadened its grantmaking over time to reflect changing national and world environment conditions.

College Spark Washington, Seattle, WA


College Spark Washington's mission is to fund programs that help low-income students become college-ready and earn their degrees. Grants are given to organizations and institutions throughout Washington State that are helping low-income students improve their academic achievement, prepare for college life, and graduate from college.

Communities Foundation of Texas, Dallas, TX


Communities Foundation of Texas traces its roots back to 1953. Since that year, more than $1 billion in grants have been made by the Dallas-based foundation. It has grown along with North Texas to become one of the largest community foundations in the nation.

Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund, Hartford, CT


Since 1973 CWEALF has worked to advance women's rights and opportunities in Connecticut. With special expertise in family law, sex discrimination in employment and education, hate crimes, and LGBT civil rights, CWEALF is dedicated to ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and low-income people.

Corporation for National & Community Service, Washington, DC


The Corporation for National & Community Service is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America, and leads President Obama's national call-to-service initiative, United We Serve.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation, Goodlettsville, TN


Dollar General supports programs that improve the quality of life for individuals by investing millions of dollars each year in literacy programs for youth and adults.

Ford Foundation, New York, NY


Chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford, the Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions around the world. The foundation was founded to advance human welfare, and all work flows from this fundamental commitment.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Owings Mills, MD


The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is dedicated to assisting the poor, primarily through operating and capital grants to direct-service organizations. These grants are focused on meeting basic needs such as shelter, nutrition, health and socialization, and on enhancing an individual’s ability to meet those needs, with an emphasis placed on the elderly and Jewish communities.

Hawaii Community Foundation, Honolulu, HI


The Hawaii Community Foundation is a public, statewide, charitable services and grantmaking organization supported by donor contributions for the benefit of Hawaii's people.

Hitachi Foundation, Washington, DC


Established by Hitachi, Ltd. in 1985, the foundation’s purpose is to enhance the well-being of economically isolated people in the United States, especially by exploring the value and limits of good corporate citizenship.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Miami, FL


A national foundation with local roots, the Knight Foundation seeks opportunities to transform both communities and journalism, and to help them reach their highest potential. The foundation wants to ensure that each community's citizens get the information they need to thrive in a democracy.

JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY


JPMorgan Chase's philanthropic goal is to be a catalyst for meaningful, positive, and sustainable change within our highest-need neighborhoods and communities across the globe. In 2010, JPMorgan Chase and its Foundation gave grants and sponsorships to thousands of not-for-profit organizations across 25+ countries.

Kentucky Community College and Technical College System, Versailles, KY


Since its creation in 1997, KCTCS has become the largest provider of postsecondary education and workforce training in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. KCTCS provides a seamless path from high school to postsecondary education and the workplace.

Living Cities, New York, NY


Founded in 1991, Living Cities is an innovative philanthropic collaborative of 21 of the world's largest foundations and financial institutions focused on improving the lives of low-income people and the urban areas in which they live by effectively addressing issues surrounding jobs, housing, climate change, asset building and health care.

Lumina Foundation for Education, Indianapolis, IN


Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners.

Maine Department of Labor, Augusta, ME


The Maine Department of Labor promotes the safety and economic well being of all individuals and businesses in Maine by promoting independence and life long learning, by fostering economic stability and by ensuring the safe and fair treatment of all people on the job.

Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, Boston, MA


The mission of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is to strengthen the Commonwealth's public education system so that every student is prepared to succeed in postsecondary education, compete in the global economy, and understand the rights and responsibilities of American citizens, and in so doing, to close all proficiency gaps.

MDC, Durham, NC


MDC was established in 1967 by the North Carolina Fund, with the support of the state's civic and business leadership and the Ford Foundation, to help the state transition from a segregated, agricultural workforce to an integrated, industrial workforce.

MetLife Foundation, Long Island City, NY


The MetLife Foundation was created in 1976 with the goals of empowering people to lead healthy, productive lives and strengthening communities. Underlying the foundation's programs is a focus on education at all ages and a commitment to increasing access and opportunity. The foundation makes grants in health, education, civic affairs, and culture.

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA


Through monetary grants, software and curriculum donations, technology solutions, and employee volunteer hours, Microsoft supports programs and organizations that address the needs of communities worldwide.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC


Since its founding in 1958, NASA has worked around the world (and off of it) to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what it does and learns will benefit all humankind.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Quincy, MA


The Nellie Mae Education Foundation was created with the purpose of stimulating transformative change of public education systems across New England by growing a greater variety of higher-quality educational opportunities that enable all learners—especially and essentially underserved learners—to obtain the skills, knowledge, and supports necessary to become civically engaged, economically self-sufficient life-long learners.

North Carolina Community College System, Raleigh, NC


The mission of the North Carolina Community College System is to open the door to high-quality, accessible educational opportunities that minimize barriers to postsecondary education, maximize student success, develop a globally and multiculturally competent workforce, and improve the lives and well-being of individuals.

Open Society Foundations, New York, NY


The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve this mission, the Foundations seek to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights.

Philadelphia Youth Network, Philadelphia, PA


PYN's vision is that all of Philadelphia's young people take their rightful places as full and contributing members of a world-class workforce for the region.

Prudential Foundation, Newark, NJ


Since 1875 the Prudential Foundation has been committed to making a difference in communities through both volunteer work and corporate donations.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ


The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health care of all Americans, with the goal to help Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need.

Senior Service America, Silver Spring, MD


SSAI is committed to making it possible for low-income and other disadvantaged older adults to participate fully in determining their own future and the future of their communities.

Surdna Foundation, New York, NY


The Surdna Foundation seeks to foster just and sustainable communities in the United States—communities guided by principles of social justice and distinguished by healthy environments, strong local economies, and thriving cultures.

Texas Education Agency, Austin, TX


TEA's mission is to provide leadership, guidance and resources to help schools meet the educational needs of all students.

The California Endowment, Los Angeles, CA


The California Endowment is a private, statewide health foundation created in 1996. Its mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.

The James Irvine Foundation, San Francisco, CA


James Irvine, a California agricultural pioneer, established the Foundation in 1937 to benefit the people of California. Since then, the Foundation has met the objectives of its founder by providing more than $1 billion in grants to over 3,000 nonprofit organizations across the state.

The Joyce Foundation, Chicago, IL


Supporting efforts to protect the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and violence in the region, and to ensure its residents good schools, decent jobs, a strong democracy, and a diverse and thriving culture.

The Kresge Foundation, Troy, MI


The Kresge Foundation has seven, narrowly defined programs that each in its own way works to improve the life circumstances of poor and low-income children and adults and those living in underserved urban and rural communities: Arts & Culture, Community Development, Detroit, Education, Environment, Health, and Human Services.

U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC


The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving working conditions, advancing opportunities for profitable employment, protecting retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI


W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.

Walmart Foundation, Bentonville, AR


Walmart Foundation supports initiatives focused on enhancing opportunities in education, workforce development/economic opportunity, environmental sustainability, and health and wellness. The foundation has a particular interest in supporting veterans and military families, traditionally underserved groups, individuals with disabilitie,s and people impacted by natural disasters.

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Little Rock, AR


WRF uses its resources to build and sustain strong communities for all Arkansans by supporting and strengthening the organizations that serve them. Program areas include economic development; education; and economic, racial, and social justice.