education Funders

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."

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.

Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York, NY


Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding." For over 95 years, the Corporation has carried out Carnegie's vision of philanthropy by building on his two major concerns: international peace and advancing education and knowledge.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, MN


The mission of Northwest Area Foundation is to support efforts by the people, organizations, and communities of its eight-state region to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable prosperity.

Texas Education Agency, Austin, TX


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

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.

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.