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Foundations that fund economic mobility and poverty research
10 private foundations with a record of paying for economic mobility and poverty, taken from their IRS Form 990-PF filings. These are grants already made — evidence of what a funder backs, not an open call.
LELAND FIKES FOUNDATION INC
1 grant · $100,000 · through 2023
Largest: $100,000 to CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB — maximizing benefits for economic mobility
IRS filings for EIN 756035984OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
1 grant · $55,333 · through 2022
Largest: $55,333 to MICHAEL TUBBS — to build public-private partnerships with community based organizations and governments to launch innovative programs & policy experiments aimed at addressing issues of poverty and economic mobility, including piloting basic income pilots with mayors across the state.
IRS filings for EIN 137029285BERKSHIRE BANK FOUNDATION INC
1 grant · $2,500 · through 2023
Largest: $2,500 to ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS — supporting programs to help empath transform people's lives by helping them move out of poverty ...
IRS filings for EIN 043365869THE KRESGE FOUNDATION
2 grants · $240,000 · through 2022
Largest: $200,000 to COMMUNICATION ACROSS BARRIERS INC — this grant will allow the louisiana department of children and family services (dcfs) to take a current reality snap shot of what is working well throughout the state of louisiana, identify areas where children and families are falling through the cracks, develop measurable actions for increasing equity in all services, educate employees on research-based poverty and race-informed practices, and build inclusive and responsive approaches for dcfs staff to address basic needs and provide opportunities for social and economic mobility.
IRS filings for EIN 381359217John T Gorman Foundation
1 grant · $50,000 · through 2023
Largest: $50,000 to Maine Equal Justice — to reduce child poverty and increase economic security and mobility
IRS filings for EIN 010498551RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION
1 grant · $250,000 · through 2021
Largest: $250,000 to VILLAGE THEATER COMPANY — to invest in readiness in stem careers among youth living in pockets of suburban and rural poverty to create accessible pathways for economic mobility
IRS filings for EIN 251127705JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION
1 grant · $109,540 · through 2022
Largest: $109,540 to INSTITUT BREAK POVERTY — in support of creating economic mobility and career pathways
IRS filings for EIN 237049738Meadows Foundation Inc
1 grant · $700,000 · through 2023
Largest: $700,000 to Commit2Dallas and Child Poverty Action Lab for Opportunity 2040 — toward launching an initiative to accelerate economic mobility for dallas county students and young adults and continuing support for commit and the child poverty action lab
IRS filings for EIN 756015322FR BIGELOW FOUNDATION
1 grant · $30,000 · through 2023
Largest: $30,000 to JEREMIAH PROGRAM — economic mobility for majority-bipoc single mother families experiencing poverty in st. paul
IRS filings for EIN 510232651WK Kellogg Foundation
1 grant · $100,000 · through 2021
Largest: $100,000 to SER METRO-DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC — enable the organization to achieve its mission of providing exceptional services to youth and adults with a focus on building community relationships and business partnerships to reduce poverty and provide upward economic mobility for low-income residents by providing general operating support.
IRS filings for EIN 381359264
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Start with one paperSource: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, filing years 2019–2023. Foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.