Funding search · economic mobility and poverty · Virginia
Who funds economic mobility and poverty work in Virginia
15 funders have a record of paying for economic mobility and poverty work by Virginia recipients: 50 grants totaling $9.2M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Gates Foundation ($3.0M), The Joyce Foundation ($792,500) and Ford Motor Company Fund ($440,000).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Virginia recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $625,000 to AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION — research and learning opportunities; u.s. economic mobility & opportunity
Largest: $200,000 to American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences - Virginia — education & economic mobility
Largest: $230,000 to MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — economic mobility
Largest: $75,000 to URBAN LEAGUE OF HAMPTON ROADS — economic mobility
United Way WorldwideAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $136,584 · through 2024Largest: $100,800 to UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG — economic mobility, general charitable operations
Largest: $300,000 to AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION — to align and coordinate state and national public-private health and human services stakeholders in eight southern states to advance family-centered economic mobility
Ascendium Education SolutionsMadison, WICharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $850,000 to ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXECUTIVES FOUNDATION — grant, advancing the economic mobility of rural learners
International Citycounty ManagementWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $59,000 · through 2024Largest: $24,000 to CITY OF DANVILLE — strategic workplan to improve economic mobility for residents
Largest: $164,500 to ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — general operating support for arlington community foundation (acf) to implement their economic mobility initiatives.
Share Our StrengthWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $135,000 · through 2024Largest: $85,000 to Womens Institute for Science Equity and Race WISER — family economic mobility
CfleadsAccord, MACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $100,000 · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to ACT OF ALEXANDRIA — programmatic-economic mobility action network
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
1 matching grant · $1.7M · through 2021Largest: $1.7M to AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION — advance family economic mobility and good jobs in the southern region of ms and nationally through systems change work that engages public-private, cross-sector peer learning netwo…
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