Funding search · EIN 133424750 · Bethesda, MD

The Educational Foundation of America

Name: The Educational Foundation of America grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

676
grants reported: $35.1M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $30,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

3 grants matching “cowan” · $205,000

$90,000
Cowan Community Action Group · Whitesburg, KY · 2024
Growing home convening 2024-25 + staff salaries and benefits
$90,000
Cowan Community Action Group · Whitesburg, KY · 2023
Growing home convening 2024-25 and staff salaries and benefits
$25,000
Cowan Community Action Group · Whitesburg, KY · 2023
Flood recovery: general operating support

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Clean Energy Works5 grants · $1.1M
Interfaith Center On Corporate Responsibility8 grants · $882,000
Hopewell Fund10 grants · $875,000
Reproductive Health Investors Alliance6 grants · $770,000
Southern Environmental Law Center7 grants · $530,000
Activate 48 Education Fund4 grants · $530,000
City of Asylum Pittsburgh1 grant · $520,000
Paradise Garden Foundation6 grants · $517,600
Coalfield Development6 grants · $507,600
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky11 grants · $480,000

Giving over time

$13.7M

2022

$10.4M

2023

$11.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 676 grants.

$520,000
City of Asylum Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
3 refugee artist fellowships
$350,000
Shreveport Regional Arts Council · Shreveport, LA · 2022
Tooling the shreveport common makerspace
$300,000
Clean Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2023
Strategic support for the rural power coalition, including alaska
$300,000
Coalfield Development · Huntington, WV · 2023
Black box theater build-out
$300,000
Clean Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2022
Retire & reinvest, with general operating support for technical assistance to the field
$250,000
Paradise Garden Foundation · Summerville, GA · 2023
Vision campaign
$250,000
Black Belt Community Foundation · Selma, AL · 2022
Lighting selma: illuminating a historic icon
$250,000
Planned Parenthood of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2022
Central illinois organizer
$250,000
Reproductive Health Investors Alliance · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Shareholder advocacy legal fellowship
$210,000
Activate 48 Education Fund · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General operating support
$208,000
Reason for Hope · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$206,000
Psychedelic Safety Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2024
General operating support
$200,000
Kansas Common Sense Fund · Topeka, KS · 2024
Communications hub
$200,000
Reproductive Health Investors Alliance · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Corporate engagement program
$200,000
Power To Decide · Washington, DC · 2023
All access eastern kentucky
$200,000
Clean Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2022
Strategic support for the rural power coalition, including alaska
$200,000
National Campaign To Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy · Washington, DC · 2022
Project opportunity: improving reproductive health in eastern kentucky (a.k.a. All access eky)
$175,000
Clean Energy Buyers Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Building energy markets in the west and southeast
$175,000
William King Museum of Art · Abingdon, VA · 2024
Artlab and sculpture trail/exhibition of appalachian artists
$175,000
Clean Energy Buyers Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
Advancing a net-zero grid in the west
$175,000
Environmental Defense Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2022
Edf north carolina: moving from climate commitments to clean power
$175,000
Rocky Mountain Institute Center for Climate Finance · Boulder, CO · 2022
Advancing western wholesale energy markets
$164,000
Friends of the Children · Portland, OR · 2023
Seed capital for miami chapter
$160,000
Pike School of Art - Mississippi · Summit, MS · 2024
Phase i build-out and capacity building
$160,000
Artsrevive Community Development Corporation · Selma, AL · 2022
General operating support
$160,000
Promote the Vote Fund · Lansing, MI · 2022
General operating support
$150,000
Friends of the Children · Portland, OR · 2024
Miami chapter
$150,000
Rise Chattanooga · Chattanooga, TN · 2024
Salary and benefits arts director, arts programming, and studio build-out
$150,000
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky · Hazard, KY · 2023
Appalachian arts alliance capital campaign contribution
$150,000
Interfaith Center On Corporate Responsibility · New York, NY · 2023
Climate and esg shareholder rights legal fellowship
$150,000
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2023
Investment driven decarbonization of utility sector (rmi enact index)
$150,000
Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Climate impact through housing and energy equity
$150,000
Center for New Data · San Francisco, CA · 2022
2022 voter protection
$150,000
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators · Washington, DC · 2022
Building state champions for regional net zero grid policy
$150,000
Nw Energy Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2022
Advancing a net zero grid in the west
$150,000
Rocky Mountain Institute Center for Climate Finance · Boulder, CO · 2022
Investment driven decarbonization of utility sector (rmi enact index)
$150,000
Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Climate impact through housing and energy equity
$150,000
Southern Environmental Law Center · Charlottesville, VA · 2022
Nc clean power rulemaking
$135,000
San Juan Citizens Alliance · Durango, CO · 2024
Rural electric cooperative election toolkit general operating support
$135,000
Wormfarm Institute · Reedsburg, WI · 2024
General operating support
$135,000
San Juan Citizens Alliance · Durango, CO · 2023
Rural electric cooperative election toolkit general operating support
$135,000
San Juan Citizens Alliance · Durango, CO · 2023
Rural electric cooperative elections toolkit
$135,000
Wormfarm Institute · Reedsburg, WI · 2023
General operating support
$135,000
Progressnow Colorado Education · Denver, CO · 2022
Rural electric cooperative elections toolkit
$125,000
Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium · Birmingham, AL · 2024
General operating support
$125,000
Clean Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2024
Supporting rural electric cooperative clean energy investments
$125,000
Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy · Alberta, AL · 2024
Capital campaign: renovation support
$125,000
Lost-N-Found Youth · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General operating support
$125,000
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators · Washington, DC · 2024
Building champions for regional net zero grids
$125,000
Nw Energy Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2024
Western markets and transmission planning
$125,000
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2024
Engage and act: powerful data and analytical engines for climate action
$125,000
Clean Energy Works · Washington, DC · 2023
Supporting rural electric cooperative clean energy investments
$125,000
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators · Washington, DC · 2023
Building champions for regional net zero grids
$125,000
Nw Energy Coalition · Seattle, WA · 2023
Western markets and transmission planning
$125,000
Reproductive Health Investors Alliance · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Corporate engagement program
$125,000
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2023
Advancing western wholesale energy markets
$125,000
Appalachian Voices · Boone, NC · 2022
Accelerating local energy transition in appalachia
$125,000
Reproductive Health Investors Alliance · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Corporate engagement program
$125,000
Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2022
Helping rural electric co-ops make clean energy transition
$122,000
Interfaith Center On Corporate Responsibility · New York, NY · 2022
Shareholder rights and defense
$121,000
Animal Legal Defense Fund · Cotati, CA · 2023
Animal law education, expertise and opportunities for under-resourced communities
$120,000
Southern Environmental Law Center · Charlottesville, VA · 2023
Curbing pollution from industrial farming operations in north carolina
$115,000
Gender Ideal · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Corporate index
$110,000
Activate 48 Education Fund · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
General operating support
$110,000
Industrial Commons · Morganton, NC · 2024
Salary and benefits art director and accelerator
$110,000
Riffraff Arts Collective · Princeton, WV · 2024
Arts programming - capacity building support
$110,000
Activate 48 Education Fund · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
General operating support
$110,000
Riffraff Arts Collective · Princeton, WV · 2023
Arts programming - capacity building support
$107,000
Climate Democracy Initiative · Denver, CO · 2023
General operating support
$105,000
Interfaith Center On Corporate Responsibility · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$105,000
Interfaith Center On Corporate Responsibility · New York, NY · 2023
Esg education
$105,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023
Alaska voter hub list building at progress alaska
$100,000
Abortion Freedom Partnership · Saratoga, CA · 2024
Project piggybank
$100,000
Act Now Coalition · Covina, CA · 2024
Voters abroad project
$100,000
Activate 48 Education Fund · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
2024 civic engagement
$100,000
Alabama Center for Sustainable Energy Dba Energy Alabama · Huntsville, AL · 2024
Reducing tvas fossil fuel-generated electricity through local power company engagement
$100,000
American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama Foundation · Montgomery, AL · 2024
Reproductive rights and justice
$100,000
American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2024
Reproductive rights
$100,000
Bvm Capacity Building Institute · East Point, GA · 2024
2024 civic engagement
$100,000
Ceres · Boston, MA · 2024
Supporting investor engagement to increase utilities clean energy capital expenditure
$100,000
Choices Center for Reproductive Health · Memphis, TN · 2024
Carbondale clinic
$100,000
Equality Foundation of Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Housing equity advocacy
$100,000
Gender Ideal Dba Reproductive and Maternal Health Compass · New York, NY · 2024
Corporate index
$100,000
Greenlight America · Washington, DC · 2024
Kentucky campaign for clean energy deployment
$100,000
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Resources for abortion delivery general operating support
$100,000
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Social and economic strategies center 2024 civic engagement
$100,000
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Social and economic strategies center general operating support
$100,000
Indigo Bird · Denver, CO · 2024
Gloria
$100,000
Instituto Lab · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
General operating support
$100,000
Interfaith Center On Corporate Responsibility · New York, NY · 2024
Engagements with energy utilities and banks: transitioning to a clean energy economy
$100,000
Mayday Medicines Dba Mayday Health · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$100,000
Michigan Civic Education Fund · Madison Heights, MI · 2024
General operating support
$100,000
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawai'I Alaska Indiana and Kentucky · Seattle, WA · 2024
Health centers in louisville and lexington
$100,000
Power To Decide · Washington, DC · 2024
All access eastern kentucky
$100,000
Solar United Neighbors · Washington, DC · 2024
Clean energy transition for rural electric co-ops
$100,000
Southern Environmental Law Center · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Fighting gas buildout in the south
$100,000
State Innovation Exchange · Madison, WI · 2024
Reproductive rights
$100,000
Women'S Health Center of West Virginia · Charleston, WV · 2024
General operating support
$100,000
World Resources Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
Research to support utility energy transition in the west and southeast
$100,000
Young Center for Immigrant Children'S Rights · Chicago, IL · 2024
Legal fellow for health justice

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