Funding search · EIN 381359264 · Battle Creek, MI

Wk Kellogg Foundation

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

7,234
grants reported
$1.30B
total given
2021–2024
filing years
$100,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20212024. 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.

Where the money goes

  • Racial equity and community power under "Promise of an Equitable Future"
  • Early care, education and school districts serving young children
  • Family economic security, jobs, workforce and CDFI capital
  • Place-based investment in Battle Creek, Detroit and West Michigan
  • Health equity and food systems, including Haiti and Mexico

Typical grant

Median grant is $100,000, with the middle half running $7,500 to $225,000, so most of the file is modest and a long tail of small awards sits below $10,000. The seven-figure checks go to place-based anchors and long-term partners: school districts, community foundations, universities, and national intermediaries like New Venture Fund, Tides and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Repeat giving is the norm, with the same names appearing across years and sometimes twice in one year under different program labels.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • Promise of an Equitable Future
  • Jobs and Family Economic Security
  • Early Care and Education
  • Health and Health Equity
  • Food, Strong and Equitable Food Systems

Positioning adjacent work

  • Name one program label exactly, and pick the one your work actually fits rather than straddling two.
  • Anchor the work in Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Orleans, Haiti or Mexico.
  • Ask $150,000 to $500,000 for a first relationship; seven figures goes to existing anchors.
  • Lead with children and families as beneficiaries, with community-led leadership as the method.

Worth knowing: Michigan takes 1,928 of 7,234 grants and Battle Creek, the foundation's home town, absorbs a large share of that through the school district, the community foundation, Battle Creek Unlimited and local nonprofits. Beyond Michigan the money clusters tightly in Mississippi, New Mexico, Haiti and Mexico, and much of the national spending moves through a small set of fiscal sponsors and policy intermediaries in DC and New York, which signals relationship-driven rather than open giving.

117 grants matching “early childhood education · $34.2M

  • $200,000

    State of New Mexico Early Childhood Education & Care Department · Santa Fe, NM · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $200,000

    Michigan Early Childhood Investment Corporation · Lansing, MI · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $125,000

    Michigan Early Childhood Investment Corporation · Lansing, MI · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $200,000

    State of New Mexico Early Childhood Education & Care Department · Santa Fe, NM · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $187,000

    Michigan Early Childhood Investment Corporation · Lansing, MI · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $2.0M

    Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022

    provide core support for the YMCA's Central Station Early Childhood Center to increase early childhood education opportunities for children and families in Grand Rapid, Michigan, by developing a child development center read all
  • $1.0M

    Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2022

    enhance student outcomes and improve the Mississippi early childhood system by coalescing important educational equity projects that connect data, programming, and advocacy efforts

  • $1.0M

    University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2022

    address literacy deficiency and offer sustainable solutions linked to child development and learning that can improve education and life outcomes of children ages three-to-eight in Haiti Central Area through a comprehen read all
  • $750,000

    Detroit Educational Television Foundation · Wixom, MI · 2022

    promote equitable access to quality literacy, numeracy, and social emotional education for children aged 0-8 and increase professional development opportunities for emerging early childhood education professionals throu read all
  • $578,072

    Illiniois Facilities Fund · Chicago, IL · 2022

    promote equitable access to quality early childhood educational opportunities and enhance outcomes for Detroit children and families through lifting up local leadership, coordinating, and managing the strategic directio read all
  • $500,000

    Community Action Agency of South Central Michigan · Battle Creek, MI · 2022

    increase the number, diversity and wages of early childhood education professionals in Battle Creek, MI, through an employment training program

  • $500,000

    National Association for the Education of Young Children · Washington, DC · 2022

    advance the implementation of the Unifying Framework for the early childhood education profession resulting in stronger advocacy infrastructure and narrative change through elevating the voices within the early childhoo read all
  • $451,674

    North Mississippi Education Consortium · University, MS · 2022

    improve kindergarten readiness rates by providing professional development supports to early childhood education professionals

  • $400,000

    Everybody Ready · Allen Park, MI · 2022

    increase access to high-quality early childhood education opportunities for Detroit children by incentivizing providers to engage in local quality improvement efforts and reducing the financial barriers to low-income pa read all
  • $400,000

    Salish Kootenai College · Pablo, MT · 2022

    implement innovations in career pathway development for Indigenous early childhood educators grounded in the cultures of the Seli, Ksanka and QIispe people of the Flathead Nation

  • $350,450

    US Chamber of Commerce Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    engage local and state chambers of commerce and provide support to their efforts to grow early childhood care and education systems

  • $325,000

    Mississippi First · Jackson, MS · 2022

    improve access to high quality early childhood instruction by advocating for the Early Learning Collaboratives and improving the educator pipeline through research, communication strategies and policy implementation

  • $300,000

    P5 Strategies · Saint Charles, IL · 2022

    build capacity and provide support to state early childhood leaders to accurately measure and administer programs reflective of the true cost of quality early care and education

  • $300,000

    Michigan League for Public Policy · Lansing, MI · 2022

    provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of advocating for policy solutions focused on early childhood education, employment equity and health equity

  • $275,000

    Detroit Champions for Hope · Detroit, MI · 2022

    improve outcomes for young children in Detroit through education, outreach and advocacy to empower parents and caregivers as champions and make positive changes in early childhood programs, neighborhoods, systems, and p read all
  • $265,000

    Deep South Center for Environmental Justice · New Orleans, LA · 2022

    improve kindergarten readiness, third-grade literacy and numeracy by implementing social emotional and therapeutic wellness to early childhood education students and educators

  • $250,000

    Chalkbeat · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    promote family and community awareness of the importance of high quality Early Childhood Education through local and statewide reporting, partnerships, and storytelling

  • $250,000

    Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency · Detroit, MI · 2022

    support a resident and community engagement fund to educate and empower Detroit families to plan and advocate for children and family well-being in early childhood, employment and equitable community development

  • $250,000

    Policy Equity Group Llc · Washington, DC · 2022

    advance farm to early childcare and education by supporting a community of practice, enhancing quality of early childhood learning environments, increasing access to good food for low income children, and disseminating read all
  • $250,000

    Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Espanola, NM · 2022

    build the leadership and technical capacity of the Eight Northern Pueblos and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblo Council to implement comprehensive early childhood plans to advance language and cultural preservation, educ read all
  • $250,000

    Refugee Education Center · Kentwood, MI · 2022

    increase access to high-quality and culturally appropriate early childhood education services for children and families in Grand Rapids, Michigan by supporting and expanding both center and home-based early learning opp read all
  • $233,262

    Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children · Boise, ID · 2022

    support the development and implementation of a multi-site, statewide early childhood collaborative and related efforts to educate and inform both public and private leaders about the benefits of a mixed delivery early read all
  • $225,000

    Michigan Family Resources · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022

    recruit, retain and invest in early childhood educators by supporting credentialing goals through tuition support and student loan assistance

  • $225,000

    Congress of Communities · Detroit, MI · 2022

    promote positive outcomes for young children in Southwest Detroit through increased access to early childhood education training, playgroups, leadership development, and advocacy opportunities for parents, caregivers, a read all
  • $206,812

    Ensena Por Mexico Iap · 2022

    elevate educative communities in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, in favor of Maya early childhood well-being through the work of local young Maya leaders trained to articulate schools, caregivers and community members

  • $200,000

    State of New Mexico Early Childhood Education & Care Department · Santa Fe, NM · 2022

    address the early educator shortage while also preserving and enhancing quality early childhood services for children by increasing the number of bilingual early childhood educators in New Mexico through a degree and bi read all
  • $200,000

    Child Care Services Association · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022

    address inequities in higher education opportunity, compensation, and career mobility of the early childhood workforce

  • $200,000

    Explora Science & Childrens Museum of Albuquerque · Albuquerque, NM · 2022

    improve educational outcomes and improve community prosperity for children, families and early childhood educators through the expansion of a cradle through career STEAM learning plan, building long-term solutions acros read all
  • $200,000

    Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2022

    advance equitable community food systems by building partnerships with land grant universities and county cooperative extensions, applying a racial equity lens to the development of regional food systems and capturing p read all
  • $200,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    build a movement to advance a high quality early childhood education defined via equity centered, research based practices

  • $199,796

    Regents of the University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2022

    leverage partnerships to improve educational outcomes for refugee children by increasing quality and access of culturally and linguistically centered Early Childhood Education

  • $166,250

    Illiniois Facilities Fund · Chicago, IL · 2022

    improve the quality of early childhood education programs by assisting family, friend and neighbor providers in making improvements to facilities and operations to serve more children and families in Grand Rapids

  • $150,000

    Mescalero Apache Tribe Education Department · Mescalero, NM · 2022

    design and pilot a viable indigenous education early childhood system with wraparound services with language immersion and home visiting for children 0-5 within the Mescalero Apache Tribe in the State of New Mexico

  • $150,000

    National Association of State Boards of Education · Alexandria, VA · 2022

    support states in advancing policies to support an equitable, diverse, competent, well-compensated early childhood education workforce within the context of the pandemic

  • $150,000

    Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities · Traverse City, MI · 2022

    support the participation in 10 Cents a Meal for Michigan's Kids & Farms by early childhood education programs and increased statewide funding for it through stakeholder education, communications and outreach, as well a read all
  • $150,000

    Pueblo of Nambe · Nambe Pueblo, NM · 2022

    develop, grow, and establish a viable indigenous education early childhood center with wraparound services for children 0-5 within the Pueblo of Nambe to advance Tewa traditional values and practices, including language

  • $150,000

    Deming Public Schools · Deming, NM · 2022

    increase the number of high-quality early learning slots for children in southern New Mexico through the development of a culturally and linguistically centered early childhood education center, an educator recruitment read all
  • $140,000

    Mississippi Childrens Museum · Jackson, MS · 2022

    inspire early childhood development and student learning by exposing parents and children to hands-on early literacy experiences and providing educators with access to cutting edge teaching resources

  • $126,515

    Investigacion Y Educacion Popular Autogestiva Ac · 2022

    promote culturally pertinent early childhood practices in community schools holding indigenous Mayan children in Yucatan by developing an educational model that includes community members, male parental caring as well a read all
  • $113,183

    American Friends Service Committee · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    address child food insecurity by expanding access to healthy, local and fresh food for young children and their families in Bernalillo County and surrounding Tribal Nations in New Mexico by strengthening partnerships in read all
  • $103,000

    Michigan Early Childhood Investment Corporation · Lansing, MI · 2022

    promote positive outcomes for Detroit's young children through leadership of Hope Starts Here's Imperative 3 by increasing access to quality Early Childhood Education, workforce development, and kindergarten through thi read all
  • $100,000

    Edvance · Modesto, CA · 2022

    create a cost effective ecosystem of equity driven educators working to transform the future of education for children by offering a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education to current and future early childhood e read all
  • $100,000

    Brilliant Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2022

    promote community leadership, family engagement and positive early childhood learning experiences through quality neighborhood-based language, literacy and STEAM educational programming

  • $98,815

    Policy Equity Group Llc · Washington, DC · 2022

    improve developmental, educational, health and nutrition outcomes for vulnerable children in Mississippi, New Orleans and New Mexico through providing capacity building support in the form of best practices, research an read all
  • $83,000

    Mississippi Food Network · Jackson, MS · 2022

    improve health equity and literacy rates of children by maintaining the evidence-based OrganWise Guys Program, an early childhood curriculum centered on food and nutrition education

  • $75,000

    Cuidando Los Ninos · Albuquerque, NM · 2022

    lead advocacy and systems change efforts in collaboration with parents to identify key systemic challenges affecting families experiencing homelessness, and working toward more quality, trauma-informed early childhood e read all
  • $70,000

    Policy Equity Group Llc · Washington, DC · 2022

    increase stakeholder's understanding of components and necessary investments contributing to the implementation and design of a fundamentally stronger, more equitable early childhood education and care system in New Mex read all
  • $50,000

    Bank Street College of Education · New York, NY · 2022

    catalyze early childhood education systems change via supporting the professional and leadership development of leaders of color with responsibility for state and local systems that impact the lives of young children an read all
  • $50,000

    Wayne County Community College · Detroit, MI · 2022

    provide funding for the Horizontal Infrastructure Training Center to coordinate and deliver workforce programs and identify opportunities to better connect employment equity and early childhood education efforts

  • $50,000

    Family Assistance for Renaissance Men · Detroit, MI · 2022

    promote equitable outcomes for Detroit's young children, in coordination with the Hope Starts Here community engagement initiative, through engagement of fathers in education, training, and early childhood leadership op read all
  • $39,000

    Council of Michigan Foundations · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022

    provide core support for the Southeast Michigan Early Childhood Funders Collaborative to strengthen early childhood development, education systems and opportunities, and outcomes for children and families in Detroit and read all
  • $35,000

    United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    improve child wellbeing by building the capacity of community members and community-based organizations to mobilize, address inequities, and advance policies and practices affecting early childhood education in areas of read all
  • $34,905

    Save the Children Federation · Fairfield, CT · 2022

    sponsor a family engagement summit in the spring of 2023 in rural New Mexico to build and expand advocacy efforts and increase knowledge about early childhood education and social justice issues

  • $20,000

    Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    conduct research with Latino parents and caregivers of young children in New Mexico through the National Latino Parents Survey to understand their needs on early childhood health and development, education, cultural res read all
  • $10,000

    La Cocina · Fort Collins, CO · 2022

    sponsor a convening of monolingual Latinx mental and behavioral health professionals to expand leadership capacity and Latinx representation in the field of maternal and child health and early childhood education

  • $1.3M

    Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2021

    enhance student outcomes and improve the Mississippi early childhood system by coalescing important educational equity projects that connect data, programming, and advocacy efforts

  • $1.1M

    University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2021

    address literacy deficiency and offer sustainable solutions linked to child development and learning that can improve education and life outcomes of children ages three-to-eight in Haiti Central Area through a comprehen read all
  • $1.0M

    Agenda for Children · New Orleans, LA · 2021

    stabilize and strengthen the early childhood education sector by supporting nonprofit and community organizations serving young children and their families

  • $830,871

    Summits Education · Boston, MA · 2021

    improve access to quality education and educational outcomes of children in central Haiti through continuation of a whole child approach, early childhood education programs, literacy and numeracy instructions, a pilot m read all
  • $750,000

    Detroit Educational Television Foundation · Wixom, MI · 2021

    promote equitable access to quality literacy, numeracy, and social emotional education for children aged 0-8 and increase professional development opportunities for emerging early childhood education professionals throu read all
  • $697,974

    Regents of the University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2021

    develop new approaches for innovative, cross-disciplinary integration in the preparation of Early Childhood Educators matching actual community cultural and linguistic needs

  • $624,550

    US Chamber of Commerce Foundation · Washington, DC · 2021

    engage local and state chambers of commerce and provide support to their efforts to grow early childhood care and education systems

  • $500,000

    National Association for the Education of Young Children · Washington, DC · 2021

    advance the implementation of the Unifying Framework for the early childhood education profession resulting in stronger advocacy infrastructure and narrative change through elevating the voices within the early childhoo read all
  • $500,000

    First Five Years Fund · Chicago, IL · 2021

    support a bipartisan strategy to educate and inform local, state and national leaders about the importance of access to high quality early childhood care and education

  • $500,000

    Community Action Agency of South Central Michigan · Battle Creek, MI · 2021

    increase the number, diversity and wages of early childhood education professionals in Battle Creek, MI, through an employment training program

  • $500,000

    Ole Education Fund · Albuquerque, NM · 2021

    build a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, broad-base, non-partisan movement to advance an equitable early childhood education system in New Mexico

  • $407,531

    Regents of the University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2021

    leverage partnerships to improve educational outcomes for refugee children by increasing quality and access of culturally and linguistically centered Early Childhood Education

  • $400,000

    Michigan League for Public Policy · Lansing, MI · 2021

    advance access to early childhood education, expand career opportunities for low-skilled workers and enhance understanding of the impact of state budget and tax policies on Michigan's vulnerable citizens by cultivating read all
  • $400,000

    Salish Kootenai College · Pablo, MT · 2021

    implement innovations in career pathway development for Indigenous early childhood educators grounded in the cultures of the Seli, Ksanka and QIispe people of the Flathead Nation

  • $400,000

    Iff · Chicago, IL · 2021

    improve outcomes for Detroit's young children through leadership of Hope Starts Here's imperative 4 to update a city-wide early childhood education needs assessment, build facilities quality, and leverage public and pri read all
  • $400,000

    Kids of Excellence Learning Center · New Orleans, LA · 2021

    support sustainable change in early childhood education by providing technical assistance and collaborative planning to center directors

  • $351,363

    Start Early · Chicago, IL · 2021

    promote quality early care and education programming by providing consultation services to the State Early Childhood Advisory Council to create a vision and plan for the future state of the birth to eight system

  • $333,000

    Policy Equity Group Llc · Washington, DC · 2021

    advance farm to early childcare and education by supporting a community of practice, enhancing quality of early childhood learning environments, increasing access to good food for low income children, and disseminating read all
  • $330,926

    Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children · Boise, ID · 2021

    support the development and implementation of a multi-site, statewide early childhood collaborative and related efforts to educate and inform both public and private leaders about the benefits of a mixed delivery early read all
  • $325,000

    Mississippi First · Jackson, MS · 2021

    improve access to high quality early childhood instruction by advocating for the Early Learning Collaboratives and improving the educator pipeline through research, communication strategies and policy implementation

  • $300,000

    Michigan Early Childhood Investment Corporation · Lansing, MI · 2021

    improve the quality of early childhood education programs in Detroit and Michigan through shared services, coaching, technical assistance and training

  • $275,000

    Detroit Champions for Hope · Detroit, MI · 2021

    improve outcomes for young children in Detroit through education, outreach and advocacy to empower parents and caregivers as champions and make positive changes in early childhood programs, neighborhoods, systems, and p read all
  • $268,785

    Mississippi Food Network · Jackson, MS · 2021

    improve health equity and literacy rates of children by maintaining the evidence-based OrganWise Guys Program, an early childhood curriculum centered on food and nutrition education

  • $250,000

    Refugee Education Center · Kentwood, MI · 2021

    increase access to high-quality and culturally appropriate early childhood education services for children and families in Grand Rapids, Michigan by supporting and expanding both center and home-based early learning opp read all
  • $250,000

    Children'S Defense Fund · Washington, DC · 2021

    improve the quality of early childhood education by engaging a diverse group of child care providers in Mississippi's efforts to build a quality rating system

  • $250,000

    Chalkbeat · Brooklyn, NY · 2021

    promote family and community awareness of the importance of high quality Early Childhood Education through local and statewide reporting, partnerships, and storytelling

  • $250,000

    Focus Hope · Detroit, MI · 2021

    enable the organization to achieve its mission of education and economic success focusing on the relationship between economic equity and early childhood education by providing general operating support.

  • $250,000

    Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Espanola, NM · 2021

    build the leadership and technical capacity of the Eight Northern Pueblos and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblo Council to implement comprehensive early childhood plans to advance language and cultural preservation, educ read all
  • $250,000

    Bank Street College of Education · New York, NY · 2021

    catalyze early childhood education systems change via supporting the professional and leadership development of leaders of color with responsibility for state and local systems that impact the lives of young children an read all
  • $225,000

    Congress of Communities · Detroit, MI · 2021

    promote parent and community engagement in Southwest Detroit through increased access to early childhood education, advocacy, leadership and provider resources

  • $225,000

    Michigan Family Resources · Grand Rapids, MI · 2021

    recruit, retain and invest in early childhood educators by supporting credentialing goals through tuition support and student loan assistance

  • $209,000

    Congress of Communities · Detroit, MI · 2021

    promote positive outcomes for young children in Southwest Detroit through increased access to early childhood education training, playgroups, leadership development, and advocacy opportunities for parents, caregivers, a read all
  • $208,417

    Womens Foundation of Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2021

    increase persistence and credentials at community colleges in Mississippi for low-income moms through wrap-around services, including quality early childhood care and education, while also creating pathways to employmen read all
  • $200,000

    State of New Mexico Early Childhood Education Care Department · Santa Fe, NM · 2021

    address the early educator shortage while also preserving and enhancing quality early childhood services for children by increasing the number of bilingual early childhood educators in New Mexico through a degree and bi read all
  • $200,000

    Child Care Services Association · Chapel Hill, NC · 2021

    address inequities in higher education opportunity, compensation, and career mobility of the early childhood workforce

  • $200,000

    Cuidando Los Ninos · Albuquerque, NM · 2021

    lead advocacy and systems change efforts in collaboration with parents to identify key systemic challenges affecting families experiencing homelessness, and working toward more quality, trauma-informed early childhood e read all
  • $200,000

    Michigan State University · East Lansing, MI · 2021

    advance equitable community food systems by building partnerships with land grant universities and county cooperative extensions, applying a racial equity lens to the development of regional food systems and capturing p read all
  • $200,000

    Public Policy and Education Fund of Ny · Albany, NY · 2021

    build capacity of New York grassroots organizers for education equity via campaigns to increase state education funding and access to high-quality Early Childhood Education in underserved communities, creating an implem read all
  • $200,000

    The Michigan Womens Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2021

    increase access to high quality early childhood education in the seven Grand Rapids, Michigan, neighborhoods with the largest service gap by providing financial technical assistance to women owned and operated early chi read all
  • $200,000

    Wayne County Community College · Detroit, MI · 2021

    provide funding for the Horizontal Infrastructure Training Center to coordinate and deliver workforce programs and identify opportunities to better connect employment equity and early childhood education efforts

  • $183,948

    Ensena Por Mexico Iap · 2021

    elevate educative communities in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, in favor of Maya early childhood well-being through the work of local young Maya leaders trained to articulate schools, caregivers and community members

  • $166,250

    Iff · Chicago, IL · 2021

    improve the quality of early childhood education programs by assisting family, friend and neighbor providers in making improvements to facilities and operations to serve more children and families in Grand Rapids

  • $150,000

    Pueblo of Nambe · Nambe Pueblo, NM · 2021

    develop, grow, and establish a viable indigenous education early childhood center with wraparound services for children 0-5 within the Pueblo of Nambe to advance Tewa traditional values and practices, including language

  • $150,000

    Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities · Traverse City, MI · 2021

    support the participation in 10 Cents a Meal for Michigan's Kids Farms by early childhood education programs and increased statewide funding for it through stakeholder education, communications and outreach, as well as read all
  • $150,000

    National Association of State Boards of Education · Alexandria, VA · 2021

    support states in advancing policies to support an equitable, diverse, competent, well-compensated early childhood education workforce within the context of the pandemic

  • $150,000

    La Clinica De Familia · Las Cruces, NM · 2021

    empower and enrich families, individuals and communities by providing county-wide effort of integrating early childhood education organizations and implementing an action plan that ensures every child in Dona Ana County read all
  • $150,000

    Brilliant Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2021

    promote community leadership, family engagement and positive early childhood learning experiences through quality neighborhood-based language, literacy and STEAM educational programming

  • $150,000

    New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children · Albuquerque, NM · 2021

    enable the organization to achieve its mission in connecting with community groups, expanding collaboration, advancing equity and expanding programs and opportunities for Early Childhood Educators across the state by pr read all
  • $148,848

    Council for a Strong America · Washington, DC · 2021

    expand access to high quality early childhood education in the states of Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri and North Carolina by activating and recruiting business, law enforcement and military leaders to champion read all
  • $125,000

    Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Territory · Las Cruces, NM · 2021

    deploy a multigenerational, family-centric approach in Dona Ana County/colonia communities by supporting local residents to self-organize and advocate on key issues in employment equity, health equity and early childhoo read all
  • $123,000

    United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2021

    improve child wellbeing by building the capacity of community members and community-based organizations to mobilize, address inequities, and advance policies and practices affecting early childhood education in areas of read all
  • $100,000

    Deming Public Schools · Deming, NM · 2021

    increase the number of high-quality early learning slots for children in southern New Mexico through the development of a culturally and linguistically centered early childhood education center, an educator recruitment read all
  • $100,000

    Children'S Defense Fund · Washington, DC · 2021

    increase access to culturally relevant early childhood education by centering the voices of families of color in policy implementation and system reform

  • $86,817

    American Friends Service Committee · Philadelphia, PA · 2021

    address child food insecurity by expanding access to healthy, local and fresh food for young children and their families in Bernalillo County and surrounding Tribal Nations in New Mexico by strengthening partnerships in read all
  • $75,000

    Black Family Development · Detroit, MI · 2021

    promote positive child outcomes through increasing access to quality Early Childhood Education, workforce development, and kindergarten through third grade alignment

  • $50,000

    Family Assistance for Renaissance Men · Detroit, MI · 2021

    promote equitable outcomes for Detroit's young children, in coordination with the Hope Starts Here community engagement initiative, through engagement of fathers in education, training, and early childhood leadership op read all
  • $20,000

    Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2021

    sponsor an annual conference on early childhood education research in Oklahoma

Top recipients

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

  • Battle Creek Public Schools9 grants · $29.8M
  • New Venture Fund54 grants · $14.7M
  • Grand Valley State University13 grants · $14.6M
  • Battle Creek Unlimited4 grants · $13.5M
  • Center for Creative Leadership3 grants · $13.0M
  • Community Foundation for Mississippi13 grants · $12.3M
  • Baoba Fundo Para Equidade Racial2 grants · $9.7M
  • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors21 grants · $8.6M
  • Namati4 grants · $8.5M
  • Partners in Development Foundation4 grants · $8.5M

Giving over time

$429.0M
2021
$285.7M
2022
$284.5M
2023
$301.3M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 7,234 grants.

  • $12.0M

    Battle Creek Unlimited · Battle Creek, MI · 2021

    create a hospitality training program, career pathways and full-time jobs for Battle Creek residents while attracting visitors to support Battle Creek small businesses and raise the local tax base by renovating McCamly read all
  • $11.6M

    Battle Creek Public Schools · Battle Creek, MI · 2021

    transform Battle Creek Public Schools to address structural bias and segregation in Battle Creek, Michigan, by providing quality and equitable opportunities to students pre-K to 12th grade and their families to improve read all
  • $6.1M

    Baoba Fundo Para Equidade Racial · 2022

    establish an endowment fund to support the sustainability of the advancement of racial equity approaches for social development of vulnerable children and communities in the Brazilian locus of the African diaspora

  • $5.7M

    Battle Creek Public Schools · Battle Creek, MI · 2022

    continue improving educational experiences and outcomes for all Battle Creek Public School students increasing student achievement and recruitment/retention of high quality impactful staff, all in support of expanded ec read all
  • $5.0M

    Center for Creative Leadership · Greensboro, NC · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $4.7M

    Battle Creek Public Schools · Battle Creek, MI · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $4.6M

    Center for Creative Leadership · Greensboro, NC · 2023

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $4.0M

    Foundation for Detroits Future · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Jobs and Family Economic Security

  • $3.6M

    Baoba Fundo Para Equidade Racial · 2021

    establish an endowment fund to support the sustainability of the advancement of racial equity approaches for social development of vulnerable children and communities in the Brazilian locus of the African diaspora

  • $3.5M

    Grand Valley State University · Allendale, MI · 2022

    support the transformation in Battle Creek Public Schools by providing students college/career readiness opportunities, including teacher and health professions pipelines towards improved recruitment, preparation and re read all
  • $3.5M

    Grand Valley State University · Allendale, MI · 2024

    Jobs and Family Economic Security

  • $3.5M

    Grand Valley State University · Allendale, MI · 2023

    Jobs and Family Economic Security

  • $3.4M

    Center for Creative Leadership · Greensboro, NC · 2022

    develop leaders in target geographies to connect and grow to lead transformational change that will create better conditions for children, families and communities to be successful by participating in the fellowship pro read all
  • $3.3M

    Battle Creek Public Schools · Battle Creek, MI · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $3.2M

    Grand Valley State University · Allendale, MI · 2021

    support the transformation in Battle Creek Public Schools by providing students college/career readiness opportunities, including teacher and health professions pipelines towards improved recruitment, preparation and re read all
  • $2.6M

    Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative · Grand Rapids, MI · 2021

    expand an equitable early childhood system in Battle Creek, Michigan, including the launch of the Battle Creek Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative to increase access within neighborhoods to quality early childhood read all
  • $2.5M

    Indian Law Resource Center · Helena, MT · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $2.5M

    Namati · Washington, DC · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $2.5M

    Partners in Development Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $2.5M

    Indian Law Resource Center · Helena, MT · 2023

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $2.5M

    Namati · Washington, DC · 2023

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $2.5M

    Partners in Development Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2023

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $2.5M

    Indian Law Resource Center · Helena, MT · 2022

    enable Indigenous communities in central and south America to secure land titles and reduce barriers to titling through expert technical and legal assistance, as well as financial support

  • $2.5M

    Namati · Washington, DC · 2022

    equip communities impacted by social and environmental harms with the power of law, to protect their own well-being and make systems of environmental governance more equitable

  • $2.5M

    Partners in Development Foundation · Honolulu, HI · 2022

    advance a healing and racial equity centered Native Hawaiian approach to transforming the carceral juvenile justice system into a restorative alternative for incarcerated youth

  • $2.5M

    Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2021

    enable the organization to achieve its mission of ensuring that policies are effective in reducing poverty and disparities, expanding opportunity and improving the lives of low-income children and families in response t read all
  • $2.3M

    Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $2.3M

    Battle Creek Public Schools · Battle Creek, MI · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $2.1M

    W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Jobs and Family Economic Security

  • $2.1M

    Acceso · 2021

    improve access to both economic opportunities and locally produced food at the systems-level for children and families in the Central Area and the Southwest Corridor of Haiti via strengthening and development of the Hai read all
  • $2.0M

    Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids · Grand Rapids, MI · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $2.0M

    Center On Budget and Policy Priorities · Washington, DC · 2023

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $2.0M

    Foundation for Detroits Future · Detroit, MI · 2022

    support, in part, a proposed settlement to assist the city of Detroit in emerging from bankruptcy by helping the city satisfy its pension obligations to retirees and to assist in preserving the Detroit Institute of Arts

  • $2.0M

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2021

    support racial equity and justice in the philanthropic field by building the strong sector's capacity to integrate racial equity within institutions serving the infrastructure of philanthropy through support of a fundin read all
  • $2.0M

    Brandeis University · Waltham, MA · 2021

    create Child Opportunity Index 3.0 with communities as the primary user group through conducting racial equity-focused research and knowledge sharing; innovative outreach, user engagement and partnership activities

  • $2.0M

    Foundation for Detroits Future · Detroit, MI · 2021

    support, in part, a proposed settlement to assist the city of Detroit in emerging from bankruptcy by helping the city satisfy its pension obligations to retirees and to assist in preserving the Detroit Institute of Arts

  • $2.0M

    Ndn Collective · Rapid City, SD · 2021

    advance Native-lead and tribal economic initiatives within New Mexico to catalyze economic development and alternative economic practices focused on tribal community rebuild and creating tribal community wealth

  • $2.0M

    Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022

    provide core support for the YMCA's Central Station Early Childhood Center to increase early childhood education opportunities for children and families in Grand Rapid, Michigan, by developing a child development center read all
  • $1.9M

    Michigan Early Childhood Investment Corporation · Lansing, MI · 2021

    rebuild and re-imagine a stronger more equitable system for ECE funding in Michigan by piloting and supporting new business and financing models that ensure every child has access to developmentally meaningful early lea read all
  • $1.9M

    Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids · Grand Rapids, MI · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $1.9M

    Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2022

    support racial equity and justice in the philanthropic field by building the strong sector's capacity to integrate racial equity within institutions serving the infrastructure of philanthropy through support of a fundin read all
  • $1.8M

    Battle Creek Public Schools · Battle Creek, MI · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $1.8M

    Youthbuild USA · Roxbury, MA · 2021

    increase income generation, training opportunities, health outcomes and overall conditions for families in Akaye, Haiti by advancing community engagement and visioning processes through the implementation of the Sustain read all
  • $1.8M

    Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2021

    increase student achievement and outcomes by partnering with Jackson Public Schools on its district transformation plan, embedding the science of reading into early childhood preparation programs, and providing English read all
  • $1.7M

    American Public Human Services Association · Arlington, VA · 2021

    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 networks that lift and scale system alignmen read all
  • $1.6M

    Calhoun Intermediate School District · Marshall, MI · 2021

    increase the equity, quality, availability, access and coordination of early childhood opportunities for vulnerable families with children from birth to age 8 in Battle Creek, Mich., by partnering with families and comm read all
  • $1.6M

    Haitian Education and Leadership Program · New York, NY · 2021

    provide high quality higher education and citizenship and leadership training opportunities to economically disadvantaged students in Haiti by increasing student enrollment, campus expansion as part of the implementatio read all
  • $1.6M

    Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $1.5M

    Calhoun Intermediate School District · Marshall, MI · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $1.5M

    Childrens Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Detroit, MI · 2023

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $1.5M

    Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    provide core support for BuildUS to demonstrate what robust and equitable implementation of federal decarbonization legislation can deliver in diverse communities nationwide

  • $1.5M

    Detroit Riverfront Conservancy · Detroit, MI · 2021

    provide core support for the Unified Greenways Project to connect and link residents to improved health, education, housing, employment and economic development opportunities in 23 Detroit neighborhoods

  • $1.5M

    Easterseals · Chicago, IL · 2021

    address inequities for Black children with disabilities and delays through the Black Child Fund, a targeted initiative to overcome systemic barriers faced by these children and their families in receiving equitable diag read all
  • $1.5M

    New Mexico Community Capital · Albuquerque, NM · 2021

    strengthen Native self-determination through tribal entrepreneurship in both rural and urban communities, and catalyze culturally designed coalition efforts focused on policy, research, and movement building intended to read all
  • $1.5M

    Nola Business Alliance · New Orleans, LA · 2021

    enable the organization to achieve its mission of uniting a diverse community of stakeholders to catalyze job growth, create wealth and build an equitable and sustainable economic future for the new New Orleans by provi read all
  • $1.5M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2021

    support the capacity of Grantmakers for Girls of Color to change narratives centering girls of color, share lessons with the field in support of donor organizing and educating, and create new models for movement infrast read all
  • $1.5M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2021

    establish a funder collaborative focused on supporting alignment between long term care, paid leave and early childhood advocates, practitioners and funders with a focus on both strengthening and supporting the care eco read all
  • $1.5M

    Salzburg Global Seminar · Washington, DC · 2021

    develop and deliver a pilot program for alumni fellows that brings together diverse leaders to foster a global network to build new collaborations and sustainable communities to create conditions for children and famili read all
  • $1.5M

    W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $1.5M

    Calhoun Intermediate School District · Marshall, MI · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $1.5M

    National Congress of American Indians · Washington, DC · 2021

    enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of protecting sovereignty through development/dissemination of educational materials and tribally driven research that promote the building of collective agendas and read all
  • $1.4M

    Groundswell International · Washington, DC · 2024

    Jobs and Family Economic Security

  • $1.4M

    Calhoun Intermediate School District · Marshall, MI · 2022

    increase the equity, quality, availability, access and coordination of early childhood opportunities for vulnerable families with children from birth to age 8 in Battle Creek, Mich., by partnering with families and comm read all
  • $1.4M

    Asian and Pacific Islander Amercian Health Forum · Oakland, CA · 2021

    enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of influencing policy, mobilizing communities and strengthening programs and organizations to improve the health of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Isl read all
  • $1.4M

    Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd · New York, NY · 2021

    enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of pursuing a more equitable economy, a vibrant and inclusive democracy, an empowered public sector and responsible United States engagement in the world by providin read all
  • $1.4M

    Race Forward · New York, NY · 2021

    enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of building awareness, solutions and leadership for racial justice through generation of transformative ideas, information and experiences by providing general opera read all
  • $1.4M

    Unidosus · Washington, DC · 2021

    enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of improving opportunities for Hispanic Americans through applied research, policy analysis and advocacy by providing general operating support

  • $1.4M

    Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2022

    increase student achievement and outcomes by partnering with Jackson Public Schools on its district transformation plan, embedding the science of reading into early childhood preparation programs, and providing English read all
  • $1.4M

    W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2022

    increase access to employment for low income Battle Creek, Michigan families to get a job or a better job through the services of the neighborhood employment hubs

  • $1.4M

    Atentamente Consultores Ac · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $1.4M

    Equal Justice Works · Washington, DC · 2021

    address the underlying inequities exacerbated by disasters through direct legal services for vulnerable immigrant children and families in New Orleans and New Mexico

  • $1.4M

    Boston Foundation · Boston, MA · 2023

    Jobs and Family Economic Security

  • $1.4M

    W E Upjohn Unemployment Trustee Corporation · Kalamazoo, MI · 2021

    increase access to employment for low income Battle Creek, Michigan families to get a job or a better job through the services of the neighborhood employment hubs

  • $1.3M

    Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2021

    increase family economic security and mobility by developing diverse leaders, broadening policymaker and public knowledge of workplace benefits and job quality, and conducting policy-relevant research

  • $1.3M

    Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2021

    enhance student outcomes and improve the Mississippi early childhood system by coalescing important educational equity projects that connect data, programming, and advocacy efforts

  • $1.3M

    Kellogg Community College · Battle Creek, MI · 2023

    Jobs and Family Economic Security

  • $1.3M

    National Compadres Network · San Jose, CA · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $1.3M

    Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2021

    provide core support for racial healing response fund to enable coordination and implementation of community-centered efforts supporting racial healing processes for directly impacted people of the May 14, 2022 mass sho read all
  • $1.3M

    Faith in Action Network · Washington, DC · 2021

    enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of creating innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities by providing general operating support

  • $1.3M

    Communities United · Chicago, IL · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $1.3M

    Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2021

    provide funds to support the continued work of small business assistance in Detroit, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  • $1.3M

    Actionaid International · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $1.3M

    Actionaid International · 2023

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $1.3M

    Communities United · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $1.3M

    Actionaid International · 2022

    transform the Brazilian school network into the world's first anti-racist education system harnessing youth, education, and black movements and advancing a national healing process for children and families

  • $1.3M

    Communities United · Chicago, IL · 2022

    bring to scale Healing through Justice, a youth-led movement to address the root causes of racial inequities in communities, advance healing, narrative change, and justice through community and social action

  • $1.3M

    Policylink · Oakland, CA · 2021

    support anti-racist structures, practices, and outcomes through a whole-of-government collaborative approach to advancing racial equity in federal agencies

  • $1.3M

    Race Forward · New York, NY · 2021

    support racial justice efforts in government through the evaluation of department practices, strategy development, leadership capacity building, and convenings to create a culture and practice towards anti-racism

  • $1.2M

    Haitian Education and Leadership Program · New York, NY · 2023

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $1.2M

    Calhoun Intermediate School District · Marshall, MI · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $1.2M

    St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc Health Equity International · Newton, MA · 2022

    provide core support for St. Boniface Hospital to improve access to quality maternal, neonatal, and child health care services for vulnerable mothers and infants in the Southwest corridor of Haiti by supporting the obst read all
  • $1.2M

    Ochsner Clinic Foundation · New Orleans, LA · 2021

    address disparities in health care delivery and access through planning and implementing a new Ochsner-Xavier Center for Health Equity, in which internal and external stakeholders convene to complete goals and metrics, read all
  • $1.2M

    St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc Health Equity International · Newton, MA · 2021

    improve access to quality maternal, neonatal, and child health care services for vulnerable mothers and infants in the Southwest corridor of Haiti by supporting the maternal and neonatal obstetric surgery services, incl read all
  • $1.2M

    Mississippi Community College Board · Jackson, MS · 2021

    advance credentials, employment and family economic security for low-income Mississippians through enrollment and completion of the Mississippi integrated basic education and skills training program in community college read all
  • $1.2M

    Mississippi Department of Education · Jackson, MS · 2021

    address the achievement gaps in high poverty, high minority schools by improving educator preparation through residency- and performance-based teacher pipelines

  • $1.2M

    University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2021

    improve education outcomes and create safe school environment for children in Central Haiti by revising the Model School Network grades 1-6 curriculum, implement a school-based information system to collect and analyze read all
  • $1.2M

    Acceso Impact · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

    Jobs and Family Economic Security

  • $1.2M

    Southeast Michigan Foundation for Public Spaces · Detroit, MI · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $1.2M

    Detroit Riverfront Conservancy · Detroit, MI · 2022

    provide core support for the Unified Greenways Project to engage residents and improve access to health, education, housing, recreation, employment and economic development opportunities across 23 connected Detroit neig read all
  • $1.2M

    Naacp Empowerment Programs · Baltimore, MD · 2021

    enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of ensuring the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and eliminating racial hatred and racial discrimination by providing ge read all

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