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.

125 grants matching “strategies · $28.7M

  • $200,000

    Education Resource Strategies · Watertown, MA · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $100,000

    Ballott Initiative Strategy Center Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $55,850

    Caprock Strategies Llc · Arlington, VA · 2024

    Early Care and Education

  • $25,000

    Ballott Initiative Strategy Center Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

    Promise of an Equitable Future

  • $250,000

    P5 Strategies · Saint Charles, IL · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $225,000

    Education Resource Strategies · Watertown, MA · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $222,500

    Caprock Strategies Llc · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $200,000

    Public Private Strategies Institute · Washington, DC · 2023

    Early Care and Education

  • $100,000

    Moses Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength · Detroit, MI · 2023

    Health and Health Equity

  • $1.0M

    Advancement Project Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of fulfilling America's promise of a caring, inclusive, and just democracy using innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social moveme read all
  • $900,000

    Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    provide core support for the Fund for Equitable Good Food Procurement to increase access to good food, create quality jobs and promote community wealth by advancing good food procurement strategies

  • $588,512

    Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    build a global norm for bridging and belonging practices to advance a multiracial democracy through the development of a global network of leaders, sectors and practitioners and impactful national and global bridging st read all
  • $450,000

    Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of training and developing new leaders of color and people of color led organizations, and growing movement infrastructure through racial ju read all
  • $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

    Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    support the organizational launch and initial efforts of This is Planet Ed to examine potential strategies to link climate and environmental justice initiatives to public education systems in the United States

  • $300,000

    Ballott Initiative Strategy Center Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of strengthening democracy by cultivating state leaders and coalitions to lead equitable issue campaigns

  • $300,000

    Public Private Strategies Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    provide core support for the Emerging Voices Table that will expand the understanding of key family policy issues in faith institutions and build support and coherence among religiously affiliated people about the impor read all
  • $260,000

    Kawerak · Nome, AK · 2022

    expand community power building strategies to advance a racial equity approach centered in Alaska Native leadership in climate research and science in the Bering Strait region by increasing staff and tribal leadership c read all
  • $250,000

    City of Grand Rapids · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022

    support the implementation of the Office of Oversight and Public Accountability's four pillar, race equity and community engagement-based strategy to reduce the influence of racism in policing in Grand Rapids

  • $250,000

    Boston Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022

    create an inclusive and equitable Boston where everyone belongs by elevating the voices and perspectives of Black and Brown communities and expand narrative change and community engagement strategies to advance racial e read all
  • $250,000

    Democracy at Work Institute · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    build and accelerate national employee ownership efforts for larger-scale expansion as a racial equity strategy in several cities across the country

  • $250,000

    Detroit Public Schools Community District · Detroit, MI · 2022

    provide core support for the oral health component of the Health Hubs to fully develop and further embed oral health services into the large school-based health hub strategy to provide easy access, high quality full wra read all
  • $250,000

    Education Resource Strategies · Watertown, MA · 2022

    create national infrastructure required to better support advocates and practitioners seeking to advance local, state, and federal resource equity in education systems

  • $250,000

    El Hombre Sobre La Tierra Ac · 2022

    improve children's nutrition in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico by implementing a three line strategy to reinforce local and sustainable food production via promoting adequate nutrition and wellbeing as well as fostering incom read all
  • $250,000

    Groundwork Ohio Organization · Columbus, OH · 2022

    provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of championing quality early learning and healthy development strategies, in the prenatal period to age five, that lay a strong foundation f read all
  • $250,000

    Michigan Municipal League Foundation · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

    support a statewide partnership of stakeholders to identify strategies and opportunities that grow the state's population, improve educational outcomes, attract and retain talent, and build long-term, sustainable infras read all
  • $200,000

    Center for American Progress · Washington, DC · 2022

    advance an innovative strategy that builds an economy for all, in conjunction with progression of both racial equity and justice

  • $200,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    provide core support for Coworker.org to deploy digital tools, data, and strategies in service of helping under-resourced, and exploited workers to improve their jobs

  • $200,000

    Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2022

    disseminate knowledge products that focus on strategies to increase wealth, economic mobility and economic power in low-income Black communities in Michigan

  • $190,000

    Alliance for a Just Society · Seattle, WA · 2022

    advance Native community organizing model for strengthening Native leadership and building power in Native communities through Indigenous-based inquiry that shapes community vision, strategy, advocacy for social change, read all
  • $186,717

    Diseno Y Capacitacion Para El Desarrollo Y Las Microfinanzas Sc · 2022

    consolidate Indigenous families' wellbeing in San Juan Cancuc and Sitala, Chiapas, Mexico, through an integral sustainability strategy that achieves water and food security, financial education, and constant income

  • $156,827

    Instituto Para El Desarrollo Sustentable En Mesoamerica Ac · 2022

    advance community engagement and improve families' wellbeing in Chiapas, Mexico, by promoting local leadership and organization structures, increasing access to information and resources to support local action, develop read all
  • $150,000

    Vibrant Futures · Grand Rapids, MI · 2022

    improve childcare affordability and access for children and families in Kent County, Michigan, by developing and utilizing new strategies and approaches for cost sharing options for care across the early childhood conti read all
  • $150,000

    Calhoun County Land Bank Authority · Marshall, MI · 2022

    provide core support for the housing and workforce development strategies of Calhoun County Land Bank Authority for neighborhood revitalization efforts targeting infill housing and growing property ownership to provide read all
  • $150,000

    Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    provide core support for the Latinx Alliance to expand its network and strengthen community of leaders across public, private, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, enable advocacy for Latinx communities, and develop nar read all
  • $150,000

    Pueblo of Zuni · Zuni, NM · 2022

    improve educational and socio-emotional outcomes for Zuni Pueblo Native American children by supporting an integrated Zuni language immersion system guided by ancestral knowledge, tribal values, cultural protocols and t read all
  • $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
  • $139,192

    Conider Cooperacion Y Organizacion Integral Para El Desarollo Rural Ac · 2022

    promote community development in Sitala and San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a comprehensive strategy to improve food production and consumption, increase access to market for cash crops, and support lo read all
  • $125,000

    Young Audiences of Louisiana · New Orleans, LA · 2022

    provide core support for Young Audiences of Louisiana's Wolf Trap program which offers innovative arts-based teaching strategies and services for early-childhood teachers, caregivers, and parents of children from birth read all
  • $120,000

    One Voice · Jackson, MS · 2022

    develop a comprehensive strategy and plan to bridge all key stakeholder assets into one Consolidated Plan of Capital/Infrastructure Development Projects that lead to future economic growth and prosperity of the City of read all
  • $117,500

    Mississippi Main Street Association · Jackson, MS · 2022

    restore economic vitality in historic Mississippi Main Street downtown communities through launching a series of visual strategic plans or roadmaps to guide the revitalization, transformational strategies and framework read all
  • $112,360

    Calhoun County Land Bank Authority · Marshall, MI · 2022

    activating vacant and blighted parcels owned by the Land Bank in a low-income, primarily minority-owned neighborhood as part of a community-created neighborhood stabilization strategy including blight elimination, equit read all
  • $100,000

    Keep Growing Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2022

    promote positive outcomes for Detroit's young children and families by building quality early learning experiences, implementing effective farm to school strategies, engaging parents, providers, and communities in garde read all
  • $100,000

    Moses Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength · Detroit, MI · 2022

    support the development and pilot implementation of a Black health academy in Detroit through which community members will learn how to access health care services, organize their communities to address critical needs, read all
  • $100,000

    Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022

    provide educational resources, enforcement strategies, support, and resources to Black people working in low-wage industries

  • $100,000

    Georgetown University Office of Research Services · Washington, DC · 2022

    develop and deliver the New Strategies Rising financial leadership pilot program for grantees and alumni of color to gain new skills to help them diversify, and strengthen revenue for organizational growth while also he read all
  • $100,000

    Farmington Municipal Schools · Farmington, NM · 2022

    increase the number of bilingual teacher candidates entering the educator workforce by building strong partnerships and deploying an equity strategy with intentional community outreach

  • $100,000

    Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency · Detroit, MI · 2022

    promote positive outcomes for Detroit children by creating a coordinated early childhood workforce strategy that provides a city-wide marketing and recruitment campaign, reduces teacher vacancies, builds a diverse early read all
  • $80,000

    Asesoria Capacitacion Y Asistencia En Salud Ac · 2022

    improve the quality of maternal and reproductive care of women in Chiapas, Guerrero and San Luis Potosi, Mexico, by providing training to traditional midwives and generating advocacy strategies to gain support and recog read all
  • $75,000

    Thecasemade Incorporated · Lake Mary, FL · 2022

    develop a strategy to address negative narratives impacting low-income families' ability to get a job or a better job in Battle Creek, Michigan

  • $75,000

    State Power Fund · Kent, OH · 2022

    support the establishment of a collective impact strategy that will strengthen the capacity and power of multiracial grassroots organizing groups and extend their impact beyond electoral cycles

  • $75,000

    Detroit Future City · Detroit, MI · 2022

    provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of advancing the quality of life of all Detroiters through data-driven strategies that promote the advancement of land use and sustainabilit read all
  • $60,000

    Lahc Leaders Advancing & Helping Communities · Dearborn, MI · 2022

    provide access to high quality perinatal care to black and brown Muslim immigrants in Detroit by developing a community member and service provider informed service delivery strategy

  • $50,000

    Masa Center · Battle Creek, MI · 2022

    expand efforts to explore and share the Mexican history of Battle Creek, Michigan, through local community education and engagement strategies

  • $50,000

    United Nations Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    recover livelihoods of families affected by tropical depression Cristobal and COVID-19 in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by implementing community-led funding strategies to build resiliency and restore wellbeing

  • $36,404

    National Committee for Quality Assurance · Washington, DC · 2022

    decrease maternal and child health outcome inequities in health care settings by establishing a Birth Equity Quality Framework and strategy for measuring birth equity across health care systems

  • $30,000

    Kooneex Tuklik Muul Kuxtal · 2022

    improve families' wellbeing in Yucatan, Mexico, by supporting community engagement processes to advance local priorities and implement response strategies and advance community organizing and governance

  • $25,000

    Arizona Center for Empowerment · Phoenix, AZ · 2022

    sponsor a convening of women of color leaders for respite and reconnection to their values and each other by equipping them with skills, knowledge and tools that will advance personal growth, respond to challenges in th read all
  • $25,000

    Womens Funding Network · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    provide funds to sponsor a charitable event, the 2023 Feminist Funded Convening, to expand the power and influence of all women through intentional strategies and racial equity that spurs action and expands the imaginat read all
  • $25,000

    Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy · Oakland, CA · 2022

    provide funds to sponsor a charitable event, the 2023 Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy Network Convening, to celebrate the philanthropic impact of members of the AAPIP community and reconnect and collabo read all
  • $25,000

    Ballott Initiative Strategy Center Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    provide funds to sponsor a charitable event, the Road Ahead Conference, in support of issue-based campaign leaders and building state-based advocacy and organizing infrastructure

  • $10,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022

    support attendance of diverse leaders to attend the Census Coordinating Convening to discuss strategies to ensure a fair and accurate Census count

  • $8,000

    Skills Foundation of Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2022

    support the upcoming Mississippi Horizons Innovation and Strategy Workforce Development Symposium in September 2022, which will bring together key public-private, cross-sector stakeholders to align and strengthen the wo read all
  • $210

    Movement Strategy · Oakland, CA · 2022

    Matching grant

  • $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
  • $1.3M

    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

  • $1.1M

    Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2021

    provide core support for the Fund for Equitable Good Food Procurement to increase access to good food, create quality jobs and promote community wealth by advancing good food procurement strategies

  • $972,222

    Advancement Project · Washington, DC · 2021

    enable the anchor organization to achieve its mission of fulfilling America's promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy through the use of innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achie read all
  • $748,969

    Ballott Initiative Strategy Center Foundation · Washington, DC · 2021

    enable the organization to achieve its mission to build a more equitable democracy by developing state and local leaders and infrastructure to engage in issue-based campaigns that impact BIPOC communities by providing g read all
  • $650,000

    Mississippi Center for Justice · Jackson, MS · 2021

    enable the organization to achieve its mission of advancing racial and economic justice and developing strategies to combat discrimination and poverty by providing general operating support

  • $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

    Pinellas Community Foundation · Clearwater, FL · 2021

    enhance the capacity of non-profit organizations in the Pinellas County region to promote equitable community outcomes by diversifying their workforce and implementing racial equity staff/board capacity building strateg read all
  • $500,000

    Institute for the Future · Palo Alto, CA · 2021

    identify and broadly disseminate strategies and policy solutions to incentivize the growth and success of equitable enterprises

  • $480,000

    Global Greengrants Fund · Boulder, CO · 2021

    provide core support for the Agroecology Fund to strengthen its local strategy in Mexico through the Agroecology Fund of the Yucatan Peninsula to advance agroecological food systems

  • $419,120

    Calhoun County Land Bank · Marshall, MI · 2021

    activating vacant and blighted parcels owned by the Land Bank in a low-income, primarily minority-owned neighborhood as part of a community-created neighborhood stabilization strategy including blight elimination, equit read all
  • $350,000

    Partnership for Working Families · Oakland, CA · 2021

    enable the organization to achieve its mission of developing and promoting innovative strategies to build community power and reshape economies to transform the lives of workers and communities by providing general oper read all
  • $350,000

    New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2021

    provide core support for the Hope Healing Fund in support of community-based solutions, strategies and practices to reduce gun violence and the development of culturally responsive healing approaches to address the gene read all
  • $350,000

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2021

    enhance economic security for families by developing a solidarity economics theoretical and policy framework with social movement and civic actors, producing written publications advancing this framework and executing a 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

    Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2021

    support the organizational launch and initial efforts of This is Planet Ed to examine potential strategies to link climate and environmental justice initiatives to public education systems in the United States

  • $279,010

    Fondo Para La Paz Iap (Fund for Peace Private Assistance · 2021

    promote peace building and community development in Pantelho, Chiapas, Mexico, through a planning and organizing strategy to advance productive activities towards food security

  • $275,000

    Phi Delta Kappa International · Arlington, VA · 2021

    diversify the pipeline of educators by pursing a systems level approach to transform New Mexico's Educator Preparation Program by engaging stakeholders in the development of a "Grow Your Own" strategy reflecting the con read all
  • $250,000

    Jackson State University · Jackson, MS · 2021

    establish the Center for Inclusive Competitiveness as an innovative approach to implement inclusive, economic equity strategies to build wealth and ownership across Jackson, Mississippi, and cultivate the inherent talen read all
  • $250,000

    Groundwork Ohio Organization · Columbus, OH · 2021

    provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of championing quality early learning and healthy development strategies, in the prenatal period to age five, that lay a strong foundation f read all
  • $250,000

    City of Grand Rapids · Grand Rapids, MI · 2021

    support the implementation of the Office of Oversight and Public Accountability's four pillar, race equity and community engagement-based strategy to reduce the influence of racism in policing in Grand Rapids

  • $250,000

    University of Arkansas · Little Rock, AR · 2021

    improve the health outcomes of Native Indian and Alaska Native children and their families by developing a comprehensive strategy to procure nutritious, adequate and culturally appropriate food through federal nutrition read all
  • $245,000

    Urban League of Louisiana · New Orleans, LA · 2021

    support the development of a strategy to close the racial-wealth gap in the Greater New Orleans area among three organizational partners

  • $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

    Define American · Louisville, KY · 2021

    advance a news media strategy that prioritizes working directly with the media industry to raise awareness and help journalists understand how to responsibly cover immigrant stories by designing training on how to provi read all
  • $200,000

    Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2021

    provide core support for the Community Justice Reform Coalition in support of building power and infrastructure to advance solutions to end gun violence by creating and coordinating organizing and communications strateg read all
  • $200,000

    Florida International University Foundation · Miami, FL · 2021

    support black, indigenous, and people of color small business food entrepreneurs disproportionately impacted by the COVID 19 pandemic in resolving critical economic challenges by providing technical assistance and acces read all
  • $200,000

    Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2021

    provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission to train and develop new leaders of color and people of color led organizations, and grow movement infrastructure through racial justice org read all
  • $200,000

    Center for American Progress · Washington, DC · 2021

    advance an innovative strategy that builds an economy for all, in conjunction with progression of both racial equity and justice

  • $196,320

    Diseno Y Capacitacion Para El Desarrollo Y Las Microfinanzas Sc · 2021

    improve income generation and families' well-being in San Juan Cancuc and Sitala, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a strategy to consolidate food production, build financial skills and support the creation of local orga read all
  • $175,000

    Coastal Communities Consulting · Gretna, LA · 2021

    ensure effective implementation of small business adaptation strategies for Vietnamese-American coast-dependent businesses through ongoing business technical assistance for sustainability; disaster relief and recovery a read all
  • $174,660

    Impacto Social Metropolitan Group S De Rl De Cv · 2021

    promote narrative change led by the voice of communities and organizations in Campeche, Chiapas, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Mexico, by providing professional communication support to develop impactful messages and strate read all
  • $170,908

    Consejo Civil Mexicano Para La Sostenible Ac · 2021

    to promote Indigenous rural youth leadership through training that allows them to develop along with peers, a self-diagnosis of youth participation in community governance that will provide input to design action plans read all
  • $158,167

    Conider Cooperacion Y Organizacion Integral Para El Desarollo Rural Ac · 2021

    promote community development in Sitala and San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas, Mexico, by implementing a comprehensive strategy to improve food production and consumption, increase access to market for cash crops, and support lo read all
  • $157,975

    El Hombre Sobre La Tierra Ac · 2021

    improve children's nutrition in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico by implementing a three line strategy to reinforce local and sustainable food production via promoting adequate nutrition and wellbeing as well as fostering incom read all
  • $150,800

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2021

    empower workers that have been shut out of labor law protections by developing recommendations and legal strategies that centers workers of color by conducting research, strengthening a state and local policy network, a read all
  • $150,470

    National Committee for Quality Assurance · Washington, DC · 2021

    decrease maternal and child health outcome inequities in health care settings by establishing a Birth Equity Quality Framework and strategy for measuring birth equity across health care systems

  • $150,000

    Pueblo of Zuni · Zuni, NM · 2021

    improve educational and socio-emotional outcomes for Zuni Pueblo Native American children by supporting an integrated Zuni language immersion system guided by ancestral knowledge, tribal values, cultural protocols and t read all
  • $150,000

    Coastal Enterprises · Brunswick, ME · 2021

    formalize and scale the Good Jobs Strategy to promote high quality jobs and stable, successful companies

  • $150,000

    Regents of New Mexico State University · Las Cruces, NM · 2021

    improve the educational outcomes and economic security of Afghan refugee families in southern New Mexico by deploying family stabilization and integration strategies in coordination with community partners

  • $145,152

    Denver Foundation · Denver, CO · 2021

    engage donors across the Denver region to more fully participate in democratic practices of philanthropy, through targeted giving circle models to increase knowledge of philanthropic tools and strategies in communities read all
  • $130,000

    Keep Growing Detroit · Detroit, MI · 2021

    build the capacity of Detroit early childhood providers to offer higher-quality programs in Detroit by implementing farm-to-school strategies

  • $125,000

    Conference Board · Arlington, VA · 2021

    engage state and local leaders to build support for investment strategies and policies that address inequities in the supply and quality of child care

  • $105,000

    Tides Advocacy · San Francisco, CA · 2021

    increase the capacity of Native-led organizations to demonstrate new knowledge, strategies, and outcomes related to integrated voter rights engagement for Native communities through training and technical assistance pro read all
  • $100,000

    Brothers of Elders Network · Oakland, CA · 2021

    enhance the capacity of Black boys and men to heal relationships and advance solutions to community challenges by training adult mentor figures to implement culturally centered healing strategies, and engaging participa read all
  • $100,000

    Womens Foundation of the South · New Orleans, LA · 2021

    support the success of women of color entrepreneurs in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee through a landscape analysis of CDFIs and lending ecosystem partners that helps inform the organiz read all
  • $100,000

    When We All Vote · Washington, DC · 2021

    increase participation of young women of color in civic engagement and voting by convening, connecting and amplifying voices of women within targeted communities and providing resources and trainings on voter engagement read all
  • $100,000

    Education Resource Strategies · Watertown, MA · 2021

    create national infrastructure required to better support advocacy for increased resource equity in education systems

  • $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

    Farmington Municipal Schools · Farmington, NM · 2021

    increase the number of bilingual teacher candidates entering the educator workforce by building strong partnerships and deploying an equity strategy with intentional community outreach

  • $100,000

    Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency · Detroit, MI · 2021

    promote positive outcomes for Detroit children by creating a coordinated early childhood workforce strategy that provides a city-wide marketing and recruitment campaign, reduces teacher vacancies, builds a diverse early read all
  • $75,000

    Thecasemade Incorporated · Lake Mary, FL · 2021

    develop a strategy to address negative narratives impacting low-income families' ability to get a job or a better job in Battle Creek, Michigan

  • $55,000

    Fsg · Boston, MA · 2021

    accelerate BC Vision strategies that lead to improved job opportunities and economic development by providing facilitation support to engage community, reconstitute governance structures and refresh strategy and measure read all
  • $51,400

    Adaptiv · Beverly, MA · 2021

    support completion of master planning phase of a community development initiative that will improve education, health, and family economic security in Arcahaie, Haiti through a project feasibility studies, viability stu read all
  • $50,000

    Farm To Table · Santa Fe, NM · 2021

    strengthen and expand the capacity of the New Mexico Food and Agriculture Policy Council to build equitable food systems by promoting civic engagement training, local procurement strategies and the development of a stat read all
  • $50,000

    Mississippi Food Policy Council · Hernando, MS · 2021

    continue building the capacity of the statewide and five regional food policy councils in order to create healthier outcomes for children and better economic opportunities for families by implementing and supporting the read all
  • $25,500

    Adf Haiti · Fort Pierce, FL · 2021

    develop a strategy to strengthen/improve children's education and enable community engagement/planning in Fond des Blancs, Haiti, through a comprehensive assessment of local schools and building organizational capacity read all
  • $25,000

    National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2021

    conduct a consensus study to examine strategies, policies, and programs that have the potential to reduce intergenerational poverty and address inequality for youth ages five to twenty-five in the United States

  • $10,000

    National Association of Worforce Boards · Washington, DC · 2021

    support the design, implementation, and scale of measurable family centered strategies within Mississippi workforce development boards and participate in a national learning community that results in greater economic mo read all
  • $2,500

    Center for Rural Strategies · Whitesburg, KY · 2021

    matching grant

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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