The Ceres Foundation

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $2.0M

  Thrive Scholars · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Support the expansion of the thrive scholars' los angeles and boston programs

• $360,000

  Friendship Shelter · Laguna Beach, CA · 2024

  Support the home for good initiative and henderson house permanent supportive housing program

• $275,000

  Schoolhouse Connection · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support the youth leadership scholarship program for youth having experienced homelessness

• $250,000

  Community Adolescent Resources and Education Center · Holyoke, MA · 2024

  Support the expansion of the bard microcollege program for low-income women

• $200,000

  Future Link · Rockville, MD · 2024

  Support the expansion of programmatic model to expand career coaching, internship, and mentoring

• $200,000

  Lift · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support the expansion of financial coaching model for low-income families in los angeles and washington d.c.

• $200,000

  STEM Advantage · Huntington Beach, CA · 2024

  Support program expansion to mentor, prepare, and inspire primarily first-generation college students from low-income families for careers in s.t.e.m.

• $160,000

  More Than Words · Waltham, MA · 2024

  Support advocacy work rollout of its expanded model to address systematic barriers for vulnerable massachusetts youth

• $150,000

  Corporation of the Washington Latin School · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support campaign to provide classical liberal arts education, emphasizing the socratic mehod, for an additional 750 students

• $150,000

  Monument Academy · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support for the 2024-2025 academic school year

• $150,000

  New Village Charter School · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  General operating support and creation of a new student recruitment position, to provide high quality educational opportunity for girls who have not been successfully served in traditional public schools

• $150,000

  Capital Partners for Education Dba Spark the Journey · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support multi-year expansion plan to double the number of students it serves by 2025, to provide mentorship and a community support for young adults to chart their own path to achieving college and career success

• $150,000

  Tech Foundry · Springfield, MA · 2024

  General operating support for job training program that prepares individuals for sustainable careers in technology fields

• $130,000

  Dc Volunteer Lawyers Project · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support it comprehensive pro-bono legal services for domestic violence victims, vulnerable imigrants, and at-risk children

• $125,000

  Taller San Jose Hope Builders · Santa Ana, CA · 2024

  Support the expansion of career pathways program for disconnected young adults

• $115,000

  Orangewood Foundation · Santa Ana, CA · 2024

  General operating support for its education and workforce development services for foster and transitional aged youth

• $100,000

  Child Advocates of San Bernardino County · Rialto, CA · 2024

  Support for its work with youth in foster care and to continue it organizational capacity and sustainability

• $100,000

  Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Support the southern california college attainment network, for college access and success programs to increase the rate at which underrepresented students, from the greater los angeles region, access and complete posts…

• $100,000

  Covenant House California · Hollywood, CA · 2024

  Support los angeles alumni program and aftercare support with a focus of its data tracking capacity

• $100,000

  Families Forward · Irvine, CA · 2024

  Support its work to address homelessness for orange county families

• $100,000

  Friends of the Children · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Support its expansion to serve foster impacted families across los angeles county

• $100,000

  Hopewell · Dedham, MA · 2024

  Support for its work with children, youth, and families involved with the child welfare system in western massachusetts

• $100,000

  Jovenes · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  General operating support to help youth, age 18-24, end their cycle of homelessness throughout southeast los angeles county

• $100,000

  Kid Power · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support for continued expansion of mentors, inc. And powerup!

• $100,000

  Lost Angels Childrens Project · Lancaster, CA · 2024

  Support for its intense vocational training program in the antelope valley

• $100,000

  Massachusetts Alliance for Early College · Weston, MA · 2024

  Support the rollout of its strategic plan to increase the number of students with access to high-quality early college programs in massachusetts schools

• $100,000

  Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership · Springfield, MA · 2024

  Support further scaling of its early college and work-based learning programs at springfield high schools

• $90,000

  Manifestworks · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  Support its job training program that prepares individuals for production careers in film, television, and new media

• $85,000

  Dc Public Charter School Cooperative · Washington, DC · 2024

  Funding pilot program and scale the empowerment program for students with disabilities

• $85,000

  The Harmony Project · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  General operating support for the 2024-2025 academic school year

• $85,000

  Jobs Have Priority · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support for its shelter and employment programs for those experiencing housing insecurty

• $85,000

  The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement · Santa Ana, CA · 2024

  General operating support for comprehensive dance and college access programs

• $80,000

  Achievement Institute of Scientific Studies · Santa Ana, CA · 2024

  Support the infrastructure to serve an annual cohort by 2024

• $75,000

  College Bound · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support rollout of its strategic growth plan to serve 500+ students annually by 2027

• $75,000

  La Cocina Va · Arlington, VA · 2024

  Support its zero barriers training and entrepreneurship center, as well as the expansion of its culinary training programs

• $75,000

  New Directions for Women Foundation · Costa Mesa, CA · 2024

  Fund need based scholarships in support of addiction treatment services for women

• $75,000

  Propel America · Boston, MA · 2024

  Support for its medical assistant career pathway programs in los angeles

• $75,000

  Roca · Chelsea, MA · 2024

  Support for its young mothers program in western massachusetts

• $75,000

  William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support and underwrite the participation of ceres grant recipients in its trainings

• $75,000

  Young Eisner Scholars · Inglewood, CA · 2024

  General operating support as it deepens its support for scholars from lowest-income households

• $75,000

  Youth Guidance · Chicago, IL · 2024

  Support its becoming a man program in washington, d.c. Public schools

• $70,000

  Casa of Los Angeles · Monterey Park, CA · 2024

  Expand its support of foster youth in los angeles county

• $65,000

  Eastside College Prep School · East Palo Alto, CA · 2024

  Support the residential program providing a supportive living environment for students and alumni for the 2024-2025 school year

• $60,000

  Service Workers Training and Education Partnership · Columbia, MD · 2024

  Support for capacity building

• $50,000

  Best Kids · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support to assist foster care children in the washington, d.c. Child welfare system

• $50,000

  Caroline Freiss Center · Baltimore, MD · 2024

  Support for employment program for low-income women

• $50,000

  Collegiate Directions · Bethesda, MD · 2024

  General operating support for closing the education, achievement, and opportunity gap for first-generation-to-college students in montgomery county, md and washington, d.c.

• $50,000

  Convention of P E Church of the Diocese of Washington · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support for expansion of its outplacement and graduate support programs

• $50,000

  Edc 413 Works · Springfield, MA · 2024

  Support for springfield works cliff effect pilot program, that will test the impact of supplemental cash payments to participants experiencing public benefit cliff effects

• $50,000

  Fore Batten Foundation · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024

  Support its project butterfly, an n-of-2 trial treating a unique mutation of cln3 and creating a road map for the future of personalized medicine

• $50,000

  Fund for Educational Excellence · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support continued expansion of its mentoring program

• $50,000

  San Miguel School · Washington, DC · 2024

  Support expansion of the graduate support program for the middle school serving under-resourced latino boys

• $50,000

  Steadfast - Standing Firm Against Youth Homelessness · Frederick, MD · 2024

  General operating support to provide safe housing, life skills, and job skills training for unaccompanied homeless youth and those transitioning out of foster care

• $35,000

  Friends of Compass · Washington, DC · 2024

  General operating support to provide probono support and board matching services to d.c. Based grant recipents of the ceres foundation

• $30,000

  Community Adolescent Resources and Education Center · Holyoke, MA · 2024

  Support for its continuum of educational programming for low-income women

• $25,000

  Center On Race Poverty & the Environment · Delano, CA · 2024

  General operating support for strengthening community power to protect land, air, and water in california's heartland

• $25,000

  Los Angeles Room & Board · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  General operating support to ensure that california community college students realize their postsecondary education goals by providing affordable transitional housing designed to end homelessness, and complete educatio…

• $25,000

  Sierra House · East Orange, NJ · 2024

  General operating support to help young women open the door to self-sufficiency

• $25,000

  Sanctuary Art Center · Seattle, WA · 2024

  General operating support for providing a safe, calm, and warm environment for homeless and underserved youth and young adults to experience creativity and success through relationship-based artistic programs and employ…

• $25,000

  Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024

  General operating support for miry's list to provide a mechanism for people to directly help new arrival refugee families with the incredible challenge or resettlement in the united states

• $25,000

  Voices of a Sustainable Future · Takoma Park, MD · 2024

  General operating support to secure an ecologically sustainable and economically just future by uniting labor and climate forces in a shared struggle for systemic change

• $10,000

  Covenant House California · Hollywood, CA · 2024

  General operating support for its work with housing insecure youth

• $10,000

  Jovenes · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  General operating support for its continuum of care that provides housing options for homeless youth

• $10,000

  Orangewood Foundation · Santa Ana, CA · 2024

  General operating support for its education and workforce development services for foster and transitional aged youth

• $2.0M

  Thrive Scholars · Boston, MA · 2023

  General operating support for the thrive scholars' los angeles and boston programs

• $250,000

  Community Adolescent Resources and Education Center · Holyoke, MA · 2023

  Support and expand the bard microcollege program for low-income women

• $200,000

  STEM Advantage · Huntington Beach, CA · 2023

  General operating support

• $200,000

  Future Link · Rockville, MD · 2023

  Support the expansion of programmatic model

• $150,000

  Capital Partners for Education Dba Spark the Journey · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support multi-year expansion plan

• $150,000

  Monument Academy · Washington, DC · 2023

  General operating support

• $130,000

  Dc Volunteer Lawyers Project · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support for legal support programs that are expanding to meet increased demand

• $125,000

  Schoolhouse Connection · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support youth leadership scholarship program for youth having experienced homelessness

• $120,000

  Community Adolescent Resources and Education Center · Holyoke, MA · 2023

  General operating support for the bard microcollege program for low-income women

• $115,000

  Orangewood Foundation · Santa Ana, CA · 2023

  General operating support for education and workforce development services for transitional aged youth

• $100,000

  Lift · Washington, DC · 2023

  Expand financial coaching model for low-income families in los angeles and d.c.

• $100,000

  Friends of the Children · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  Support los angeles county expansion

• $100,000

  Taller San Jose Hope Builders · Santa Ana, CA · 2023

  Support the expansion of career pathways program and to grow earned revenue over two years

• $100,000

  Steadfast - Standing Firm Against Youth Homeless · Frederick, MD · 2023

  General operating support

• $100,000

  Achievement Institute of Scientific Studies · Santa Ana, CA · 2023

  Support the infrastructure to serve an annual cohort by 2024

• $100,000

  Corporation of the Washington Latin School · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support campaign to serve an additional 750 students

• $100,000

  Kid Power · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support for continued expansion of mentors inc. And powerup!

• $85,000

  Jovenes · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  General operating support

• $80,000

  Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership · Springfield, MA · 2023

  Support for the 16 middle and high schools it operates in springfield massachusetts

• $75,000

  Youth Guidance · Chicago, IL · 2023

  Support becoming a man program in d.c. Schools

• $75,000

  College Bound · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support rollout of strategic growth plan to serve 500+ students annualy by 2027

• $75,000

  Community Partners · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  Support for project soar, a college and career advising program for public housing residents

• $75,000

  Dc Public Charter School Cooperative · Washington, DC · 2023

  Fund a pilot program for students with disabilities

• $75,000

  Hopewell · Bedham, MA · 2023

  General operating support in western massachusetts

• $75,000

  Lost Angels Childrens Project · Lancaster, CA · 2023

  General operating support for vocational training program

• $75,000

  Massachusetts Alliance for Early College · Weston, MA · 2023

  General operating support to advance early college in massachusetts schools

• $75,000

  Propel America · Boston, MA · 2023

  Support rollout of medical assistant fellowship in los angeles

• $75,000

  Roca · Chelsea, MA · 2023

  Support young mothers program in western massachusetts

• $75,000

  The Harmony Project · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

  General operating support

• $70,000

  Jobs Have Priority · Washington, DC · 2023

  General operating support for housing and employment programs

• $70,000

  La Family Housing Corporation · North Hollywood, CA · 2023

  General operating support

• $70,000

  The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement · Santa Ana, CA · 2023

  General operating support for comprehensive dance and college access program

• $70,000

  Best Kids · Washington, DC · 2023

  General operating support

• $70,000

  Casa of Los Angeles · Monterey Park, CA · 2023

  Expanded support of foster youth in los angeles county

• $70,000

  Tech Foundry · Springfield, MA · 2023

  General operating support for job training program that prepares individuals for sustainable tech careers

• $65,000

  New Directions for Women Foundation · Newport Beach, CA · 2023

  Fund need based scholarships in support of addiction treatment services for women