Funding search · rural education · Colorado
Who funds rural education work in Colorado
15 funders have a record of paying for rural education work by Colorado recipients: 33 grants totaling $2.8M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are All Points North Foundation ($180,000), Madge M & Joseph T Mohar Charitable ($90,000) and Anschutz Family Foundation ($32,000).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Colorado recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $80,000 to TEACHUNITED — year 2 of a rural middle school program to expand job-embedded instructional coaching and professional learning networks to increase teacher engagement; improve and refine teachers…
Largest: $30,000 to YOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR — financial education rural colorado
Largest: $8,500 to Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc — to support k-12 financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and work readiness programs in northern colorado within low-income and rural schools.
Largest: $66,667 to UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — to support the harris community fellowship program, which addresses the workforce shortage by providing training, mentorship, education, and support for rural and remote perinatal,…
Largest: $20,000 to PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITI — four ece teacher residents in rural
National Rural Utilities CooperativeDulles, VACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $69,750 · through 2024Largest: $23,250 to COLORADO RURAL ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION — educational fund-employee education courses
United Way of Pueblo CountyPueblo, COCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $88,946 · through 2024Largest: $44,473 to Southeastern Colorado Area Health Education Center for Rural CO Health Inc — program support
Largest: $18,000 to COLORADO RURAL SCHOOLS ALLIANCE — project support
Ascendium Education SolutionsMadison, WICharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2023Largest: $810,780 to AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — building pathways to rural and tribal employment travel grant - association for the study of higher education conference
Largest: $1,000 to FAR AWAY FRIENDS — transform education in rural uganda
Largest: $135,000 to PROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION — rural electric cooperative elections toolkit
Largest: $11,300 to Nathan Yip Foundation — supporting education in rural communities
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