Funding search · workforce development · Georgia
Who funds workforce development work in Georgia
15 funders have a record of paying for workforce development work by Georgia recipients: 65 grants totaling $10.5M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Georgia Power Foundation ($1.3M), Floor Covering Education Foundation ($298,347) and The Coca-Cola Foundation ($5.1M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Georgia recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $500,000 to WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER — advancing pathways workforce development, training, and equity
Largest: $132,000 to CFI — scholarships of $500-$2500 each to 76 individuals for job training.
Largest: $50,000 to Georgia Research Alliance — georgia research alliance's workforce development initiative introducing more students at georgia colleges to stemm through university research
Silicon Valley Community FoundationMountain View, CACharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $775,000 · through 2024Largest: $175,000 to Gideons Promise Inc — workforce development
Largest: $26,000 to YEAR UP — workforce development and training
Largest: $95,000 to ATLANTA VILLAGE MICRO FUND — support gangstas to growers workforce development and entrepreneurial program delivery
Largest: $6,000 to BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC — frameworks advanced job training program
Largest: $40,000 to JUMPSTART AUTOMOTIVE TRAINING CENTE — workforce development program, appre
Bioindustrial Manufacturing and DesignEmeryville, CACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $200,964 · through 2022Largest: $172,595 to UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — education and workforce development research and service delivery
The Halle FoundationAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $224,663 · through 2024Largest: $115,000 to GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES — to provide funding for one-year extension of current support for promotion of apprenticeship programs and the german workforce development model
Largest: $500,000 to Year Up — support of workforce development program to connect young adults to living-wage jobs.
Journey for Good FoundationBethesda, MDCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $60,000 · through 2025Largest: $30,000 to ATLANTA MISSION — to provide workforce development programming for adults in atlanta, ga
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