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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “bilingual”
Where the money went
Largest: $320,000 to CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION — to increase access to quality bilingual education by increasing the capacity of and advocating on behalf of bilingual teachers, administrators, and english learner (el) families.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
15 matching grants · $2.1M · through 2022Largest: $200,000 to STATE OF NEW MEXICO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION & CARE DEPARTMENT — address the early educator shortage while also preserving and enhancing quality early childhood services for children by increasing the number of bilingual early childhood educator…
Delaware Community FoundationWilmington, DECharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $760,680 · through 2024Largest: $74,166 to READ ALOUD DELAWARE — professional development workshop, support for its bilingual outreach program - lena start program, supporting early childhood literacy with music, movement, and storytelling, unre…
Largest: $60,000 to BILINGUAL GENERATION LLC — in support of bilingual generation's programming
Hillsborough County School ReadinessTampa, FLCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $1.7M · through 2023Largest: $758,186 to TOP KIDS BILINGUAL PRESCHOOL MANHATTAN — covid assistance for providers
Child Care ConnectionAnchorage, AKCharity · may take applications
11 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2023Largest: $545,844 to CHILDRENS WORLD BILINGUAL MO — covid19 program support
Largest: $200,000 to RADIO BILINGUE INC — communicating health to latino immigrant and indigenous communities: to support programming that raises awareness and empowers latino, immigrant, indigenous and other underserved c…
The San Francisco FoundationSan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $321,085 · through 2024Largest: $58,085 to FRENCH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL — advised - for the scholarship fund. advised - for general operating support. advised - for scholarships. the intention is to provide scholarships for children of racial or cultural…
Largest: $25,000 to SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGEKIDS CAMPUS — to expand the bilingual, inclusive curric & continuity of care in infant-toddler classrooms
Largest: $336,076 to EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST — richmond bilingual fellows program to recruit, train, & deploy lpc interns
Largest: $152,936 to The Pennsylvania State University — childrens everyday practices in inclusive transglossic spaces: a study of collectivist approaches to deaf-nondeaf inclusive bilingual education in france
Largest: $15,000 to LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER — latin american community center's bilingual financial literacy program
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →

