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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.
9 funders with a record of paying for “biliteracy”
Where the money went
Largest: $5,000 to COLORADO COLLEGE — wold family endowed scholarshippathway to biliteracy
Largest: $93,625 to Chemeketa Community College — to support the biliteracy pathway and leadership training for biliterate/bicultural teachers in oregon
Largest: $20,000 to SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — the light awards project unlocking the science of biliteracy
Largest: $75,000 to Lesley University — resisting curriculum erasure: amplify asian american voices in early childhood education through a participatory design of an anti-racist biliteracy curriculum
Largest: $100,000 to CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION — to promote a vision of biliteracy, multicultural competency, and educational equity for all
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
1 matching grant · $80,000 · through 2022Largest: $80,000 to LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS — create and establish a clear dual language pathway for students in preschool - 12th grade, that will assist them in meeting academic and social milestones and achieve their new mex…
Largest: $5,000 to VOLUNTEER STATE SEAL OF BILITERACY — to support equitable testing support for the volunteer state seal of biliteracy
Largest: $18,130 to ZAYNAB AMELIA GATES — writing our futures: cultivating biliteracy practices with and by pre-service indigenous teachers
Largest: $3,000 to NORTHWEST LOCAL SCHOOLS (CANAL FULTON) — g/e 2023 megan brady - boosting biliteracy
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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 →

