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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 “certificate”
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SourceamericaVienna, VACharity · may take applications
249 matching grants · $9.9M · through 2024Largest: $418,828 to READYONE INDUSTRIES INC — training, compliance, & certification grant, strategic investment
Largest: $20,000 to Kent County Veterans Treatment Court — west michigan alliance for veterans provided funds to kent county veterans treatment court for an oversight evluation, performed by western michigan univerity for scao (michigan) c…
Women'S Business Enterprise NationalWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
42 matching grants · $7.9M · through 2024Largest: $319,512 to WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER MIDWEST — to subsidize wbenc certification work.
Largest: $1,000 to FOSTER GRANTS AND GIVING INC — executive director certification and chatgpt for nonprofits certification
Triumph Gulf CoastTallahassee, FLCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $16.4M · through 2024Largest: $245,685 to WAKULLA COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD — funding will be used to provide digital tool certification along with industry certifications for students enrolled in grades 3-5 during an after school program.
Jobs for the FutureBoston, MACharity · may take applications
25 matching grants · $662,825 · through 2022Largest: $102,500 to IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF INDIANA — google career certificate expansion co-marketing agreement project
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
18 matching grants · $5.5M · through 2022Largest: $1.0M to UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS — support racial healing training and development for non-profit and philanthropic leaders through the establishment of a certification program in racial healing
Largest: $1.5M to University of Houston — project support to develop and implement the university of houston alternative certification program
Largest: $350,000 to Leading Harvest — to provide funding to pilot the certification of a supply chain using the regenerative agriculture land certification protocol.
The Whas Crusade for ChildrenLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $220,074 · through 2023Largest: $22,000 to UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC - UFOL - SCHOLARSHIPS — $22,000.00 for partial tuition scholarships to students seeking special education teaching certification for fy24-25 with a letter of intent for fy25-26 for $22,000.00. preference …
Goodwill Industries InternationalRockville, MDCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $3.5M · through 2025Largest: $1.6M to GOODWILL IND OF KENTUCKY INC — accenture global accelerating oa 2024, accenture skills to succeed 2024, caterpillar career certificates 2025, google gdca ai essentials 2024, life launch ignite 2.0, operations (n…
Association of Schools and Programs ofWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
9 matching grants · $3.4M · through 2024Largest: $1.4M to NATIONAL BOARD OF PUBLIC HEALTH EXAMINERS — federally funded subaward through the centers for disease control and prevention to develop and deploy a certification program for disease intervention specialists. subaward to per…
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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 →