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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 “classrooms”
Where the money went
Chs FoundationInver Grove Heights, MN
36 matching grants · $482,100 · through 2025Largest: $110,000 to NATIONAL AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM — 2025 national agriculture in the classroom support
Project Creating SpaceSkokie, ILCharity · may take applications
34 matching grants · $1.9M · through 2024Largest: $629,752 to Rebbe Talmid — financial support to enhance the teaching skills of educators at all levels, particularly those with adolescent-aged classrooms.
Largest: $2,000 to NAPA CHRISTIAN CAMPUS OF EDUCATION (ELEMENTARY) — stipend to assist with un-met classroom needs
Go Global Nc CouncilWake Forest, NCCharity · may take applications
36 matching grants · $551,934 · through 2024Largest: $141,934 to Michael Robinson Accounting LLC — transfer confucius classroom funds to new organization closeout and operating funds to new organization.
Largest: $50,000 to Arkansas State Council on Economic Education — to support classroom projects in arkansas classrooms.
Catawba County Partnership for ChildrenHickory, NCCharity · may take applications
24 matching grants · $11.2M · through 2024Largest: $1.1M to HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — nc pre-k classrooms, parenting education classes, ready school; ss childrens resource center
Greater Rochester Summer LearningRochester, NYCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $90,000 to Baden Street Settlement of Rochester Inc — paid contract to offer summer prek classrooms.
Largest: $20,000 to Tulsa Christian Education Corporation — to establish a spanish section in the elementary library and expand the classroom libraries in the spanish immersion classrooms.
Impact On EducationLouisville, COCharity · may take applications
31 matching grants · $294,960 · through 2023Largest: $23,130 to CENTAURUS HIGH SCHOOL — to support equity and access in school classrooms.
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
18 matching grants · $4.5M · through 2022Largest: $160,548 to MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — improve practice and increase supports for districts, schools, teachers and children/families by supporting the education policy innovation collaborative to implement a classroom o…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationWarren Township, NJ
38 matching grants · $440,200 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to CRAIG SCHOOL — purchase of classroom furnishings.
Largest: $250,000 to LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION — to support the annual operating budget of living classrooms foundation, a non-profit providing education, employment training, and health & wellness/violence prevention programs to…
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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 →