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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 “credentials”
Where the money went
Largest: $254,700 to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — to better understand the re-enrollment, perseverance and credentials earned by students with some college, but no credential.
Largest: $15.6M to KANSAS CITY SCHOLARS INC — support for scholarships, financial incentives and services to promote college savings for low- and modest-income students and adults needing support to pursue and complete a posts…
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
12 matching grants · $5.1M · through 2022Largest: $200,000 to THE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC — sustain an ongoing national learning community among community college cohort members, enhance research and engagement with manufacturing employers to address equitable hiring and …
Foundation for California CommunitySacramento, CACharity · may take applications
17 matching grants · $500,000 · through 2022Largest: $75,000 to STATE CENTER CCD — lumina (reach) innovative credentials to associates network
Triumph Gulf CoastTallahassee, FLCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $25.3M · through 2024Largest: $9.2M to PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE — this grant will assist in helping meet the unmet job demands of local and regional employers by increasing the capacity of pensacola state college's commercial vheicle driving prog…
Largest: $1.0M to GOODWILL OF CENTRAL & SOUTHERN INDIANA — to support the expansion of this organizations excel center program, which enables adults ages 21 and older who did not complete high school to earn a diploma and industry-recogniz…
Largest: $200,000 to Credential Engine Inc — to promote credential transparency at the secondary school level and support systems.
Largest: $259,750 to TENNESSEE STATE COLLABORATIVE ON REFORMING EDUCATION — to develop a research-based definition of "credentials of value" for higher education institutions in tennessee and creating policy recommendations for using that definition to imp…
Largest: $407,680 to BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — this grant will support blue ridge community college foundations efforts to increase the percentage of first-generation, bipoc, and/or rural early childhood education (ece) student…
Largest: $250,000 to STRADA COLLABORATIVE INC — to help former california students return to college to complete their credentials.
Largest: $250,000 to COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — to support rgv focus's collective impact approach to serve all rgv learners toward completion of a degree or credential.
Largest: $400,000 to Achieving the Dream — equipping texas students to earn industry-aligned credentials
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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 →