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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 “dropout”
Where the money went
Communities in Schools of GeorgiaAtlanta, GACharity · may take applications
162 matching grants · $13.7M · through 2024Largest: $452,681 to CIS OF GEORGIA IN MARIETTACOBB COUNTY LLC — dropout prevention
Largest: $1.0M to Communities in Schools of Atlanta — operating support for cis atlanta, which works to improve students' academic performance and reduce dropout rates.
Largest: $123,115 to WESTAT INC — to support a randomized controlled trial of check and connect, a dropout prevention program for rural high school students with learning, emotional, or behavioral disabilities.
Largest: $235,000 to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON — dropout prevention
Largest: $80,000 to PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — to support programming to reduce teen pregnancy and prevent school dropout in local middle and high schools
Largest: $100,000 to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS - HOUSTON — support cis dropout prevention & case management program at bastian, mcnamara, neff & sutton elementary schools
United Way of Lincoln CountyLincolnton, NCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $92,808 · through 2024Largest: $25,000 to Communities in Schools — dropout prevention
Largest: $25,000 to Programa de Educacion Comunal de Entrega y Servicio Inc (PECES) — educational services to youth at risk and school dropouts.
Largest: $20,000 to GIRL DETERMINED — to support org that fosters real change for adolescent girls in burma who are at risk of extreme poverty, school dropout, trafficking and hiv infection
Largest: $18,000 to YOUTH ON THEIR OWN (YOTO) — dropout prevention, youth ages 8-22, homeless/near homeless
Largest: $16,900 to COMMUNITIES IN THE SCHOOLS OF GREENBRIER CO — student dropout prevention
Largest: $100,000 to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS — to provide resources for school dropout prevention
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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 →