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12 funders with a record of paying for “prek”
Where the money went
Wake County Smart StartRaleigh, NCCharity · may take applications
39 matching grants · $32.5M · through 2024Largest: $3.1M to CHILDCARE NETWORK INC — nc prek, wake threeschool
Greater Rochester Summer LearningRochester, NYCharity · may take applications
28 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $90,000 to Volunteers of America of Western New York Inc — paid contract to offer summer prek classrooms.
Family Child Care Alliance of MarylandBowie, MDCharity · may take applications
20 matching grants · $873,936 · through 2024Largest: $84,201 to Monica PinoThompson — prek tuition reimbursement
James B McClatchy FoundationSacramento, CACharity · may take applications
13 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2023Largest: $592,000 to Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified — prek and ell programs
A for ArizonaScottsdale, AZCharity · may take applications
16 matching grants · $387,000 · through 2021Largest: $25,000 to GILA VISTA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL — to provide seed funding for proposals that accelerate education innovation and opportunity for prek-12 students in cochise, pim, santa cruz and yuma counties
Franklin Granville VanceHenderson, NCCharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2023Largest: $271,223 to FVW OPPORTUNITY — nc prek slots
Largest: $440,108 to FUND FOR PHILADELPHIA INC — common prek enrollment infrastructure development
Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
5 matching grants · $726,287 · through 2022Largest: $126,287 to REGENTS OF NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY — provide core support for the borderlands and ethnic studies research center to address inequities in prek-12 schools by developing culturally responsive place-based lessons so teac…
Largest: $231,389 to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY — who benefits from the public prek and increased k-12 funding? dynamic complementarity in californias education policies
Largest: $20,000 to LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL — prek - 12th grade education
Largest: $90,000 to HARTFORD PERFORMS — to support hartford performs mission to bring visiting artists into hartford public schools to teach curriculum in creative new ways. the organization takes hartford kids out to ar…
Southern Minnesota Initiative FoundationOwatonna, MNCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $33,000 · through 2024Largest: $17,000 to NEW PRAGUE AREA SCHOOLS EARLY LEARNING PROGRAM — resource tote bags for parents and prek 5 day week programming scholarships and conscious discipline consulting with professional staffer on site
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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 →