Last updated: 7/5/2019
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- Advancing Student Achievement, a program of the Actuarial Foundation – Deadline: Rolling. Amount: Up to $5,000. ASA grants support math programs that open students’ minds to the practical power of math. The purpose of an ASA grant is to support math enhancement programs that bridge the gap between classroom and real world mathematics.
- Albertsons Companies Foundation – Deadline: Quarterly. Amount: Varies. The Safeway Foundation supports nonprofit organizations whose mission is aligned with four priority areas: hunger relief, education, health and human services, and assisting people with disabilities. All organizations funded by The Safeway Foundation must serve the community where we operate stores.
- American Electric Power Foundation – Deadline: Rolling. Amount: Not less than $15,000. The American Electric Power Foundation considers requests from organizations in communities served by AEP’s regional utilities. The Foundation focuses on improving lives through education from early childhood through higher education, protecting the environment, providing basic human services in the areas of hunger, housing, health and safety, and enriching the quality of life in communities through art, music and cultural heritage.
- American Honda Foundation Grants – Deadlines: February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1. Amount: The maximum award is $75,000. The American Honda Foundation’s funding priorities are STEM education, the environment, job training and literacy. Nonprofits, public school districts, private/public elementary and secondary schools are eligible to apply.
- Amgen Foundation Grants – Deadline: Ongoing. The Amgen Foundation seeks to advance excellence in science education to inspire the next generation of innovators, and invest in strengthening communities where Amgen staff members live and work. The Foundation awards grants to local, regional, and international nonprofit organizations that are replicable, scalable and designed to have a lasting and meaningful effect in our communities.
- Baseball Tomorrow Fund – Deadline: Rolling. The Baseball Tomorrow Fund (BTF) is a joint initiative between Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). The fund awards grants to organizations involved in the operation of youth baseball and softball programs and facilities. The mission of BTF is to promote and enhance the growth of youth participation in baseball and softball throughout the world. BTF funds programs, fields, coaches training and uniforms, equipment and other selected program expenses. In addition, BTF provides educational support to grant recipients and applicants, to help organizations become self-sufficient and effective.
- Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood – Deadline: Rolling. Amount: Varies. The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood provides grants for innovative, creative projects and programs that will significantly enhance the development, health, safety, education or quality of life of children from infancy through five years of age.
- Children’s Obesity Fund – Deadline: Ongoing. Amount: Varies. The Children’s Obesity Fund offers grants to nonprofit organizations that share its mission for improving children’s health. Preference is given to organizations with programs that fight childhood obesity.
- Digital Wish Grants – Deadline: Ongoing. Digital Wish is a non-profit on a mission to help teachers solve technology shortfalls in their classrooms. Apply for grants, create a wish list of technology your classroom needs, and share lesson plans and fundraising ideas with fellow educators across the country.
- Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation – Amount: $1,000 – $15,000.. Supports a wide range of programs that serve vulnerable children including children who are ill, orphaned, disabled, injured, abused or malnourished as well as children with limited or no access to education.
- DuPont Pioneer – Deadline: Ongoing. Amount: $5000. DuPont Pioneer’s giving program focuses on preK-12 education, food security and community betterment.
- Fender Music Foundation – Deadline: Ongoing. The Fender Music Foundation makes the gift of music available to people across the country by providing resources for music education programs. The organization is currently awarding acoustic guitars, electric guitars, acoustic-electric guitars, bass guitars and the equipment necessary to play these instruments.
- Ford Foundation Educational Grants – Deadline: Rolling. Amount Varies. The foundation’s grant-making focuses on reducing poverty and injustice; promoting democratic values; and advancing human knowledge, creativity and achievement. Types of grants the foundation makes: General/core support, Project, Planning, Competition, Matching, Recoverable, Individual, Endowment, Foundation-administered project, and Program-related investment.
- Fuel Up to Play 60 – Deadline: Ongoing. The competitive, nationwide funding program can help your school jumpstart and sustain healthy nutrition and physical activity improvements. Funds can be used to conduct in-school promotions focused on creating a healthier school and to implement Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Plays. Funds can also be used for professional development, nutrition education materials, and physical education equipment and materials.
- Good Sports – Deadline: Ongoing. Good Sports helps lay the foundation for healthy, active lifestyles by providing athletic equipment, footwear, and apparel to disadvantaged young people nationwide. By working closely with teams, coaches, and community leaders across the United States, the organization is able to focus on the respective needs of each individual program and help offset the main factors causing the greatest challenges. Good Sports is accepts applications on a rolling deadline from organizations and schools for equipment, apparel, and footwear for a wide range of sports.
- Half Price Books – Deadline: Ongoing. Need books for your classroom or program? Half Price Books will consider requests from nonprofit organizations and educators that focus on literacy, the environment, or education.
- Hearst Foundation – Deadline: Rolling. Amount: Varies. The Hearst Foundations support well-established nonprofit organizations that address significant issues within their major areas of interests – culture, education, health and social service – and that primarily serve large demographic and/or geographic constituencies.
- KaBOOM! Grants for Outdoor Play – Deadline: Ongoing with monthly deadlines. KaBOOM!, a national non-profit organization dedicated to promote balanced and active play for underprivileged kids, offers various grant opportunities to help communities support their playspace projects.
- Know Your Funders: A Guide to STEM Funding for Afterschool – The federal government as well as private philanthropies and corporations are increasingly investing in a variety of STEM education initiatives. This guide will help you understand and reach these potential funders.
- Kroger Company Foundation – Deadline: Rolling. The Kroger Company Foundation’s philanthropic objective is to enhance the quality of life in communities with a concentration of Kroger customers and employees. The Foundation exists for the betterment of the people and communities where Kroger operates.
- Let’s Play – Deadline: Varies. Amount: Varies. Let’s Play grants offer ten different grant opportunities for organizations in need of support for youth sports or recess equipment, afterschool programming and playgrounds/outdoor fitness equipment.
- Lockheed Martin: Grants for Education – Deadline: Rolling. Amount Varies. Lockheed Martin provides grants for K-16 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Education. This includes Lockheed Martin’s K-12 STEM Education Initiative, Engineers in the Classroom, as well as STEM-focused curricular and extracurricular programs that provide employee engagement opportunities in a community in which Lockheed Martin has employees or business interests. Maximum award: varies. Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organizations that deliver standards-based science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to students in K-16.
- Lumber Liquidators – Deadline: Ongoing. Lumber Liquidators offers in-kind donations for nonprofit organizations in need of new flooring for their facilities.
- Math Hero Award – Deadline: Ongoing. Amount: $2,500. Know a middle or high school math or science teacher who uses interactive and creative learning approaches to help their students learn. Nominate a Math Hero today! Each Math Hero receives a $2,500 award and their school receives a matching award.
- NEA Foundation – Deadlines: February 1, June 1, and October 15. Amount: $2,000-$5,000. The NEA Foundation is inviting applications for its Learning and Leadership Grants program. The program provides support to public school teachers, public education support professionals, and/or faculty and staff in public institutions of higher education through grants to individuals to fund participation in high-quality professional development experiences such as summer institutes or action research; or to groups for collegial study (including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for new faculty or staff). To be eligible, applicants must be a public school educator in grades Pre-K-12; a public school education support professional; or faculty and staff members at a public institution of higher education. Preference will be given to members of the National Education Association. The grant amount is $2,000 for individuals and $5,000 for groups engaged in collegial study. All $5,000 group grant applicants must include partner information.
- PNC Foundation – Deadline: Ongoing. Amount Varies. The PNC Foundation supports a variety of nonprofit organizations with a special emphasis on those that work to achieve sustainability and touch a diverse population, in particular, those that support early childhood education and/or economic development.
- Public Welfare Foundation – Deadline: Rolling. Public Welfare Foundation is accepting letters of intent from organizations and programs working to end the criminalization and over-incarceration of youth.
- Reiman Foundation Grant – Deadline: Rolling. Amount Varies. The Reiman Foundation focuses its giving in four main areas: Health Care, Education, The Arts & Children. Nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply.
- RGK Foundation – Deadline: Rolling. Amount: Varies. RGK Foundation awards grants in the broad areas of education, community, and medicine/health. Human service programs of particular interest to the foundation include children and family services, early childhood development, and parenting education. The foundation supports a variety of community improvement programs including those that enhance nonprofit management and promote philanthropy and volunteerism. Youth development programs supported by the foundation typically include after-school educational enrichment programs that supplement and enhance formal education systems to increase the chances for successful outcomes in school and life.
- Share Our Strength Grants – Deadline: Rolling. Amount Varies. Share Our Strength offers grants to non-profit organizations, schools, and other eligible organizations involved in increasing access to nutrition and anti-hunger advocacy.
- STEM Grants from STEMfinity – Deadline: Multiple. Amount: Varies. STEM Funding Opportunities including state grants, federal grants, and national private grants, as well as Free Grant Writing Services.
- Surdna Foundation – Deadline: Ongoing. The Surdna Foundation believes that art and culture training programs can help young people achieve their educational and career goals, and catalyze change in their communities. The Thriving Cultures Program therefore supports programs that successfully connect teens to artistically rigorous and culturally relevant programs that equip them with practical and life-enhancing skills. The Surdna Foundation value programs that prepare young, emerging artists to be creative and innovative leaders in their communities.
- Technology Grants for Educators: 17 Resources for Future-Proof Kids – Deadline: Ongoing. Computer-based technology is no longer supplemental in most of our lives, but rather a critical factor. The future is technology, and the future is now – why not receive some assistance in taking yourself and your students there?
- The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation – Deadline: Ongoing. The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation and Stretch Island Fruit Co is sponsoring this effort which brings fruit tree orchard to schools in order to improve the environment while creating a source of tasty snacks. Typical donations involve about 20-25 trees minimum to public schools plus materials, orchard installation design work, and onsite environmental curriculum.
- The World We Want Foundation – Deadline: Rolling. Amount Varies. Offers youth-led service learning grants.
- Tyson Foods – Deadline: Ongoing. Amount Varies. Tyson Foods invests in community projects that make a difference in the Tyson Foods communities where employees live and work. Tyson Foods focuses on hunger relief, health and nutrition, education, community development, and environment and sustainable agriculture.
- Voices for Healthy Kids – Deadline: Ongoing. Voices for Healthy Kids has multiple grant opportunities. The goal of the grant opportunities within this initiative is to make effective strategic investments in ongoing state, local, and tribal public policy issue campaigns in order to increase public policy impact on healthy weight and living among children. Voices for Healthy Kids is focusing efforts in schools, community, and out-of-school time/early care and education.
- Walmart Foundation – Deadline: Ongoing. The Walmart Foundation supports programs and initiatives addressing education, workforce development, economic sustainability, and health and wellness. For health and wellness in particular, the Foundation looks to promote healthy lifestyles and behaviors.
- Wells Fargo – Deadline: Ongoing. Wells Fargo offers grants to assist a variety of nonprofit organizations that provide human services, community development, educational, artistic, cultural, civic and environmental programs. Applications are accepted in Indiana on a rolling basis; organizations are encouraged to prepare a proposal using the guidelines and contact their local Wells Fargo location to submit an application.
- Wish You Well Foundation – Deadline: Rolling. Amount: Up to $10,000. The Wish You Well Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations that promote family literacy in the United States. The focus of the Foundation’s grant-making is on the development and expansion of new and existing literacy and educational programs.