Education Grants
Select your state below to view grant opportunities and funding sources
There are dozens of organizations that support education, primarily STEM and STEAM education, and we've collected some of them below. See what grants (both Federal and private) and funding you can apply towards your assembly shows and other educational experiences this year.
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Federal Grants
This discretionary grant program is designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education.
To support arts education and community programs.
NSF promotes and advances scientific programs in the United States and advances grants for science, math, and engineering research in education.
Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act
Funds may be used for vocational and technological education activities, plus professional development opportunities for teachers and counselors.
Private Grants
Sets an agenda that allocates grants for schools, hospitals, and human service organizations and reaches out to the disadvantaged in the Baltimore community and the region.
This foundation supports the advancement of curriculum development.
Funds projects that support global education, workplace skills, and safe and healthy children.
They give their funds primarily in Missouri and Illinois. Their site lists specific efforts in which they choose to invest.
To support professional development and classroom materials.
Supports curricular reform and professional development.
Brinker International Foundation
This is a multifaceted company with a strong emphasis on educating on all levels, preschool through Grade 12.
This foundation supports a variety of educational opportunities that urban schools can create.
Promotes the improvement of academic skills and improves the opportunities for the disadvantaged.
Stimulates scientific literacy and the importance of coherent communication.
To support physical improvements, educational materials, community engagement, and extracurricular activities.
Charles A. Frueauff Foundation
Funds social service organizations, education, and disadvantaged youth.
This foundation subscribes to innovation and creativity. There is a strong investment in experiential elements for students.
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The goals are to improve low-income students' welfare and sustain the ecosystem.
The thrust of this foundation is to educate the next generation with a strong emphasis on the slow learner and students in the disadvantaged category, as well as a strong emphasis on ecology.
Coca-Cola strives to work with local communities to build strong educational opportunities to enhance national productivity. Most robotics and simple machine products, with their strong emphasis on math and science, would more than fill potential educational voids.
Supports early childhood readiness, school choice, teacher quality, and development of ethics and integrity. (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming)
This foundation favors requests from the states of Alabama, Indiana, and Iowa. Dekko, too, favors the early learning and after-school programs. It is geared for preschool through age 18. The mission of any proposal must be strong and futuristic. The educational lexicon would seem to promote robotics and early learning products as solutions to that end.
Sees entrepreneurship and education as the most effective ways to empower people to create their own futures. (Missouri)
Their goal is to foster education through technology and curriculum.
Seeks special teaching methods to create productive learning environments.
Supports raising graduation rates and graduates who will be strong citizens ready for college or the workplace.
This foundation is primarily concerned with innovative instruction models and also has a strong attraction for meeting the needs of underserved students. The deadline for grant applications is November 1.
To support students and teachers in STEM innovation.
Supports education and the arts. (Kansas City, Missouri)
The Education Program makes grants to improve education by expanding the reach of openly available educational resources, improving California education policies, and by supporting "deeper learning" – a combination of the fundamental knowledge and practical basic skills all students will need to succeed.
The aim is to develop tools to improve literacy and increase the use of technology.
Funds education, health, the arts, and the environment. (Oklahoma)
Schools in Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington can access this ongoing grants program.
Aims to provide students in the Great Lakes region with education, allowing them to live fruitful, productive lives.
This group’s emphasis is on solid progress in middle school technology.
The endowment views education at all levels as indispensable to personal, civic, and economic success.
Lockheed Martin's Philanthropic Giving
Lockheed Martin makes grants to non-profits and public elementary and secondary schools for K-12 STEM education.
This expands knowledge and improves practices that affect students’ access and success in postsecondary education.
To support in-class and extra-curricular programs that improve student learning, especially for students from lower-income households.
Motorola supports programs to encourage science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in the U.S. and around the world.
:To support various projects to enhance students' learning experiences, including field trips.
P. Buckley Moss Foundation Teacher Grants
To support access to art supplies and incorporate the arts into mathematics and science education.
The Pentair Foundation funds a range of education programs, from those that target disadvantaged youth to STEM initiatives for K-12.
Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) grants to fund the projects ideas and materials teachers need to innovate in their math and science classrooms.
Washington State STEM Education Foundation
Washington State STEM Education Foundation is a national model for generating passionate support for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in Public Education: Every Student, Every Day.
To ensure that all children get the development and education they need as a foundation for independence and success, we seek opportunities to invest in early child development (ages zero to eight), leading to reading proficiency by third grade, high school graduation, and pathways to meaningful employment.
The Science and Engineering Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach.
