Well Told Grants

Foundations

Foundations that fund education

50,567 private foundations made grants for education in their latest year, totalling $27 billion. Pick a state to see who funds education there and whether they accept applications.

By state

Largest education funders in our data

FoundationBased inEducation grants
Lilly Endowment IncIndiana$1.8 billion
Gates FoundationWashington$1.5 billion
The Bloomberg Family Foundation IncNew York$450 million
Musk FoundationTexas$378 million
Walton Family Foundation IncArkansas$285 million
The Andrew W Mellon FoundationNew York$202 million
Knight FoundationOregon$182 million
The Duke EndowmentNorth Carolina$158 million
Horowitz Family FoundationNevada$144 million
The Norman R Rales and Ruth Rales FoundationDistrict of Columbia$123 million
O'Donnell FoundationTexas$117 million
Robert W Woodruff Foundation IncGeorgia$116 million
The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNew Jersey$110 million
Clark Charitable Foundation Inc DBA A James & Alice B Clark FoundationMaryland$110 million
Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationCalifornia$107 million
Open Society InstituteNew York$92.8 million
The Moody FoundationTexas$86.0 million
Wem FoundationMinnesota$84.3 million
Michael & Susan Dell FoundationTexas$79.7 million
The Susan Thompson Buffett FoundationNebraska$77.1 million
Harold Alfond FoundationMaine$76.7 million
Sequoia Climate FoundationCalifornia$75.8 million
The Marianthi Foundation IncNew York$75.1 million
The Simons Foundation IncNew York$73.3 million
Foundation to Promote Open SocietyNew York$72.2 million
Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund IncDelaware$66.8 million
Tosa FoundationCalifornia$66.0 million
Douglas M Noble Family FoundationNew Jersey$65.9 million
The T Boone Pickens FoundationTexas$65.3 million
The Pindaros Foundation IncNew York$62.6 million

Totals add up each foundation's education grants in the states where it ranks among the top funders, so they can understate its total.