Grants for adult education centers

Name: Top 25 grants made to adult education and esl centers
Creator: Cause IQ
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732 adult education and esl centers received at least $52.2 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 970 grants made from 773 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,000. Of these 773 foundations, 90% made just a single grant to adult ed centers, and 1% made grants to four or more adult ed centers. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$52,189,592

Total grant dollars given to adult education centers

970

Number of grants made annually to adult education centers

773

Number of grantmakers funding adult education centers

$1,000

Median grant size to adult education centers

Foundations that support adult education and esl centers

Out of all grants made to adult education centers, 75% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 96% of the dollar-value of grants to adult ed centers. Foundations funding adult ed centers also made grants to homeless shelters, food banks, universities, theaters, and remedial reading organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	586
Medium	98
Large	88

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	27
Private	648
Corporate	52
Other	46

Grants made

Grants made to adult ed centers	Number of grantmakers
1	698
2-3	60
4-10	11
11+	4

Top 10 foundations supporting adult education and esl centers

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to adult ed centers	Number of grants made to adult ed centers	Median grant size
Dollar General Literacy Foundation	TN	National	1.0%	41	$3,000
Community Foundation of Collier County	FL	National	0.2%	18	$1,141
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	15	$104
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	11	$500
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.0%	10	$20
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.0%	6	$750
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.0%	6	$475
The Pitney Bowes Foundation	CT	National	0.6%	5	$2,750
Community Foundation of North Texas (NTXCF)	TX	State	0.0%	5	$1,000
Arkansas Community Foundation	AR	State	0.0%	5	$1,000

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Adult education and ESL centers grantees

Adult education centers with more than $5 million in total revenues received 86% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 23% of all adult ed centers.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	964
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	6

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$2,500
$100k-$500k	$2,000
$500k-$1M	$1,500
$1M-$5M	$1,575
>$5M	$500

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	180
New York	144
Texas	54
Florida	54
Other	538

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
San Francisco	152
New York City	135
Boston	34
Washington DC	26
Other	550

Top 25 grants made to adult education centers

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Education at Work	$15,857,962	FMV	Strada Education Network
Education at Work	$15,857,962	FMV	Strada Education Network
Aspire Community Development Corporation	$5,505,744	Agricultural Development	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Education at Work	$5,275,000	FMV	Strada Education Network
Education at Work	$5,275,000	FMV	Strada Education Network
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)	$2,541,000	Project Support	Tides Foundation
Cambridge Center for Adult Education (CCAE)	$5,000	Benevolent	The Jonathan H Poorvu Foundation
Literacy Volunteers of the New River Valley	$5,000	Family Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Kleberg County Adult Literacy Council (KCALC)	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Eastern Shore Literacy Council	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Twin Lakes Literacy Council	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Forsyth County Certified Literate Community Program	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Literacy Volunteers of the New River Valley	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Racine Literacy Council	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Lafayette County Literacy Council	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Literacy New York Greater Capital	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Montgomery County Literacy Project	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Project Literacy of Greater Bergen County	$5,000	Adult Literacy	Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Harvard Business School Interactive	$5,000	Scholarship	Caldwell C W Scholarship Fund
The Litquake Foundation	$5,000	To Support Educational Programs	Thistlewood Foundation
Operation Never Forgotten (ONF)	$5,000	B60 Adult Continuing Ed	The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository
St Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center	$5,000	Education	DTE Energy Foundation
North House Folk School	$5,000	General Support	InFaith Community Foundation (ICF)
Literacy Partners	$5,000	General Operating Support	J M Kaplan Fund
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art	$5,000	Social Support	The Bunny Williams Foundation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Adult education centers" category for this page is determined by the "B60: Adult, Continuing Education" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.