Grants for community colleges

Name: Top 25 grants made to community colleges
Creator: Cause IQ
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153 community colleges received at least $18.7 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 290 grants made from 238 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $2,000. Of these 238 foundations, 86% made just a single grant to community colleges, and 1% made grants to four or more community colleges. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$18,724,788

Total grant dollars given to community colleges

290

Number of grants made annually to community colleges

238

Number of grantmakers funding community colleges

$2,000

Median grant size to community colleges

Foundations that support community colleges

Out of all grants made to community colleges, 76% 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 community colleges. Foundations funding community colleges also made grants to colleges, universities, multiservice human service organizations, scholarship organizations, and food banks.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	183
Medium	20
Large	35

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	9
Private	193
Corporate	16
Other	20

Grants made

Grants made to community colleges	Number of grantmakers
1	205
2-3	29
4-10	4
11+	0

Top 10 foundations supporting community colleges

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to community colleges	Number of grants made to community colleges	Median grant size
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	6	$2,750
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	6	$62
The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation	MN	Metro	0.0%	5	$5,000
Castelli Charitable Trust	PA	State	5.4%	4	$500
Tulsa Community Foundation	OK	National	0.0%	3	$5,000
Watson-Brown Foundation	GA	National	0.3%	3	$4,500
Collision Repair Education Foundation	IL	National	2.7%	3	$2,800
The Bruno and Lena Degol Family Found	PA	State	2.8%	3	$1,250
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.1%	3	$500
LPL Financial Foundation	MA	National	0.1%	3	$500

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Community colleges grantees

Community colleges with more than $5 million in total revenues received 99% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 91% of all community colleges.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	285
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	5

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$3,500
$100k-$500k	$2,537
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,550
>$5M	$2,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
Pennsylvania	62
Virginia	27
Missouri	19
North Carolina	16
Other	166

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Philadelphia	20
Roanoke	19
St. Louis	18
Minneapolis	15
Other	152

Top 25 grants made to community colleges

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Baker College Online	$4,864,362	Operations/scholarships	Jewell Educational Fund
Bryn Mawr College	$4,186,353		Institute of International Education
Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago	$3,386,469	Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Grants - Operating Support	Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago (JUF)
Salt Lake Community College	$3,128,598	Total Expense of Scholarships, Tea & Donor Directed Funds	Salt Lake Community College Foundation
Williamson College of the Trades	$2,500,000	General Support	Henry M. Rowan Family Foundation
Agnes Scott College	$5,000	Not Specified	The Margaret Virginia Philip Foundation
Isothermal Community College	$5,000	Assist Teachers in Continuing Education	Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD)
Ursinus College	$5,000	Aac&u: Institute Grant	Interfaith Youth Core
St. Olaf College	$5,000	Aac&u: Institute Grant	Interfaith Youth Core
Earlham College	$5,000	Iac Project Support	Community Foundation of Randolph County
Concordia College	$5,000	Partners Exhibition	The Community Fund of Bronxville Eastchester Tuckahoe
Allegheny College	$5,000	Unrestricted	Henry E and Laurana S Fish Foundation
Mitchell College	$5,000	Fy'19 Matching Gifts	Deloitte Foundation
United Tribes Technical College	$5,000	Support for Making Scholarship Program at the College.	The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation
Turtle Mountain Community College (TMCC)	$5,000	Student Scholarship for Students in Need of Financial Assistance.	The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation
Concordia College	$5,000	Grant in Support of the Organization's Ongoing Operations.	Esmond Nissim Foundation
Occidental College	$5,000	Core Programs	California Humanities
Oglala Lakota College	$5,000	General	William M Hales Foundation
Mercy College	$5,000	Charitable Support	PCSB Community Foundation
Roanoke College	$5,000	To Support Education and the Cregger Center.	Flax Family Foundation
Montreat College	$5,000	Scholarships	The Edward M Armfield SR Foundation
Wittenberg University	$5,000	Matching Grants	Abbvie Foundation
St Vincent's College	$5,000	Educational	The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh
St. Olaf College	$5,000	Education	The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation
St. Olaf College	$5,000	Education	The Richard M Schulze Family 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 "Community colleges" category for this page is determined by the "B41: Community College, Jr. College" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.