Grants for job training programs

Name: Top 25 grants made to employment and job training programs
Creator: Cause IQ
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591 employment and job training programs received at least $85.7 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 585 grants made from 442 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $2,000. Of these 442 foundations, 88% made just a single grant to job training orgs, and 2% made grants to four or more job training orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$85,693,073

Total grant dollars given to job training programs

585

Number of grants made annually to job training programs

442

Number of grantmakers funding job training programs

$2,000

Median grant size to job training programs

Foundations that support employment and job training programs

Out of all grants made to job training programs, 69% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 88% of the dollar-value of grants to job training orgs. Foundations funding job training orgs also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, educational service providers, youth development programs, christian organizations, and universities.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	306
Medium	65
Large	70

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	22
Private	314
Corporate	37
Other	69

Grants made

Grants made to job training orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	392
2-3	40
4-10	8
11+	2

Top 10 foundations supporting employment and job training programs

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to job training orgs	Number of grants made to job training orgs	Median grant size
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.1%	37	$1,000
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	28	$245
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.2%	8	$906
Synchrony Foundation	CT	National	0.1%	7	$780
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.0%	6	$1,750
Albemarle Foundation	NC	National	0.2%	5	$1,667
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	5	$430
The Boston Foundation (TBF)	MA	Metro	1.7%	4	$5,000
Charity Partners Foundation	MA	National	0.1%	4	$53

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Employment and job training programs grantees

Job training programs with more than $5 million in total revenues received 61% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 35% of all job training orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	571
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	14

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,780
$100k-$500k	$2,500
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,184
>$5M	$2,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
Washington	77
California	70
New York	52
Massachusetts	51
Other	335

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Seattle	73
Boston	47
New York City	40
Chicago	37
Other	364

Top 25 grants made to job training programs

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
The Shirley Ware Education Center	$32,500,000	Project Support	Kaiser Permanente
Clarkson Regional Health Services	$8,000,000	General Support	Nebraska Medicine
Motivation Education and Training (MET)	$5,906,444	Recruitment, Training, and Job Placement of Seniors	Senior Service America (SSAI)
Jobs for the Future (JFF)	$4,800,000	Postsecondary Success	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
New England Carpenters Training Fund (NECTF)	$4,000,000	Support for Training.	North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters
Year Up	$4,000,000	To Support Scaling Plan	Blue Meridian Partners
Jobs for the Future (JFF)	$3,616,500	Project Support	Tides Foundation
Year Up	$3,439,750	Operating Support/annual Fund	The Boston Foundation (TBF)
The Workplace	$3,340,459	Job Training and Placement	Metro North Workforce Board
Year Up	$3,110,600	Daf - Education	Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Jewish Vocational Service Boston	$3,082,804	Employment	Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston
Career Path Services	$3,041,753	Employment and Training	Spokane Workforce Council
Career Resources	$2,890,198	Universal Access To Comprehensive Employment Services Through Various One Stop Centers Set Up in Southwest Connecticut	The Workplace
Year Up	$2,700,000	Education	Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation
Taller San Jose Hope Builders	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	The Bernice Heffernan Family Foundation
Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County	$5,000	Subsidy	Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation
Chautauqua County Education Coalition	$5,000	Support for Chautauqua County Education Coalition Educational Initiatives	Manufacturers Association of the Southern Tier
Chautauqua County Education Coalition	$5,000	Cash Value	Manufacturers Association of the Southern Tier
Chautauqua County Education Coalition	$5,000	Cash Value	Manufacturers Association of the Southern Tier
Perry Co Business & Industrial Development Corp	$5,000	General Support	Ramtell
The Empowerment Plan	$5,000	The Foundation Donated $5,000 To Provide Warm, Durable and Weather Resistant Coats To Homeless Individuals.	The Vince Wilfork Foundation
Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service	$5,000	General Operations	Snow Charitable Trust
NextOp	$5,000	Directed Grant for Unrestricted Operating Support	Houston Endowment
Year Up	$5,000	2017 BX Connects Service Grant	The Blackstone Charitable Foundation
Curt's Cafe	$5,000	General	Esprit 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 "Job training programs" category for this page is determined by the "J22: Employment Training" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.