Grants for vocational and technical schools

Name: Top 25 grants made to vocational and technical schools
Creator: Cause IQ
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101 vocational and technical schools received at least $219,682 in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 88 grants made from 87 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $2,500. Of these 87 foundations, 98% made just a single grant to vo-tech schools, and 0% made grants to four or more vo-tech schools. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$219,682

Total grant dollars given to vocational and technical schools

Number of grants made annually to vocational and technical schools

Number of grantmakers funding vocational and technical schools

$2,500

Median grant size to vocational and technical schools

Foundations that support vocational and technical schools

Out of all grants made to vocational and technical schools, 71% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 23% of the dollar-value of grants to vo-tech schools. Foundations funding vo-tech schools also made grants to colleges, multiservice human service organizations, educational service providers, high schools, and food banks.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	62
Medium	14
Large	11

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	5
Private	66
Corporate	8
Other	8

Grants made

Grants made to vo-tech schools	Number of grantmakers
1	86
2-3	1
4-10	0
11+	0

Top 10 foundations supporting vocational and technical schools

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to vo-tech schools	Number of grants made to vo-tech schools	Median grant size
People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts	DE	Metro	0.7%	2	$3,000
Sharon S Davis Foundation	NY	Metro	5.7%	1	$5,000
Consigli Foundation	MA	State	2.0%	1	$5,000
T-Mobile USA Foundation	WA	National	0.1%	1	$5,000
Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston (BMA)	MA	Metro	5.3%	1	$5,000
The Rachuba Family Foundation	MD	Metro	8.8%	1	$5,000
Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation	VA	State	18.5%	1	$5,000
Steve and Jean Roth Charitable Foundation	OR	Metro	3.7%	1	$5,000
Schwartz Family Foundation / Schwartz Alan D Ttee	NY	Regional	0.4%	1	$5,000
Leibowitz and Greenway Family Charitable Foundation	NY	National	0.5%	1	$5,000

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Vocational and technical schools grantees

Vocational and technical schools with more than $5 million in total revenues received 15% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 15% of all vo-tech schools.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	88
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	0

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$2,575
$100k-$500k	$5,000
$500k-$1M	$3,000
$1M-$5M	$2,426
>$5M	$2,500

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
Massachusetts	16
Ohio	8
Tennessee	7
Michigan	7
Other	50

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
Boston	16
Cleveland, OH	8
Washington DC	5
New York City	5
Other	47

Top 25 grants made to vocational and technical schools

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Akilah Foundation	$5,000	Supporting Higher Education Institution for Women in East Africa	Sharon S Davis Foundation
Breakthrough Greater Boston	$5,000	Breakthrough Gala Sponsor	Consigli Foundation
Friends of Serrania	$5,000	General Program Support	T-Mobile USA Foundation
Mattapan Greater Boston Technology Learning Center	$5,000	Our Mission Is To Promote Self-Sufficiency By Empowering People Through Job Training, Career Building and Leadership.	Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston (BMA)
Mmha Service Training Academy	$5,000	Charitable Purposes	The Rachuba Family Foundation
Virginia Technical Institute	$5,000	Scholarship	Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Aurora Career Technical Education	$5,000	General Operating Support	Steve and Jean Roth Charitable Foundation
Pathnorth	$5,000	To Support the General Purpose Fund	Schwartz Family Foundation / Schwartz Alan D Ttee
One Spirit Learning Alliance	$5,000	Unrestricted	Leibowitz and Greenway Family Charitable Foundation
Philadelphia Academies Incorporated (PAI)	$5,000	Donor Designation	Bergen County's United Way
Hessel Bay Inn and Restaurant	$5,000	Charitable Exempt Purpose	Janet Carrington Foundation
Telacu Education Foundation	$5,000	Charitable Event	The Gilbert and Jacki Cisneros Foundation
Breakthrough Greater Boston	$5,000	Donation	Krisbin Foundation
Cornerstone University	$5,000	Single Mother Scholarships	Monticello College Foundation
Wears Valley Ranch	$5,000	General Support	Samuel E Upchurch JR Charitable Foundation
Mattapan Greater Boston Technology Learning Center	$5,000	Program Support	Blue Hills Bank Foundation
CareGiver Training Institute	$5,000	For Training of Caregivers	Connie Hillman Family Foundation
Code Platoon NFP	$5,000	General Purpose	William R Johnson Family Foundation
All Our Kin	$5,000	Secure Start/circle of Security Parenting Groups	United Way of Greater New Haven
Cornerstone University	$5,000	Scholarship	Tulsa Community Foundation
New York Psychoanalytic Support Corporation	$5,000	General Support	Community Foundation of New Jersey
Breakthrough Greater Boston	$5,000	General Fund	The Clinton H and Wilma T Shattuck Charitable Trust #0758945
William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry Psychoanalysis and Psychology	$5,000	General Funding	Brownington Foundation
Independent Insurance Agents Foundation of San Antonio	$5,000	For Operating Expenses	Community Foundation of North Texas (NTXCF)
New England Center for Arts and Technology	$4,000	Culinary Arts Job Training Program	TR Uw Helen F Kimball-The Moses Kimball Fund for Promotion of Good Citizenship

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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 "Vocational and technical schools" category for this page is determined by the "B30: Vocational, Technical Schools" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.