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Grants for job training programs
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
Foundation size
| Foundation size | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| Small | |
| Medium | |
| Large | |
Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.
Grants made
| Grants made to job training orgs | Number of grantmakers |
|---|
| 1 | |
| 2-3 | |
| 4-10 | |
| 11+ | |
Top 10 foundations supporting employment and job training programs
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 | |
| $10k-$25k | |
| $25k-$100k | |
| $100k+ | |
Grant amount by grantee size
| Grantee annual revenue | Median grant size |
|---|
| <$100k | |
| $100k-$500k | |
| $500k-$1M | |
| $1M-$5M | |
| >$5M | |
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 |
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.