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Funding Intelligence

Publicly documented education grant awards indexed by K-12 Funding. Every figure here is calculated from our records — it is K-12 Funding's indexed dataset, not all US education funding. Historical awards are not open grants.

Indexed awards

195

Documented value

$43,425,456

Funding organisations

16

Recipient organisations

193

9 awards have undisclosed amounts and add nothing to the documented value.

Documented funding by category

Awards tagged with several categories count in each, so bars sum to more than the total.

Documented funding over time

Annual totals of indexed awards.

Most active funders

Ranked by number of documented awards (value shown for reference). Funders report differently, so compare with care.

  1. 1. USDA Food and Nutrition Service102 awards · $9,826,296
  2. 2. Overdeck Family Foundation51 awards · $32,344,752
  3. 3. Harbor Freight Tools for Schools10 awards · $750,000
  4. 4. KidsGardening6 awards · $4,000
  5. 5. Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries5 awards · $25,000
  6. 6. Toshiba America Foundation4 awards · $18,340
  7. 7. Society for Science3 awards · $0
  8. 8. Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation2 awards · $147,250
  9. 9. NEA Foundation2 awards · $30,000
  10. 10. Dollar General Literacy Foundation2 awards · $4,000

Funding by state

Many awards are national or multi-state and have no single state; a map is shown only once state data is sufficient.

  • CA19 · $3,403,677
  • NJ3 · $1,279,945
  • IL6 · $1,210,000
  • OH7 · $992,226
  • PA11 · $944,814
  • MI6 · $904,977
  • MA7 · $813,120
  • TN4 · $745,009
  • NC2 · $700,000
  • OR7 · $660,153
  • WA6 · $573,084
  • NY9 · $539,126
  • CO7 · $396,496
  • LA1 · $364,908
  • VA3 · $360,096

Top 15 of 40 states shown. 39 awards have national or unspecified geography.

Emerging funding priorities

Change in each category's share of documented awards between the two most recent years.

  • Farm to school42% → 0%
  • AI in education0% → 33%
  • Evidence & evaluation0% → 31%
  • Mathematics0% → 22%
  • Education research0% → 22%
  • Nutrition20% → 0%

Latest award announcements

Largest documented awards

Amounts as announced; multi-year grants are shown at their full announced value.

RecipientFunderProjectAmountYear
LENAOverdeck Family FoundationLENA Grow$3,000,0002026
ZearnOverdeck Family FoundationLouisiana Lift$3,000,0002026
Afterschool AllianceOverdeck Family FoundationAfterschool in Portrait of a Graduate frameworks$2,650,0002026
Center for Universal Education at BrookingsOverdeck Family FoundationNational initiative on AI and student learning$1,750,0002026
Boys & Girls Clubs of AmericaOverdeck Family FoundationFuture-ready outcome measures$1,244,9082026
Collaborative ClassroomOverdeck Family FoundationEarly childhood portfolio growth$1,000,0002026
Saga EducationOverdeck Family FoundationScalable tutoring models$1,000,0002026
New Jersey Tutoring Corps Inc.Overdeck Family FoundationEmbedded school-year tutoring$900,0002026
Research Partnership for Professional LearningOverdeck Family FoundationProfessional learning evidence studies$800,0002026
EdReportsOverdeck Family FoundationExpanded curriculum reviews$750,0002026
University of Chicago Education LabOverdeck Family FoundationAI to target human-delivered interventions$750,0002026
WestEdOverdeck Family FoundationEvaluation of Zearn Louisiana Lift$700,0002026
National Implementation Research Network (UNC Frank Porter Graham)Overdeck Family FoundationStudy of Rivet Education's implementation tool$650,0002026
Center for Outcomes Based ContractingOverdeck Family FoundationOutcomes-based contracting at scale$650,0002026
Stanford SCALE InitiativeOverdeck Family FoundationNational Student Support Accelerator and AI Hub$639,0002026
Education Policy Initiative at the University of MichiganOverdeck Family FoundationMississippi Pre-K curriculum implementation study$600,0002026
MDRCOverdeck Family FoundationPre-K assessment systems study$600,0002026
Edunomics LabOverdeck Family FoundationReturn on investment in district analyses$600,0002026
The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford UniversityOverdeck Family FoundationNational Kindergarten Readiness Assessment database$525,0002026
Modern Classrooms ProjectOverdeck Family FoundationScalable instructional model$500,0002026
Renaissance PhilanthropyOverdeck Family FoundationOpen AI-in-education benchmark datasets$500,0002026
Healthy Flavors, Inc.USDA Food and Nutrition ServicePatrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program$497,7592024
Eat Real Certified, Inc.USDA Food and Nutrition ServicePatrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program$463,6142024
Rural Action, Inc.USDA Food and Nutrition ServicePatrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program$457,7312024
Educators for ExcellenceOverdeck Family FoundationStrategic staffing awareness$450,0002026

Coverage and limitations

  • Verified awards: 195 records checked against an official source. Partially verified: 0.
  • Calculated totals on this page add up our indexed records only. Reported totals are a funder's own figures and appear on funder profiles, labelled as such.
  • Coverage is uneven: some funders itemise every grant, others publish only highlights. Low or zero figures for a funder do not mean it gives little.
  • Education level is not yet recorded consistently across awards, so it isn't offered as a filter.
  • Records reach this page only after admin review. Browse all recipients or find open funding for your project.