Funding

Grants and Program-Related Investments Snapshot

Grants and Program-Related Investments by Year

ECMC Foundation has given or invested a total of $334.9 million since inception. 


2023 Grants and Program-Related Investments by Category

In 2023, ECMC Foundation invested a total of $56.8 million.

Category

# of Grants and/or Investments

Amount Funded

Strategically Responsive
(Emerging Themes ($13.7M), New Models ($12.2M), Enhancing Data ($2.3M) and Media Strategy ($1.1M))

86

$29,271,290

Initiatives
(Basic Needs, CTE Leadership Collaborative, Men of Color, Single Mother Student Success and Transfer and Credit Mobility)

72

$17,940,892

Education Innovation Ventures
(Grants and PRIs)

12

$3,875,000

GO! Program

98

$1,000,000

Other 
(ECMC Group, Leadership Discretionary, Directors Discretionary and Staff Discretionary)

114

$4,692,500

TOTALS

382

$56,779,681


2023 Grantees and Investees

Basic Needs Initiative Grantees

Amount Funded

Council on Postsecondary Education

$1,551,356.00

Ithaka Harbors, Inc.

$760,550.00

National Student Legal Defense Network

$664,140.00

National Skills Coalition

$575,000.00

College Housing Northwest

$375,840.00

Howard University

$368,062.00

University of California, Irvine

$350,411.00

Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles

$300,000.00

Mile 2 Consulting, LLC

$250,000.00

CTE Leadership Collaborative Initiative Grantees

Amount Funded

Jobs for the Future

$875,000.00

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

$857,725.00

Men of Color Initiative Grantees

Amount Funded

Brothers@

$600,000.00

California State University Dominguez Philanthropic Foundation

$585,035.00

Roadtrip Nation, part of Strada Collaborative

$550,000.00

The University of Texas at Austin

$514,991.00

CUNY Black Male Initiative Program

$499,358.00

Achieving the Dream

$407,090.75

Improve Your Tomorrow, Inc.

$250,000.00

University of Southern California Race and Equity Center

$250,000.00

The University of Texas at Austin

$150,000.00

Single Mother Student Success Initiative Grantees

Amount Funded

California Competes

$1,500,000.00

New America

$1,400,000.00

Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University

$749,025.00

Achieving the Dream

$600,000.00

Interfaith Community Services

$281,544.00

Association of Community College Trustees

$200,000.00

The Urban Institute

$150,000.00

The Aspen Institute

$82,500.00

Transfer and Credit Mobility Initiative Grantees

Amount Funded

Open Syllabus, Inc.

$800,000.00

Public Agenda, Inc.

$740,000.00

Texas Community College Education Initiative

$250,000.00

Strategically Responsive Grantees

Amount Funded

SeaChange Capital Partners

$1,500,000.00

Excelencia in Education

$1,500,000.00

LA-Tech.org

$1,050,000.00

Bottom Line

$1,000,000.00

Reach University

$1,000,000.00

One Million Degrees

$800,000.00

Let's Get Ready

$800,000.00

The ASME Foundation, Inc.

$800,000.00

Collegiate Edu-Nation

$800,000.00

University of Houston Downtown

$750,000.00

Achieving the Dream

$750,000.00

Women Employed

$750,000.00

Third Sector Capital Partners, Inc.

$750,000.00

The Urban Institute

$750,000.00

MDRC

$750,000.00

State Higher Education Executive Officers Association

$750,000.00

Sinclair Community College

$749,910.00

Institute for Evidence-Based Change

$748,000.00

Business-Higher Education Forum

$687,500.00

Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, Inc.

$620,000.00

The Regents of the University of California, Davis

$600,000.00

Campaign for College Opportunity

$600,000.00

Association for Career and Technical Education

$599,940.00

College Promise

$580,000.00

Ithaka Harbors, Inc.

$550,000.00

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

$550,000.00

Campus Compact

$547,500.00

The Center to Advance CTE

$540,000.00

ACT, Inc.

$500,000.00

Alabama Possible

$500,000.00

National Association of Higher Education Systems

$500,000.00

Futuro Health

$500,000.00

Hispanics in Philanthropy

$482,000.00

Jewish Vocational Service, Inc.

$400,000.00

James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc.

$400,000.00

University of Cincinnati

$400,00.00

National Association of Higher Education Systems

$372,000.00

uAspire

$367,506.00

Education Commission of the States

$290,982.00

National Public Radio

$225,000.00

Postsecondary National Policy Institute

$200,002.00

Future Link, Inc.

$200,000.00

Open Campus Media, Inc.

$150,000.00

Robin Merger Corporation, Inc.

$150,000.00

EdSource, Inc.

$125,000.00

Texas Tribune, Inc

$110,000.00

The Hechinger Report

$100,000.00

CCF Community Initiatives Fund

$100,00.00

Apprenticeships for America

$100,000.00

California State University Northridge Foundation

$100,000.00

Skillpointe Foundation, Inc.

$100,000.00

Maine Community Foundation, Inc.

$100,000.00

Los Angeles City College Foundation

$85,000.00

CalMatters

$75,000.00

The University Innovation Alliance

$75,000.00

Sinclair Community College

$63,000.00

Education Innovation Ventures Grantees and Investees

Amount Funded

JFF Ventures

$1,200,000.00

Pursuit Transformation Benefit Corporation, Inc.

$500,000.00

LearnLaunch

$500,000.00

Better Future Forward, Inc.

$400,000.00

Julius Education

$250,000.00

Gladeo, Inc.

$250,000.00

LivedX, Inc.

$250,000.00

Onramp

$150,000.00

EdVisorly

$150,000.00

Better Future Forward, Inc.

$100,000.00

Escalate USA, Inc.

$100,000.00

STTE Foundation

$25,000.00