Companies offer grants and schools can definitely use them! Here is our big list of school and classroom education grants, separated by category so you can find the ones that best work for your school.
(Want to submit your grant for us to review? Send details, including the grant amount and deadline, to resources@weareteachers.com!)
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General Education Grants
ConocoPhillips
- What It Is: ConocoPhillips offers Charitable Investment Grants in the areas of education, the arts, health and safety, natural resources, civic and social services, and disaster relief.
- Award: Varies
- Deadline: July 31, 2021
Ezra Jacks Keats Foundation
- What It Is: Mini-Grant programs give teachers and librarians a unified, flexible way to meet Common Core goals—and offer students a fun experience, a sense of achievement, and a source of pride.
- Award: Varies
- Deadline: Fall, 2021
Association of American Educators Foundation
- What It Is: Classroom grants can be used for a variety of projects and materials, including but not limited to books, software, calculators, math manipulatives, art supplies, audio-visual equipment, and lab materials.
- Award: $500
- Deadline: October 1, 2021
WalMart
- What It Is: Providing afterschool enrichment, tutoring, or vocational training for low-income individuals and families in the United States.
- Award: $250-$2,500
- Deadline: December 31, 2021
STEAM Education Grants
Verizon
- What It Is: For education grants, Verizon Foundation funding is intended to support, among other things, projects that promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (“STEM”), including, for example, summer or after school programs, teacher training, and research on improving learning in STEM areas through use of technology. New applications are by invitation only.
- Award: Varies
- Deadline: Ongoing
American Chemical Society
- What It Is: The ACS-Hach High School Chemistry Classroom Grants support ideas that enhance classroom learning, foster student development and reveal the wonders of chemistry.
- Award: $1,500
- Deadline: June 1, 2021
Osmo For Schools
- What It Is: In partnership with Osmo Cares, the charitable arm of award-winning STEAM brand Osmo, announces one-time mini-grants consisting of $2000 worth of Osmo for Schools’ educational technology. A total of 20 in-kind mini-grants will be awarded to schools in time for the Fall 2021 semester.
- Award: $2,000
- Deadline: July 17, 2021
Gravely & Paige Grants for STEM Teachers
- What It Is: The Gravely & Paige Grants provide funding to elementary and middle schools in the United States to promote STEM innovation in the classrooms with emphasis on academic programs.
- Award: Up to $1,000
- Deadline: July 31, 2021
AFCEA
- What It Is: The Gravely & Paige Grants provide funding to elementary and middle schools in the United States to promote STEM innovation in the classrooms with emphasis on academic programs
- Award: Up to $1,000
- Deadline: July 31, 2021
FirstEnergy
- What It Is: FirstEnergy encourages original, inventive, and creative classroom projects and teacher professional development in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects.
- Award: Up to $1,000
- Deadline: July 31, 2021
AIAA
- What It Is: A clear connection to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) with an emphasis on Aerospace must be included in the grant proposal.
- Award: Varies
- Deadline: January 15, 2022
AEP
- What It Is: AEP has a special interest in science, mathematics, technology, the study of energy and a sustainable environment, and energy efficiency.
- Award: $100-$500
- Deadline: February 28, 2022
Literacy Education Grants
Believe in Literacy
- What It Is: Believe in Reading awards grants to existing and provably successful literacy programs.
- Award: $1,000-$10,000
- Deadline: Ongoing
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
- What It Is: Schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations who help students that are below grade level or having trouble reading are eligible to apply.
- Award: $4,000
- Deadline: May 21, 2021
International Literacy Association
- What It Is: The Diane Lapp & James Flood Professional Collaborator Award recognizes an ongoing professional collaboration between two or more people who regularly contribute to the professional knowledge base of literacy educators.
- Deadline: March 2022
Arts Education Grants
Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
- What It Is: The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation awards grants to organizations for whom a small amount of money can make a big difference. The Foundation will consider requests to support schools, museums, cultural, and performing arts programs.
- Award: $1,000-$20,000
- Deadline: Ongoing
Classics for Kids
- What It Is: Money toward the following instruments: violins, violas, cellos, double basses.
- Award: Varies
- Deadline: Ongoing
P. Buckley Moss Foundation for Children’s Education Grants
- What It Is: For projects within schools serving all children that integrates the arts into educational programs. The purpose for this grant is to aid and support teachers who wish to establish or maintain an effective learning tool using the visual arts within the school day.
- Award: Up to $1,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2021
Mockingbird Foundation
- What It Is: The Mockingbird Foundation, Inc. offers competitive grants to schools and nonprofit organizations that effect improvements in music education for children.
- Award: $100-$10,000
- Deadline: January 15, 2022
Education Grants for School Grounds
Teaching Gardening Grants Program
- What It Is: The American Heart Association works with schools to find local sponsors to help fund the installation of raised bed gardens in schools.
- Award: Up to $1,000
- Deadline: December 2021
Whole Kids
- What It Is: Through their Garden Grant program, schools and non-profit organizations turn outdoor spaces into powerful hands-on learning gardens that connect kids with food, spark their curiosity and support classroom curriculum.
- Award: $3,000
- Deadline: March 31, 2022
Good Sports
- What It Is: Get sports equipment for your school!
- Award: Equipment from their catalog.
- Deadline: Ongoing
Plus, Guidance for Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants
(Don’t see your company or grant on the list? Submit it to us to review! Send details, including the grant amount and deadline, to resources@weareteachers.com!)