43 Best Education Grants for Teachers and Schools

It’s no secret that teachers spend money out of their own pockets to make sure students have the tools and resources they need to learn. In fact, a 2021 teacher-spending survey by nonprofit adoptaclassroom.org found that 30% of teachers spend $1,000 or more of their own money on their classrooms during the school year. And they shouldn’t have to do it. Fortunately, there are many companies and organizations that offer education grants, and teachers can definitely use them!

It’s often time-consuming, however, to find the grants that are worth your time to fill out an application. Here is our big list of school grants and classroom education grants for teachers, separated by category so you can easily find the ones that best work for you and your school.

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General Education Grants for Teachers and Schools

DonorsChoose

• What It Is: Create a fundraiser that allows others to donate toward goals like new school resources or classroom projects. Get crayons, books, cleaning supplies, technology, and more to help students get back to learning.
• Award: Varies
• Deadline: Ongoing

Voya Unsung Heroes

• What It Is: Recognizes innovative and progressive thinking in education by providing grants for educators to fund classroom projects.
• Award: Up to $25,000
• Deadline: April 30

Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation

• What It Is: Dedicated to helping young Americans with disabilities maximize their potential and fully participate in society. A major program emphasis is inclusion: enabling young people with disabilities to have full access to educational, vocational, and recreational opportunities, and to participate alongside their non-disabled peers.
• Award: Up to $90,000
• Deadline: June 1

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

Ezra Jack 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 (applications postponed until spring 2025)

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, audiovisual equipment, and lab materials.
• Award: $500
• Deadline: October 1/March 1

Casey’s Cash for Classrooms Grant Program

• What It Is: In 2021, Casey’s awarded $1 million to benefit K-12 public and nonprofit private schools through 99 grants. Categories included physical improvements, material needs, teacher support, and community engagement. (Note: Open to K-12 public and private schools within Casey’s 16-state footprint: IA, IL, IN, AR, NE, MO, KS, KY, MI, MN, ND, OH, OK, SD, TN, WI.)
• Award: $3,000 to $50,000
• Deadline: November 30

Walmart

• What It Is: Providing after-school enrichment, tutoring, or vocational training for low-income individuals and families in the United States.
• Award: $250 to $2,500
• Deadline: December 31

NEA Learning & Leadership Grants

• What It Is: These grants are for teachers and school administrators who are current NEA members. They support educators from districts with limited budgets with the funding to access professional development opportunities.
• Award: Between $1,500 and $5,000
• Deadlines: December 1 to February 1, March 1 to May 1, and June 15 to September 15

U.S. General Services Administration Computers for Learning Program

• What It Is: K-12 educators can apply for this computer grant, which aims to provide students in disadvantaged communities with equipment for their schools.
• Award: Varies
• Deadline: Registration is ongoing

Fund for Teachers

• What It Is: These self-designed teachers grants allow educators to create their own unique professional development opportunities based on what they know they need in order to grow as a teacher.
• Award: $5,000 to $10,000
• Deadline: April 20

McCarthey Dressman Teacher Development Grants

• What It Is: A grant for teachers that can provide individual or small teams of K-12 teachers the opportunity to engage in insightful professional growth and training to bring fresh and innovative teaching strategies and methods to the classroom.
• Award: Up to $10,000 per year for three years
• Deadline: April 15

Pets in the Classroom

• What It Is: This small grants provides financial support toward the purchase of a classroom pet.
• Award: $50 to $150 toward a classroom pet
• Deadline: Applications open for each school year in August.

Jordan Fundamentals Grant

• What It Is: This education grant provides funding for schools with the goal of improving academic outcomes, school communities, teacher-student relations, and teacher development.
• Award: The average award is $10,000 but can vary
• Deadline: April 15

STEAM Education Grants for Teachers and Schools

Dell

• What It Is: The Dell Technologies Grants Support Program helps get your technology projects funded. As a free service, the Grants Program provides customized reports and consultations regarding ongoing annual technology grants that align with your project.
• Award: Varies
• Deadline: Ongoing

National Girls Collaborative Project

• What It Is: Mini-grants are awarded to girl-serving programs that focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to support collaboration, address gaps and overlaps in service, and share exemplary practices.
• Award: $1,000
• Deadline: Ongoing

Saxena

• What It Is: The foundation awards grants and supports programs that have a particular focus on STEM education and around empowering women in the United States and India.
• Award: $5,000 to $50,000
• Deadline: Ongoing

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

Toshiba America Foundation Grants

• What It Is: Supports inquiry-based projects designed by individual teachers and small teams of teachers for use in their own classrooms to improve teaching and learning in science and mathematics.
• Award: Varies
• Deadline: February 1 or August 1 for grades 6-8, October 1 for K-5

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 to $500
• Deadline: February 28

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: April 1

Gravely and Paige Grants for STEM Teachers

• What It Is: The Gravely and Paige Grants provide grants for elementary schools and middle schools in the United States to promote STEM innovation in the classroom with an emphasis on academic programs.
• Award: Up to $1,000
• Deadline: July 31

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: August 31

NCTM’s Mathematics Education Trust

• What It Is: Funding ranges from $1,500 to $24,000 and is available to help math teachers, prospective teachers, and other math educators improve the teaching and learning of mathematics.
• Award: Up to $24,000
• Deadline: May 1 and November 1

Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program

• What It Is: This grant offers a unique professional development opportunity for K-12 teachers who have taught STEM subjects for at least five years. These educators participate in 10- or 11-month positions in federal agencies or U.S. congressional offices across the country before returning to the classroom.
• Award: $6,000 monthly stipend, $1,000 monthly living expenses
• Deadline: November 17

National Science Foundation Discovery Research Grant

• What It Is: NSF offers this edtech grant to provide funding for STEM programs for pre-K–12 educators with financial need.
• Award: Varies
• Deadline: Submit a full grant proposal by the first Wednesday in October each year.

ASM’s Kishor M. Kulkarni Distinguished High School Teacher Award

• What It Is: A grant to recognize the accomplishments of a high school science teacher who has demonstrated a significant and sustained impact on pre-college-age students.
• Award: $2,500
• Deadline: June 30

Edward C. Roy Jr. Award for Excellence in K-8 Earth Science Teaching

• What It Is: The award is designed to recognize one teacher of grades K-8 each year for their leadership and innovation in Earth science education.
• Award: $2,500 and $1,500 grant to attend NSTA Conference
• Deadline: January 20

Literacy Education Grants for Teachers and Schools

Believe in Reading

• What It Is: Believe in Reading awards grants to existing and provably successful literacy programs.
• Award: $1,000 to $10,000
• Deadline: Ongoing

Snapdragon

• What It Is: Provides books for school/educational libraries for disadvantaged students.
• Deadline: February 16

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 15

Dollar General Literacy Foundation

• What It Is: Schools, public libraries, and nonprofit organizations that help students who are below grade level or having trouble reading are eligible to apply.
• Award: $4,000
• Deadline: May 19

The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation

• What It Is: The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation awards grants to organizations that operate a lending bookmobile that travels into neighborhoods populated by underserved youth. For preschool through 8th grade.
• Award: $500 to $3,000
• Deadline: September 1

American Association of School Librarians Innovative Reading Grant

• What It Is: Members of the American Association of School Librarians can apply for this curriculum grant that supports planning and implementing programs to encourage students, particularly struggling learners, to read.
• Award: $2,500
• Deadline: February 1

The Laura Bush Foundation Grant

• What It Is: This grant is intended for high-needs schools with a significant percentage of students who qualify for the free or reduced lunch program.
• Award: Varies
• Deadline: Ongoing

Arts Education Grants for Teachers and Schools

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, and cultural and performing arts programs.
• Award: $1,000 to $20,000
• Deadline: Ongoing

Classics for Kids Foundation

• What It Is: Money granted toward the following instruments: violins, violas, cellos, double basses.
• Award: Varies
• Deadline: Ongoing

The Mockingbird Foundation

• What It Is: The Mockingbird Foundation offers competitive grants to schools and nonprofit organizations that effect improvements in music education for children.
• Award: $100 to $10,000
• Deadline: January 15

P. Buckley Moss Foundation for Children’s Education Grants

• What It Is: For projects within schools serving all children that integrate 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

Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation

• What It Is: Provides vital support services to school districts and new musical instruments to underfunded music programs nationwide. Gives under-represented youth access to the many benefits of music education, leading them to success in school, and inspiring creativity and expression through playing music.
• Award: Varies
• Deadline: By invitation only

Education Grants for School Grounds

Good Sports

• What It Is: Get sports equipment for your school.
• Award: Equipment from their catalog
• Deadline: Ongoing

Whole Kids Foundation

• What It Is: Through their Garden Grant Program, schools and nonprofit 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 11

Teaching Gardens 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: October 29

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