Grants for Job Training & Workforce Programs
If you run a job training or workforce development program, this page is your starting point. Bespoke Grants tracks 4,162 foundations that fund job training & workforce programs — together $69.58B in recent grants. Below are the most active funders. Every one links to a full giving profile, and Bespoke Grants will rank all 4,162 against your organization's specific mission and location, free.
Foundations that fund job training & workforce programs
Ranked by total recent giving. Click any funder for its full profile — giving history, grant recipients, focus areas, and how to apply.
| # | Foundation | Based in | Annual giving |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schwab Charitable Fund | San Francisco, CA | $3.30B |
| 2 | Genentech Patient Foundation | South San Francisco, CA | $2.87B |
| 3 | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $2.64B |
| 4 | Johnson & Johnson Patient Assistance | New Brunswick, NJ | $2.49B |
| 5 | Merck Patient Assistance Program Inc | Kenilworth, NJ | $1.58B |
| 6 | Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $1.46B |
| 7 | Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $1.30B |
| 8 | Conference on Jewish Material Claims | New York, NY | $1.07B |
| 9 | World Vision Inc | Federal Way, WA | $984.7M |
| 10 | Lilly Endowment Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $789.6M |
| 11 | The Ford Foundation | New York, NY | $760.8M |
| 12 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $642.7M |
| 13 | Navigate Affordable Housing | Birmingham, AL | $639.4M |
| 14 | Foundation to Promote Open Society | New York, NY | $593.3M |
| 15 | The Chicago Community Trust | Chicago, IL | $576.9M |
| 16 | Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $560.4M |
| 17 | Save the Children Federation Inc | Fairfield, CT | $551.3M |
| 18 | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Princeton, NJ | $532.0M |
| 19 | Glaxosmithkline Patient Access | Philadelphia, PA | $505.5M |
| 20 | The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $497.1M |
| 21 | Walton Family Foundation Inc | Bentonville, AR | $496.2M |
| 22 | The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | Menlo Park, CA | $471.3M |
| 23 | The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley | New York, NY | $440.9M |
| 24 | Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc | New York, NY | $428.2M |
| 25 | The Andrew W Mellon Foundation | New York, NY | $420.9M |
| 26 | Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation | Tulsa, OK | $365.3M |
| 27 | The Jpb Foundation | New York, NY | $359.4M |
| 28 | Baylor University | Waco, TX | $341.9M |
| 29 | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | Washington, DC | $323.2M |
| 30 | Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc | Oakland, CA | $312.6M |
This list is ranked by size. Yours should be ranked by fit.
The funders above are the biggest — not necessarily the right ones for your job training & workforce programs. Bespoke Grants ranks all 4,162 against your actual mission, service area, and budget, and shows you why each matches. Free, no credit card.
Match my organization to funders →How job training & workforce programs should approach these funders
A long list of funders is only useful if you approach them well. Three things matter more than the size of your job training & workforce programs: fit, evidence, and the first contact. Fit means the funder's stated priorities, the population they serve, and the geography they fund genuinely overlap with your work — funders reject far more proposals for poor fit than for weak programs. Evidence means a specific, concrete description of the need you address and what your funding will change. And the first contact is rarely a full proposal: most private foundations prefer a brief letter of inquiry, and many fund only organizations they already know — so a warm introduction or a short, well-targeted note is the realistic way in.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I find grants for job training & workforce programs?
- Start with foundations that already fund job training & workforce programs — our index lists 4,162. Match them to your specific mission, location, and budget, then approach the best fits with a brief letter of inquiry rather than a cold full proposal.
- How many foundations fund job training & workforce programs?
- Bespoke Grants tracks 4,162 foundations that fund job training & workforce programs, representing $69.58B in recent grants.
- Do these foundations accept unsolicited applications?
- Some do; many do not. Each foundation's profile shows what is known about its application process. Where a funder does not accept unsolicited proposals, relationship-building is still the path in — it is rarely a dead end.