Our Grants
Our active grantees are listed below, updated monthly. We hope you will engage with and support these inspiring organizations.
Past Year of Giving
$300+M
Active Grants
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Annual giving numbers updated as of 12/31/24. New grants made in 2025 are added each month and shown below. Please note that we cannot accept unsolicited grant applications.
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Behavioral Health grants strengthen the systems within behavioral health care, providing scholarships and training to build the workforce necessary to meet increasing need, and integrating behavioral health into the education system so that more children, families, and communities can access high-quality mental health care.
Ballmer Group’s first grants centered on the child welfare system – a network of services whose purpose is to ensure child safety and to strengthen permanency in families. These grants continue to support affected families and kids and to transform systems in order to improve prevention and to reduce racial disparities in care.
Our Community Impact grants strengthen local Place-Based Partnerships, including building leadership pipelines, to help communities working to address complex issues and achieve measurable results.
Early Childhood & Families grants build systems of support and care for our littlest ones in the most critical point of their brain development by promoting equity in prenatal and maternal health, as well as helping all families access high quality childcare and early education.
K-12 Education grants seek to reduce and eliminate inequities that shortchange student achievement, by strengthening both the in-school academic experience as well as wrap-around and afterschool support. We believe that all neighborhoods deserve strong schools and a more representative, racially diverse workforce of teachers and school leaders.
Public Safety grants support leaders and organizations working to advocate for and scale effective public safety initiatives.
Region:
In the home of the Clippers, the Los Angeles County grants support building more equitable public systems, focusing on education, criminal justice, and a community-led vision of safety.
The Southeast Michigan grants works across the tri-county area surrounding Steve Ballmer’s hometown, bringing philanthropy, government, and business together to tackle economic mobility, and focusing on education and community development.
Our National Impact grants focus on opportunities to strengthen impact across the country, and partners with regional teams to advance key issues.
In the Ballmers’ home state of Washington, our grants focus on public systems transformation, with deep investments in child welfare, behavioral health, and education as levers for change.
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Blue Meridian Partners Inc
BuildUS
BuildUS aims to leverage recent landmark federal investments (including the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act) to ensure that all communities—especially those that are often overlooked—experience their benefits. BuildUS is maximizing this historic opportunity to reshape how our economy supports American workers, healthy families, and clean air.
California Community Foundation
California Community Foundation leads positive systemic change to strengthen Los Angeles communities so all have the opportunity to contribute to the productivity, health, and well-being of the region. Our grant supports LA n Sync and the Center for Nonprofit Management to increase the output of capacity-building resources available to Los Angeles County nonprofits that have been historically left out of public funding opportunities.
Center for Strategic Partnerships
Center for Strategic Partnerships supports cross-sector collaborations that transform Los Angeles County systems, policies, and practices to improve outcomes for children, youth, and families, using an equity lens. It works to create systems change in the areas of child and family wellbeing, youth development and empowerment, health equity, and economic security.
Communities Rise
Communities Rise fosters movements to build power and create equitable systems in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, Communities Rise pursues cross-sector collaboration, and provides capacity building and legal services for community organizations and microenterprises.
Community Coalition
Community Coalition centers the voices and leadership of people of color in its work to upend systemic racism. The organization trains activists and organizers to support power building with Black, Brown, Indigenous, and people of color in South Los Angeles.
Delivery Associates
Delivery Associates helps government and social impact organizations translate ambitious goals into real, measurable impact for people all over the world. Our grant enables its continued work in the City of Orlando to ensure equitable access to critical services.
Echoing Green
Echoing Green finds emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible and sets them on a path to lifelong impact by funding, connecting, and supporting new generations of social impact leaders. Our funding will support Black-led organizations under two years old.
Economic Security Project
Economic Security Project connects thousands of low-income families to tax credits for which they are eligible, fostering financial relief and economic mobility. Our grant supports the “Claim Your Cash LA” pilot program to expand, improve, and build more durable collaboration between local government and nonprofit organizations to broaden benefits access more equitably.
LA Local News Initiative
LA Local News Initiative aims to ensure that all Los Angeles communities get the news and information they need. Its community centered approach will foster civic engagement; increase accountability from decision makers at every level; serve communities in LA that are traditionally not well-served by media and elevate their narratives; build trust between residents and unbiased news coverage; and lift up communities by sharing successes, arts, culture, and other things that accurately reflect the full spectrum of their lived experiences.
Lever for Change
Lever for Change connects donors with problem solvers to provide large-scale, long-term funding and accelerate social change. Lever for Change builds the knowledge base of the philanthropy sector by identifying and vetting outstanding yet under-recognized leaders and organizations, raising their visibility, offering them ongoing support, and increasing their funding opportunities to grow their impact.
Lighthouse MI
Lighthouse builds equitable communities and alleviates poverty in southeast Michigan, in partnership with and in service to residents, families, and local organizations. Lighthouse focuses on responding to the basic needs and establishing longer term stability for those experiencing poverty; improving the broader systems contributing to poverty; and engaging, educating, and empowering communities so that all have access to a better quality of life.
Maycomb Outcomes
Maycomb Outcomes provides flexible, impact-driven capital to expand high-quality human services in low-income communities. Our grant supports Maycomb’s Community Outcomes Fund, which builds public-private partnerships that align government spending with outcomes in communities and expands access to economic opportunity for those who have historically been left behind.
Michigan State University
The Michigan Political Leadership Program at Michigan State University is a bipartisan initiative aimed at identifying community leaders from across the state and uniting them to participate in a public policy and leadership curriculum. Our grant will support a comprehensive recruitment effort to bring new leaders into politics and establish a pipeline of skilled, knowledgeable leaders for Michigan’s communities.
New Profit
New Profit is a venture philanthropy organization with a 25-year track record of providing customized, relational capacity building support and resources for social impact leaders and their organizations. Our grant will support proof-of-concept through early-scale Black-led nonprofits.
Next100
Next100 is a startup think tank for and by a new generation of policy leaders. The organization develops and invests in leaders who are connected to impacted communities in order to drive urgently needed policy change and build a more inclusive democracy.
Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative
Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative (NSI) distributes targeted capacity-building funds to ensure that the nonprofit leaders in Los Angeles County have access to the right tools, processes, and expertise needed to adapt during transformative periods. NSI promotes sustained collaboration and executive transitions within the nonprofit sector, motivating leaders to engage in due diligence for strategic partnerships and planning transitions for greater impact and resilience.
Partnership for Public Service
Partnership for Public Service believes that our future and our democracy depend on the ability to solve big problems—and that an effective federal government is needed to do so. The organization provides resources and expertise that are focused on public-service leadership, federal talent, and society’s commitment to government.
Philanthropy Northwest
Philanthropy Northwest is dedicated to growing the capacity of philanthropy in the Northwest to redistribute resources and power to underinvested communities, fostering resilient, equitable, and inclusive communities through training, consultancy services, and advocacy. Our grant supports Philanthropy Northwest in strengthening relationships between funders and community-led organizations, advancing participatory grantmaking practices, and expanding funding access for historically marginalized communities.
PolicyLink
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity. It does this through advocacy, applied research and communications, constituency and network engagement, and implementation capacity efforts.
Pontiac Community Foundation
Pontiac Community Foundation connects residents, business owners, civic leaders, and nonprofit organizations together for one goal: building a brighter future for Pontiac, MI. Our grant helps Pontiac Community Foundation to expand Pontiac’s economic development work, strengthen its leadership, and build sources of sustainable funding.
Southern California Center for Nonprofit Management
Center for Nonprofit Management fosters thriving communities in Southern California by ensuring that nonprofit leaders and organizations have the knowledge, skills, and resources to fulfill their mission. Our support will launch new and strengthen existing engagement and collaborations between nonprofits and government, philanthropy, and economic leaders.
State of Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO)
Michigan’s Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity launched the Community & Worker Economic Transition Office (CWETO) in February 2024 to support the state’s workers, communities, and employers as they navigate the clean energy transition. Our grant will support CWETO’s foundational work in researching the magnitude and nature of the transition’s impact, building community coalitions to manage the transition, and developing scalable playbooks of transition strategies.
The Bridgespan Group
The Bridgespan Group works to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society’s most important challenges and opportunities. Our grant enables the Los Angeles expansion of two of its programs: Leading for Impact, a cohort-based experience for nonprofit executive teams; and Bridgespan Leadership Accelerator, a capacity-building program to help nonprofit leadership teams achieve their full potential.
The Seattle Foundation
Seattle Foundation is an agent of change, igniting powerful, rewarding philanthropy to make Greater Seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all. Our grant supports the organization’s pivot to a new business model.