About Aptiv Foundation
Aptiv Foundation concentrates its giving on youth STEM/robotics education and a small set of targeted environmental and humanitarian relief efforts. The foundation makes relatively large awards to a few national partners—most notably multiple, sizable gifts to FIRST-affiliated robotics programs—while also funding discrete environmental (tree-planting) and crisis-response initiatives such as Ukraine relief.
Focus Areas
K‑12 competitive robotics programs (FIRST FRC & FTC)STEM education scaling and access for youthReforestation/tree-planting projectsHumanitarian/crisis relief funding (e.g., Ukraine aid)
Who They Fund
K–12 students (including robotics team participants and underserved youth)college engineering students (women, Black, Hispanic engineering students and scholarship recipients)underrepresented groups in STEM (women, Black and Hispanic students, LGBT+ community)children in foster care and underprivileged children (backpack and essentials recipients)
About Aptiv Foundation
Aptiv Foundation Inc. has made FIRST robotics one of its defining funding priorities, including a $331,000 grant to First Robotics in 2023 and another $215,850 award in 2024. That pattern sits alongside a broader portfolio centered on youth STEM access, with grants supporting competitions, scholarships, and diversity-focused engineering programs at universities. The foundation’s recent record shows both large, recurring commitments and smaller targeted awards. In 2025, it gave $175,500 to First FRC and FTC in US for FIRST robotics support, and $75,000 to GreenLight Fund Detroit for socioeconomic initiatives in the Greater Detroit area. It also funds environmental and crisis-response work, including a $100,000 grant to One Tree Planted for tree donation and a $100,000 grant to Global Giving for Ukraine crisis relief. Across its recent grants, Aptiv Foundation Inc. combines national STEM sponsorships with place-based community investments and emergency assistance. Its giving includes university-based diversity and STEM support, local Detroit-focused partnerships, and international humanitarian responses through established intermediaries.
What Aptiv Foundation Funds
Youth robotics is the clearest theme in the recent grant list. Aptiv Foundation Inc. gave $67,450 to First Robotics of Michigan for robotics and S.T.E.M. in 2024, and $50,000 to First in Michigan for the First in Michigan State Championship in 2025. The foundation also supported college-level STEM pipeline work, including $65,000 to Purdue University for diversity and S.T.E.M. support in 2023 and $40,000 to North Carolina A&T University for diversity and S.T.E.M. support in 2023. Career development appears in a $75,000 grant to Nacme for a career fair, tech talks, hack-a-thon, and related activities in 2025. Environmental giving shows up in a $100,000 award to One Tree Planted for tree donation in 2024.
How Aptiv Foundation Gives
Typical grants are mid-sized, with a p25 of $5,000, median of $10,000, and p75 of $25,000. The recent list also includes a small number of much larger awards, especially in robotics and crisis response. Several grantees recur across multiple years, including First Robotics, GreenLight Fund Detroit, Purdue University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Global Giving, which points to repeat support rather than one-off gifts only. The foundation is an independent nonprofit foundation established in 1999. It funds individuals and accepts unsolicited requests through some grant programs.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$908K
Total Assets
$16.5M
Total Revenue
$752K
Total Expenses
$993K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $25K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Regional20 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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