About Imaginable Futures Foundation
We support organizations and their collaborative efforts to build and strengthen equity in education, enabling all learners to thrive.
Focus Areas
Education equityEarly childhood educationPostsecondary success for parenting studentsLocally led research and evidenceAdvocacy and policy changeSystems & impact learningCollaborative funding and partnerships
Who They Fund
student parents / parenting college studentsyoung children (early childhood) and caregivers/familiescommunity-based organizations (including groups in Southern Kenya)racial/ethnic minority students and Black-led initiatives
About Imaginable Futures Foundation
Imaginable Futures Foundation’s grantmaking shows a strong commitment to early childhood, with repeated seven-figure support for organizations working on child care, early learning, and family-centered education. Across the recent grant list, the foundation backs both national intermediaries and place-based organizations, pairing general operating support with project support and research funding. It has also sustained student-parent work over multiple years, including a three-year series of grants to The Aspen Institute’s Ascend Program for its Postsecondary Success for Parents Initiative. The foundation has made large operating grants to All Our Kin Inc. and to the National Black Child Development Institute Inc., while also funding organizations such as Alliance for Early Success, Generation Hope, and The Education Trust Inc. Its portfolio includes education equity work, child care access and quality, early childhood systems, and postsecondary success for parenting students. The recent grants also show support for income security for families, locally led research and evidence, and advocacy and policy change. Imaginable Futures Foundation’s stated orientation is to support organizations and their collaborative efforts to build and strengthen equity in education so learners can thrive. The grant list reflects that approach through multi-year support, general support, and project grants to both field-building and direct-service organizations.
What Imaginable Futures Foundation Funds
In early childhood education, the foundation gave $1,500,000 to Alliance for Early Success to support early childhood education and $750,000 to the same grantee for the Child Care NEXT Initiative. It also funded child care work through $1,200,000 to Third Sector New England Inc for community-based groups focused on child care. For postsecondary success for student parents, Imaginable Futures Foundation made repeated grants to The Aspen Institute Inc for the Ascend Program’s Postsecondary Success for Parents Initiative: $1,166,667 in 2025, $1,166,667 in 2024, and $1,166,666 in 2023. Related support includes $850,000 to Generation Hope in both 2024 and 2025, plus $800,000 to New America Foundation in 2024 to support higher education for student parents. The foundation also funds research and evidence work. In 2025, it gave $750,000 to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support education research, and in 2024 it gave $1,050,000 to The Education Trust Inc for student parent policy implementation and research in Texas.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$22M
Total Assets
$52.2M
Total Revenue
$25.6M
Total Expenses
$22.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $116K and $475K, with a median of $225K.
25th Percentile
$116K
Median
$225K
75th Percentile
$475K
Geographic Reach
National21 states funded
About 10% of grants go to recipients in DC.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Imaginable Futures Foundation Funds
Top 6 recipient countries by grant volume for Imaginable Futures Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 158 | $60.5M | 59.9% |
| 2 | Brazil |
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