Educational Foundation of America C/O Intentional Philanthropy

About Educational Foundation of America C/O Intentional Philanthropy

Three hundred thousand dollars to Clean Energy Works for strategic support for the Rural Power Coalition, including Alaska, captures a lot about The Educational Foundation of America C/o Intentional Philanthropy: it backs advocacy, field-building, and place-based work rather than narrow project funding. Across arts, environment, democracy, and reproductive health & justice, the foundation funds nonprofits working in under-resourced regions and on policy-linked change. Recent grants also show support for creative placemaking in Central Appalachia and the Black Belt, including $350,000 to the Shreveport Regional Arts Council for Tooling the Shreveport Common Makerspace and $300,000 to Coalfield Development for a black box theater build-out in Huntington, West Virginia. The portfolio includes general operating support, campaign support, fellowships, and capacity building, which suggests a funder comfortable with organizational infrastructure as well as program delivery. Its work also reaches reproductive health access, clean-energy transition, and civic engagement, with awards tied to technical assistance, legal fellowship placements, and organizer support. The overall pattern points to a national funder using targeted grants to support community-led change in specific regions and issue areas.

What Educational Foundation of America C/O Intentional Philanthropy Funds

In arts and culture, the foundation has consistently supported creative placemaking and cultural infrastructure in Central Appalachia and the Alabama Black Belt. Examples include $250,000 to Black Belt Community Foundation for Lighting Selma: Illuminating a Historic Icon and $175,000 to William King Museum of Art for ArtLab and Sculpture Trail/Exhibition of Appalachian Artists. It also backs arts organizations doing community development work, such as $160,000 to Artsrevive Community Development Corporation for general operating support. On the environmental side, the foundation funds clean-energy and climate transition work, including $175,000 to Environmental Defense Fund for EDF North Carolina: Moving from Climate Commitments to Clean Power and $175,000 to Clean Energy Buyers Institute for Advancing a Net-Zero Grid in the West. Reproductive health & justice is another visible area, with grants such as $200,000 to Power to Decide for All Access Eastern Kentucky.

How Educational Foundation of America C/O Intentional Philanthropy Gives