Digital Harbor Foundation

About Digital Harbor Foundation

Digital Harbor Foundation’s grantmaking is anchored by program support for organizations working on immigration, workforce, data, and civic systems, with a 2025 portfolio that includes a $4,550,250 grant to Renaissance Philanthropy Fund and a $1,773,310 grant to Tatta Bio. The foundation also supports applied problem-solving at scale, including $1,342,400 to Ample Carbon Pbc and $750,000 to US Digital Response Grants Modernization. The foundation’s stated mission centers on empowering youth through hands-on technology education, making, and career pathways, and its active programs point to that same technology-and-learning orientation. It has a Public Benefit Innovation Fund, and its site also references grant opportunities, community grants, scholarships, and RFPs tied to youth education, digital skills, maker education, and community programs. Recent grants show a broad program-support approach rather than a narrow set of one-off awards. In 2025, Digital Harbor Foundation funded universities, research and policy groups, and service organizations, including New America Foundation, Datakind Inc, and University of Chicago. The portfolio suggests a funder that uses grant dollars to back organizations building infrastructure, knowledge, and services across multiple public-interest fields.

What Digital Harbor Foundation Funds

Several active funding areas connect back to youth learning and technology. The foundation’s grant opportunities and community grants are described around youth education, digital skills, maker education, and community technology, with Baltimore listed in the geography for those programs. Scholarships are also part of the site’s offerings, tied to youth participation in Digital Harbor Foundation programs. Its external grantmaking extends into research and learning. A $100,001 grant from the Gates Foundation was awarded to Digital Harbor Foundation in October 2025 for a six-month period focused on research and learning opportunities. Another major award, a $1.5 million NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning grant, supports creating computer science and tech hubs at recreation centers in Baltimore and Pittsburgh. The project also includes training for recreation center staff and toolkit development. Program support in 2025 also reached organizations working on immigration and mobility, such as Talent Beyond Boundaries and Path Immigration Inc, showing that the foundation supports practical initiatives beyond education alone.

How Digital Harbor Foundation Gives