
To empower youth through hands-on technology education, making, and career pathways so they can shape their futures and strengthen their communities.
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.
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.
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Recent awards range widely in size, from $20,000 to $4,550,250, with a median grant of $250,000 and a 75th percentile of $300,000. The largest 2025 awards are clearly concentrated at the top end, while many grants cluster around the $250,000 level. The grant list reflects a program-support style of giving. Nearly every listed award is marked “PROGRAM SUPPORT,” and the same organization name does not recur across the recent-grants table, which points to a largely one-time, non-recurring pattern in the available data. Digital Harbor Foundation is a Public Charity and is classified as a Regular Funder. The available site references RFPs and grant opportunities, but the scraped content does not show an open unsolicited-application process.
All grants in the recent sample go to U.S. recipients. The strongest city cluster is Washington, DC, with multiple grants across different organizations, followed by New York, NY, and Baltimore, MD. Other recipient locations include Oakland, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; and San Francisco, CA. The grant geography is national rather than Maryland-only: 0% of grants are listed as going to recipients in the HQ state of Maryland. The active program pages also reference Baltimore and Maryland for community and scholarship-related funding, while the NSF-funded tech-hub project includes Baltimore and Pittsburgh.
The foundation’s named focus areas include youth development, STEM/STEAM education, digital literacy, makerspaces, career pathways, and workforce readiness. Its active programs also reference youth education, digital skills, maker education, community technology, research and learning, and community programs.
In the recent-grants table, awards range from $20,000 to $4,550,250. The median is $250,000 and the 75th percentile is $300,000, which shows a strong concentration around quarter-million-dollar grants.
The site references grant opportunities and RFPs, but the scraped content does not show a public unsolicited-application path. The active program entries for grant opportunities, community grants, scholarships, and RFPs are described without application details.
The recent-grants list shows U.S. recipients only. Washington, DC, New York, NY, Baltimore, MD, Oakland, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA appear among recipient locations, and the grant geography is not limited to Maryland.
The recent-grants table is dominated by program support awards, and each listed recipient appears once in the provided sample. That points to a one-time pattern in the available data rather than repeated grants to the same organization.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RENAISSANCE PHILANTHROPY FUND | WASHINGTON, DC | $4,550,250 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| TATTA BIO | TIBURON, CA | $1,773,310 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| AMPLE CARBON PBC | PIEDMONT, CA | $1,342,400 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| US DIGITAL RESPONSE GRANTS MODERNIZATION | OAKLAND, CA | $750,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| THE LEARNING AGENCY LLC | WASHINGTON, DC | $525,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| TALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES | NEW YORK, NY | $300,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT | NEW YORK, NY | $300,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| AMEELIO INC | NEW YORK, NY | $250,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION | WASHINGTON, DC | $250,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| DATAKIND INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $250,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| ACUMEN AMERICA LLC | NEW YORK, NY | $250,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | ANN ARBOR, MI | $250,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | CHICAGO, IL | $250,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION | NEW YORK, NY | $200,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| PLYMOUTH STREET | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $200,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| CENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC | HARTLAND, VT | $200,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE | BOSTON, MA | $200,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| CULTURAL VISTA INC | WASHINGTON, DC | $198,978 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| VEDIAN COLLEGE | BALTIMORE, MD | $160,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| PATH IMMIGRATION INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $150,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| INNOVATION LAW LAB | PORTLAND, OR | $140,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | CAMBRIDGE, MA | $75,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | WASHINGTON, DC | $58,013 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY | ORLANDO, FL | $50,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| GLOBAL DETROIT | DETROIT, MI | $50,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| CITY OF PITTSBURGH PARKS & RECREATION | PITTSBURGH, PA | $37,068 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| VISION SENSE ANALYTICS LLC | HARVARD, MA | $30,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC | WASHINGTON, DC | $30,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| THE ROOTS OF PROGRESS | BEAVERTON, OR | $25,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| MN ASSOCIATES INC | FAIRFAX, VA | $20,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| LINCOLN NETWORK DBA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | $10,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| CLIMATE TECH LLC | RANDOLPH, NJ | $6,000 | 2025 | PROGRAM SUPPORT |
RENAISSANCE PHILANTHROPY FUND
$4,550,250PROGRAM SUPPORT
TATTA BIO
$1,773,310PROGRAM SUPPORT
AMPLE CARBON PBC
$1,342,400PROGRAM SUPPORT
US DIGITAL RESPONSE GRANTS MODERNIZATION
$750,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
THE LEARNING AGENCY LLC
$525,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
TALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES
$300,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT
PROGRAM SUPPORT
AMEELIO INC
$250,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION
$250,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
DATAKIND INC
$250,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
ACUMEN AMERICA LLC
$250,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
$250,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
$250,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION
$200,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
PLYMOUTH STREET
$200,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
CENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC
$200,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE
$200,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
CULTURAL VISTA INC
$198,978PROGRAM SUPPORT
VEDIAN COLLEGE
$160,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
PATH IMMIGRATION INC
$150,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
INNOVATION LAW LAB
$140,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
$75,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE
$58,013PROGRAM SUPPORT
THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY
$50,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
GLOBAL DETROIT
$50,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
CITY OF PITTSBURGH PARKS & RECREATION
$37,068PROGRAM SUPPORT
VISION SENSE ANALYTICS LLC
$30,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC
$30,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
THE ROOTS OF PROGRESS
$25,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
MN ASSOCIATES INC
$20,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
LINCOLN NETWORK DBA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION
$10,000PROGRAM SUPPORT
CLIMATE TECH LLC
$6,000PROGRAM SUPPORT