Please note that the Braitmayer Foundation launched a new grants program in 2024 (see Guidelines page for details). Grants made prior to 2024 do not reflect the Foundation’s current guidelines. In 2024, the following organizations received grants:

826 Boston

$35,000 to support the 826 Boston’s Writers’ Room at Boston International Newcomers Academy (BINcA) as it oversees key writing and publishing projects for immigrant students and English Language Learners, grades 9-12, during the 2024-2025 school year.

Apprentice Learning

$50,000 to support a 12-week apprenticeship program for 8th graders at various schools, including a six-week on site apprenticeship.

Gnome Surf

$35,000 to support a program that integrates surf therapy principles into educational K-12 settings to address the social-emotional and mental health needs of marginalized youth, including a customized surf wellness curriculum, meditation, and art therapy.

Grow Portland

$45,000 to support the Garden School, which provides experiential science learning and activities in a school garden while students eat fresh food and connect to nature.

Seattle University

$44,832 to support professional development and coaching for teachers to design and implement culturally relevant, linguistically sustaining Project-Based Learning.

Speak With Purpose

$37,316 to support a 36-week public speaking program for 4th-8th graders at two schools.

The PSU Foundation

$35,000 to support Oregon MESA, a comprehensive STEM program for elementary, middle, and high school students that includes mentorship, family involvement and advocacy, college/career field trips, and team-based invention/engineering design competitions.

In 2021, the following organizations received grants:

Northern Arizona University

$35,000 to fund Northern Arizona University to co-design and pilot a new robotics curriculum in partnership with a Navajo Nation (Diné) school community. The project will increase interest in STEM teaching and learning by creating greater teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction, ultimately resulting in teacher retention for rural and diverse communities of northern Arizona.

KVC Behavioral Healthcare

$35,000 to fund KVC Behavioral Healthcare West Virginia (KVC) and First Star to provide immersive, specialized academic, college prep and opioid and drug education programming and mentorship to high school youth in foster care, with the goal to offer these at-risk students a pathway to higher education and better opportunities to contribute to the success of their communities.

Change is Simple

$35,000 to fund Change is Simple (CiS) to build capacity for the creation of a professional development program, allowing teachers across the country to implement our innovative framework for climate and sustainability education.

Shorewood School District

$32,500 to fund Shorewood School District to build authentic learning experiences for high school students through a Design Thinking Fellows Program for Shorewood teachers in partnership with the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM). The program helps teachers redesign curricula and change their approaches to instruction.

CSU Fullerton Auxiliary

$35,000 to fund CSU Fullerton for their Titan Future Teachers program designed to engage students as early as their first year at CSUF. Once identified and connected to resources for future teachers, these undergraduates share the urgent need for 1) more direct access to pertinent information about teaching pathways and requirements to becoming a teacher in California and 2) robust engagement with a community of future teacher peers in order to be successful and persist through a teacher preparation program and subsequently into the teaching profession.

While the Braitmayer Foundation does not typically make general operating grants, due to challenges faced by the non-profit community related to COVID the following organizations received general operating funds:

ImmSchools  – $35,000

North Carolina Museum – $35,000

DC Language Immersion Project  – $33,959

Eastern Michigan University – $17,500