School Readiness
Create strong foundations for early learning.
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Our Focus Areas
We partner with education organizations dedicated to accelerating student outcomes across three areas.
School Readiness
Ensure more children enter kindergarten ready to thrive, setting the trajectory for their futures.
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School Success
Increase the number of kindergarten through eighth grade students demonstrating meaningful growth and proficiency in literacy and math.
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Future Readiness
Help students develop the cognitive skills, meaningful connections, and sense of agency needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
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Our Grantees
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Description
Grant Amount
Grant Period
Focus Area
Organization
RANDDescription
To fund a RCT evaluating the impact of the Museum of Science’s YES curriculum on elementary students’ future-ready skills and STEM-related outcomes in out-of-school settings, while developing AI-based measures of problem solving and presistence.Grant Amount
$900,000Grant Period
August 1, 2026 -December 31, 2028
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Reach Out and ReadDescription
To deepen implementation quality across Reach Out and Read’s network of 41,000 clinicians.Grant Amount
$1,000,000Grant Period
June 1, 2026 -May 31, 2027
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
Reach Out and ReadDescription
To fund a quasi-experimental study estimating the impact of Reach Out and Read on caregiver-pediatric relationship quality and patient satisfaction with pediatric care.Grant Amount
$832,500Grant Period
September 1, 2024 -August 31, 2027
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Reach Out and ReadDescription
To increase ROR's reach while deepening impact, improving infrastructure, and building capacity for growth.Grant Amount
$3,100,000Grant Period
October 1, 2022 -September 30, 2025
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
Renaissance PhilanthropyDescription
To launch the AI Talent Accelerator pilot to increase technical capacity of ~10 non-profit education organizations.Grant Amount
$450,000Grant Period
October 31, 2025 -April 29, 2027
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Renaissance PhilanthropyDescription
To scope the BEACON (Benchmarking Academic Orientation and Navigation) project to create benchmark datasets that help students and teachers navigate learning.Grant Amount
$150,000Grant Period
September 1, 2025 -February 28, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Renaissance PhilanthropyDescription
To support the development of a fact base and operational plan for a new AI talent solution.Grant Amount
$50,000Grant Period
June 1, 2025 -May 31, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Research & Development Council of New JerseyDescription
To provide targeted technical assistance STEM ecosystems in New Jersey to increase impact on student learning and to expand the ecosystem network to nine, strengthening the private-public STEM partnerships across the state.Grant Amount
$250,000Grant Period
November 1, 2025 -October 31, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Research & Development Council of New JerseyDescription
To provide targeted technical assistance STEM ecosystems in New Jersey to increase impact on student learning and to expand the ecosystem network to nine, strengthening the private-public STEM partnerships across the state.Grant Amount
$250,000Grant Period
November 1, 2024 -October 31, 2025
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Research & Development Council of New JerseyDescription
To provide targeted technical assistance STEM ecosystems in New Jersey to increase impact on student learning and to expand the ecosystem network to nine, strengthening the private-public STEM partnerships across the state.Grant Amount
$230,000Grant Period
November 1, 2023 -October 31, 2024
Focus Area
OtherDescription
To advance actionable research on AI-enabled professional learning and strengthen the research-to-practice ecosystem to deploy effective practices at scale.Grant Amount
$2,030,000Grant Period
August 1, 2025 -July 31, 2028
Focus Area
OtherDescription
To advance actionable research on AI-enabled professional learning and strengthen the research-to-practice ecosystem to deploy effective practices at scale.Grant Amount
$1,000,000Grant Period
August 1, 2025 -July 31, 2028
Focus Area
School SuccessDescription
To fund three studies testing genAI tools for strengthening teacher professional learning as part of RPPL’s community of practice.Grant Amount
$900,000Grant Period
June 1, 2024 -July 31, 2027
Focus Area
OtherDescription
To support the research activities related to multi-site, multi-partner anchor study of curriculum-based professional learning.Grant Amount
$750,000Grant Period
July 1, 2022 -June 30, 2025
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
Robin HoodDescription
To support the 2025 Robin Hood Summit: Opportunity x AI conference.Grant Amount
$250,000Grant Period
May 1, 2025 -April 30, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Robin HoodDescription
To support Robin Hood Learning & Technology Fund to build supply and demand for effective, tech-enabled blended literacy models in NYC.Grant Amount
$5,000,000Grant Period
May 1, 2024 -April 30, 2027
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
Robin HoodDescription
To support FUEL to continue systems-change grantmaking and launch new partnerships with New York City agencies.Grant Amount
$5,070,000Grant Period
June 1, 2022 -May 31, 2027
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
Robin HoodDescription
To provide core support for the Learning + Technology Fund.Grant Amount
$5,000,000Grant Period
November 1, 2021 -October 31, 2024
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
SAGA Innovations/Saga EducationDescription
To support Saga to use AI in order to make tutor training and coaching more cost effective to scale.Grant Amount
$3,250,000Grant Period
September 1, 2024 -August 31, 2027
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
SAGA Innovations/Saga EducationDescription
To improve Saga’s tech-supported math tutoring model through continued validation, innovation, and scale.Grant Amount
$6,000,000Grant Period
September 1, 2021 -August 31, 2024
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
Science BuddiesDescription
To deepen evidence of impact and improve financial sustainability of Science Buddies.Grant Amount
$600,000Grant Period
November 1, 2023 -October 31, 2025
Focus Area
Future ReadinessOrganization
Southern Education FoundationDescription
To conduct research, develop tools, and provide technical assistance to support the scale of high quality outcomes-based contracting.Grant Amount
$1,150,000Grant Period
July 1, 2025 -June 30, 2027
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
Southern Education FoundationDescription
To evaluate the impact of outcomes-based contracting on student outcomes and district spending, as well as scale outcomes-based contracting through the development of new tools.Grant Amount
$300,000Grant Period
July 1, 2024 -June 30, 2025
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
Springboard CollaborativeDescription
To support Springboard Collaborative to scale its family-centered literacy programming by strengthening district sales, validating impact, and piloting new content and delivery formats.Grant Amount
$4,000,000Grant Period
October 1, 2025 -September 30, 2027
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
Springboard CollaborativeDescription
To scale Springboard Collaborative programming (Flagship and SLA) while reducing the cost to deliver SLA without sacrificing impact.Grant Amount
$7,000,000Grant Period
November 1, 2022 -October 31, 2025
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
SRI InternationalDescription
To estimate the impact of standard Lyla in the Loop viewing on children’s computational thinking and disseminate findings to benefit OFF direct impact grantee.Grant Amount
$300,000Grant Period
October 31, 2025 -October 30, 2026
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
SRI InternationalDescription
To fund an RCT evaluating the impact of LENA Grow professional development program on Pre-K classroom quality and children’s language and literacy development.Grant Amount
$1,250,000Grant Period
June 1, 2026 -May 31, 2028
Focus Area
OtherOrganization
Stanford ROAR (Rapid Online Reading Assessment)Description
To scale ROAR’s fast, low-cost, and instructionally useful K–12 reading diagnostic tool.Grant Amount
$125,000Grant Period
September 1, 2025 -August 31, 2026
Focus Area
School SuccessOrganization
Stanford UniversityDescription
To develop the first national Kindergarten Readiness Assessment database.Grant Amount
$250,000Grant Period
December 1, 2025 -November 30, 2026
Focus Area
School ReadinessOrganization
Stanford UniversityDescription
To test the impact of PBS SoCal’s Family Math program on caregivers’ and children’s math attitudes and skills.Grant Amount
$240,362Grant Period
September 1, 2025 -August 31, 2026
Focus Area
Future Readiness