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Who funds workforce development programs in California? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 52 grants totaling $15.1 million went to workforce development programs-related work in California. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of workforce development programs in California, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION1$3.0 million
MICHELSON MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC1$2.7 million
FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY8$2.0 million
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC1$1.7 million
BUILDING DECARBONIZATION COALITION1$1.4 million
BIOINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN1$1.2 million
CALIFORNIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION1$794,064
THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT4$700,000
SOLANO COUNTY PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC2$269,725
EVELYN AND WALTER HAAS JR FUND1$215,000

Across all funders: 52 grants, $15.1 million total, median grant $50,000.

Largest recipients in California

RecipientGrantsTotal
GRID ALTERNATIVES3$4.8 million
THE MICHELSON 20MM FOUNDATION INC1$2.7 million
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION1$1.4 million
THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UC DAVIS1$1.2 million
JEWISH VOCATIONAL AND CAREER COUNSELING SERVICE1$794,064
RIVERSIDE COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DIVISION2$543,702
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF VENTURA COUNTY2$525,990
STANISLAUS COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT1$489,776
FRESNO BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES1$400,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD1$392,067

Open federal opportunities addressing workforce development programs (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in California can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "workforce development"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: workforce, job training, apprenticeship, reentry.

NumberTitleAgencyAward rangeCloses
23-520Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraU.S. National Science Foundationunspecified to $1.0 million01/21/2027
USDA-NIFA-AFRI-011596Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Education anJoseph Perez Program Analyst$10,000 to $650,00012/31/2026
HQ003425NFOEASD03Department of War Cyber Service Academy (DoW CSA)Jonathan Bertsch Grantor$50,000 to $20.0 million01/22/2030
PAR-24-235Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (TNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/25/2027
PAR-24-236Tribal Undergraduate to Graduate Research Training and Leadership Experiences (TNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/25/2027
24-598Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1U.S. National Science Foundation$4.0 million to $20.0 million02/08/2027
HQ003423NFOEASD01NDEP STEM Open NFOJonathan Bertsch Grantor$100,000 to $10.0 million02/08/2028
24-529Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) ProgramU.S. National Science Foundation$300,000 to $1.0 million03/25/2027

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 874 listings mentioning "workforce development programs" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

Grant Graph is an independent, free index built from public data: IRS Form 990 series e-file releases and the grants.gov API. It is not affiliated with grants.gov or any federal agency. Every figure above is reproducible from the cited public sources.