In response to recent government funding cuts affecting schools, educational programs, and universities both in the U.S. and globally, a growing number of donors are stepping in to bridge the gap.

Today we share 5 new funding commitments added to our ImpactMapper 2025 Funding Database, a mapping project on how philanthropies and other donors and investors are meeting this moment:

1. Trevor Noah Foundation established the Khulani Nathi Innovation Fund to Strengthen South Africa’s Education Ecosystem, committing to R30 million ($1.75 million) in three years to support established organizations in testing promising approaches, building evidence for their effectiveness, and contributing to a more substantial education ecosystem in South Africa. https://trevornoahfoundation.org/trevor-noah-foundation-establishes-khulani-nathi-innovation-fund-to-strengthen-south-africas-education-ecosystem/

2. MIT Solve opened call for 2025 Global Learning Challenge, which seeks exceptional solutions that leverage technology to improve learning outcomes for all, including education, education in emergency and conflict-affected areas to AI literacy. Each Solver team receives $10,000 in unrestricted funding from Solve and access to additional financing in the form of grants and investments, this includes access to a pool of +$1.5M in prize. https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-solve-announces-2025-global-challenges-0403

3. Enterprise Mobility commits $200 million to community development in support of food security and social equity through its Fill Your Tank program and  ROAD Forward initiative. https://www.enterprisemobility.com/en/news-stories/news-stories-archive/2025/03/enterprise-mobility-bolsters-community-support-with-200m-commitment.html

4. Spencer Foundation recently announced a partnership with the Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program to provide quick turnaround grants of up to $25,000 for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF). https://www.spencer.org/news/meeting-the-moment-together

‍5. Camelback Ventures is committed to empowering entrepreneurs to create impactful solutions that address systemic inequities in Education and Conscious Technology. They offer a rigorous accelerator, the Camelback Fellowship, for innovative and driven entrepreneurs. https://www.camelbackventures.org/fellowship/

Want to follow new funding opportunities? Subscribe to receive free access to our 2025 Funding Database listing 170+ new funding commitments. We have created a detailed taxonomy to make the database more searchable according to users's needs, including fields such as issues funded, regions, type of fund, type of funder, if funds are open to the public or only for current grantees, etc. Our team wanted to help support the social impact and philanthropic and nonprofit sectors at this moment and figured we could use our research and taxonomy creation and coding skills (some of the things we do best at ImpactMapper) to prepare a database on funding commitments and share collated information back to the sector!

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We will continue to add to the database this year, so feel free to share other commitments that you see as well by filling this short form and we will update the list regularly.

We will also be writing shorter blogs over the next months, showcasing some of the philanthropic strategies used at this time, including leveraging endowments, DAF funding campaigns, rapid response funding, etc.

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