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Top 25 Higher education foundations based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 522 higher education foundations headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 10,721 professional contacts across them, including 2,817 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers higher education foundations headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest higher education foundations based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sallie Mae’s mission is to power confidence as students begin their unique journey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 475 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 425 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UNCF (United Negro College Fund) is the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 339 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than $6 billion distributed to more than 3.5 million students since our founding, Scholarship America is the nation's largest scholarship administrator.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Corella & Bertram Bonner Foundation is a private philanthropic organization based in Princeton, NJ.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) is named for the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We prepare our students with the academic, financial, social and emotional support they need to be successful in life-beginning in middle school and continuing through high…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Degrees is the leading, equity-focused scholarship provider and college success nonprofit in California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Goal: To support students who demonstrate exceptional educational promise by offering them opportunities in education that they would otherwise not have due to finances.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “More than a scholarship.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “I Know I Can serves more than students from Columbus City Schools, Reynoldsburg City Schools, South-Western City School District and Whitehall City Schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Big Shoulders Fund is an independent charitable organization that serves schools with demonstrated need, which provide a quality, values-based education for Chicago’s children…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Chatfield Edge is a nonprofit offering support to first-generation and non-traditional students as they gain success in life through education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation based in Indianapolis, Ind, that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Denver Scholarship Foundation empowers DPS students to achieve their post-secondary education goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Jackie Robinson Foundation has advanced the ideals of equity and opportunity by leveling the playing field in higher education and the workplace for 47 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Student Assistance Foundation (SAF), our mission is to provide students with the knowledge and tools to pursue and fund their postsecondary education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “uAspire is a national nonprofit that improves the economic mobility of underrepresented students by creating financial solutions to diverse postsecondary pathways.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Brazos Higher Education, we’re more than just a student loan company, we’re a team dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 2001, the Niswonger Foundation has a mission “To create opportunities for individual and community growth through education and other sustainable projects.” The…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “APIA Scholars is the nation’s leading non-profit organization devoted to the academic, personal, and professional success of our Scholars, with a focus on those who are most in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Gates Millennium Scholars Program (GMS), established in was initially funded by a $1 billion grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YPIE creates pathways to college and career success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “College Access: Research & Action (CARA) ensures that first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color have the knowledge and support necessary to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Say Yes Cleveland partners with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and select charter schools to create a clear path to success for every Cleveland student.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: higher education foundations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names higher education foundations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of higher education foundations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name higher education foundations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Higher education foundations based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 522 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among higher education foundations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “higher education foundations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names higher education foundations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among higher education foundations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,817 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names higher education foundations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many higher education foundations are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 522 higher education foundations headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Sallie MAE, headquartered in Newark, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most higher education foundations?
New York leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Washington (18) and Chicago (16).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,817 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 522 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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