Illinois · Public charity
I Car Education Foundation
The I-car education foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting collision repair educational programs, schools, and students to create qualified, entry-level employees and connect them with an array of career opportunities.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 72
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $620k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $57,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 148
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 30
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations I Car Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 70 | $620k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $143k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 105 | $667k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $390k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $321k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $267k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 148 | $468k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair | $117,802 | 2 | 0% |
| Gwinnett County Schools | $68,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Etowah High School | $67,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Kennedy King College | $67,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Golden High School | $65,000 | 9 | n/a |
| North Georgia Technical College | $57,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Erie 2 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Boces Loguidice Center | $48,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Stanly Community College | $45,468 | 9 | n/a |
| Thornton Fractional Center for Science and Technology | $45,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School District | $42,500 | 8 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair | $117,802 | 2 | 0% |
| Gwinnett County Schools | $68,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Etowah High School | $67,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Kennedy King College | $67,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Golden High School | $65,000 | 9 | n/a |
| North Georgia Technical College | $57,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Erie 2 Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Boces Loguidice Center | $48,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Stanly Community College | $45,468 | 9 | n/a |
| Thornton Fractional Center for Science and Technology | $45,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School District | $42,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Western Maricopa Education Center | $39,493 | 9 | n/a |
| Thaddeus Stevens College of Tech | $39,186 | 9 | n/a |
| Athens Technical College | $38,500 | 9 | n/a |
| School Board of Broward County Flplantation Middle School | $35,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Paulding County High School | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Assabet Valley Regional Vocational School District | $35,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Contra Costa College Foundation | $34,529 | 9 | 1% |
| New York Automotive & Diesel Institute | $32,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $31,944 | 9 | n/a |
| Chippewa Valley Technical College | $31,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools | $30,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Chattahoochee Technical College | $29,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Oxford Hills Technical School | $28,982 | 9 | n/a |
| Aims Community College Foundation | $28,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lorenzo Walker Technical College | $28,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Tennessee College of Applied Technology- Morristown | $27,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Lanier Technical College | $26,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas Southmost College District | $25,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Public Schools | $25,000 | 9 | n/a |
| East Valley Institute of Technology | $24,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Gateway Community College - Central City Campus | $24,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Dauphin County Technical School | $24,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Tennessee College of Applied Technology at Knoxville | $23,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Ehove Career Center | $23,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Judson Isd | $23,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Norwalk High School Atheltic Booste | $22,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Frederick County Public Schools | $22,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Cumberland County Schools | $22,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Lex La-Ray Area Technical Center | $22,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Rosedale Technical College | $21,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Iredell Statesville Schools | $20,999 | 9 | n/a |
| State University of New York at Binghamton | $20,970 | 9 | n/a |
| Livermore High School | $20,000 | 5 | n/a |
| North Arkansas College | $20,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Bay Path Regional Vocational Hs | $20,000 | 9 | n/a |
| New England Institute of Technology | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Palm Springs Middle School | $19,982 | 5 | n/a |
| Lebanon County Career Ctr | $19,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Rolla Public Schools | $19,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Miami Valley Career Technology Center | $19,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Morrison R Waite High School Alumni Association Inc | $19,486 | 9 | 5% |
| Tidewater Community College | $19,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Central Montco Technical High School | $18,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Ypsilanti Community Schools | $18,000 | 7 | n/a |
| North Idaho College | $17,978 | 9 | n/a |
| Msd of Warren Township | $17,499 | 9 | n/a |
| Wcbe | $17,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Hawkeye Community College | $17,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Greene Technology Center | $16,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Forbes Road Career and Technology Center | $16,100 | 9 | n/a |
| Berks Career and Tech Center | $16,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Ndscs | $16,000 | 8 | n/a |
| South Tech Ed Center | $16,000 | 7 | n/a |
| El Camino Community College | $15,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Alamo Colleges District | $15,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Duncanville Independent School District | $15,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Northwest Louisiana Technical College | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The School Board of Broward County | $15,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Career Center of Southern Illinois | $14,993 | 4 | n/a |
| Humble ISD | $14,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Gst Boces | $14,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Ogden High School | $13,980 | 7 | n/a |
| Jc Public Schools | $13,300 | 9 | n/a |
| Eden Area Rop | $13,000 | 6 | n/a |
| South Plains College | $13,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Freedom Area School District | $13,000 | 9 | n/a |
| College of Lake County | $12,531 | 9 | n/a |
| Loudoun County Public Schools | $12,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Fauquier County Public Schools | $12,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Valley Park School District | $12,300 | 6 | n/a |
| City of St Charles School District | $12,300 | 9 | n/a |
| Cattaraugus Allegany Boces Ctr at Ellicottville | $12,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Central Piedmont Community College | $12,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Eastern Center for Arts & Technology | $11,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Chattanooga State Community College | $11,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Boise Independent Schools | $11,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Etowah County Career Technical Center | $11,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Texas State Technical College | $10,999 | 9 | n/a |
| New Albany Floyd County School Corp | $10,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Community College | $10,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Ivy Tech Community College of In | $10,200 | 6 | n/a |
| Bridgerland Technical College | $10,097 | 8 | n/a |
| Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology | $10,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Lockhart Independent School District | $10,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Elizabeth High | $10,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lincoln College of Tech | $10,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Jonesboro Public Schools - 2506 Southwest Circle Jonesboro Ar 72401 | $10,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Holmes County Consolidated School District | $10,000 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Rhode Island | $10,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Career Institute of Technology | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Collin County Community | $10,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Grossmont Union High School District | $9,996 | 3 | n/a |
| Washtenaw Community College | $9,906 | 2 | n/a |
| Kern High School District | $9,845 | 1 | n/a |
| Fayetteville Technical Community College | $9,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Wenatchee School District | $9,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Alvin High School Athletic Dept | $8,998 | 8 | n/a |
| Area 30 Career Center | $8,841 | 9 | n/a |
| Northern Westmoreland Career and Technology Center | $8,700 | 7 | n/a |
| Rd Anderson Applied Technology Center | $8,142 | 4 | n/a |
| Hudson Valley Community College Foundation | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Coastal Carolina Community College Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Msu Billings | $8,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Fox Valley Technical College | $8,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Dos Palos High School | $7,901 | 5 | n/a |
| Tulsa Technology Center | $7,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Reeds Spring School District | $7,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Camdenton R-Iii School Distrt | $7,300 | 8 | n/a |
| Mercer Co Bd of Education | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Tarrant County College District | $7,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Pennsylvania College of Technology | $6,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Kootenai Technical Education Campus | $6,476 | 4 | n/a |
| Seward County Community College | $6,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Ktwu | $6,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Laramie County Community College | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Allegheny Intermediate Unit | $6,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Lewis-Clark State College | $6,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Pathfinder Regional Voc & Tech Hs | $6,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Dmacc | $6,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Southeast Community College | $6,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Perryville Area Career Center | $6,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Sandhills Community College | $6,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical School District | $5,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Central Nine Career Center | $5,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Southeastern Community College | $5,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Region Two School of Applied Technology | $5,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Anne Arundel County Public School | $5,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Grand Prairie Independent School District | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Saginaw Public Schools | $5,000 | 6 | n/a |
| UAW- Labor Employment and Training Corp | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| School District 154 | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Cuesta College Foundation | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tcat Murfreesboro | $5,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Wilkes Community College | $5,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center | $5,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Baton Rouge Community College | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Public Schools | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Salem County Career and Technical Hs | $5,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Roper Mountain Science Center | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Rio Grande City High School | $5,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Vail Unified School District #20 | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Sun Area Technical Institute | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Bismarck State College | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Southeastern Regional School District | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Sunnyside Unified School District | $5,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Sno Isle Skills Center Foundation | $5,000 | 9 | 9% |
| Tumwater School District No33 | $5,000 | 9 | n/a |
| North Virginia Community College (Nova) | $5,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Wake Technical Community College | $5,000 | 4 | n/a |
| TCAT Elizabethton | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Carroll County Public Schools | $5,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Jackson-Madison County School System | $4,998 | 5 | n/a |
| Bergen County Academies | $4,998 | 7 | n/a |
| Calhoun County Career Technical Center | $4,983 | 4 | n/a |
| Oakland Schools | $4,955 | 3 | n/a |
| Bradley Central High School | $4,882 | 9 | n/a |
| Greene County Career Center | $4,720 | 8 | n/a |
| The Delaware County Education Foundation | $4,618 | 7 | 0% |
| Gtc- Public Institution of Higher | $4,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Lake Technical College Inc | $4,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Reading Muhlenberg Career and Technology Center | $3,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Hillsborough Community College | $3,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Elkins High School | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Fayette County Public Schools | $3,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Region 8 Mid-Coast School of Technology | $3,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Community College of Aurora | $3,000 | 9 | n/a |
| State of Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Contro | $3,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Tazewell County Public Schools | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ranken Technical College | $2,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Seminole County Public Schools | $2,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Support Programs | $2,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Kent Intermediate School District | $2,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Germantown School District | $2,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Los Rios Community College District | $2,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Livingston | $2,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Union County School District | $1,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Great Oaks Inst Hlth Prof Acad | $1,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Western Area Career & Technology Ce | $1,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Bellingham Technical College | $1,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Northern Neck Technical Center | $1,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Beaufort Jasper Academy | $1,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools | $1,000 | 4 | n/a |
| West Side Career and Technology Center | $1,000 | 6 | n/a |
| School District of Manatee County | $1,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Knox County Career Center | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Walla Walla Community College | $1,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Butler Community College | $1,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tennessee College of Applied Technology | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson County School District | $1,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Shenandoah County Schools | $1,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery Boces | $1,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Renton Technical College | $1,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Erie Community College - South Campus | $1,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Paris | $1,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Cumberland Perry Area Vo Tech | $1,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Highland Community College | $1,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Erie 1 Boces - Kenton Career and Tech Center | $1,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Southwest Wisconsin Technical College | $1,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center | $1,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Texarkana College | $1,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Franklin County School District | $1,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Essex North Shore Agircultural & Technical School | $1,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Tennessee College of Applied Technology Shelbyville | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Joplin Schools | $1,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Randolph Community College | $1,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Grant Career Center | $1,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Kansas State University | $1,000 | 4 | n/a |
| College of Southern Idaho | $1,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Clackamas Community College | $1,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Public School | $1,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Greater Lawrence Regional Vocational Technical School District | $1,000 | 4 | n/a |
| New Horizons Regional Education Ctr | $1,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Dallas County Community College District | $1,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Carrollton-Farmers Branch Isd | $1,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Guilford Co Public Schools | $1,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Collision Career Institute | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bridgeport High School | $1,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Four County Career Center | $500 | 6 | n/a |
| Woolard Technology Center | $500 | 5 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget I Car Education Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · American Association of Community Colleges · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Action for Healthy Kids · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Share Our Strength · Save the Music Foundation · Reading Is Fundamental Inc
How this is measured
About I Car Education Foundation
- How much does I Car Education Foundation give?
- I Car Education Foundation reported 72 itemized grants totaling $619,975, out of $11,376,310 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 148 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does I Car Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (86%), Education (11%), Science & Tech (2%).
- Who are I Car Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair ($118k), Gwinnett County Schools ($68k), Etowah High School ($68k).
- Does I Car Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as I Car Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GenYOUTH Incorporated, American Association of Community Colleges, Round It Up America Inc.
- Where is I Car Education Foundation based?
- I Car Education Foundation is based in IL.
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