Early Learning Grants

Early Learning Grants is a grant program from the Bezos Family Foundation that funds research and practice innovations in early childhood and adolescent learning. Awards range from $10,000 to $1,000,000 and are open to nonprofits, researchers, and community organizations.

The foundation funds basic research into how children learn and develop from birth through age 8, as well as practical programs that help parents, teachers, and pediatric health care workers build skills that promote healthy learning environments. A key priority is strengthening the early education workforce through better preparation and compensation.

Grantees are expected to bring ingenuity and dedication to applying or advancing child development knowledge in meaningful ways.

Grantmaking | Bezos Family Foundation Approach Grantmaking Programs Stories About Us Funding research and programs that unlock learning. we know about how children learn. We make grants supporting researchers, educators, nonprofits, and others who are expanding what we know about how children learn, or applying that knowledge with ingenuity, dedication, and passion.

Our grants focus on the most rapid periods of development: early learning and adolescence. Through a diverse portfolio focused primarily in the United States, we seek to make thoughtful investments in people and programs ready to take their work to the next level by helping organizations grow and expand their reach.

We aim in our grants to provide support where there is the most need, whether that means an underdeveloped strand of learning science or an underserved community. We love to partner with changemakers taking innovative risks. And we strive to partner with organizations that reflect the communities they serve.

We fund basic research in early learning and child development, fueling new discoveries and expanding the understanding of how children can learn and grow from age 0-8. We also fund programs and initiatives that turn research into action: We help parents, teachers, pediatric health care workers, and other influential adults build skills that promote learning and development in young children.

And we are helping to create a better prepared, better compensated early education workforce with science-based training and advocacy investments to ensure that all children have quality, affordable, culturally relevant Adolescent Learning Grants We support research on learning and development in the adolescent years, with a focus on ages 9 to 18.

We also support the dissemination of scientific insights to adults who engage with adolescent learners in school and beyond. We fund programs that aim to transform education systems, teacher practice, and school environments so that they best meet adolescent needs.

We support a teaching workforce that reflects students’ communities and cultures, along with programs that recognize adolescents as co-creators of their learning and give them opportunities to practice leadership and contribute to effect change. Whether they’re creating innovative programs or producing new research, our grantees are finding new ways to make learning that’s grounded in research part of young people’s lives.

Learn more about our grant partners below and on our stories page. Grants Page Featured Stories Far Louisiana: Families Leading Early Childhood Systems Change Building Youth-Led Systems for Community Engagement Adolescent Portfolio Partners Drive Change Inspired by Their Own Journeys Proposals to the Bezos Family Foundation are by invitation only. The Foundation has no obligation to review, accept, or return unsolicited materials.