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Wallace Foundation Grants: How to Win Funding

The Wallace Foundation is a high-profile, research-oriented national foundation with over $1.7 billion in assets that functions fundamentally as an 'idea engine' rather than a traditional local grantmaker.

Funder guide990 profile (EIN 136183757)All winning strategiesUpdated 2026-10-04

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Wallace Foundation: the principal leadership pipeline framing

The Wallace Foundation funds education leadership, particularly principal pipeline development. Proposals must frame the work as building systemic leadership capacity, not as training individual principals.

The Wallace Foundation's education funding centers on education leadership — specifically the principal pipeline. Their research shows that principals are the second most important in-school factor in student achievement, after teachers. If your proposal is about direct student services, Wallace is likely not your funder. If it builds the system that prepares, supports, and retains principals, you are in their lane. The pipeline framing: Wallace funds the full pipeline —…

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