School Grant Tracking
Schools and districts can apply for Perkins V career and technical education funds, corporate STEM funders like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation for literacy programs, aviation and CTE pathway funders like AOPA You Can Fly, the EAA Ray Foundation, and FAA aviation workforce grants, state education department competitive grants, and local education foundations. Main Street Grants handles both discovery, finding the grants, and tracking, managing every deadline, status, and follow-up in one pipeline.
Where the money is
Where the money actually is
These are the real programs that fund school grant tracking. Main Street Grants matches your organization against all of them, every day, and scores your fit before you spend a weekend on an application.
Perkins V Career and Technical Education
Federal funds for CTE programs, equipment, and professional development. Administered through state education agencies. Core funding for career pathways, technical programs, and industry certifications.
Corporate STEM Funders (Boeing, Lockheed Martin)
Corporate giving programs fund STEM education, robotics, and workforce pipeline programs. Boeing and Lockheed Martin both have education grant programs focused on engineering and aerospace workforce development.
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Funds literacy programs, summer reading, and adult literacy. Open to schools, libraries, and nonprofits. Awards range from $3,000 to $15,000 and are accepted on multiple cycles per year.
AOPA You Can Fly
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association program for high school aviation programs. Provides curriculum, flight training scholarships, and resources for schools building aviation pathways.
EAA Ray Foundation
Experimental Aircraft Association foundation supporting youth aviation education and flight training. Good fit for schools with aviation or aerospace CTE pathways.
FAA Aviation Workforce Grants
Federal Aviation Administration grants for aviation workforce development, including pilot training, maintenance, and air traffic controller pipeline programs.
State Education Department Competitive Grants
Every state education agency runs competitive grant programs for schools and districts. These cover everything from STEM to literacy to mental health to CTE. Deadlines and rules vary by state.
Local Education Foundations
Many communities have a local education foundation that awards grants to teachers and schools. Smaller awards, but less competitive and faster to apply for.
The problem
The problem
Schools and districts have more grant opportunities than almost any other organization type, but the tracking problem is worse. Perkins V, state competitive grants, corporate funders, education foundations, and dozens of smaller programs all run on different cycles with different application formats and different reporting requirements. A grant coordinator might be managing 20 or 30 active applications and awards at the same time, spread across a spreadsheet and a shared drive that nobody else can find.
On the discovery side, schools miss grants they would qualify for because nobody has time to scan for them. A high school with an aviation pathway might miss an AOPA You Can Fly cycle or an FAA aviation workforce grant because the person who would have written it did not know it existed. The grants are out there, but the school does not have a system to find them, score them, and flag the ones worth chasing.
How we help
How Main Street Grants helps
Main Street Grants was built for organizations that do not have a grant writer on staff. Here is what that looks like for school grant tracking.
Every morning, Main Street Grants scans federal, state, foundation, and corporate grant databases for new opportunities and scores them against your school or district profile, your programs, your pathways, your demographics, and your past grants. You see a ranked list of grants you actually qualify for, with a fit score, before you spend a weekend on an application.
When you pick an opportunity, Main Street Grants drafts every section from your knowledge base, your school improvement plan, your CTE pathway descriptions, your student demographics, and your past applications. You review and edit, not write from scratch. A first draft takes an afternoon.
Every grant lives in one pipeline dashboard. Deadlines, status, scores, follow-ups, and reporting requirements. The principal, the superintendent, and the board see a real pipeline instead of a verbal update.
For districts managing grants across multiple schools, the pipeline tracks every application and award in one place, so nothing falls through the cracks when a grant coordinator leaves or a principal moves on.
A 993-student Tennessee high school with an aviation pathway surfaced 18 scored opportunities on day one, five of them 10/10 fits, and drafted its first letter of inquiry the same week.
Frequently asked questions
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