About Us

The Foundation for Early Learning is a public foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the learning of children, birth through age five.

Research shows that one out of every two children entering kindergarten is not prepared for school. Our goal is to eliminate this preparation gap and to ensure that every child is ready socially, emotionally and intellectually to succeed in school.

We do this by providing grants and publications to ensure all children have strong start to school.

We believe this takes work on two levels.

To start, we support parents as their children's first teachers by providing grants, free publications and online services.

The Foundation also works with partners across Washington State to support high-quality early learning, child care and preschool. Together this makes real impact in Washington.

Since the Foundation was established in 2000, we have awarded over $6.5 million in grants to community groups, built a network of 31 community groups by connecting thousands of parents and caregivers with local early learning resources.

To learn more about the history of The Foundation for Early Learning, click here.