The Toshiba America Foundation was primarily created to promote the quality of science and mathematics education in schools throughout the United States by investing through grants in projects that are designed by classroom teachers for K-12 students to improve teaching and learning in science and mathematics. The foundation was established through the help of Toshiba Corporation, Toshiba America Inc., and six Toshiba America group companies operating in the United States. Additionally, the Toshiba America Foundation grants support to inquiry-based projects that are planned and led by individual educators or small groups of teachers for use in their own classrooms. The foundation offers grants of up to $1,000 for teachers of Kindergarten through Grade 6 in any public or private school. The foundation also offers grants for those teaching grades 7-12 with awards of $5,000 and above.

Recently funded school projects include the Mat-Su Career & Technical High School in Wasilla, Alaska, with a funding of $10,790 which students will use for a field-based research project on the surfacing of tree buds as indicator of climate change through the development of baseline data. Another project is the $15,000 grant to Warrenton High School in Oregon, where the grant will be used to help students develop certain programs related to salmon nurturing, hatching, and growth, as well as for evaluating their effects on a local river ecosystem.

The Divine Child High School in Dearborn, Michigan received a grant of $9,560 to help students learn about the core concepts of physics and their relation to different sports such as in basketball free throws, tennis serves, and baseball pitches.

Moreover, the Toshiba America Foundation has a remarkable list of featured grants including the Algae Biodiesel Research; an alternative energy project; an atmospheric chemistry research investigating the relationship between the prevalence of asthma and the levels of major air pollutant groups; exploring seismology in Massachusetts through utilizing research, technology, and engineering.