· Public charity
Berkeley Public Schools Fund
To champion equitable public education for students, families, and our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $413,029 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $495,834 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $82,805 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $250k+1 grant · $372k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Berkeley Unified School Dist | $371,926 |
| Collabheration LLC | $31,103 |
| New Apollo Youth Symphony | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BUBerkeley Unified School Dist7× · 2017–2023 · $3.5M
- BUBerkeley Unified School Dist2× · 2024–2025 · $487k
- CRCommunity Resources for Science5× · 2017–2021 · $154k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- IDiDev Dataone grant, 2021 · $97k
- PKPlayground Kings Camp LLCone grant, 2021 · $59k
- BCBERKELEY CHESS SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue -3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.
To ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts and engage in a changing world.
To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…
To champion equitable public education for students, families, and our community.
The mission of the California Youth Symphony (CYS) is to serve the community while providing talented young musicians with the finest musical experience and the opportunity for personal growth through the training and performance of…
To use collective bargaining to improve the education of the studentsand the working conditions of the employees of the berkeley unifiedschool district.
The mission of the Bakersfield Symphony is to unify and celebrate our diverse community through shared musical experiences and to provide students across Kern County, but especially those in rural and disadvantaged areas, every opportunity…
Music education for youth.
Providing an annual series of chamber music concerts for audiences in Berkeley and Lafayette, California, for the past 33 years.
Bentley school is a coeducational day school, grades k-12. the mission of the school is to inspire inquiry, academic excellence, personal achievement, and character by engaging students' intellect and creativity, and by encouraging them to…
Bellevue youth symphony orchestra enhances the lives of student musicians by providing dynamic musical experiences, fostering collaboration, confidence, and personal responsibility through the pursuit of artistic excellence.
Part III - Organizations Mission:Bay Area Music Project (BAMP) provides high quality after-school music education to students in grades k-12 in the Bay Area. BAMPs mission is to give all children regardless of circumstances the opportunity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Community Resources for Science. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Community Resources for Science ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA WRITERCOACH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY CHESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE ↗
- Who funds NEW APOLLO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTR ↗
- Who funds Berkeley High School Development Group ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY JUNETEENTH ASSOCIATION INC DBA BERKELEY JUNETEENTH CULTURAL CELEBR ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Berkeley Public Schools Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.