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· Public charity

Berkeley Public Schools Fund

To champion equitable public education for students, families, and our community.

$496k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$372k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.3MArts & Culture$116kPhilanthropy$97kHealth$38kYouth Development$31kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $413,029, the rows itemized in this filing. The $495,834 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,805 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
  • $250k+1 grant · $372k
$31,103
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Berkeley Unified School Dist$371,926
Collabheration LLC$31,103
New Apollo Youth Symphony$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Collabheration LLC: $31k → 9%Playground Kings Camp LLC: $59k → 10%Community Alliance for Learng: $27k → 10%Community Alliance for Learng: $21k → 10%Community Alliance for Learng: $10k → 10%Community Alliance for Learng: $10k → 10%iDev Data: $97k → 10%Berkeley Symphony: $25k → 10%Berkeley Symphony: $25k → 10%Berkeley Symphony: $20k → 10%Berkeley Symphony: $20k → 10%Berkeley Repertory Theatre: $15k → 10%Berkeley Repertory Theatre: $12k → 10%Berkeley Repertory Theatre: $12k → 10%Regents of UC Berkeley: $17k → 10%Berkeley Juneteenth Association Inc: $5k → 10%Berkeley Unified School Dist: $583k → 10%Berkeley Unified School Dist: $575k → 10%Berkeley Unified School Dist: $563k → 10%Berkeley Unified School Dist: $500k → 10%Berkeley Unified School Dist: $489k → 10%Berkeley Unified School Dist: $453k → 10%Berkeley Unified School Dist: $372k → 10%Berkeley Unified School Dist: $332k → 10%Berkeley Unified School Dist: $115k → 10%Berkeley Chess School: $57k → 10%Community Resources for Scien: $44k → 10%Community Resources for Scien: $31k → 10%Community Resources for Scien: $31k → 10%Community Resources for Scien: $25k → 10%Community Resources for Scien: $24k → 10%New Apollo Youth Symphony Orchestra: $16k → 10%New Apollo Youth Symphony: $10k → 10%E360 West Inc Intelligent M: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 7 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$4.4M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+37%

Still filing today

71%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BU
    Berkeley Unified School Dist
    7× · 2017–2023 · $3.5M
  • BU
    Berkeley Unified School Dist
    2× · 2024–2025 · $487k
  • CR
    Community Resources for Science
    5× · 2017–2021 · $154k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • ID
    iDev Data
    one grant, 2021 · $97k
  • PK
    Playground Kings Camp LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $59k
  • BC
    BERKELEY CHESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue -3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Berkeley Community Scholars Dba Berkeley Community Fund

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.

Philanthropy
2
The Berkeley School

To ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts and engage in a changing world.

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3
Berkeley Public Schools Fund

To champion equitable public education for students, families, and our community.

Education
4
California Youth Symphony Association

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…

Arts & Culture
5
San Jose Chamber Music Society

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…

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6
Berkeley Federation of Teachers

To use collective bargaining to improve the education of the studentsand the working conditions of the employees of the berkeley unifiedschool district.

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7
Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Berkeley Youth Orchestra

Music education for youth.

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9
Bentley School

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…

—
10
Berkeley Chamber Performances

Providing an annual series of chamber music concerts for audiences in Berkeley and Lafayette, California, for the past 33 years.

Arts & Culture
11
Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Uc Berkeley Center for Executive Education

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkeley Symphony Orchestra; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Berkeley Unified School Dist: $3,493,913 · OtherBerkeley Unified School DistBerkeley Unified School Dist: $486,774 · OtherBerkeley Unified School Dist+5 more: $211,780 · OtherCommunity Resources for Science: $153,771 · EducationCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA WRITERCOACH CONNECTION: $68,000 · Education+1 more: $6,563 · EducationBERKELEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $90,175 · Arts & CultureNEW APOLLO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTR: $26,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY CHESS SCHOOL: $56,800 · Recreation & SportsBERKELEY JUNETEENTH ASSOCIATION INC DBA BERKELEY JUNETEENTH CULTURAL CELEBR: $5,100 · Recreation & SportsLIFELONG MEDICAL CARE: $38,010 · Health
Other$4,192,467Education$228,334Arts & Culture$116,175Recreation & Sports$61,900Health$38,010

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Resources for Science: $153,771 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetBERKELEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $90,175 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA WRITERCOACH CONNECTION: $68,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetBERKELEY CHESS SCHOOL: $56,800 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetLIFELONG MEDICAL CARE: $38,010 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW APOLLO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTR: $26,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBerkeley High School Development Group: $6,563 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBERKELEY JUNETEENTH ASSOCIATION INC DBA BERKELEY JUNETEENTH CULTURAL CELEBR: $5,100 over 1y, 6.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

East Bay Community Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
East Bay Community FoundationCA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Berkeley Public Schools Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berkeley Public Schools Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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