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Chamberlin Education Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,302
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$384k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$7.2MCommunity Improvement$414kYouth Development$222kArts & Culture$217kCivil Rights$155kHuman Services$138kHealth$98kEnvironment$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1302 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1271 grants · $507k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $341k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $950k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
$300
Median grant
3
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
S2C COLLECTIVE$383,919
WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$300,000
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY CHARTER COALITION$250,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
EDSOURCE$200,000
GO PUBLIC SCHOOLS$200,000
GO PUBLIC SCHOOLS$150,000
CA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION$125,000
OAKLAND ENROLLS$100,000
NEW LEADERS$75,000
TEACHSTARTEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$50,000
RIVET SCHOOLBAY AREA HYBRID COLLEGE INITIATIVE$50,000
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$45,000
Individual grant recipient$36,000
DIVERSITY IN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$35,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $8k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $5k → 22%CONTRA COSTA YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU: $8k → 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%AIM HIGH: $5k → 10%AIM HIGH: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $5k → 10%FIERCE ADVOCATES: $10k → 9%FIERCE ADVOCATES: $10k → 9%NEW LIFE MOVEMENT: $3k → 9%NEW LIFE MOVEMENT: $3k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $13k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $13k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $13k → 9%THE LATINA CENTER: $10k → 9%BRIGHT FUTURES GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $13k → 9%BRIGHT FUTURES GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.8M · 1038 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

1038 repeat relationships: 951 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 349 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1038
520

Total granted

$7.8M
$748k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-2%

Still filing today

5%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $798k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • Teach for America Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $600k · revenue +5%
  • AG
    ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $315k · revenue +50%
  • BA
    Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • FI
    Families in Action for Quality Educationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $170k · revenue +44%
  • FI
    FAMILIES IN ACTIONCONTRA COSTA COUNTY CHARTER COALITION
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • AP
    ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -37%
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
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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2
360 Accelerator Education Partners

360 Accelerator provides leadership development services to public education leaders.

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3
Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…

Education
4
Yuba River Charter School

Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…

Education
5
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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6
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
7
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
8
Bay Education Fund

Build a community investment fund that catalyzes local movements and transforms district capacity by bringing together families,communities, teachers, district leaders, and philanthropy to co-design a vision for students and implement…

Education
9
The Oakland Reach

The Oakland REACH is a parent-run, parent-led group committed to empowering families from our most underserved communities to demand high-quality schools for our children.

Education
10
Partnership for Children & Youth

By strategically linking people, practice and policy, we make sure that children and youth in the most under-resourced communities receive quality expanded learning opportunities and that all their learning environments school, afterschool…

Community Improvement
11
Elite Public Schools

To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…

Education
12
Oakland Kids First

The mission of Oakland Kids First is to increase youth voice, leadership and power to create engaging and equitable public schools where all students learn and lead.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Promise Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ronnie Bubba Robinson Scholarship Foundation. 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

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 1,908 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
48/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GO Public Schools: $1,117,000 · EducationGO Public SchoolsEDSOURCE INC: $700,000 · EducationEDSOURCE INCTeach for America Inc: $600,000 · EducationTeach for America IncNEW LEADERS INC: $320,000 · EducationNEW LEADERS INCALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $315,000 · EducationALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONContra Costa County Charter Coalition 5C: $250,000 · EducationContra Costa County Charter Coalition 5CFamilies in Action for Quality Education: $170,000 · EducationBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School: $150,000 · Education+22 more: $540,500 · Education+22 moreWEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $500,000 · OtherWEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientS2C COLLECTIVE: $383,919 · OtherS2C COLLECTIVEOakland Enrolls: $290,000 · OtherOakland EnrollsCA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $250,000 · OtherCA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATIONCALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $250,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLSTEACHSTARTEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $189,000 · OtherFAMILIES IN ACTIONCONTRA COSTA COUNTY CHARTER COALITION: $150,000 · Other+136 more: $1,287,600 · Other+136 moreTHE LATINA CENTER: $47,500 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT FUTURES GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $22,500 · Human ServicesFIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme: $20,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Education Partnerships: $15,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $12,500 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH: $10,000 · Human ServicesCONTRA COSTA YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU: $7,500 · Human Services+2 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesYES Nature to Neighborhoods: $43,000 · Youth DevelopmentBay Area Girls Club: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Life Project: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING BLOCKS FOR KIDS: $17,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts: $63,000 · Arts & CultureLos Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center: $30,000 · Arts & CultureRichmond Art Center: $20,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $40,000 · HealthEarly Childhood Mental Health Program: $32,500 · HealthUrban Tilth: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHINGS THAT CREEP: $12,500 · EnvironmentCOMMON VISION: $2,500 · Environment
Education$4,162,500Other$3,800,519Human Services$181,000Youth Development$155,000Arts & Culture$123,000Health$72,500Environment$45,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGO Public Schools: $1,117,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetEDSOURCE INC: $700,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetS2C COLLECTIVE: $383,919 over 1y, 29% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC: $320,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $315,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOakland Enrolls: $290,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetFamilies in Action for Quality Education: $170,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School: $150,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSTUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PARTNERS INC: $107,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLAUREL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $80,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts: $63,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRICHMOND PROMISE INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LATINA CENTER: $47,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods: $43,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCollege is Real Inc: $33,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBay Area Girls Club: $32,500 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetThe Practice Space Inc: $32,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetEarly Childhood Mental Health Program: $32,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCALIBER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $30,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMindful Life Project: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Tilth: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLos Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CONTRA COSTA: $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $22,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRichmond Art Center: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFIERCE Advocates Families & Individuals Equitably Rooted in Collective Empowerme: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMAKING WAVES ACADEMY: $17,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORE DISTRICTS: $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING BLOCKS FOR KIDS: $17,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Education Partnerships: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHINGS THAT CREEP: $12,500 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINVICTUS ACADEMY INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEL CERRITO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT ACT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDestiny Arts Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR LEARNING DBA WRITERCOACH CONNECTION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget1Hundred Years Enterprise Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetKQED INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds GO Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds EDSOURCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds S2C COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Enrolls ↗
  • Who funds Contra Costa County Charter Coalition 5C ↗
  • Who funds Families in Action for Quality Education ↗
  • Who funds Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School ↗
  • Who funds STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds East Bay Center for the Performing Arts ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LATINA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YES Nature to Neighborhoods ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds College is Real Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bay Area Girls Club ↗
  • Who funds The Practice Space Inc ↗
  • Who funds Early Childhood Mental Health Program ↗
  • Who funds CALIBER PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
  • Who funds Urban Tilth ↗
  • Who funds Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center ↗

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.

Chamberlin Family Phi…East Bay Community Fo…Dean and Margaret Les…Quest FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Bernard E & Alba Witk…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Endowm…Tipping Point Communi…S H Cowell FoundationThe Morris Stulsaft F…
Chamberlin Family PhilanthropyCA75.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chamberlin Family Philanthropy · East Bay Community Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Quest Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Endowment · Tipping Point Community · S H Cowell Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft 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 Chamberlin Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chamberlin Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chamberlin Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chamberlin Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 1908 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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