· Private foundation
Charles and Helen Schwab 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+58 grants · $32M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cambiar Education | $3,000,000 |
| Tipping Point Community | $2,600,000 |
| Charter School Growth Fund | $1,500,000 |
| 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic | $1,300,000 |
| Teach for America | $1,005,000 |
| PlayLab Education | $1,000,000 |
| City Fund | $800,000 |
| Innovate Public Schools | $800,000 |
| Oakland REACH | $800,000 |
| KIPP Foundation | $750,000 |
| New Schools Venture Fund | $750,000 |
| Silicon Schools Fund | $750,000 |
| Tides Center | $605,000 |
| Greenhouse E3 | $600,000 |
| San Francisco Foundation | $500,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
114 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY8× · 2017–2024 · $34M · revenue +18%
- CECAMBIAR EDUCATION3× · 2022–2024 · $11M · revenue +102%
- CFCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND7× · 2017–2024 · $8.2M · revenue +221%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INCone grant, 2021 · $32M · revenue -33% · 52% of their budget
- NANational Alliance for Public Charter Schone grant, 2019 · $900k
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $814k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
How this is measured
185 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. 185 of the 223 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBIAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Oakland REACH ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Lead Liberated ↗
- Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds REDF ↗
- Who funds GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds VOICES COLLEGE-BOUND LANGUAGE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds REX AND MARGARET FORTUNE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHARTER SCHOOL AUTHORIZERS ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS - NYC ↗
- Who funds GREATSCHOOLS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Gates Foundation · New Schools Fund · City Fund · Silicon Schools Fund Inc · Tipping Point Community · The San Francisco Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Marin Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Immigration Counseling Service Inc: 20% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc: 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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