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Eat Learn Play Foundation

Eat.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$4.0M
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$13MEducation$12MRecreation & Sports$9.0MInternational$5.2MHealth$1.2MCommunity Improvement$648kYouth Development$285kPhilanthropy$250kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $464k
  • $250k+8 grants · $10M
$349,900
Median grant
7
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KABOOM$4,030,359
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$1,400,000
OPEN LITERACY LLC$1,200,000
IGNITE READING PBC$1,200,000
HOOT READING INC$1,129,690
OAKLAND LITERACY COALITION$375,000
BRIGAID LLC$349,900
RODRIGUEZ COMMUNITY GROUP LLC$325,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$150,000
ALMA ADVISORY GROUP LLC$113,964
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$100,000
READING PARTNERS$100,000
OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$27,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $531k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLECTIVE: $65k → 22%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $100k → 17%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $130k → 10%OAKLAND LACROSS CLUB: $100k → 10%BLACK ORGANIZING PROJECT: $75k → 10%HELP A MOTHER OUT: $11k → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of Eat Learn Play Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 66%.

Eat Learn Play Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 19 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
40

Total granted

$31M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+31%

Still filing today

74%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $939k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6.7M · revenue +39%
  • OL
    Oakland Literacy Coalition Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +241% · 47% of their budget
  • CK
    Community Kitchens Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $908k · revenue +92% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5.2M · revenue +21%
  • CV
    COMMON VISION
    one grant, 2020 · $631k · revenue -44% · 41% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF THE OAKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +102%
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
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
2
Go Public Schools

GO Public Schools builds and supports a multi-city network of local coalitions, whose members parents, educators, and community allies work together to expand access to quality education in Californias most historically underserved…

Education
3
Education for Change

To provide a superior public education to oakland's most underserved children by creating a system of public schools that relentlessly focuses on students' academic achievement.

Education
4
The College Preparatory School

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…

Education
5
Go Public Schools Advocates

Our mission is to activate the leadership of families, educators, and community allies to advocate on behalf of California children and youth to ensure that all students have access to excellent public schools in their neighborhoods and…

Education
6
The California Education Partners

California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…

Education
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
10
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy
11
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
12
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund; the most unlike its peers is 18 Reasons. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 66 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $6,709,825 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $2,660,000 · OtherOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,266,500 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHOPEN LITERACY LLC: $1,591,380 · OtherOPEN LITERACY LLCIGNITE READING PBC: $1,480,000 · OtherIGNITE READING PBCHOOT READING INC: $1,452,250 · OtherHOOT READING INCNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $1,065,000 · Other+27 more: $4,112,434 · Other+27 moreKABOOM INC: $7,190,739 · Recreation & SportsKABOOM INCOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation: $787,500 · Recreation & SportsOakland Parks and Rec…+2 more: $212,923 · Recreation & SportsDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,020,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEOR…Oakland Literacy Coalition Inc: $1,650,000 · EducationOakland Litera…READING PARTNERS: $325,000 · EducationREADING PARTNE…The Oakland REACH: $280,000 · EducationDavidson College: $200,000 · EducationTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING: $195,000 · Education+10 more: $755,388 · Education+10 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,200,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL…Community Kitchens Inc: $907,848 · Food & Nutrition18 Reasons: $90,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMON VISION: $631,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $300,000 · EnvironmentOakland Lacrosse Club: $230,000 · Human ServicesSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesThe Black Organizing Project Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $65,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Education Partnerships: $50,000 · Human Services+1 more: $11,008 · Human Services
Other$21,337,389Recreation & Sports$8,191,162Education$5,425,388International$5,200,000Food & Nutrition$1,022,848Environment$931,000Human Services$531,008

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKABOOM INC: $7,190,739 over 4y, 19% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $6,709,825 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,200,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,266,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,020,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOakland Literacy Coalition Inc: $1,650,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetCommunity Kitchens Inc: $907,848 over 3y, 44% of budgetOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation: $787,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetCOMMON VISION: $631,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $325,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Oakland REACH: $280,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetEast Oakland Youth Development Center: $250,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRESTORE OAKLAND INC: $250,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetOakland Lacrosse Club: $230,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBLACK CULTURAL ZONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDavidson College: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING: $195,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetOakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club: $187,923 over 2y, 19% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLA CLINICA DE LA RAZA INC: $143,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $130,375 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLOTUS BLOOM: $125,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $100,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget18 Reasons: $90,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Black Organizing Project Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $72,338 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYFP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCommunity Education Partnerships: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFAMILY BRIDGES INC: $42,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMindful Life Project: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $18,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $17,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP A MOTHER OUT: $11,008 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE FREE LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $6,000 over 1y, 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.

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…The San Francisco Fou…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Stupski FoundationThe California Wellne…T Gary and Kathleen R…The Barrios TrustKaiser Foundation Hos…Golden State Communit…ImpactassetsincQuest Foundation
East Bay Community FoundationCA45.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Stupski Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · The Barrios Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Golden State Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Quest 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 Eat Learn Play Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eat Learn Play Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report 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.

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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home