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Koshland Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$28MCommunity Improvement$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.5MYouth Development$1.5MCrime & Legal$850kFood & Nutrition$300kScience & Tech$180kHealth$171kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $875k
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.4M
$250,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW LEADERS$500,000
MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC$444,310
FAMILIES IN ACTION FOR QUALITY EDUCATION$400,000
NEW TEACHER CENTER$300,000
OAKLAND PROMISE$250,000
AMBITION ANGELS$250,000
BUSINESS UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING AND DEVELOPMENT (BUILD)$250,000
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$200,000
PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION$200,000
GROUNDSWELL NETWORK INC$125,000
OAKLAND GENESIS SOCCER CLUB$100,000
EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE$100,000
NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT$100,000
EDUCATION PIONEERS INC$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 44% of Koshland Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Koshland Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 39 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
11

Total granted

$31M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-2%

Still filing today

95%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementScience & TechPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • OP
    OAKLAND PROMISE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +248%
  • UNBOUNDED LEARNING INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +92%
  • IP
    INSTRUCTION PARTNERS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • IS
    INQUIRING SYSTEMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $197k · revenue +125%
  • CD
    CORE DISTRICTS
    one grant, 2020 · $180k · revenue +2%
  • BA
    BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $171k · revenue -2%

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Leading Educators Inc

Leading educators partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.

Education
3
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
4
The National Center on Education and the Economy

The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.

Public Benefit
5
Blue Engine Inc

Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.

Education
6
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
7
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
8
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
9
360 Accelerator Education Partners

360 Accelerator provides leadership development services to public education leaders.

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10
Innovateedu Inc

Innovateedu catalyzes education transformation by bridging gaps in data, policy, practice, and research to center the needs of the field in accelerating innovation towards an equitable, inclusive and radically different future for all…

Education
11
Alternative Schools Inc

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.

Education
12
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Pioneers and the most unlike its peers is The Edible Schoolyard Project dba the Alice Waters Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%13%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr13%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%17%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,928

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 53 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
26/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW LEADERS INC — $3,750,000 · EducationNEW LEADERS INCTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $2,585,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDNEW TEACHER CENTER — $2,095,000 · EducationNEW TEACHER CENTERThe Oakland REACH — $1,685,000 · EducationThe Oakland REACHOAKLAND PROMISE — $1,600,000 · EducationOAKLAND PROMISEUNBOUNDED LEARNING INC — $1,095,625 · EducationINSTRUCTION PARTNERS — $1,087,000 · EducationThe Teaching Well Inc — $1,058,750 · EducationCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC — $950,000 · EducationFamilies in Action for Quality Education — $900,000 · EducationGO Public Schools — $900,000 · EducationENVISION EDUCATION INC — $860,000 · Education+20 more — $7,138,251 · Education+20 morePHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $1,204,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $810,250 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · PhilanthropyBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT (BUILD) — $1,072,500 · OtherEducation Outside — $400,000 · OtherKIPP PUBLIC SCHOOLS N CALIFORNIA — $164,850 · OtherOAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $155,000 · OtherOakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club — $125,000 · Other+2 more — $75,000 · OtherFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $850,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL — $750,000 · Youth DevelopmentMaker Education Initiative — $86,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT — $975,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $197,000 · Community ImprovementWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT — $125,000 · Community ImprovementSTRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE — $497,016 · Science & TechEDUCATION ANALYTICS INC — $315,000 · Science & TechCalifornia Council on Science and Techno logy — $130,000 · Science & TechBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $171,000 · Health
Education$25,704,626Philanthropy$2,314,250Other$1,992,350Youth Development$1,701,000Community Improvement$1,297,000Science & Tech$942,016Health$171,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $3,750,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $2,585,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER — $2,095,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetThe Oakland REACH — $1,685,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE — $1,600,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $1,204,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetUNBOUNDED LEARNING INC — $1,095,625 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetINSTRUCTION PARTNERS — $1,087,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Teaching Well Inc — $1,058,750 over 4y, 61% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT — $975,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC — $950,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFamilies in Action for Quality Education — $900,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetGO Public Schools — $900,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetENVISION EDUCATION INC — $860,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $850,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetLead Liberated — $850,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetNEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC — $830,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $810,250 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetONEGOAL — $750,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetZEARN — $633,251 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $600,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR CURRICULUM REDESIGN INC — $560,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetAMBITION ANGELS — $500,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetSTRATEGIC EDUCATION RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE — $497,016 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FUND — $450,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEducation Outside — $400,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCollegespring Inc — $365,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetEDUCATION ANALYTICS INC — $315,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $300,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $300,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT — $300,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSURGE INSTITUTE — $300,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetGROUNDSWELL NETWORK INC — $250,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $197,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCORE DISTRICTS — $180,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $171,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACE CHARTER SCHOOL — $170,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCalifornia Council on Science and Techno logy — $130,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOakland Genesis DBA Oakland Genesis Soccer Club — $125,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT — $125,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKingmakers of Oakland — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS — $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMaker Education Initiative — $86,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTHE GENETICS SOCIETY OF AMERICA IN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Gates FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Walton Family Foundat…Charles and Helen Sch…Marin Community Found…Carnegie Corporation …New Schools FundThe San Francisco Fou…Kenneth Rainin Founda…East Bay Community Fo…Give Forward Foundati…Silicon Schools Fund …
Gates FoundationWA42.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · New Schools Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Give Forward Foundation · Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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 Koshland Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Zearn — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Koshland Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Koshland 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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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