How much did KOSHLAND FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

KOSHLAND FOUNDATION reported 14 grants totaling $3,269,310 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is KOSHLAND FOUNDATION based?

KOSHLAND FOUNDATION is based in CA.

KOSHLAND FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

KOSHLAND FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$3.3M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$500k

Largest

01What you fund

0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$21MPhilanthropy$1.9MYouth Development$1.7MScience & Tech$942kCommunity Improvement$522kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$25kOther$3.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

current oaklandenvision learninglearning partnerspartners oaklandcoachingbayexpansion

2020

education designoakland jointjoint proposalproposal oaklandoakland educatorsrefining methodologymethodology reporting

2021

emphasis oaklandinstructionaloakland teachersleaders oaklandeducatorsoakland usd

2022

index collaborationcollaboration oaklandabdooakland studentslearningleadershipoakland usd

2023

abdochange oaklandstudentsoakland usd

2025

oakland unifiedunified district

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 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

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION$200,000
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$200,000
GROUNDSWELL NETWORK INC$125,000
NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT$100,000
OAKLAND GENESIS SOCCER CLUB$100,000
EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE$100,000
EDUCATION PIONEERS INC$50,000

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 39% 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, 62% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$28M · 37 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$28M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+13%

Still filing today

89%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $725k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyScience & TechCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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 +222%
OR
OAKLAND REACH
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +1589%
FL
FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC
4× · 2018–2021 · $850k · revenue +30%

Funded once

BU
BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING AND DEVELOPMENT
one grant, 2018 · $325k · revenue -15%
IS
INQUIRING SYSTEMS INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $197k · revenue +56%
CD
CORE DISTRICTS
one grant, 2020 · $180k · revenue -4%

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.

Deans for Impact

Deans 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 instructionally-focused; and…

Education

Out Teach

We inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators.

Education

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

Environmental and Energy Study Institute

Educate policymakers about equitable science-based solutions for climate, energy, & the environment

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Partners in School Innovation

Transform teaching and learning to ensure every student thrives, regardless of background.

Philanthropy

The California Education Partners

Supporting learning and collaboration between california's school districts and their partners to improve student success.

Education

Learning Policy Institute

To conduct independent, high-quality research to improve learning for each and every child.

Education

Silicon Schools Fund Inc

Support the launch of excellent new schools and innovative practices that improve education.

Education

School Leader Lab

We partner with leaders to disrupt racism, inspire staff, and champion rigorous learning.

Human Services

School Boards for Academic Excellence

To restore academic excellence and parental rights in the american education system by building a national network of state-based organizations and school board members dedicated to reforming policies and practices that improve student…

Civil Rights

California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education

Elite Public Schools

The organization's mission is to ensure all 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…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Pioneers and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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 field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,933

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.

06the grantee network

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/45

Grantees still filing

30/45

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$20,908,292Other$3,607,975Philanthropy$1,889,250Youth Development$1,701,000Science & Tech$942,016Community Improvement$522,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Human Services$25,000

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

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 FoundationWA41.6× affinity19 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 · The San Francisco Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · New Schools Fund · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Silicon Schools Fund Inc · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund

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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TEACHING WELL INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833026062 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TEACHING WELL INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 61% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Koshland Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Koshland Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

KOSHLAND FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Koshland Foundation?

More from the funding graph

KOSHLAND FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Koshland Foundation?

More from the funding graph