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Educate78

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 community.

$1.2M
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Educate78’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Educate78 named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
19
’18
20
’19
16
’20
13
’21
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 FY2017–2024.

Education$9.8MPhilanthropy$101kCommunity Improvement$100kPublic Benefit$25kArts & Culture$8k
02FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $1,111,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,247,057 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,807 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $722k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$80,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$764k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GO Public Schools Leadership$250,000
Oakland Enrolls$180,000
The Oakland Reach$130,250
Envision Schools$100,000
Lighthouse Charter School$100,000
Oakland Public Education Fund$81,000
Oakland Unified School Dist$80,500
Alder Graduate School of Edu$50,000
Great School Choices Inc$35,000
Education for Change$30,000
Aspire College Academy$30,000
Yu Ming Charter School$24,500
The Teaching Well$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Alder Graduate School of Edu: $150k → 7%Inquiring Systems: $80k → 9%Oakland Enrolls: $585k → 10%Great School Choices Inc: $85k → 17%Natl Council Teacher Quality: $75k → 14%Achievement First: $50k → 12%Aspire University Inc: $150k → 7%GO Public Schools Leadership: $552k → 10%Alder Graduate School of Edu: $50k → 7%Oakland Enrolls: $505k → 10%Alder Graduate School of Edu: $50k → 7%GO Public Schools Leadership: $500k → 10%Oakland Enrolls: $500k → 10%Oakland Public Education Fund: $283k → 10%GO Public Schools Leadership: $250k → 10%Oakland Unified School Dist: $246k → 10%GO Public Schools Leadership: $206k → 10%Oakland Enrolls: $180k → 10%GO Public Schools Leadership: $150k → 10%Envision Schools: $130k → 10%Envision Schools: $102k → 10%Envision Schools: $100k → 10%Oakland Unified School Dist: $81k → 10%Unity Schools: $70k → 10%Unity Schools: $49k → 10%Aspire University Inc: $150k → 10%Amethod Public Schools Inc: $79k → 10%Oakland Public Education Fund: $988k → 10%Oakland Public Education Fund: $342k → 10%Aurum Preparatory Academy: $120k → 10%Leadership Public Schools: $90k → 10%Oakland Public Education Fund: $81k → 10%Aurum Preparatory Academy: $74k → 10%Aurum Preparatory Academy: $64k → 10%Reach Inst School Leadership: $60k → 10%New Leaders: $50k → 10%Yu Ming Charter School: $61k → 10%Education for Change: $130k → 10%Oakland Public Education Fund: $550k → 10%Education for Change: $207k → 10%Lighthouse Charter School: $195k → 10%Education for Change: $138k → 10%The Oakland Reach: $130k → 10%The Oakland Reach: $130k → 10%Lighthouse Charter School: $111k → 10%Lighthouse Charter School: $103k → 10%Lighthouse Charter School: $100k → 10%Education for Change: $70k → 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.

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.

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.
$9.5M · 23 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2021, 10 since wound down. Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
7

Total granted

$9.5M
$439k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
-24%

Still filing today

96%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

  • EF
    EDUCATION FOR CHANGE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $575k · revenue +87%
  • AG
    ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $550k · revenue +315%
  • LC
    LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    4× · 2018–2021 · $509k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • OU
    Oakland Unified School Dist
    one grant, 2018 · $246k
  • AF
    ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • NL
    NEW LEADERS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -22%

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education
5
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
6
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
7
Presidio Hill School

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…

Education
8
North Oakland Community Charter School

A public school dedicated to helping children to become thoughtful, informed, and inquisitive citizens. noccs is a vibrant, diverse learning community driven by respect for each child's unique intelligence and history. our school's dynamic…

Education
9
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…

Education
10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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11
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
12
Aim High for High School

To increase educational equity by providing joyful, enriching learning experiences for middle school students, aspiring teachers, and experienced educators.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education for Change and the most unlike its peers is Story for All. 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 18 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr17%41%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr12%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%39%10–20yr17%54%20–35yr12%2%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
2,151/16,249

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $2,243,160 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDGO Public Schools — $1,657,686 · EducationGO Public SchoolsEDUCATION FOR CHANGE — $575,085 · EducationEDUCATION FOR CHANGEALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $550,000 · EducationALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $509,250 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLSENVISION EDUCATION INC — $331,500 · EducationAURUM PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $288,500 · EducationThe Oakland REACH — $260,500 · Education+15 more — $1,189,717 · Education+15 moreOakland Enrolls — $1,770,000 · OtherOakland EnrollsOakland Unified School Dist — $246,000 · OtherOakland Unified School Di…OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $117,550 · Other+3 more — $74,200 · OtherINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION — $45,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $38,996 · Philanthropy
Education$7,605,398Other$2,207,750Community Improvement$100,000Philanthropy$83,996

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 budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $2,243,160 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetOakland Enrolls — $1,770,000 over 4y, 57% of budgetGO Public Schools — $1,657,686 over 5y, 17% of budgetEDUCATION FOR CHANGE — $575,085 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $550,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $509,250 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetENVISION EDUCATION INC — $331,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAURUM PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $288,500 over 4y, 87% of budgetThe Oakland REACH — $260,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetLED BETTER INC — $218,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetUNITY SCHOOLS — $119,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYU MING CHARTER SCHOOL — $110,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAMETHOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $108,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY INC — $108,333 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREACH UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $62,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $40,634 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Teaching Well Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $38,996 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARISE HIGH SCHOOL — $37,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School — $37,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPIVOT LEARNING — $34,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE — $15,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORY FOR ALL — $7,500 over 1y, 5.9% 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.

Silicon Schools Fund …The Oakland Public Ed…T Gary and Kathleen R…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Charles and Helen Sch…T Gary and Kathleen R…The San Francisco Fou…New Schools FundQuest FoundationMarin Community Found…Walton Family Foundat…
Silicon Schools Fund IncCA41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Schools Fund Inc · The Oakland Public Education Fund · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · New Schools Fund · Quest Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Walton Family Foundation 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 Educate78 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 · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report 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

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.

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 32 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines