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Oakland Natives Give Back Fund Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Oakland Natives Give Back Fund Inc

To create and scale innovative solutions that empower young people and improve educational equity.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$308kEducation$61kRecreation & Sports$35kPublic Benefit$17kCrime & Legal$15kReligion$12kHuman Services$11kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $9,595, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,003 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $408 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$9,595
Median grant
1
States reached
$146k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RECHARGE GROUP (MARC SPENCER)$9,595
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%HOW WOMEN LEAD: $6k → 8%LEND A HAND FOUNDATION: $6k → 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.
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.
03Its 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
Lead Liberated

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…

Education
2
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
3
The Oakland Reach

The Oakland REACH is a parent-run, parent-led group committed to empowering families from our most underserved communities to demand high-quality schools for our children.

Education
4
Oakland Digital Arts and Literacy Center Inc

BRIDGEGOOD increases opportunity and digital literacy for under-resourced students with a focus on Black Indigenous and Women People of Color. We prepare first-generation college students for careers in UX UI and Visual Design while…

Education
5
Oakland Promise

Our vision: a thriving oakland community without barriers to educational opportunity.our mission: engaging the oakland community to advance equity and economic mobility through cradle to college and career achievement.

Education
6
Oakland Leaf Foundation

Oakland Leaf spurs creative and educational growth for Oakland youth by providing programs that cultivate critical thinking skills, emphasize socioemotional learning opportunities, and support authentic leadership development. They…

Education
7
Leadership Oakland

The leadership oakland mission is to develop a network of diverse and influential leaders by exposing them to regional resources and issues and challenging them to reach their full personal, professional, and public leadership potential.

Public Benefit
8
Leadership Public Schools

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.

Education
9
Oakland Literacy Coalition Inc

The Oakland Literacy Coalition was founded on the belief that literacy is a fundamental right and that together, we can create the conditions for children to thrive in reading and beyond. The Oakland Literacy Coalition exists as a…

Education
10
Oakland Fund for Public Innovation

The Oakland Fund reaches across the city, engaging private partners to innovate, test and scale ideas that enhance Oakland. The Fund strives to improve the prosperity, safety and quality of life for all Oaklanders with projects that: build…

Community Improvement
11
Catalyst Youth Network

help bring equity of opportunity and resources to the historically underserved youth of Oakland California. By establishing a shared network of community partners training volunteers and mentoring youth CYN is closing the gaps between…

Human Services
12
Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc

Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.

Youth Development
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 Angel By Nature. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL LABOR OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $162,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL LABOR OF LOVE FOUNDATIONINTERNATNL LABOR OF LOVE FOUND: $145,000 · OtherINTERNATNL LABOR OF LOVE FOUNDCity of Oakland OPRYD: $17,499 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+6 more: $51,095 · Other+6 moreTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $37,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND…THE LITERACY LAB: $8,500 · EducationTHE LITERAC…HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $5,000 · EducationHIDDEN GENI…Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsANGEL BY NATURE: $15,000 · Crime & LegalBAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK: $5,705 · Human ServicesLEND A HAND FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LILLARD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$391,094Education$50,500Recreation & Sports$30,000Crime & Legal$15,000Human Services$11,205Philanthropy$6,000Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATNL LABOR OF LOVE FOUND: $145,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $37,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL BY NATURE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK: $5,705 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MENTORING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
East Bay Community FoundationCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Oakland Natives Give Back Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oakland Natives Give Back Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
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    How do I get to Oakland Natives Give Back Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Oakland Natives Give Back Fund Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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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