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Oakland Rotary Endowment

Develop and promote better quality of life in the local and international community and help young men and women in obtaining academic and vocational education and employment.

$319k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$136k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$8,603
Largest grant, FY2024
$31,750
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$5.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Oakland Rotary Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’22’23
AnimalsHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$116k20%
FY20233$73k33%
FY20229$93k67%
FY20203$62k67%
FY20182$42k0%
FY20175$55kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$273kInternational$59kHousing & Shelter$32kFood & Nutrition$31kHuman Services$25kAnimals$23kCommunity Improvement$23kArts & Culture$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oakland Unified School District$219,5438n/a
Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc$48,56850%
Alameda County Community Food Bank$23,43230%
Conservation Society of California$23,00020%
Operation Dignity Inc$15,93220%
Harbor House Ministries Inc$15,93221%
Oakland Catholic Worker$15,93223%
St Mary's Center$15,93220%
Selectiva Charities Inc$11,00012%
Pro Arts Inc$10,00013%
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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oakland Rotary Endowment supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $48,568 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAlameda County Community Food Bank: $23,432 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Society of California: $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Dignity Inc: $15,932 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor House Ministries Inc: $15,932 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOakland Catholic Worker: $15,932 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSt Mary's Center: $15,932 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSelectiva Charities Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPro Arts Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF STVINCENT DE PAUL District Council of Alameda County: $8,603 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Alameda County: $7,329 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEast Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Oakland Public Education Fund: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Assistance for Seniors: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 FoundationCA26.9× affinity11 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 · Alameda County Community Food Bank · West Davis & Bergard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation · Fremont Bank Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Endowment · The Yelp 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.

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About Oakland Rotary Endowment

How much does Oakland Rotary Endowment give?
Oakland Rotary Endowment reported 11 itemized grants totaling $135,808, out of $319,483 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Oakland Rotary Endowment fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), International (12%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are Oakland Rotary Endowment's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oakland Unified School District ($220k), Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ($49k), Alameda County Community Food Bank ($23k).
Does Oakland Rotary Endowment fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Oakland Rotary Endowment?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Alameda County Community Food Bank.
Where is Oakland Rotary Endowment based?
Oakland Rotary Endowment is based in CA.

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 18 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $222k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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