· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $135,808 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $319,483 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $183,675 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $31,750 |
| ROTARY DISTRICT 5170 FOUNDATION | $19,500 |
| CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND | $16,940 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $8,603 |
| HARBOR HOUSE MINISTRIES | $8,603 |
| ST MARY'S CENTER | $8,603 |
| OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER | $8,603 |
| OPERATION DIGNITY | $8,603 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $8,603 |
| OAKLAND ZOO | $8,000 |
| TREES FOR OAKLAND | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OCOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +85%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK3× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +39%- CSCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA2× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SCSELECTIVA CHARITIES INCone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -29%
- PAPro Arts Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -92%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.
A broad based network of local institutions - congregations, synagogues, non-profits and civic associations - that serve as a foundation for public relationships, leadership development and action around issues that affect our communities.
Visit Oakland is a private, not-for-profit, 501(c)(6) organization, with a 21-member board of directors and full time staff.
Our mission is to empower and unite the vibrant Chinatown community through social, cultural, and economic development, improving the quality of life for all residents. We achieve this by preserving heritage, promoting inclusivity, and…
Oakland planning and development corporation builds a better oakland and helps neighbors thrive. our vision is a beautiful, well-designed, sought-after neighborhood, in which a diverse mix of residents and visitors flourish.
The mission of Oakland Bloom is to advance food and economic justice community power and resilience with working-class immigrant and diaspora chef-entrepreneurs. Oakland Bloom does this through stewarding Open Test Kitchen as a kitchen and…
To help finance and serve as general partner for oak centers, l.p., which operates a 196-unit affordable residential complex for elderly or disabled persons in oakland, california, and provides associated supporting social services.
Combating community deterioration and expanding housing and economic opportunities for low and moderate income residents; promoting neighborhood stability and community involvement through permanently affordable homeownership and equity…
The Foundation for Sustainable Development FSD or the Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, whose mission is to achieve community-driven goals through asset-based development and international exchange in…
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
The oakland chamber of commerce is actively involved in public policy and provides valuable resources to its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Selectiva Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
- Who funds Rotary District 5170 Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER ↗
- Who funds Harbor House Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SELECTIVA CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Pro Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF STVINCENT DE PAUL District Council of Alameda County ↗
- Who funds Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds East Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS ↗
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.
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
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 Oakland Rotary Endowment 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.
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.