· Private foundation
Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k39 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+5 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS | $1,745,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $1,200,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC | $575,000 |
| SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $375,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $250,000 |
| TEACH PLUS INC | $200,000 |
| EDVANCE | $200,000 |
| SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE | $150,000 |
| JUMPSTART | $150,000 |
| GROUNDSWELL FUND | $125,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING | $125,000 |
| POLYBIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $100,000 |
| BRANCH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATOR DVERSITY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
93 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION PARTNERS8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +139% · 64% of their budget
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +112%
- SSSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS5× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CDCalifornians Dedicated to Education Foundationone grant, 2020 · $210k · revenue -63%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDNone grant, 2020 · $210k · revenue +21%
- TTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $200k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
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How this is measured
113 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. 113 of the 156 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
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- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
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- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
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- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
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- Who funds CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The California Endowment · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · The Silver Lining Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert and Ruth Halperin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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