How much does Silicon Schools Fund Inc give?

Silicon Schools Fund Inc reported 51 grants totaling $6,036,344 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Silicon Schools Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%), Arts & Culture (1%).

Who are Silicon Schools Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kipp Bay Area Schools ($2.9M), Rocketship Education ($2.2M), Aspire Public Schools ($2.0M).

Does Silicon Schools Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Silicon Schools Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Schools Fund, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.

Where is Silicon Schools Fund Inc based?

Silicon Schools Fund Inc is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education happening in the country. Our partner organizations serve as labs of innovation and proof points for the…

$6.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 51
Grants FY2024: 37
Organizations funded FY2023: 16%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $591,061
Organizations funded a year: 32 to 43; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $27M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Silicon Schools Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $484k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationScience & TechOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	46	$5.9M	24%
FY2023	37	$4.8M	16%
FY2022	43	$6.3M	21%
FY2021	33	$4.5M	27%
FY2020	37	$5.3M	24%
FY2019	41	$5.7M	27%
FY2018	42	$6.6M	52%
FY2017	32	$5.1M	n/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$43MPublic Safety & Disaster$573kArts & Culture$303kScience & Tech$100kCrime & Legal$50k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kipp Bay Area Schools	$2,884,948	8	1%
Rocketship Education	$2,202,975	8	1%
Aspire Public Schools	$1,988,639	6	0%
Voices College-Bound Language Academies	$1,690,900	7	3%
Rex and Margaret Fortune School of Education	$1,538,950	6	1%
Navigator Schools	$1,332,837	7	3%
Summit Public Schools	$1,328,561	6	1%
Yu Ming Charter School	$1,261,500	7	5%
Aspen Public Schools Incorporated	$1,211,330	5	4%
Alpha Public Schools	$1,030,250	7	2%

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All grantees of Silicon Schools Fund Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kipp Bay Area Schools	$2,884,948	8	1%
Rocketship Education	$2,202,975	8	1%
Aspire Public Schools	$1,988,639	6	0%
Voices College-Bound Language Academies	$1,690,900	7	3%
Rex and Margaret Fortune School of Education	$1,538,950	6	1%
Navigator Schools	$1,332,837	7	3%
Summit Public Schools	$1,328,561	6	1%
Yu Ming Charter School	$1,261,500	7	5%
Aspen Public Schools Incorporated	$1,211,330	5	4%
Alpha Public Schools	$1,030,250	7	2%
The Rocklin Academy	$999,766	5	1%
Envision Education Inc	$927,973	5	2%
Alder Graduate School of Education	$850,000	5	4%
New School of San Francisco (Nssf)	$843,000	6	5%
Hayward Collegiate Inc	$840,000	4	59%
The Golden Charter Academy	$833,684	4	5%
Aurum Preparatory Academy Inc	$819,610	5	44%
Cristo Rey de la Salle East Bay High School Inc	$810,500	3	n/a
Westlake Charter School	$810,000	4	3%
Charthouse Public Schools	$777,000	5	9%
Lighthouse Community Public Schools	$768,000	6	1%
Achieve Charter School of Paradise	$744,931	4	9%
Caliber Public Schools	$703,830	6	1%
Bes Inc	$700,000	2	3%
Global Academy Inc	$688,024	4	12%
East Bay Innovation Academy	$638,686	4	6%
Growth Public Schools	$607,975	4	33%
Teach for America Inc	$600,000	3	0%
Franklin-McKinley School District	$589,000	7	n/a
Perseverance Preparatory Inc Case #23-51070	$557,000	5	96%
Oxford Day Academy Inc	$530,000	3	35%
Allegiance Steam Academy Inc	$519,474	2	2%
Invictus Academy Inc	$510,000	4	13%
Bellwether Education Partners Inc	$500,000	1	3%
Innovate Public Schools	$473,500	4	4%
Relay Graduate School of Education	$473,000	4	0%
Capital College & Career Academy	$422,025	3	35%
Red Bridge Education	$410,000	5	25%
Laurel Leadership Institute	$400,000	4	46%
Stream Charter School	$382,000	3	3%
Milpitas Unified School District	$365,000	6	n/a
Design Tech High School	$360,000	4	2%
Education for Change	$359,500	5	0%
Kairos Public Schools	$313,025	4	2%
Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland a Corporation Sole	$310,000	4	n/a
Accelerate Institute	$280,000	3	6%
Cristo Rey San Jose High School	$260,000	2	1%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University	$250,000	2	0%
Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School	$231,500	3	7%
Achievement First Inc	$215,000	3	0%
Polytechnic Academy	$200,000	1	n/a
Willie J Frink College Prep	$200,000	3	n/a
Latinos for Education Inc	$200,000	2	6%
Magnolia Educational and Research Foundation	$200,000	1	0%
Unbound Stockton Community School	$200,000	1	22%
Promise Public School	$175,000	2	n/a
National Council on Teacher Quality Inc	$175,000	3	4%
GO Public Schools	$175,000	1	2%
Mission Preparatory Inc	$151,450	5	1%
The Center for Better Schools	$150,000	1	7%
Chico Country Day School	$150,000	2	1%
The Primary School	$150,000	2	2%
Ednovate Inc	$150,000	1	0%
Instruction Partners	$150,000	1	1%
Mary L Booker Leadership Academy	$142,500	2	8%
The Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy	$132,200	3	2%
Unity Schools	$131,350	5	0%
Arise High School	$113,619	2	2%
Khan Academy Inc	$110,000	2	0%
Open Up Resources	$100,000	1	0%
Lumen Christi Academies of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland	$100,000	2	n/a
Marin County Office of Education	$100,000	1	n/a
Pacific Charter Institute Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Riveting Results	$100,000	1	n/a
Urban Montessori	$100,000	1	2%
The Wildflower Foundation	$100,000	1	1%
De Marillac Academy	$95,000	1	n/a
The Lean Lab Inc Lean Lab Education	$80,000	1	9%
Paloma Learning Inc	$75,000	1	n/a
MindCatcher Education	$75,000	1	18%
Expedition Academy Santa Cruz	$75,000	1	33%
Granada High School	$75,000	2	n/a
Surge Institute	$75,000	3	1%
Alliance of Ai for Equity	$55,000	1	16%
Milo Edu	$50,000	1	n/a
Magnolia Global Academy for Leaders	$50,000	1	12%
University of Washington Foundation	$50,000	1	n/a
Acton East Bay	$50,000	1	n/a
Transcend Inc	$50,000	1	1%
UP Academy Inc DBA UP Academy Rebel Educator	$50,000	1	6%
The Dahlia School	$50,000	1	n/a
New Leaders Inc	$50,000	1	0%
The Oakland Public Education Fund	$27,500	1	0%
Navigator Labs Fka Gooru	$25,000	1	4%
Led Better Inc	$25,000	1	6%
West Contra Costa Unified School District	$20,000	1	n/a
Seneca Family of Agencies	$20,000	1	0%
Gilroy Unified School District	$20,000	1	n/a
River Charter Schools	$20,000	1	0%
Loma Prieta Joint Union Elementary School District	$20,000	1	n/a
Starlight Elementary	$20,000	1	n/a
The American Ai Forum	$15,000	1	0%
Playlab Education Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Oakland Unified School District	$10,000	1	n/a
The Oakland REACH	$10,000	1	0%
Hollister School District	$10,000	1	n/a
Los Amigos de Manzanita Seed	$10,000	1	n/a
Ace Charter School	$10,000	1	0%
San Leandro Adult Career Education Center	$10,000	1	n/a

Silicon Schools Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 84.

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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.

New Schools FundCA64.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · California Charter Schools Association · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · Lead Liberated · Quest Foundation · Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Great Public Schools Now

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 Silicon Schools Fund Inc

How much does Silicon Schools Fund Inc give?: Silicon Schools Fund Inc reported 51 grants totaling $6,036,344 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Silicon Schools Fund Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Silicon Schools Fund Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kipp Bay Area Schools ($2.9M), Rocketship Education ($2.2M), Aspire Public Schools ($2.0M).
Does Silicon Schools Fund Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Silicon Schools Fund Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Schools Fund, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.
Where is Silicon Schools Fund Inc based?: Silicon Schools Fund Inc is based in CA.