How much does The Oakland Public Education Fund give?

The Oakland Public Education Fund reported 28 itemized grants totaling $5,119,776, out of $7,471,860 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Oakland Public Education Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Youth Development (3%), Philanthropy (2%).

Who are The Oakland Public Education Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oakland Unified School District ($56M), Oakland Promise ($2.1M), Lead Liberated ($1.4M).

Does The Oakland Public Education Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Oakland Public Education Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation.

Where is The Oakland Public Education Fund based?

The Oakland Public Education Fund is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

The Oakland Public Education Fund

THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND leads the development and investment of community resources in oakland public schools so that all students can learn, grow, and thrive.

$7.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 28
Itemized grants FY2025: 22
Organizations funded FY2024: 27%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $5.1M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $8,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $3,853,313
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 32; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $25M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Oakland Public Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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
FY2025still arriving	28	$5.1M	50%
FY2024	22	$8.0M	27%
FY2023	28	$10M	46%
FY2022	12	$6.4M	58%
FY2021	32	$10M	53%
FY2020	18	$8.6M	67%
FY2019	16	$8.6M	69%
FY2018	13	$11M	38%

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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 2025.

Education$70MYouth Development$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.6MHuman Services$1.2MPublic Benefit$750kPublic Safety & Disaster$408kArts & Culture$331kCommunity Improvement$322kOther$0

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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oakland Unified School District	$55,927,056	9	n/a
Oakland Promise	$2,068,319	8	16%
Lead Liberated	$1,394,846	3	16%
City of Oakland OPRYD	$1,007,000	3	n/a
Safe Passages	$988,480	5	3%
Oakland Tech Exchange	$924,426	2	26%
Oakland Natives Give Back Fund Inc	$888,082	1	86%
East Bay Asian Youth Center	$708,459	5	7%
East Bay Agency for Children	$697,306	4	2%
The Freedom School LLC	$695,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of The Oakland Public Education Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oakland Unified School District	$55,927,056	9	n/a
Oakland Promise	$2,068,319	8	16%
Lead Liberated	$1,394,846	3	16%
City of Oakland OPRYD	$1,007,000	3	n/a
Safe Passages	$988,480	5	3%
Oakland Tech Exchange	$924,426	2	26%
Oakland Natives Give Back Fund Inc	$888,082	1	86%
East Bay Asian Youth Center	$708,459	5	7%
East Bay Agency for Children	$697,306	4	2%
The Freedom School LLC	$695,000	2	n/a
The Oakland REACH	$693,539	3	6%
East Bay Spanish Speaking Citizens Found	$651,260	4	46%
Intel Corporation	$558,023	1	n/a
Community & Youth Outreach Inc DBA Oakland California Youth Outreach	$452,672	1	16%
Bay Area Community Resources Inc	$442,123	4	0%
Oakland Police Foundation	$407,820	1	n/a
Oakland Kids First	$322,237	5	7%
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park	$305,761	1	27%
Soccer Without Borders	$274,901	4	4%
Higher Ground Neighborhood Development Corp	$274,606	4	20%
Samoan Community Development Center	$269,000	2	3%
GO Public Schools	$230,787	2	3%
Oakland Pacific Islander Network	$220,000	2	n/a
Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project	$211,010	3	6%
The PG&E Corporation Foundation	$200,000	1	8%
Donorschooseorg	$198,046	1	0%
Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation	$190,000	1	2%
Hellman Foundation	$158,650	1	0%
Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay	$151,650	1	2%
Golder State Warriors	$130,000	1	n/a
Cares for Learning	$121,183	2	15%
New Teacher Center	$120,000	3	0%
Urban Montessori	$101,500	1	3%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Oakland	$100,000	1	5%
Lincoln	$97,500	2	0%
Parent Voices Oakland	$97,152	5	6%
The Oakland Public Education Fund	$94,500	1	0%
Bananas Incorporated	$82,000	5	0%
Unity Schools	$81,657	2	0%
YouthBeat	$80,000	1	12%
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation	$78,052	1	0%
Kenneth Rainin Foundation	$72,920	1	n/a
Education for Change	$71,031	3	0%
Literacy Lab	$70,000	1	15%
Community Child Care Coordinating Council of Alameda County	$66,000	2	0%
Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network PLAN	$66,000	3	3%
Lotus Bloom	$64,188	3	2%
Design School X	$63,764	1	n/a
McM Foundation	$57,443	1	16%
Urban Strategies Council	$50,370	2	2%
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation	$50,000	1	0%
Spanish Speaking Unity Council of Alameda County Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network	$50,000	2	1%
Booknook Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Ujimaa Foundation	$46,800	1	n/a
Nexplore LLC	$46,800	1	n/a
Lighthouse Community Public Schools	$46,611	2	0%
Quantumcamp Inc	$45,000	1	n/a
Empathway Designs LLC	$45,000	1	n/a
East Bay Consortium of Educ Institutions	$43,856	3	1%
Hubbleiq Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
Partnership for Children & Youth	$35,000	1	4%
T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation	$34,825	2	1%
Aspire Public Schools	$33,928	2	0%
Community Development Finance	$33,825	1	10%
Oakland Leaf Foundation	$32,160	1	2%
Playworks Education Energized	$31,000	1	0%
Regents of the University of California	$25,000	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$25,000	1	n/a
Regents Univ of California	$25,000	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California	$25,000	1	n/a
Self-Estem	$25,000	1	21%
Chinese for Affirmative Action	$20,000	1	0%
Aurum Preparatory Academy Inc	$20,000	1	27%
Health Initiatives for Youth Inc	$20,000	1	2%
American Association of Yemeni Students and Professionals	$20,000	1	13%
Tandem Partners in Early Learning	$18,750	1	1%
Planting Justice	$18,000	1	0%
Led Better Inc	$18,000	1	4%
Aspire Public Schools Foundation	$18,000	1	1%
High Expectations	$18,000	1	n/a
Pacific Bridge Club	$18,000	2	11%
The Harris Foundation	$16,726	1	2%
Citizen Schools Inc	$15,724	1	0%
Asian Health Services	$15,000	1	0%
North Oakland Community Charter School	$12,965	1	1%
Children's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn	$12,500	1	0%
Mills College	$12,000	1	0%
Inquiring Systems Inc	$10,000	1	0%
South Asian Girls Project Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Push for Excellence Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Oakland School for the Arts	$10,000	1	0%
Bay Area Technology School	$10,000	1	0%
Community School for Creative Education	$10,000	1	0%
California School-Age Consortium Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Alternatives in Action	$9,500	1	0%
American Indian Model Schools	$8,864	1	0%
Arise High School	$8,728	1	0%
Family Paths Inc	$8,500	1	0%
Youth Together Inc	$8,000	1	1%
Rob Skate Academy	$8,000	1	n/a
Oakland Lacrosse Club	$8,000	1	1%
Ultimate Impact Inc	$8,000	1	n/a
Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc	$6,720	1	0%
Battle Tested Kids INC	$6,000	1	n/a
Youth Alive	$6,000	1	0%
My Other Brother Mob	$6,000	1	2%
Envision Education Inc	$5,485	1	0%
Elevate Teaching	$5,077	1	n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($230k), not named here.

The Oakland Public Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 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.

East Bay Community FoundationCA70.4× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Golden State Community Foundation · Quest Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Barrios Trust · The California Endowment · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Supporting Family Foundation · Silicon Schools Fund Inc · The California Wellness 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 The Oakland Public Education Fund

How much does The Oakland Public Education Fund give?: The Oakland Public Education Fund reported 28 itemized grants totaling $5,119,776, out of $7,471,860 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Oakland Public Education Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Youth Development (3%), Philanthropy (2%).
Who are The Oakland Public Education Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oakland Unified School District ($56M), Oakland Promise ($2.1M), Lead Liberated ($1.4M).
Does The Oakland Public Education Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Oakland Public Education Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation.
Where is The Oakland Public Education Fund based?: The Oakland Public Education Fund is based in CA.