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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 FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$70MYouth Development$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.6MHuman Services$1.2MPublic Benefit$750kPublic Safety & Disaster$408kArts & Culture$331kCommunity Improvement$322kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $5,119,776 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,471,860 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,352,084 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $658k
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.2M
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$3,853,313
THE FREEDOM SCHOOL LLC$335,000
OAKLAND TECH EXCHANGE$231,340
OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL$198,046
SAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$149,000
YOUTHBEAT$80,000
OAKLAND PROMISE$40,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO$25,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY$25,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES$25,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ$25,000
PARENT VOICES OAKLAND$20,000
EAST BAY SPANISH SPEAKING CITIZENS FOUNDATION$8,000
EAST BAY AGENCY FOR CHILDREN$8,000
EAST BAY CONSORTIUM OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS INC$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $904k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $20k → 10%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $8k → 10%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $36k → 10%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $30k → 10%EAST BAY SPANISH SPEAKING CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $281k → 10%EAST BAY SPANISH SPEAKING CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $222k → 10%EAST BAY SPANISH SPEAKING CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $141k → 10%BANANAS INCORPORATED: $13k → 10%EAST BAY SPANISH SPEAKING CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $25k → 10%BANANAS INCORPORATED: $25k → 10%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $22k → 10%BANANAS INCORPORATED: $22k → 10%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $22k → 10%BANANAS INCORPORATED: $12k → 10%BANANAS INCORPORATED: $11k → 10%PARENT VOICES OAKLAND: $9k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MI
NY
CA
MD
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$69M · 37 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
60

Total granted

$69M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+2%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • OP
    OAKLAND PROMISE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +185%
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGES
    5× · 2020–2025 · $988k · revenue +309%
  • EB
    EAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER
    5× · 2019–2025 · $708k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • ON
    OAKLAND NATIVES GIVE BACK FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $888k · revenue -20% · 86% of their budget
  • IC
    INTEL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $558k
  • CY
    Community & Youth Outreach Inc DBA Oakland California Youth Outreach
    one grant, 2023 · $453k · revenue -96%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Leadership Public Schools

Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.

Education
2
Bay Education Fund

Build a community investment fund that catalyzes local movements and transforms district capacity by bringing together families,communities, teachers, district leaders, and philanthropy to co-design a vision for students and implement…

Education
3
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
4
Alameda Education Foundation

AEF serves as a critical bridge toward equitable and inclusive educational outcomes for Alameda TK-12 public school students.

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5
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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6
Arts for Oakland Kids

To advance arts justice by ensuring that all students in under-resourced oakland public schools receive a comprehensive arts education in order to improve learning and promote achievement.

Arts & Culture
7
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
8
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
9
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy
10
360 Accelerator Education Partners

360 Accelerator provides leadership development services to public education leaders.

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11
Oakland Fund for Public Innovation

The Oakland Fund reaches across the city, engaging private partners to innovate, test and scale ideas that enhance Oakland. The Fund strives to improve the prosperity, safety and quality of life for all Oaklanders with projects that: build…

Community Improvement
12
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education for Change and the most unlike its peers is Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%7%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr12%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%6%<5yr15%14%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr18%51%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/113
the rest of the field
12%
2,058/16,569

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

94 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. 94 of the 115 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/94
Grantees still filing
54/94
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $55,927,056 · OtherOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT+50 more — $6,785,738 · Other+50 moreOAKLAND PROMISE — $2,068,319 · EducationLead Liberated — $1,394,846 · EducationThe Oakland REACH — $693,539 · EducationGO Public Schools — $230,787 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG — $198,046 · Education+29 more — $1,282,486 · EducationTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $2,538,200 · PhilanthropyTHE PG&E CORPORATION FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyHELLMAN FOUNDATION — $158,650 · Philanthropy+4 more — $202,523 · PhilanthropyOAKLAND NATIVES GIVE BACK FUND INC — $888,082 · Youth DevelopmentEAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER — $708,459 · Youth DevelopmentOakland Kids First — $322,237 · Youth DevelopmentHIGHER GROUND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP — $274,606 · Youth DevelopmentACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $211,010 · Youth Development+5 more — $129,188 · Youth DevelopmentEast Bay Agency for Children — $697,306 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $442,123 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY — $151,650 · HealthLincoln — $97,500 · Health+3 more — $36,000 · HealthSAFE PASSAGES — $988,480 · Crime & LegalEast Bay Spanish Speaking Citizens Found — $651,260 · Human ServicesPARENT VOICES OAKLAND — $97,152 · Human ServicesBANANAS INCORPORATED — $82,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Child Care Coordinating Council of Alameda County — $66,000 · Human Services+1 more — $8,000 · Human Services
Other$62,712,794Education$5,868,023Philanthropy$3,099,373Youth Development$2,533,582Health$1,424,579Crime & Legal$988,480Human Services$904,412

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $2,538,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE — $2,068,319 over 8y, 16% of budgetLead Liberated — $1,394,846 over 3y, 16% of budgetSAFE PASSAGES — $988,480 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetOAKLAND TECH EXCHANGE — $924,426 over 2y, 26% of budgetOAKLAND NATIVES GIVE BACK FUND INC — $888,082 over 1y, 86% of budgetEAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER — $708,459 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetEast Bay Agency for Children — $697,306 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Oakland REACH — $693,539 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetEast Bay Spanish Speaking Citizens Found — $651,260 over 4y, 46% of budgetCommunity & Youth Outreach Inc DBA Oakland California Youth Outreach — $452,672 over 1y, 16% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $442,123 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOakland Kids First — $322,237 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PERALTA HACIENDA HISTORICAL PARK — $305,761 over 1y, 27% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $274,901 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetHIGHER GROUND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP — $274,606 over 4y, 20% of budgetSAMOAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $269,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGO Public Schools — $230,787 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT — $211,010 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetTHE PG&E CORPORATION FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $198,046 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES AND HELEN SCHWAB FOUNDATION — $190,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHELLMAN FOUNDATION — $158,650 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES EAST BAY — $151,650 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCARES FOR LEARNING — $121,183 over 2y, 15% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER — $120,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN MONTESSORI — $101,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND — $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLincoln — $97,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARENT VOICES OAKLAND — $97,152 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $94,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $86,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBANANAS INCORPORATED — $82,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITY SCHOOLS — $81,657 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouthBeat — $80,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe David and Lucile Packard Foundation — $78,052 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOR CHANGE — $71,031 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY LAB — $70,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBay Area Parent Leadership Action Network PLAN — $66,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCommunity Child Care Coordinating Council of Alameda County — $66,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOTUS BLOOM — $64,188 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $63,765 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCM FOUNDATION — $57,443 over 1y, 16% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL — $50,370 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

East Bay Community Fo…Kenneth Rainin Founda…T Gary and Kathleen R…The San Francisco Fou…Golden State Communit…Quest FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…The Barrios TrustThe California Endowm…T Gary and Kathleen R…Silicon Schools Fund …The California Wellne…
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

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 The Oakland Public Education Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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