California · Public charity
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund
Grant making organization supporting students and education initiatives of West Contra Costa USD.
- $408k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $328k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,873
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations West Contra Costa Public Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $328k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $340k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $147k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $442k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $1.2M | 67% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $851k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Contra Costa Unified School District | $1,468,020 | 5 | n/a |
| Community Financial Resources | $764,829 | 4 | 50% |
| Partners in School Innovation | $344,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Richmond Land | $249,962 | 1 | 29% |
| Bay Area Community Resources Inc | $114,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Glen Price Group | $92,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | $64,019 | 1 | 0% |
| Richmond Promise Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Beam Foundation | $46,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aspire Education Project | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Contra Costa Unified School District | $1,468,020 | 5 | n/a |
| Community Financial Resources | $764,829 | 4 | 50% |
| Partners in School Innovation | $344,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Richmond Land | $249,962 | 1 | 29% |
| Bay Area Community Resources Inc | $114,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Glen Price Group | $92,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | $64,019 | 1 | 0% |
| Richmond Promise Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Beam Foundation | $46,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aspire Education Project | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Alexander Fleming | $14,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Housing Development Corp of North Richmond | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Oakland | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Richmond Art Center | $7,200 | 1 | 1% |
| Foundation for Students Rising Above | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Onegoal | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
West Contra Costa Public Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Richmond Community Foundation · Chamberlin Education Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Justice Justice Foundation · Chamberlin Family Philanthropy · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation
How this is measured
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About West Contra Costa Public Education Fund
- How much does West Contra Costa Public Education Fund give?
- West Contra Costa Public Education Fund reported 4 itemized grants totaling $328,123, out of $407,986 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does West Contra Costa Public Education Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Public Benefit (19%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
- Who are West Contra Costa Public Education Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: West Contra Costa Unified School District ($1.5M), Community Financial Resources ($765k), Partners in School Innovation ($344k).
- Does West Contra Costa Public Education Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as West Contra Costa Public Education Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is West Contra Costa Public Education Fund based?
- West Contra Costa Public Education Fund is based in CA.
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