California · Nonprofit
Families in Action for Quality Education
Families in Action for Quality Education (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,043 to it, the largest being KOSHLAND FOUNDATION ($900,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $205k
What Families in Action for Quality Education does
Mission
FIA was founded to protect access to quality public schools through elevating authentic parent and youth leadership.Families in Action for Quality Education (FIA) empowers Black, Brown, and low-income families in Oakland to advocate for equitable access to high-quality public education. Grounded in the belief that "the people most impacted by the problem should be at the decision-making tables," FIA builds family power by equipping parents and youth with organizing skills, leadership training, and advocacy tools to achieve policy and practice wins at the school and citywide levels.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FIA trains and mobilizes family leaders at two levels:Grassroots: Families engage fellow parents in their classrooms and schools, strengthening local leadership and advocacy.Grass-tops: FIA leaders influence elected officials and policymakers through research meetings, public actions, and campaigns that push for systemic educational reforms.FIA structures campaigns to address key inequities in Oakland public education, focusing on literacy, college eligibility, and resource allocation.1. A-G College Eligibility CampaignFIA empowers students and parents to close the racial gap in A-G eligibility, ensuring college readiness for Black and Brown students. OUSD High School Superintendent integrated FIA's campaign demands into district goals (2024-25).1,100 students participated in FIA's student-led A-G workshops. Understanding of A-G requirements increased from 34% to 88%. Awareness of individual A-G status rose from 41% to 88%. FIA hosted a nationally live-streamed A-G Roundtable featuring OUSD leaders, educators, and student advocates.
$1,259,900 spentof which $70,573 as grants$107,668 earned by the program100% of program spending2. Raise the Bar Campaign (School Quality & Data Transparency)FIA publishes an annual citywide school quality report, highlighting disparities in academic outcomes and best practices in Oakland schools. In June 2024, FIA's advocacy led to the passage of the OUSD Resolution to Advance Black and Brown Student Achievement.The resolution commits OUSD to double Black and Brown student proficiency and increase A-G completion from 50% to 80%. 20 district and charter school leaders pledged to share student data transparency. FIA amplified high-performing schools that have had breakthrough success in reading, math, and A-G completion.
Lit for Literacy Campaign (Family Engagement in Literacy)Lit for Literacy trains parents to become literacy champions, equipping them with skills to support early literacy at home and in schools.- 270 families trained as literacy champions across 9 schools.- 1,035 additional families reached through literacy outreach.- School-wide changes inspired by FIA's literacy advocacy:Redefined school leader, educator, and staff roles to prioritize family partnership in academics.Implemented Tier 1 & Tier 2 structures for parents to teach reading data and literacy strategies to other families.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,259,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $68k to $327k (+379%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
92% of Families in Action for Quality Education’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kimi Kean
CEO and Co-Founder
Board chair
Maribel Gonzalez
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5 → $710k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Families in Action for Quality Education’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Families in Action for Quality Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 89% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
90% of Families in Action for Quality Education's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Families in Action for Quality Education has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Families in Action for Quality Education
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Families in Action for Justice · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Families in Action for Quality Education: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Families in Action for Quality Education?
- Families in Action for Quality Education (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,043 to it, the largest being KOSHLAND FOUNDATION ($900,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Families in Action for Quality Education have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,205,043 in grants to Families in Action for Quality Education, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Families in Action for Quality Education?
- KOSHLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Families in Action for Quality Education find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing