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Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice

Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,147 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$156k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$413k
Net assets
$31k
7/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice does

Mission

Oakland Communities for Equity & Justice (OCUEJ)s Self-Help Hunger Program (SHHP) connects the dots between food waste, food justice, nutritional support and food industry-related employment/business opportunities for those experiencing skyrocketing rates of homelessness and displacement-vulnerability.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Self-Help Hunger Nutritional Support Program (SHHP) serves over 700 unduplicated individuals with 200 points-of-service on a monthly basis. Annual turnover on unduplicated individuals approaches 20%.Four days weekly, our Free Food Pantry at Oaklands Jasper Driver Plaza City Park offers fresh produce and non-perishable foods, augmented by varying amounts of surplus pre-cooked foods rescued from restaurants and other nutritional support programs. During 2025, the Self Help Hunger Program rescued 282597 lbs from waste. The food (fresh produce and pre-cooked foods) were served through our program or shared with one of our 6 partnering programs offering free produce/meals.The program is operated by stipend workers who benefit from job training and reentry into society after incarceration, homelessness and addiction treatment.Our Cooks For Food Justice Project provides just over 125 nutritious, culturally-appropriate prepared meals made with ingredients diverted from the waste stream weekly.OCUEJ also organizes several events to support the Black community of Oakland and South Berkeley. The events present relevant cultural programming as well as bringing together resources for…

    $74,202 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,202.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($295k) Expenses 100 ($202k) Net assets 100 ($133k)2021 Revenue 28 ($84k) Expenses 73 ($148k) Net assets 53 ($71k)2022 Revenue 37 ($109k) Expenses 77 ($155k) Net assets 20 ($26k)2023 Revenue 54 ($160k) Expenses 68 ($138k) Net assets 36 ($48k)2024 Revenue 39 ($116k) Expenses 59 ($119k) Net assets 33 ($44k)2025 Revenue 53 ($156k) Expenses 84 ($169k) Net assets 24 ($31k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (53)Expenses (84)Net assets (24)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $133k to $71k (−47%).

$133k
$71k
$26k
$49k
$45k
$32k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$93k
’20
−$64k
’21
−$46k
’22
$22k
’23
−$3k
’24
−$13k
’25
7.8
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $70k.

8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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

Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice.

24%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 69% · 2019 40% · 2020 45% · 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 71% — 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.

How long its funders stay

0% of Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

99% of Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
MA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice?
Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,147 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $413,147 in grants to Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Oakland Communities United for Equity and Justice 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 19 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