California · Nonprofit
The East Oakland Collective
The East Oakland Collective (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $955,077 to it, the largest being SPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC ($190,969). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $955k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What The East Oakland Collective does
Mission
The East Oakland Collective supports residents of East Oakland, prioritizing Black residents, to navigate challenges and barriers to inequities through resource distribution and advocacy. We work towards racial and economic justice and equitable access. Our work includes food and supply distribution, homeless services and solutions and economic empowerment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The food and supply distribution program works to provide weekly fresh and nutritious food access to east oakland residents. The program served over 530,133 pounds of groceries to over 8,492 households representing more than 24,114 individuals. We expanded our reach to youth by partnering with the oakland unified school district summer meal program. Our older adult solidarity program fostered community connection among older adults 50 years and older through monthly coffee hours with workshops and resources. We continued our homeless services and solutions work by meeting the immediate and direct needs of our homeless neighbors with meals, supplies, linkages and support. We continued our awarding winning program, feed the hood, hosting events that distributed 2,000 lunches and countless hygiene supplies to homeless neighbors, while bringing together hundreds of volunteers. We conducted homelessness prevention and anti-displacement efforts through partnership with keep people housed oakland. Our east oakland susu financial literacy program graduated a small cohort of oakland residents advancing their financial knowledge and expanding their savings.
$1,296,049 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,296,049.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.4M to $2.8M (−17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of The East Oakland Collective’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $4k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 The East Oakland Collective’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 29 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
The East Oakland Collective has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
78% 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 The East Oakland Collective.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 46% · 2022 58% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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 The East Oakland Collective's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
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
97% of The East Oakland Collective's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
The East Oakland Collective is better cushioned than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The East Oakland Collective
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The East Oakland Collective: 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 The East Oakland Collective?
- The East Oakland Collective (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $955,077 to it, the largest being SPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC ($190,969). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The East Oakland Collective have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $955,077 in grants to The East Oakland Collective, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The East Oakland Collective?
- SPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $190,969 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The East Oakland Collective 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 29 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