California · Nonprofit
THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 199 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,773,199 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($10,575,000). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 199
- Grants received
- $84M
- Net assets
- $23M
What The Oakland Public Education Fund does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Oakland Public Education Fund ("the ed fund") secures and manages resources for schools while helping those schools develop their own capacity to create the best learning environments for their students. The ed fund works with schools that strive to be results oriented, to develop entrepreneurial leadership, and to cultivate collaboration and family leadership, and to focus on student personalization and innovative curriculum. The ed fund is also a fiscal sponsor for a range of projects with the oakland public schools, oakland unified school district, and education-focused projects.
$18,514,667 spentof which $7,471,860 as grants$6,215,022 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,514,667.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $18M to $28M (+54%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 10% · 2023 13% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Loraine Binion-Hardy
Chair (thru 6/2025) / director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 42 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $4.9M → $8.4M.
38 of 199 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $95k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Oakland Public Education Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 199 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 OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 32% · 2019 22% · 2020 49% · 2021 31% · 2022 32% · 2023 21% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
94% of THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: 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 OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND?
- THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND (California) receives grants from 199 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,773,199 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($10,575,000). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 199 organizations giving $83,773,199 in grants to THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND?
- CRANKSTART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 199 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing