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The Oakland REACH

The Oakland REACH (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,102,966 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($3,444,999). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$152k
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$20M
Net assets
$5.0M
27/42 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What The Oakland REACH does

Mission

The Oakland REACH is a parent-run, parent-led group committed to empowering families from our most underserved communities to demand high-quality schools for our children.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Programming: Expanded our Literacy Liberator program in partnership with Oakland Unified School District. Expanded the program to include Math in FY24 and supported tutoring via Summer School in OUSD for FY24/25.

    $1,398,993 spent$57,120 earned by the program
    50% of program spending
  2. Growth/Replication: Began codifying some programs to share with other cities to help them implement (REACH Way Institute). Hosted some events in Oakland and in other cities to share our codified work for replication in those cities. Began building a Tier 2 tutoring tool solution we plan to pilot in FY25.

    $1,215,748 spent$130,000 earned by the program
    43% of program spending
  3. Advocacy: Continue to support Oakland and State level advocacy, including supporting legislation to increase funding to low income communities.

    $191,520 spent
    7% of program spending
  4. Other program activity

    $3,400 earned by the program

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,806,261.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($200k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($189k)2020 Revenue 1609 ($3.2M) Expenses 16087 ($1.9M) Net assets 818 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 1345 ($2.7M) Expenses 24557 ($2.8M) Net assets 735 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 4358 ($8.7M) Expenses 34170 ($4.0M) Net assets 3258 ($6.1M)2023 Revenue 2042 ($4.1M) Expenses 34678 ($4.0M) Net assets 3292 ($6.2M)2024 Revenue 1689 ($3.4M) Expenses 35018 ($4.1M) Net assets 2930 ($5.5M)2025 Revenue 76 ($152k) Expenses 6601 ($766k) Net assets 2666 ($5.0M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (76)Expenses (6601)Net assets (2666)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $6.6M (+299%).

$200k
$1.8M
$1.7M
$6.6M
$6.7M
$5.9M
$5.4M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of The Oakland REACH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$189k
’19
$1.4M
’20
−$156k
’21
$4.8M
’22
$63k
’23
−$683k
’24
−$614k
’25
3.5
months of
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

Lakisha Young

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed33669108
Joined·+0+3+0+3+4+2
No longer listed·000034
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $726k → $3.8M.

12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Oakland REACH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 REACH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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

49% 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 REACH.

17%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 69% · 2020 25% · 2021 25% · 2022 43% · 2023 21% — 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

69% of The Oakland REACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

69% of The Oakland REACH's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
MA
OR
CA
AR
TN
DC
FL

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

The Oakland REACH's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−404% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 21%Fundraising 9%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

57%

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 The Oakland REACH?
The Oakland REACH (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,102,966 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($3,444,999). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Oakland REACH have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $20,102,966 in grants to The Oakland REACH, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Oakland REACH?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,444,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Oakland REACH 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 42 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