Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Invitation OnlyOakland, California · EIN 94-3289283 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$21.9M
Organizations funded294
Typical grant$25,000
Total assets$668.9M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $10,000 and $83,000.
From the return
How to apply
On its return for tax year 2024 the foundation checked the box saying it only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
23% of grants went outside California.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roxie Theater | San Francisco, CA | $1,200,000 for the roxie forever campaign and $100,000 for general operations support of the new facility and staff. | $1,300,000 |
| Community Arts Stabilization Trust | San Francisco, CA | General operating support | $1,000,000 |
| Community Arts Stabilization Trust | San Francisco, CA | General operating support | $1,000,000 |
| Education for Change | Oakland, CA | Structured literacy initiative | $900,000 |
| Oakland Unified School District | Oakland, CA | Structured literacy initiative | $832,432 |
| San Francisco Film Society | San Francisco, CA | Sffilm rainin filmmaking grants and programs | $750,000 |
| United States Artists Inc | Chicago, IL | For the rainin fellowship program. | $600,000 |
| Trustees of University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | Neuro-Epithelial interactions in mucosal regeneration | $500,000 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Improving clinical decision making beyond the standard of care using artificial intelligence | $500,000 |
| Center for the Collaborative Classroom | Alameda, CA | 2025-2026 K-2 literacy support | $400,000 |
| Aspire Public Schools | Oakland, CA | 23-25 structured literacy initiative | $380,000 |
| Californians for the Arts | Sacramento, CA | Field leadership/artist advocate program | $318,000 |
| Teaching Well Inc | Oakland, CA | General retention support | $315,000 |
| Reach University | Alameda, CA | Semester of literacy design | $300,000 |
| Oakland Unified School District | Oakland, CA | 23-35 structured literacy initiatve: K-12 coaching/training | $264,156 |
| Azora Therapeutics Inc | Encino, CA | Novel oral small molecule for ulcerative colitis | $250,000 |
| Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason | Seattle, WA | Integrin autoantibodies in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis | $250,000 |
| Oakland Literacy Coalition | Oakland, CA | General support | $250,000 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | General support | $250,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Palo Alto, CA | Epithelial metabolic reprogramming for pediatric ulcerative colitis | $250,000 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Dallas, TX | Immune-Checkpoint engineered colon organoids to induce immune tolerance as treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) | $250,000 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Pioneering single-cell intracellular metagenomics: a revolutionary new window into microbe-immune interactions at barrier tissues | $250,000 |
| Association of Black Gastroenterogists | New York City, NY | For capacity building support | $240,000 |
| Philanthropic Ventures Foundation | Oakland, CA | 3L's programming & expansion | $240,000 |
| Alder Graduate School of Education | Redwood City, CA | To support alder graduate school of education to align with california's new educator preparation standards for literacy instruction. | $200,000 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | Identifying the driver of penetrating fibrosis in crohns disease | $200,000 |
| The Oakland Public Education Fund | Oakland, CA | General support | $200,000 |
| Families in Action for Quality Education | Oakland, CA | Lit4literacy campaign | $175,000 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | Decoding the neuronal and microbial basis of stress-induced colitis | $150,000 |
| Oakland Reach | Oakland, CA | General support (bridge grant) | $150,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Palo Alto, CA | Investigating the intestinal microenvironment in inflammatory bowel disease under physiologic conditions using a novel ingestible sampling… | $150,000 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH | Epithelial signals mediating intestinal fibrosis | $125,000 |
| Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum | Heidelberg, GM | Functionally decoding the contribution of human host-fungal interactions to the pathogenesis of ibd | $125,000 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Seattle, WA | Dietary regulation of intestinal immune-metabolic trade-offs through activation of neuroimmune circuits | $125,000 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Seattle, WA | Mechanisms by which maternal antibodies regulate immune responses to the microbiota in early life | $125,000 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Discovery of therapeutic microbial metabolites in inflammatory bowel diseases | $125,000 |
| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Munich | Munich, GM | Unveiling druggable targets of necroptosis in inflammatory bowel disease using a genome-wide crispr screen approach | $125,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Cortical modulation of gut motility | $125,000 |
| The Children's Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | Androgen-Dependent regulation of colonic inflammation by gut-innervating nociceptors | $125,000 |
| The New York and Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell | New York, NY | Fungal-Bacterial interactions: an opportunity for novel treatment of ulcerative colitis | $125,000 |
| The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute | Melbourne, CA | Vanishing act: the disappearance of cell death brakes in inflammatory bowel disease | $125,000 |
| Trustees of University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | Understanding the impact of psychological stress on ibd severity | $125,000 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Colonic epithelial injury in response to inflammatory fibroblast and mononuclear phagocyte activation | $125,000 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Role of ga13-coupled receptor signaling during induction of intestinal th17 cells | $125,000 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | Explore the immunomodulatory consequences of protist-derived metabolites in ibd | $125,000 |
| The 500 Capp Street Foundation | San Francisco, CA | Collaborating with the muses, part II | $100,733 |
| Bananas Incorporated | Oakland, CA | General support | $100,000 |
| Black Arts Movement and Business District | Oakland, CA | General support | $100,000 |
| Community Vision Capital & Consulting | San Francisco, CA | Real estate readiness | $100,000 |
| Destiny Arts Center | Oakland, CA | Teddy bear movement arts | $100,000 |
| Dr Huey P Newton Foundation | Oakland, CA | Supporting the huey p newton foundation to propel the black panther party museum's evolution. | $100,000 |
| Emerald Cities Collaborative Inc | Washington, DC | To support arts organizations and climate change research | $100,000 |
| Francis Crick Institute | London, UK | Resolving gene-environment interactions in ibd via ahr | $100,000 |
| Global Impact | Alexandria, VA | Pooled funding to support emerging bilingual priorities | $100,000 |
| Lighthouse Community Public Schools | Oakland, CA | Structured literacy initiative | $100,000 |
| Lincoln Child Center | Oakland, CA | Trauma-Informed early literacy playgroups | $100,000 |
| Lotus Bloom | Oakland, CA | Afro-Play oakland | $100,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MI | Metabolism controls cd4 t helper cell-induced pathogenicity during inflammatory bowel disease | $100,000 |
| Mujeres Unidas Y Activas | San Francisco, CA | The apapachos project: training informal immigrant caregivers of young children | $100,000 |
| Parent Voices Oakland | Oakland, CA | Leading with joy: affirming our linguistic brilliance through an each one teach one community skills sharing model for parents and… | $100,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 294 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education for Change | Oakland, CA | Structured literacy initiative | $900,000 |
| Association of Black Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists Inc | New York City, NY | For capacity building support including abgh rising, ed salary support & the research grant program | $470,000 |
| Californians for the Arts | Sacramento, CA | Field leadership/artist advocate program | $425,000 |
| Aspire Public Schools | Oakland, CA | 23-25 structured literacy initiative | $380,000 |
| Teaching Well Inc | Oakland, CA | General retention support | $275,000 |
| Oakland Literacy Coalition | Oakland, CA | General support | $250,000 |
| Philanthropic Ventures Foundation | Oakland, CA | 3L's programming & expansion | $240,000 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | New York, NY | General support | $175,000 |
| Minnesota Public Radio | St Paul, MN | Literacy media project | $160,000 |
| Families in Action for Quality Education | Oakland, CA | Lit4literacy campaign | $150,000 |
| Social Good Fund | Richmond, CA | Increasing early literacy outcomes through strengthened home-school partnerships | $100,000 |
| Lotus Bloom | Oakland, CA | General support for the family resource center | $90,000 |
| Educate78 | Oakland, CA | To support the anti-racist collective | $87,500 |
| Exhibition District | San Jose, CA | The local commons | $75,000 |
| The 500 Capp Street Foundation | San Francisco, CA | Collaborating with the muses, part II | $50,367 |
| Project Bandaloop | Oakland, CA | Somewhere to land | $47,500 |
| Shipyard Trust for the Arts | San Francisco, CA | Crane | $46,417 |
| Flyaway Productions | San Francisco, CA | Down on the corner | $44,333 |
| Wild Projects | Berkeley, CA | The junction keep: a mobile sculpture illuminating the crosswalk | $43,046 |
| Springboard Collaborative | Philadelphia, PA | Renewal of springboard summer programming with ousd | $20,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Palo Alto, CA | To support dr. sean mackey and his team continue developing choir and precise, open-source learning health systems that fuel our ability to… | $20,000 |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | Berkeley, CA | To help support our cal nerds STEM student community, especially our food pantry, the cube, for students at UC berkeley. | $5,000 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $21,886,455 | 316 |
| 2023 | $16,191,989 | 227 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 7, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202543119349100434
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 94-3289283
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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