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Grants Database
| Organization Sort | Grant Amount Sort | Program Area SortFilter | Type of Support SortFilter | Location Sort | Year SortFilter |
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| Reading is Fundamental Inc. | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationWashington, DC | Year2022 |
| Read for Success and Books for Ownership, to support early literacy development for pre-kindergarten to 3rd grade San Francisco children through partnerships with ExCel and Reach Out and Read. More information: http://www.rif.org |
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| Generation Citizen Inc. | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationNew York, NY | Year2024 |
| To further comprehensive civic education policy and promote equitable access to civic education. More information: http://generationcitizen.org |
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| Frontline | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationBoston, MA | Year2017 |
| Digital Video Unit, to expand digital and social media video by creating content in response to breaking news and increasing coverage to include original, digital-exclusive reporting. More information: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/ |
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| University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationBerkeley, CA | Year2011 |
| Berkeley Board Fellows Program, to help prepare students to become the next generation of non-profit board leaders. | |||||
| University of California, Berkeley | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportEndowment Support | LocationBerkeley, CA | Year2015 |
| Cal Men's Golf Endowment Drive. $50,000 over five years (2015-2020). | |||||
| Spark SF Public Schools | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationSan Francisco, CA | Year2022 |
| Literacy Recovery Initiative, to pilot new, high-quality English Language Arts instructional materials for SFUSD students in grades kindergarten to 5. More information: http://sparksfpublicschools.org |
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| Spark SF Public Schools | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportGeneral Support | LocationSan Francisco, CA | Year2020 |
| SFUSD’s COVID-19 Response Phase II, to plan for and implement remote learning for all students for the 2020/21 school year. Support for SFUSD’s COVID-19 Response Phase I was awarded through the Goldman Fund's Pandemic Emergency Fund. More information: http://sparksfpublicschools.com |
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| Aim High for High School | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationSan Francisco, CA | Year2025 |
| San Francisco Summer Learning Program 2025, to help prepare low-resourced middle school students for the transition to high school through a tuition-free summer enrichment program. More information: http://www.aimhigh.org |
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| Children’s Creativity Museum | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationSan Francisco, CA | Year2014 |
| Childhood Literacy Programs, to offer engaging, hands-on reading and writing activities and craft projects for thousands of children and their parents/caregivers annually. More information: http://creativity.org/ |
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| University of California, Berkeley | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportEndowment Support | LocationBerkeley, CA | Year2021 |
| Max and Lacey Homa Men’s Golf Scholarship Fund and Collin Morikawa Men's Golf Scholarship Fund More information: http://www.ucberkeleyfoundation.org |
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| Mission Science Workshop | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationSan Francisco, CA | Year2025 |
| Science Enrichment Field Trips, to provide science-based field trips at their workshops and delivered to classrooms for low-resourced SFUSD elementary and middle school students. More information: http://www.missionscienceworkshop.org |
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| Education Outside | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationSan Francisco, CA | Year2013 |
| To establish the Green Schools Corps, a service corps program that recruits and trains recent college graduates to help San Francisco public schools develop outdoor experiential education programs and school greening activities. | |||||
| Reading is Fundamental Inc. | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationWashington, DC | Year2024 |
| Read for Success and Books for Ownership, to support early literacy development for pre-kindergarten to 3rd grade children through partnerships with San Francisco public schools and Reach Out and Read. More information: http://www.rif.org |
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| Frontline | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationBoston, MA | Year2019 |
| Digital Video Unit, to expand digital and social media content to bring Frontline’s work to a new generation and develop novel ways of storytelling and engaging with the public. More information: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/ |
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| Global Citizen Year | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationOakland, CA | Year2013 |
| To strengthen the Fellowship Program, which provides opportunities for students - particularly low-income and at-risk students - to gain global competencies, entrepreneurial skills, and leadership experience by participating in a global immersion program during a bridge year between high school and college. More information: http://globalcitizenyear.org/ |
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| University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationBerkeley, CA | Year2017 |
| Berkeley Board Fellows Program at the Center for Social Sector Leadership, to help prepare students to become the next generation of nonprofit board leaders. | |||||
| 826 Valencia | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationSan Francisco, CA | Year2021 |
| In-School Literacy Support, to provide writing support for 3rd through 5th grade SFUSD students in the Bayview and Potrero Hill neighborhoods. More information: http://826valencia.rog |
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| Challenge Success | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationStanford, CA | Year2012 |
| To support the evaluation of programs designed to help schools, parents, and youth develop tools to decrease stress, broaden notions of success, and better prepare students for the 21st century. | |||||
| University of California, Berkeley | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationBerkeley, CA | Year2014 |
| Bay Area Teen Science program, to connect teens to science, technology, engineering, and math learning and career building opportunities through science-focused social activities. | |||||
| Generation Citizen Inc | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationNew York, NY | Year2024 |
| Curriculum Expansion, to train and coach teachers to implement the Civics for Youth Changemakers curriculum. | |||||
| University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationBerkeley, CA | Year2013 |
| Berkeley Board Fellows Program, to help prepare students to become non-profit board leaders. | |||||
| University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationBerkeley, CA | Year2014 |
| Berkeley Board Fellows Program, to help prepare students to become the next generation of non-profit board leaders. | |||||
| Spark SF Public Schools | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationSan Francisco, CA | Year2018 |
| Bayview Summer Literacy Enrichment project, to support struggling readers in Pre-K through 3rd grade through guided reading instruction, parent workshops, and enrichment-based out-of-school time activities during summer 2018. | |||||
| Frontline | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationBoston, MA | Year2020 |
| Digital Video Unit, to expand digital and social media content to bring Frontline’s work to a new generation and develop novel ways of storytelling and engaging the public. More information: http://www.wgbh.org / www.pbs.org/frontline |
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| University of California, Berkeley | Grant Amount$50,000 | Program AreaEducation and Literacy | Type of SupportProject Support | LocationBerkeley, CA | Year2012 |
| To support the Bay Area Teen Science Collaborative, a partnership of Bay Area science education institutions working to better engage teens in science, technology, engineering, and math by providing safe, fun, and social out-of-school science-learning opportunities and career building activities. | |||||
- Annual Grants for general operating support are awarded and paid to those organizations representing special interests. The Fund does not accept applications for Annual Grants.
- Special Projects and SF Bay Area Institutions and Projects are by invitation only.
- Not all grants are listed on the website and some recent grants may not be included as the database is updated quarterly.