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Kenneth Rainin Foundation

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$53.1M
in grants paid
720
grants
364
recipients
2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

  • $1.3M

    Roxie Theater · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    $1,200,000 for the roxie forever campaign and $100,000 for general operations support of the new facility and staff.

  • $1.0M

    Community Arts Stabilization Trust · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $900,000

    Education for Change · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Structured literacy initiative

  • $832,432

    Oakland Unified School District · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Structured literacy initiative

  • $750,000

    San Francisco Film Society · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Sffilm rainin filmmaking grants and programs

  • $600,000

    United States Artists · Chicago, IL · 2024

    For the rainin fellowship program.

  • $500,000

    University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Improving clinical decision making beyond the standard of care using artificial intelligence

  • $500,000

    Trustees of University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Neuro-epithelial interactions in mucosal regeneration

  • $400,000

    Center for the Collaborative Classroom · Alameda, CA · 2024

    2025-2026 k-2 literacy support

  • $380,000

    Aspire Public Schools · Oakland, CA · 2024

    23-25 structured literacy initiative

  • $318,000

    Californians for the Arts · Sacramento, CA · 2024

    Field leadership/artist advocate program

  • $315,000

    Teaching Well · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General retention support

  • $300,000

    Reach University · Alameda, CA · 2024

    Semester of literacy design

  • $264,156

    Oakland Unified School District · Oakland, CA · 2024

    23-35 structured literacy initiatve: k-12 coaching/training

  • $250,000

    Oakland Literacy Coalition · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General support

  • $250,000

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    General support

  • $250,000

    Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Integrin autoantibodies in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis

  • $250,000

    Azora Therapeutics · Encino, CA · 2024

    Novel oral small molecule for ulcerative colitis

  • $250,000

    The University of Texas at Austin · Dallas, TX · 2024

    Immune-checkpoint engineered colon organoids to induce immune tolerance as treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (ibd)

  • $250,000

    The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Palo Alto, CA · 2024

    Epithelial metabolic reprogramming for pediatric ulcerative colitis

  • $250,000

    University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Pioneering single-cell intracellular metagenomics: a revolutionary new window into microbe-immune interactions at barrier tissues

  • $240,000

    Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

    3l's programming & expansion

  • $240,000

    Association of Black Gastroenterogists · New York City, NY · 2024

    For capacity building support

  • $200,000

    The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Independence, OH · 2024

    Identifying the driver of penetrating fibrosis in crohns disease

  • $200,000

    The Oakland Public Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General support

  • $200,000

    Alder Graduate School of Education · Redwood City, CA · 2024

    To support alder graduate school of education to align with california's new educator preparation standards for literacy instruction.

  • $175,000

    Families in Action for Quality Education · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Lit4literacy campaign

  • $150,000

    California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

    Decoding the neuronal and microbial basis of stress-induced colitis

  • $150,000

    Oakland Reach · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General support (bridge grant)

  • $150,000

    The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Palo Alto, CA · 2024

    Investigating the intestinal microenvironment in inflammatory bowel disease under physiologic conditions using a novel ingestible sampling device

  • $125,000

    The New York and Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell · New York, NY · 2024

    Fungal-bacterial interactions: an opportunity for novel treatment of ulcerative colitis

  • $125,000

    The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute · 2024

    Vanishing act: the disappearance of cell death brakes in inflammatory bowel disease

  • $125,000

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Cortical modulation of gut motility

  • $125,000

    The Children'S Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024

    Androgen-dependent regulation of colonic inflammation by gut-innervating nociceptors

  • $125,000

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Munich · 2024

    Unveiling druggable targets of necroptosis in inflammatory bowel disease using a genome-wide crispr screen approach

  • $125,000

    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Mechanisms by which maternal antibodies regulate immune responses to the microbiota in early life

  • $125,000

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Discovery of therapeutic microbial metabolites in inflammatory bowel diseases

  • $125,000

    Trustees of University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Understanding the impact of psychological stress on ibd severity

  • $125,000

    University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

    Explore the immunomodulatory consequences of protist-derived metabolites in ibd

  • $125,000

    University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Colonic epithelial injury in response to inflammatory fibroblast and mononuclear phagocyte activation

  • $125,000

    University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Role of ga13-coupled receptor signaling during induction of intestinal th17 cells

  • $125,000

    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Seattle, WA · 2024

    Dietary regulation of intestinal immune-metabolic trade-offs through activation of neuroimmune circuits

  • $125,000

    Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum · 2024

    Functionally decoding the contribution of human host-fungal interactions to the pathogenesis of ibd

  • $125,000

    Childrens Hospital Medical Center · Cincinnati, OH · 2024

    Epithelial signals mediating intestinal fibrosis

  • $100,733

    The 500 Capp Street Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Collaborating with the muses, part ii

  • $100,000

    Bananas Incorporated · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General support

  • $100,000

    Community Vision Capital & Consulting · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Real estate readiness

  • $100,000

    Global Impact · Alexandria, VA · 2024

    Pooled funding to support emerging bilingual priorities

  • $100,000

    Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2024

    Increasing early literacy outcomes through strengthened home-school partnerships

  • $100,000

    Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MI · 2024

    Metabolism controls cd4 t helper cell-induced pathogenicity during inflammatory bowel disease

  • $100,000

    Lotus Bloom · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Afro-play oakland

  • $100,000

    Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To support rise east in meeting blue meridian group's local funding match goal

  • $100,000

    Black Arts Movement and Business District · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General support

  • $100,000

    Parent Voices Oakland · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Leading with joy: affirming our linguistic brilliance through an each one teach one community skills sharing model for parents and caregivers

  • $100,000

    University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

    Development of a rapid, flexible and quantitative method for measuring the intestinal microbiota in ibd patients

  • $100,000

    Lincoln Child Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Trauma-informed early literacy playgroups

  • $100,000

    Lighthouse Community Public Schools · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Structured literacy initiative

  • $100,000

    Mujeres Unidas Y Activas · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    The apapachos project: training informal immigrant caregivers of young children

  • $100,000

    Francis Crick Institute · 2024

    Resolving gene-environment interactions in ibd via ahr

  • $100,000

    Regents of the University of Ca Davis · Davis, CA · 2024

    Exacerbation of colitis by impaired microbial catabolism of sorbitol

  • $100,000

    University of Massachusetts · Westborough, MA · 2024

    Hoxa11os, an ibd associated lncrna that maintains tissue homsostasis and restrains inflammation

  • $100,000

    Emerald Cities Collaborative · Washington, DC · 2024

    To support arts organizations and climate change research

  • $100,000

    Destiny Arts Center · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Teddy bear movement arts

  • $100,000

    Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To support rise east in meeting blue meridian group's local funding match goal

  • $100,000

    Dr Huey P Newton Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Supporting the huey p newton foundation to propel the black panther party museum's evolution.

  • $100,000

    Shotgun Players · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    This grant will support the successful transition of the cal shakes scene shop into its own standalone nonprofit.

  • $92,833

    Shipyard Trust for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Crane

  • $90,000

    Lotus Bloom · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General support for the family resource center

  • $90,000

    Eat Learn Play Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Literacy tutoring funding pool

  • $88,667

    Flyaway Productions · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Down on the corner

  • $87,500

    Educate78 · Oakland, CA · 2024

    To support the anti-racist collective

  • $86,092

    Wild Projects · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    The junction keep: a mobile sculpture illuminating the crosswalk

  • $83,000

    Project Bandaloop · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Somewhere to land

  • $80,000

    Minnesota Public Radio · St Paul, MI · 2024

    Literacy media project

  • $80,000

    Social Good Fund · Richmond, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $75,000

    The Mount Sinai Hospital · New York, NY · 2024

    A novel platform to map intestinal stem cell interactomes in ibd

  • $75,000

    Mass General Brigham Incorporated · Boston, MA · 2024

    Role of regulatory fibroblasts in eliciting immune tolerance to colitis

  • $75,000

    The Children'S Hospital Corporation · Boston, MA · 2024

    Defining immune organization in intestine inflammation

  • $75,000

    Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2024

    How intraepithelial tcrgd t cell subsets maintain intestinal homeostasis

  • $75,000

    Weill Cornell Imaging at New York-Presbyt · New York, NY · 2024

    Investigating molecular mechanisms behind gut bacterial transamination and ibd

  • $75,000

    Exhibition District · San Jose, CA · 2024

    The local commons

  • $65,000

    Edvance · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Empowering oakland's black educators: expanding networks and advancing early childhood education

  • $60,000

    Oakland Fund for Public Innovation (Fiscal Sponsor) · Oakland, CA · 2024

    To support expanding affordable housing for teachers

  • $54,000

    East Bay Agency for Children · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Little steps to college program

  • $50,600

    The Oakland Public Education Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024

    $46k in ousd central literacy expenses and a $4,600 administrative fee for the oakland ed fund

  • $50,000

    Grantmakers for Effective Organizations · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support

  • $50,000

    Keystone Symposia On Molecular and Cellular Biology · Silverthrone, CO · 2024

    To support early career, graduate student and trainee scholarships to attend conferences.

  • $50,000

    International Documentary Association · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To support the international access consortium to increase the funding for and expand the reach and impact of disabled makers.

  • $50,000

    Ubuntu Theater Project · Oakland, CA · 2024

    For oakland theatre projects capital campaign due diligence phase

  • $50,000

    Northern California Grantmakers · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General support

  • $50,000

    Peak Grantmaking · Washington, DC · 2024

    General support including to support peak's field leadership and ability to respond, collaborate, partner and advocate.

  • $50,000

    Yu Ming Charter School · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Tk planning

  • $50,000

    Create Ca · Pasadena, CA · 2024

    To support the create ca arts now program

  • $50,000

    Bay Area Video Coalition · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Renewal for the mediamaker fellowship program and general support.

  • $50,000

    Museum of Childrens Art (Mocha) · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Little readers: literacy, culture, and artmaking

  • $40,000

    Intersection for the Arts · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Rest & care

  • $40,000

    Cubacaribe · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Rest & care

  • $40,000

    Magic Theatre · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Rest & care

  • $40,000

    Lotus Bloom · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Rest & care

  • $40,000

    Teaching Well · Oakland, CA · 2024

    Rest & care

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call. Most private foundations do not accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.