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Search current and former Kenneth Rainin Foundation grantees in the Arts, Education and Health to learn more about what we fund.

Grantee Giving Area Program Grant Year Project Title Amount  
University of Oxford Health Innovator Awards 2022 Mechanism of adipocyte autophagy in controlling anti-inflammatory response to intestinal inflammation. $50,000
Washington University Health Innovator Awards 2022 How intraepithelial TCRgd T cell subsets maintain intestinal homeostasis. $150,000
Washington University in St. Louis Health Innovator Awards 2022 Autophagy shapes Debaryomyces hansenii invasion in Crohn’s disease $150,000
Weill Cornell Medicine Health Innovator Awards 2022 Investigating molecular mechanisms behind gut bacterial transamination and IBD. $150,000
Weizmann Institute of Science Health Innovator Awards 2022 Antibody biomarker discovery in 500 IBD patients using a novel high throughput assay against 344,000 microbiome antigens. $100,000
Yale University Health Innovator Awards 2022 Hidden microbiome transformations during gut inflammation. $100,000
Yale University Health Innovator Awards 2022 Novel mechanisms of inflammation regulation elucidated by monogenic IBD. $150,000
Yale University Health Innovator Awards 2022 Death Begets a New Beginning. $100,000
A site specific dance in Bayview-Hunter’s Point where three dancers are on top of a roof and one dancer is dancing on a wooden block with a briefcase.

Arts

Our Arts Program funds dance, film, public space and theater projects that highlight important issues facing our society and local communities.

A young Black girl smiling while she looks down at an open book, reading.

Education

Our Education Program supports schools and community-based organizations that help Oakland’s children develop literacy and social emotional skills.

A female scientist in the lab looking into a microscope.

Health

Our Health Program invests early in novel approaches and collaborations to advance Inflammatory Bowel Disease research.