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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 Alabama at Birmingham Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2022 An IBD peptide immunochip for diagnosis, prognosis and immune monitoring in Crohn’s disease. $50,000
University Of California Berkeley Foundation Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2022 Support for Former Foster Youth and Students Impacted by the Child-Welfare System $10,000.00
University Of California Berkeley Foundation Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2022 General Operating Support $5,000.00
University of California San Francisco Foundation Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2022 Dr. Tom Martin and Dr. Jeff Wolf $10,000.00
University of California, Berkeley Health Innovator Awards 2022 A system to track host responses to the microbiota during homeostasis and inflammation. $100,000
University of Michigan Health Innovator Awards 2022 Optimizing dietary protein derived isobutyrate to suppress inflammation. $150,000
University of Oxford Health Innovator Awards 2022 Mechanism of adipocyte autophagy in controlling anti-inflammatory response to intestinal inflammation. $50,000
University of San Francisco Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2022 Black Achievement, Success & Engagement (BASE) $10,000.00
University of San Francisco Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2022 Community Empowerment Activists Program $10,000.00
Urban Alchemy Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2022 Urban Alchemy Oasis $10,000.00
Urban Ed Academy Education Education Grants 2022 Man the Bay program evaluation $12,000.00
Urban Jazz Dance Company Arts NEW Program 2022 “Gentrideafcation” $20,000.00
Walking Cinema Arts NEW Program 2022 “Bop City” $24,000.00
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
Washington University in St. Louis Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2022 Human and experimental animal studies to identify mechanisms governing lymph transport in Crohn’s disease. $100,000
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
West Oakland Punks with Lunch Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2022 General Operating Support $2,500.00
Wild Rose Pictures LLC Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2022 “Janis Ian & The Art of Song (working title)” $10,000.00
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.