Grantee | Giving Area | Program | Grant Year | Project Title | Amount | |
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University of California, San Diego | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Microbial modulation of gut B cells during homeostasis and colitis. | $150,000 | |
University of California, San Francisco | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Colonic epithelial injury in response to inflammatory fibroblast and mononuclear phagocyte activation. | $150,000 | |
University of Massachusetts | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | HOXA11os, an IBD associated lncRNA that maintains tissue homsostasis and restrains inflammation. | $150,000 | |
University of Michigan | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Optimizing dietary protein derived isobutyrate to suppress inflammation. | $100,000 | |
University of Oxford | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Mechanism of adipocyte autophagy in controlling anti-inflammatory response to intestinal inflammation. | $75,000 | |
University of Pennsylvania | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Understanding the impact of psychological stress on IBD severity. | $150,000 | |
University of Pittsburgh | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Explore the immunomodulatory consequences of protist-derived metabolites in IBD. | $150,000 | |
University of Pittsburgh | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Development of a rapid, flexible and quantitative method for measuring the intestinal microbiota in IBD patients. | $125,000 | |
University of Pittsburgh | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Consequences of early life host-microbial mutualism on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. | $150,000 | |
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Vanishing act: the disappearance of cell death brakes in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. | $150,000 | |
Washington University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | How intraepithelial TCRgd T cell subsets maintain intestinal homeostasis. | $100,000 | |
Weill Cornell Medicine | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Investigating molecular mechanisms behind gut bacterial transamination and IBD. | $100,000 | |
Weizmann Institute of Science | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Antibody biomarker discovery in 500 IBD patients using a novel high throughput assay against 344,000 microbiome antigens. | $75,000 | |
Yale University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Hidden microbiome transformations during gut inflammation. | $75,000 | |
Yale University | Health | Innovator Awards | 2023 | Novel mechanisms of inflammation regulation elucidated by monogenic IBD. | $75,000 | |
3Ls Academy | Education | Teaching and Learning | 2022 | Business Development and Collaboration | $25,000.00 | |
Acción Latina | Arts | NEW Program | 2022 | “Somos Esenciales / We Are Essential” | $24,000.00 | |
Afro Urban Society with lead artists Nkeiruka Oruche, Muisi-Kongo Malonga, Levi Allen, and Reggie Edmonds/Rich Oak | Arts | Open Spaces Program | 2022 | “One Thing About Us? We Move!” | $76,000.00 | |
art.coop | Arts | Special Initiatives (Opportunity Fund) | 2022 | General operating support | $20,000 | |
ARTogether | Arts | NEW Program | 2022 | “A Deepest Blue” | $24,000.00 |

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

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

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