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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  
Weill Medical College of Cornell University Health Synergy Awards (sunsetted) 2017 The role of IBD in the fungal microbiota transmission from pregnant women to the offspring. $250,000
Youth Beat Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2017 General Operating Support $5,000.00
Zaccho Dance Theatre and Joanna Haigood, Mary Ellen Strom and Walter Kitundu Arts Open Spaces Program 2017 “Picture Bayview” $200,000.00
509 Cultural Center Arts Invite-Only Grants 2016 “Block by Block” $25,000.00
African & African American Performing Arts Coalition Arts NEW Program 2016 “Soul to Soul: An Artistic Response to Baldwin and Coates” $18,500.00
Alternative Theater Ensemble Arts NEW Program 2016 AlterLab Playwright Residency Program $20,000.00
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2016 Research $10,000.00
American Conservatory Theater Arts RENEW Program (sunsetted) 2016 Community Space Sharing Initiative $75,000.00
Americans for the Arts Arts Invite-Only Grants 2016 2017 Public Art Preconference $50,000.00
Art of the Matter Performance Foundation Arts NEW Program 2016 “TIME’S ARROW” $16,000.00
Arts for a Better Bay Area Arts Invite-Only Grants 2016 Arts advocacy projects $40,000.00
Aspire Public Schools, Castlemont Community Transformation Schools, Community School for Creative Education, Education for Change, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and Urban Montessori Education Invite-Only Grants 2016 SEEDS of Learning $422,912.00
Bay Area International Children's Film Festival (BAICFF) Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2016 General Operating Support $10,000.00
Berkeley Repertory Theatre Arts NEW Program 2016 “The Ground Floor,” Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s center for the creation and development of new work. $10,000.00
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Health Innovator Awards 2016 Dysbiotic Intervention: Harnessing Intrinsic Human Defenses Via The Paneth Cell Secretome To Engineer The Microbiome. $50,000
Camp Common Ground Oakland Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2016 Summer Camp Program $5,000.00
Castlemont Community Transformation Schools Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2016 Instructional Aides $1,000.00
Chapter 510 Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2016 General Operating Support $5,000.00
Children of Uganda Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2016 General Operating Support $1,000.00
Circo Zero Arts NEW Program 2016 “future friend/ships” $20,000.00
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.