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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  
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health Innovator Awards 2023 PREDICTS-Net: Multi-omics network analysis to identify key drivers of disease initiation and progression in the preclinical phase of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). $75,000
Ignite! Reading Education Education Grants 2023 Expansion of the Ignite! Reading virtual literacy tutoring model. $90,000.00
Immersive Arts Alliance Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2023 General Operating Support $10,000.00
Inevitable Foundation Foundation Response Fund (Invitation Only) 2023 Supporting disabled creatives in film $100,000.00
Jewish Film Institute Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2023 Summer Festival Convening $10,000.00
Joe Goode Performance Group Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2023 General Operating Support $2,500.00
Johns Hopkins University Health Innovator Awards 2023 Engineered cytokine-antibody fusion protein to treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease. $150,000
KAMBARA+ Arts NEW Program 2023 “YES!” $30,000
Kara Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2023 General Operating Support $10,000.00
Karishma Sharma Arts NEW Program 2023 “Finding My Dha” 12,000
Kathleen Hermesdorf FRESH FESTIVAL (formerly la ALTERNATIVA) Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2023 The KHFresh Festival $5,000.00
Kristi Yamaguchi's Always Dream Education Education Grants 2023 Oakland pilot of the Always Reading program, which promotes home reading habits through two-way text coaching and access to a significant digital library. $30,000.00
La Lengua Teatro Arts NEW Program 2023 “Paradise” $30,000
Las Trampas School, Inc. Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2023 General Operating Support $1,000.00
Lead Liberated (formerly Educate 78) Education Education Grants 2023 Anti-Racist Collective $30,000
Lenora Lee Dance Arts NEW Program 2023 “A Bridge to Now” $30,000
Life Learning Academy Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2023 Various Program Support $15,000.00
Lighthouse Community Public Schools Education Education Grants 2023 Design a Teacher Pathway & Braid Funding Streams $100,000
Lotus Bloom Education Education Grants 2023 Family Resource Center $85,000
Luggage Store Foundation Discretionary Awards (Invitation Only) 2023 General Operating Support $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.