The Friends of the Oakland Public Library

Your funders

30 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 22 are locally focused, 6 have national reach, and 2 are no longer active.

• William G Gilmore Foundation7 years$62,500
• Picsha Foundation2 years$40,000
• Herman Auerbach Memorial Fund Trust 23 years$39,000
• Bernard Osher Foundation4 years$31,500
• Harry L Rust & Helen M Rust Charitable Foundationone-time$20,000

Showing 5 of 30. See all 47 funders

17 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.

Your funding peers

Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 2,334 funding connections →

15 Education funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• Oakland PromiseCA6 shared funders
• Oakland Literacy CoalitionCA5 shared funders
• Tandem Partners in Early LearningCA5 shared funders
• Head-Royce SchoolCA4 shared funders
• Life Learning AcademyCA4 shared funders
• Aspire Public SchoolsCA3 shared funders
• California State University Channel Islands FoundationCA3 shared funders
• Community School for Creative EducationCA3 shared funders

See all 15 Education peers →

Potential new funders

Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.

In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.