Schott Foundation for Public Education

About Schott Foundation for Public Education

The Schott Foundation for Public Education channels most of its public education giving into racial justice organizing, with a grantmaking pattern built around advocacy, coalition work, and movement infrastructure. A 2023 grant of $160,000 to Kenwood Oakland Community Organization supported the Journey for Justice Alliance’s "Equity or Else" campaign, which aimed to advance equitable education policy at the local and federal levels by exposing racial inequity in public education. Another major grant in the record, $128,750 to Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, backed Reclaim Our Schools LA’s work in Los Angeles. The foundation’s portfolio also shows sustained attention to school discipline, curriculum integrity, and community-led education reform. In 2024, it funded the National Economic & Social Rights Initiative Dignity in Schools Campaign to end the criminalization and pushout of students of color and promote restorative and culturally responsive school climates across more than 20 districts and states. Its work is national in scope, but it also supports place-based alliances in states and cities where education justice coalitions are organizing around funding, policy, and public school governance.

What Schott Foundation for Public Education Funds

In curriculum and education-policy fights, the foundation gave $125,000 to the Southern Coalition for Social Justice to support Education Justice Alliance’s work resisting politically motivated attacks on critical race theory and advancing an honest, accurate, and fully funded public education. It also gave $80,000 to Ps 305 Inc for the same broad policy issue. For school-climate and discipline reform, it awarded $115,000 to National Economic & Social Rights Initiative Dignity in Schools Campaign to end the criminalization and pushout of students of color and promote restorative and culturally responsive school climates. In education finance, it gave $106,000 to Public Policy & Education Fund of NY Inc to support the Alliance for Quality Education’s engagement of parents, educators, and students in advocating for increased school funding in New York State. The foundation also backs community organizing capacity, including $80,000 to Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund to expand parent organizing for equitable public education in Louisiana.

How Schott Foundation for Public Education Gives