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Rockwood Leadership Institute
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Total revenue
$8.3M
Total expenses
$10.5M
Net assets
$16.9M
Grants received
$28.0M
138 grants
EIN
721552165
Tax year
2024
Mission
The Rockwood Leadership Institute provides individuals, organizations and networks in the social benefit sector with powerful and effective training in leadership and collaboration that help improve the well-being of our communities and world.
Programs
3 programs
Public Programs: Rockwood offers a number of virtual and in-person leadership trainings to the public.
Expenses: $2.0M
Fiscally Sponsored Programs: Rockwood served as the fiscal sponsor for three independent projects in 2024, including: Coaching for Healing, Justice and Liberation; the Desire Mapping Project; and the JPB Pilot Fellowship.
Expenses: $1.2M
Other Program Accomplishments: Activities to build and strengthen Rockwoods network of alums.
Expenses: $468K
Financials
FY 2024
Revenue
Contributions & grants$5.3M
Program service revenue$2.4M
Investment income$569K
Other revenue—
Total revenue$8.3M
Expenses
Grants paid—
Salaries & benefits$4.7M
Fundraising$551K
Other expenses$5.8M
Total expenses$10.5M
Total assets$17.9M
Net assets$16.9M
People
16 listed
NameRoleCompensation
Darlene Nipper
CEO
Board
$276K
32 hrs/wk
Bex Ahuja
Managing Dir.
Board
$266K
32 hrs/wk
Cristina Jimenez
Board Member
Board
—
1 hrs/wk
Rodney McKenzie Jr
Board Member
Board
—
1 hrs/wk
Mary Moten
Board Member
Board
—
1 hrs/wk
Russell Roybal
Board Chair
Board
—
1 hrs/wk
Solana Rice
Treasurer
Board
—
1 hrs/wk
Inca Mohamed
Secretary
Board
—
1 hrs/wk
Ellen Friedman
Board Member
Board
—
1 hrs/wk
Rebecca Cokley
Board Member
Board
—
1 hrs/wk
Gloria Walton
Board Member
Board
—
1 hrs/wk
Beth Rayfield
Dir. of Inst. Adv.
Staff
$181K
32 hrs/wk
Amanda Rodriguez
Dir People&Culture
Staff
$153K
32 hrs/wk
Joi Foley
Assoc Dir Mktg Prg
Staff
$148K
32 hrs/wk
Jordan Parry
Dir. Fin & Admin
Staff
$129K
32 hrs/wk
Sharon Price
Dir Strategic Init
Staff
$127K
32 hrs/wk
Independent contractors
In Partnership Consulting
Trainer
Leap Inward Inc
Project admin, trainer
Destiny Coaching & Consulting LLC
Project admin, trainer
Be Inspired LLC
Trainer
Grants received
Showing 138 of 138
FromAmountPurposeYear
$750K
LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR JPB GRANTEES AND INNOVATION IN SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP
2024
$200K
COACHING FOR HEALTH, JUSTICE AND LIBERATION - SUPPORTING HEALTHY LEADERS
2024
$15K
25TH ANNIVERSARY SPONSORSHIP CELEBRATING WORKING FOR EQUITY, LIBERATION & SUSTAINABILITY
2024
$2K
TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE MISSION OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION
2024
$750K
LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR JPB GRANTEES AND INNOVATION IN SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP
2023
$560K
TO PROVIDE CAPACITY AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT TO ACTIVISTS, ADVOCATES, ORGANIZERS, AND OTHER ACTORS IN THE RACIAL JUSTICE FIELD
2023
$350K
SUPPORTING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: TO STRENGTHEN AND BROADEN POWER BUILDING EFFORTS ACROSS THE SACRAMENTO AND SAN DIEGO REGIONS AND EXPAND POWER BUILDING WITH BLACK AND INDIGENOUS LEADERS STATEWIDE TO PROMOTE HEALTH EQUITY AND ADDRESS STRUCTURAL RACISM.
2023
$260K
FOR THE ROCKWOOD DOCUMENTARY LEADERS FELLOWSHIP, A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TO CATALYZE A SHIFT IN THE LEADERSHIP AND COLLABORATION CAPACITY OF DOCUMENTARY SECTOR LEADERS
2023
$150K
COACHING FOR HEALTH, JUSTICE AND LIBERATION - SUPPORTING HEALTHY LEADERS: TO STRENGTHEN POWER BUILDING GROUPS IN CALIFORNIA BY PROVIDING TOOLS ENABLING LEADERS TO FILL OUT THEIR BODIES AND SPIRITS TO MAKE SUPERHUMAN CHANGE IN SUSTAINABLE, HEALTHY WAYS.
2023
$100K
For general operating support - Rockwood provides transformative leadership training to social change and nonprofit leaders.
2023
$76K
Formerly Incarcerated Leaders Fellowship Travel Grant - National Conference on Higher Education in Prison
2023
$75K
TO PROVIDE OPERATING SUPPORT TO THE ROCKWOOD LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AS ONE OF SIX SERVICE PROVIDERS WITHIN KRESGE'S FOSTERING URBAN EQUITABLE LEADERSHIP (FUEL) PROGRAM.
2023
$15K
TO PROVIDE ROCKWOOD'S "ART OF LEADING FOR RACE EQUITY" PROGRAM TO KRESGE GRANTEES WORKING TO OPERATIONALIZE EQUITY THROUGHOUT THEIR ORGANIZATIONS. THIS IS ONE OF SEVEN GRANTS ON THIS DOCKET TO ORGANIZATIONS ACTING AS SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE THIRD ROUND OF THE FOSTERING URBAN EQUITABLE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM.
2023
$1K
TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE MISSION OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION
2023
$600K
TO PROVIDE CAPACITY AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT TO ACTIVISTS, ADVOCATES, ORGANIZERS, AND OTHER ACTORS IN THE RACIAL JUSTICE FIELD
2022
$400K
LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR JPB GRANTEES AND INNOVATION IN SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP
2022
$400K
LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR JPB GRANTEES AND INNOVATION IN SOCIAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP
2022
$300K
FOR PROJECT SUPPORT FOR THE COACHING FOR HEALING, JUSTICE, AND LIBERATION PROGRAM TO STRENGTHEN THE CAPACITY OF NON-PROFIT AND PHILANTHROPIC LEADERS WORKING TO ADVANCE THE SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA.
2022
$250K
FOR THE ROCKWOOD DOCUMENTARY LEADERS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM TO SUPPORT ARTISTS AND LEADERS IN THE FILM AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING FIELD
2022
$250K
to pilot leadership development programming and capacity building for leaders in the nonprofit media field
2022
$150K
COACHING FOR HEALTH, JUSTICE AND LIBERATION - SUPPORTING HEALTHY LEADERS: TO STRENGTHEN POWER BUILDING GROUPS IN CALIFORNIA BY PROVIDING TOOLS ENABLING LEADERS TO FILL OUT THEIR BODIES AND SPIRITS TO MAKE SUPERHUMAN CHANGE IN SUSTAINABLE, HEALTHY WAYS.
2022
$105K
TO PROVIDE ROCKWOOD'S "ART OF LEADING FOR RACE EQUITY" PROGRAM TO KRESGE GRANTEES WORKING TO OPERATIONALIZE EQUITY THROUGHOUT THEIR ORGANIZATIONS. THIS IS ONE OF SEVEN GRANTS ON THIS DOCKET TO ORGANIZATIONS ACTING AS SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE THIRD ROUND OF THE FOSTERING URBAN EQUITABLE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM.
2022
$12K
DEEPENING LEADERSHIP TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE: TO PROVIDE SPACE TO DEVELOP LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE ROOTED IN HEALING-INFORMED PRACTICE FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS AND ORGANIZERS ADVANCING POLICY AND SYSTEMS CHANGE STEEPED IN A HEALTH AND RACIAL EQUITY FRAMEWORK IN CALIFORNIA.
2022
$300
TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE MISSION OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION
2022
$345K
DEEPENING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND RACIAL EQUITY: TO PROVIDE SPACE TO DEVELOP LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND RESILIENCE ROOTED IN HEALING-INFORMED PRACTICE FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS AND ORGANIZERS ADVOCATING FOR MENTAL WELLNESS, HEALTH EQUITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE ACROSS CALIFORNIA.
2021
$400K
SUPPORTING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN AN ECOSYSTEM AND LEADERSHIP NETWORK FOR HEALTH AND RACIAL JUSTICE THAT WILL IDENTIFY STRATEGIC AND ACHIEVABLE POLICY OUTCOMES TO SHIFT HEALTH AND RACIAL EQUITY ACROSS SAN DIEGO AND SACRAMENTO.
2020
$250K
to provide capacity-building support to non-profit leaders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the field
2020
$180K
Core support to design and implement leadership transition programming to ensure that U.S. based BUILD grantees are able to thrive through executive leader continuity, succession and transition processes
2020
$145K
For the JustFilms Fellowship for Arts and Culture Leaders in Social Change, a leadership development program to catalyze a shift in the leadership and collaboration capacity of documentary sector leaders
2020
$50K
TO BUILD UPON KRESGE'S FUEL PROGRAM INVESTMENT BY SUPPORTING THE COHORT OF SERVICE PROVIDERS AS THEY ADAPT TO THIS CRISIS PERIOD, AND GROW COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS.
2020
$15K
For the Women of Color Leadership Rising program to allow BUILD grantees to sustain mission impact and organizational health, increase executive leadership from impacted communities, and eliminate structural inequities faced by women of color leadership
2020
$15K
SUPPORTING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN AN ECOSYSTEM AND LEADERSHIP NETWORK FOR HEALTH AND RACIAL JUSTICE THAT WILL IDENTIFY STRATEGIC AND ACHIEVABLE POLICY OUTCOMES TO SHIFT HEALTH AND RACIAL EQUITY ACROSS SAN DIEGO AND SACRAMENTO.
2020
$10K
TO SUPPORT A DEDICATED ROCKWOOD ART OF LEADERSHIP RETREAT FOR UP TO 24 KRESGE GRANTEES. THIS IS ONE OF SEVEN GRANTS ON THIS DOCKET TO ORGANIZATIONS ACTING AS SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE SECOND ROUND OF THE FUELING URBAN EQUITABLE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM.
2020
$300
TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE MISSION OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION
2020
$312K
SUPPORTING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN AN ECOSYSTEM AND LEADERSHIP NETWORK FOR HEALTH AND RACIAL JUSTICE THAT WILL IDENTIFY STRATEGIC AND ACHIEVABLE POLICY OUTCOMES TO SHIFT HEALTH AND RACIAL EQUITY ACROSS SAN DIEGO AND SACRAMENTO.
2019
$200K
DEVELOPING INTERSECTIONAL HEALTH EQUITY LEADERSHIP IN CALIFORNIA: TO SUPPORT A FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR UNDERREPRESENTED CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY LEADERS ENGAGED IN HEALTH EQUITY EFFORTS TO INCREASE THEIR CAPACITY FOR COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP.
2019
$175K
SUPPORTING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: TO BUILD ORGANIZATION-LEVEL PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS AT LEAST TWO COUNTIES IN CALIFORNIA TO ADVANCE RACIAL AND HEALTH EQUITY.
2019
$92K
SUPPORTING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN AN ECOSYSTEM AND LEADERSHIP NETWORK FOR HEALTH AND RACIAL JUSTICE THAT WILL IDENTIFY STRATEGIC AND ACHIEVABLE POLICY OUTCOMES TO SHIFT HEALTH AND RACIAL EQUITY ACROSS SAN DIEGO AND SACRAMENTO.
2019
$200K
DEVELOPING INTERSECTIONAL HEALTH EQUITY LEADERSHIP IN CALIFORNIA: TO SUPPORT A FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR UNDERREPRESENTED CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY LEADERS ENGAGED IN HEALTH EQUITY EFFORTS TO INCREASE THEIR CAPACITY FOR COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP.
2018
$151K
SUPPORTING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: TO BUILD ORGANIZATION-LEVEL PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS AT LEAST TWO COUNTIES IN CALIFORNIA TO ADVANCE RACIAL AND HEALTH EQUITY.
2018
$75K
SUPPORTING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: TO BUILD ORGANIZATION-LEVEL PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS AT LEAST TWO COUNTIES IN CALIFORNIA TO ADVANCE RACIAL AND HEALTH EQUITY.
2018
$20K
ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEARNINGS: TO SUPPORT THE DOCUMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF LEARNING PROCESSES FROM LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES SITES AND ITS IMPACT ON HEALTH EQUITY AND OUTCOMES.
2018
$200K
DEVELOPING INTERSECTIONAL HEALTH EQUITY LEADERSHIP IN CALIFORNIA: TO SUPPORT A FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR UNDERREPRESENTED CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY LEADERS ENGAGED IN HEALTH EQUITY EFFORTS TO INCREASE THEIR CAPACITY FOR COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP.
2017
$100K
TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS REGARDING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH.
2017
$44K
TO PILOT A FELLOWSHIP PROJECT THAT AMPLIFIES THE VOICES OF LOW-INCOME, UNMARRIED BLACK MOTHERS BY PROVIDING POLITICAL EDUCATION, COMMUNICATIONS TRAINING, AND DEVELOPING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO CHANGE THE DOMINANT NARRATIVE BY SHARING THEIR STORIES THAT CREATE POSITIVE IMAGES OF SINGLE-MOTHERHOOD.
2017
Funded by
$28.0M from 48 funders · 138 grants · 2017–2024
The Ford Foundation
$3.8M · 8 grants · 2020–2024
The California Endowment
$3.4M · 18 grants · 2017–2024
National Philanthropic Trust
$3M · 1 grant · 2020
Capital One Foundation Inc
$2.8M · 1 grant · 2022
Freedom Together Foundation
$2.7M · 5 grants · 2020–2024
Foundation To Promote Open Society
$1.4M · 3 grants · 2020–2023
The James Irvine Foundation
$1.2M · 4 grants · 2020–2023
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc
$1.1M · 4 grants · 2019–2022
Details
EIN721552165
NTEE codeT02
Subsection03
Ruling date2003-12
Formed2003
Employees36
Volunteers9