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OAKLAND KIDS FIRST

EIN 01-0594835 OAKLAND, CA

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Revenue 2024
$2,580,781
Expenses 2024
$3,013,225

Program services were 69.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
2100
Street
3700 E 12TH ST STE 3

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of Oakland Kids First is to increase youth voice, leadership and power to create engaging and equitable public schools where all students learn and lead.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Oakland Kids First is a community-based nonprofit in Oakland, CA that supports young people to organize for better public schools by providing youth leadership development, youth organizing, and community school services.

  • Through OKF's Castlemont Community School Initiatives, we served as lead agency of Castlemont high schools after school programs to provide academic support, enrichment, arts, health/wellness, leadership, and college, career and community readiness opportunities for 600 students, and distributed cash aid, food assistance and referrals for services to Student Relief Fund applicants.

    Expenses $932,916 · Grants $4,530 · Revenue $182,835

  • REAL HARD, YOC and Fremont youth leadership development and organizing programs engaged 115 core youth members from 5 OUSD public school campuses to develop leadership skills, build base with 300 student supporters, and improve learning conditions, and distributed cash aid and food assistance to Student Relief Fund applicants from organizing programs.

    Expenses $921,197 · Grants $6,000 · Revenue $33,000

  • Anchored the Oakland Youth Vote (OYV) Coalition, advanced implementation of youth voting and civic engagement curriculum during the 2024 school board elections ensuring 1,500 students were pre-registered to vote, and conducted external evaluation for lessons learned.

    Expenses $227,440

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lukas Brekke-Miesner

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $181,634
    From this org
    $165,827
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,807
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,702
    Bonus
    $4,125
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,100
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,707
    Filer's total
    $181,634

  • Sabaa Shoraka

    Sr. Devel. Manager

    Total calculated
    $154,257
    From this org
    $136,243
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,014
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $136,243
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,100
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,914
    Filer's total
    $154,257

  • Cara Holiday

    Sr Deputy Director

    Total calculated
    $126,029
    From this org
    $109,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,067
    Hours/week
    40

  • Bill Heiser

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Phoumy Sayavong

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Niema Jordan

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ijeoma Arum

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Soraya Salgadoe

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,580,781
    Expenses
    $3,013,225
    Contributions
    $2,347,492
    Grants paid
    $10,530
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,914,870
    Expenses
    $2,707,114
    Contributions
    $2,724,377
    Grants paid
    $26,544
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,774,329
    Expenses
    $1,954,813
    Contributions
    $1,721,645
    Grants paid
    $13,739

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,346,319
    Expenses
    $1,365,512
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,791,282

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,331,417
    Expenses
    $1,062,044
    Assets (EOY)
    $805,878

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,095,779
    Expenses
    $967,652
    Assets (EOY)
    $604,438

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,006,594
    Expenses
    $1,054,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $364,281

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $688,757
    Expenses
    $776,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $393,654

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $688,757
    Expenses
    $776,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $393,654

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $860,019
    Expenses
    $795,892
    Assets (EOY)
    $484,498

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $753,356
    Expenses
    $861,138
    Assets (EOY)
    $420,907

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $900,110
    Expenses
    $870,975
    Assets (EOY)
    $518,492

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.