San Francisco Education Fund - Awesome Fund Grant
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Thank you for considering applying for an Awesome Fund Grant through the San Francisco Education Fund! The Awesome Fund Grant provides financial support for student-led club projects at SF Ed Fund priority high schools that help enhance the school community, keep students involved in school, and/or provide students with more joyful experiential learning opportunities. Student Clubs can apply for $100 to $1,000!

Through conversations with leaders at SFUSD’s highest-need schools, the SF Ed Fund identified urgent needs and found top priorities to be strengthening student belonging and improving academic outcomes. In response, for the 2025-26 school year, we’re focusing the Awesome Fund Grant on supporting opportunities that:

  • Improve Student Attendance
  • Promote school and student sense of belonging

Past award winners include:

  • La Raza Club: This project helped build community and increased participation across different activities. Students learned how to fundraise, promote the club and organize a family event to celebrate with loved ones. La Raza welcomed newcomer students and celebrated Latinx culture!
  • Going Places, Travel Club: This project helped inspire and motivate club members to get outside their comfort zone and explore places beyond San Francisco. Students traveled to Monterey Bay and took bike rides, explored the town and enjoyed their community! They hope to see more of Northern California! 
  • Brain Food Society: This project funded a a robotics club where students participated in a hackathon, a school wide event on Pi Day where club members showed off their robotics skills and robot models and improved digitial displays across their high school

Additionally, here are some examples of club projects we've awarded!

Student Club Leads and members will have full discretion over their project, including planning and the implementation of how they will use their funds between November 2025-June 2026. However, as part of the grant, the SF Ed Fund can support with the logistics and planning of their project. If you are selected as a grant recipent you will be required to attend an orientation, sign a grant agreement, submit a mid-year impact progress report, an end of year impact and expense report AND attend an end of year showcase. 

Students with faculty-advised clubs at any of the following high schools are eligible to apply:

  • Burton High School
  • Balboa High School
  • John O’Connell High School
  • Mission High School
  • June Jordan School for Equity High School
  • Thurgood Marshall High School

Deadline to apply: 11/2/25

Award notifications:11/21/25

For questions about the application process, please contact Sara Geliebter at sgeliebter@sfedfund.org