The Koret Foundation is dedicated to creating a vibrant Bay Area and a thriving Jewish community.

The Koret Foundation is dedicated to creating a vibrant Bay Area and a thriving Jewish community.

The Koret Foundation is dedicated to creating a vibrant Bay Area and a thriving Jewish community.

The Koret Foundation is dedicated to creating a vibrant Bay Area and a thriving Jewish community.

The Koret Foundation is dedicated to creating a vibrant Bay Area and a thriving Jewish community.

Grantee Spotlights

The Tech Interactive: A museum on a mission

The Tech’s mission is to inspire the innovator in everyone. In the 25 years since its founding, the museum has become a hub, a hive, a lab, a launchpad for big dreams and impressive accomplishments. Read how President and CEO Katrina Stevens plans to further expand and deepen The Tech’s impact. Its reach is already global, and the sky is literally the limit.

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SF Opera: Welcoming new stories, new voices, and new audiences

As the SF Opera embarks on its second century, the company has co-commissioned three resonant new works. Read our interview with General Director Matthew Shilvock about the art and soul of engaging audiences.

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Hillel at 100: Meeting students at different points along their Jewish journeys

There are, as we like to say, many ways to be Jewish, do Jewish, and feel Jewish. Koret funding supports diverse programming many ways to be Jewish, do Jewish, and feel Jewish. Hillel has provided diverse Jewish experiences to college students around the world since 1923, and much has happened in that century. Enjoy these glimpses of programming and priorities at five Hillels around the Bay Area.

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Guided by Jewish values, the Koret Foundation is committed to improving the quality of life for all who live in the Bay Area and to ensuring the vitality of the global Jewish community. We champion community leaders and institutions that can do the greatest good for the most people.  

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Updates

“Omar,” coming to SF Opera this fall, wins Pulitzer Prize for music
May 2023 | Grantee in the News

“Omar,” coming to SF Opera this fall, wins Pulitzer Prize for music

Coming to the San Francisco Opera in the fall, Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ opera Omar has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for music. The opera is based on the actual 19th century journal of an Islamic scholar abducted from his home in West Africa and enslaved in South Carolina.

Koret Foundation Grants $6M to Bay Area Arts and Culture Efforts
May 2023 | Press Release

Koret Foundation Grants $6M to Bay Area Arts and Culture Efforts

Grants over three-year period to expand arts education and engagement, restore Bay Area’s cultural backbone

Television Academy Honors awarded to “The U.S. and the Holocaust”
May 2023 | Grantee in the News

Television Academy Honors awarded to “The U.S. and the Holocaust”

The Emmys have awarded The U.S. and the Holocaust with their 16th annual Television Academy Honors, which recognizes television programs that have harnessed the extraordinary power of storytelling to fuel social change.