· Private foundation
Arakawa Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER | $150,000 |
| RAINIER SCHOLARS | $150,000 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $150,000 |
| TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WING LUKE MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON | $50,000 |
| YEAR UP INC | $50,000 |
| BELONG PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| EDUCATION FIRST | $15,000 |
| JIM SAUNDERS FUND | $10,000 |
| KUKIO HOOMANA FUND | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SSSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +3%
- RSRAINIER SCHOLARS4× · 2018–2024 · $431k · revenue +282%
TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $385k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TTREEHOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +116%
Book-It Repertory Theatreone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -95%- KCKUKI'O COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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AEF serves as a critical bridge toward equitable and inclusive educational outcomes for Alameda TK-12 public school students.
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The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
LEV Foundation acts to serve the interests of students and families across the State of Washington to improve education access and quality. Particularly those who have been harmed by historical and systemic inequities.
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
Our mission is to support excellence in education by advancing educational justice and racial equity for students in Seattle Public Schools.
Washington stem (wa stem) is a statewide, education nonprofit leveraging stem for social change, removing barriers to credential attainment, and creating pathways to long-term economic security for systemically underserved students.…
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School's Out Washington and the most unlike its peers is Book-It Repertory Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Denise Louie Education center ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds TECHNOLOGY ACCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds EQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds Brightspark Early Learning Services ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds Techbridge Girls ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds BELONG Partners ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Book-It Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds THE JIM SAUNDERS FUND ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FIRST ↗
- Who funds KUKIO HOOMANA FUND ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · United Way of King County · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · Satya and Rao Remala Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Wyman Youth Trust · Stolte Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arakawa Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.