· Private foundation
Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of BANDAI NAMCO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA FKA THE BANDAI FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $178k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN IN TOYS & LICENSING | $62,556 |
| CHICAGO RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $60,000 |
| LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| CHOC FOUNDATION | $27,200 |
| JDRF | $10,000 |
| SHEDD AQUARIUM | $9,050 |
| CAF AMERICA | $8,640 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| GIVING CHILDREN HOPE | $5,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY COASTKEEPER | $5,000 |
| OLIVE CREST (BIKE) (THROUGH BNTCA) | $3,185 |
| BEREAN COMMUNITY CHURCH | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- CFCHOC FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $254k · revenue +103%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +46%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA4× · 2018–2021 · $108k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- COCity of Irvineone grant, 2021 · $70k
- TCTOYSRUS CHILDREN'S FUNDone grant, 2017 · $32k
- WIW I T FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +83%
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.
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.
To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…
To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Our children's hospital foundation is dedicated to supporting loma linda university children's hospital's mission to bring whole-child healthcare to the region and beyond.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The mission of children's home society of california is to provide children, families, and communities with supportive services to thrive.
California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Hit Living Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 201 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Women In Toys Inc co The Toy Association ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds W I T FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELIVERING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOC OF OC ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Sempra Foundation · Decorative Arts Society · Carl E Wynn Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Stellar Solutions Foundation · Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California
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 Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai 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.
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket 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.
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