Does Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Edwards Lifesciences Foundation, Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust.

Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation

Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation at a glance

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Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation

Q: What does Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Human Services (23%), Community Improvement (9%).

Q: Who are Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Choc Foundation ($254k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($172k), Women In Toys Inc co The Toy Association ($140k).

Q: Does Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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.

$286k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$63k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$751kHuman Services$594kCommunity Improvement$246kFood & Nutrition$181kPublic Safety & Disaster$172kReligion$117kEducation$109kInternational$71kOther$0

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k31 grants · $71k
$10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$50k–250k3 grants · $178k

$1,670

Median grant

States reached

$6.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ORANGE COUNTY COASTKEEPER	$5,000
GIVING CHILDREN HOPE	$5,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY	$5,000
SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE	$5,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY	$5,000
OLIVE CREST (BIKE) (THROUGH BNTCA)	$3,185
INTERNATIONAL GRACE MINISTRY	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 65 repeat orgs$830k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117

Total granted

$1.8M

$692k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+19%

Still filing today

54%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyReligionInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CF
CHOC FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2024 · $254k · revenue +103%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +46%
RM
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
4× · 2018–2021 · $108k · revenue +30%

Funded once

CO
City of Irvine
one grant, 2021 · $70k
TC
TOYSRUS CHILDREN'S FUND
one grant, 2017 · $32k
WI
W I T FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +83%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Children's Healthcare of California

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…

Health

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

Children's Hospital of Orange County

To nurture, advance and protect the health and well-being of children.

Health

Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

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…

—

For the Children

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,…

Recreation & Sports

Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health

Loma Linda University Children's Hospital Foundation

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.

—

South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health

Children's Home Society of California

The mission of children's home society of california is to provide children, families, and communities with supportive services to thrive.

Human Services

California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

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…

Civil Rights

Children's Hospital

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…

Health

Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

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.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; 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.

04the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

99/106

Grantees still filing

70/106

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,640,332Health$427,649Human Services$259,385Food & Nutrition$115,250Community Improvement$77,600Philanthropy$64,848International$46,445

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County Community FoundationCA31.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bandai Namco Foundation of America Fka the Bandai Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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