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E Nakamichi Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$404k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Chanticleer$5,000
Musica Angelica$5,000
Promusica Chamber Orchestra$5,000
Santa Rosa Symphony$5,000
White Ash Broadcasting$5,000
Chamber Music Northwest$5,000
Carnegie Hall$5,000
New York Philharmonic$5,000
Regents of University of California$5,000
Santa Fe Pro Musica$5,000
Los Angeles Opera$5,000
Segerstrom Center$5,000
Chamber Music Hawaii$5,000
Boston YouthSymphony$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Boston Symphony Orchestra: $5k → 16%Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orche: $5k → 22%Santa Rosa Symphony: $10k → 9%Segerstrom Center: $5k → 10%Regent of University of California: $10k → 10%San Francisco Symphony: $6k → 10%Musica Angelica: $5k → 14%Mondavi Center: $5k → 16%White Ash Broadcasting: $5k → 19%Hawaii Symphony Orchestra: $5k → 9%St Luke's Chamber Ensemble: $5k → 17%Santa Fe Pro Musica: $5k → 12%New World Symphony: $5k → 15%Chamber Music Northwest: $5k → 12%ProMusica Chamber Orchestra: $10k → 15%Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $5k → 14%Boston Symphony Orchestra: $5k → 16%Santa Rosa Symphony: $5k → 9%Segerstrom Center of the Arts: $5k → 10%Regents of University of California: $5k → 10%San Francisco Symphony: $5k → 10%Los Angeles Opera: $5k → 14%American Symphony Orchestra: $5k → 17%Santa Fe Pro Musica: $5k → 12%chamber Music Northwest: $5k → 12%Promusica Chamber Orchestra: $5k → 15%Chicago Symphony: $5k → 14%Boston Baroque: $5k → 16%Santa Rosa Symphony: $5k → 9%Segerstrom Center: $5k → 10%Regents of Univerwity of California: $5k → 10%Chanticleer: $5k → 10%Los Angeles Opera: $5k → 14%Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: $5k → 17%Santa Fe Pro Musica: $5k → 12%ProMusica Chamber Orchestra: $5k → 15%Boston Baroque: $5k → 16%Santa Rosa Symphony: $5k → 9%Pacific Symphony: $5k → 10%Regents of University of California: $5k → 10%Los Angeles Opera: $5k → 14%Early Music Foundation: $7k → 17%Promusica Chamber Orchestra: $5k → 15%Handel Haydn society: $5k → 16%Pacific Symphony Association: $5k → 10%Los Angeles Opera: $5k → 14%New York Philharmonic: $5k → 17%Handel Haydn Society: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MA
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NM
HI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$296k · 21 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
16

Total granted

$296k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+27%

Still filing today

71%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • SR
    SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +36%
  • PM
    PRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +25%
  • WA
    White Ash Broadcasting Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • RO
    Regent of University of California
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • PV
    Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orche
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • OC
    ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%

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

04Your field

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.

1
San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

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2
Vanguard Concerts
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3
Symphony Parnassus

Symphony Parnassus provides outstanding musical performances

Arts & Culture
4
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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5
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…

Arts & Culture
6
Foundation for Modern Opera
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7
California Bach Society Inc

Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…

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8
Socal Symphony Society

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra

Take world-class symphonic music off the pedestal and into the heart of our community. San Francisco Philharmonic is an orchestral group dedicated to cultural enrichment, music education and creating a performance platform for women and…

Arts & Culture
10
Orlando Philharmonic
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11
Orchestra Seattle - Seattle Chamber Singer

The mission of Orchestra Seattle | Seattle Chamber Singers is to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest through performance of great orchestral and choral literature; to introduce Northwest audiences to rarely heard works of…

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12
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra

Advancement of the art of music and public knowledge therefor by producing performances. Featuring emerging conductors and musical soloists.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony and the most unlike its peers is Early Music Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%50%35–55yr16%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr13%62%35–55yr16%33%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/29
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,536

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $28,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONWhite Ash Broadcasting Inc — $21,000 · Arts & CultureWhite Ash Broadcasting IncEARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 · Arts & CultureEARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION INCCARMEL MUSIC SOCIETY — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCARMEL MUSIC SOCIETYSANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE PRO MUSICA INCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONCHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST — $11,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $10,500 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII — $10,072 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BAROQUE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $55,000 · Arts & Culture+12 morePRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INC — $25,000 · OtherPRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS I…Los Angeles Opera — $20,000 · OtherLos Angeles OperaIndividual grant recipient — $15,863 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBoston YouthSymphony — $13,000 · OtherBoston YouthSymphonyHandel Haydn Society — $10,000 · OtherHandel Haydn SocietyRegents of University of California — $10,000 · OtherRegents of University of CaliforniaRegent of University of California — $10,000 · OtherRegent of University of CaliforniaSegerstrom Center — $10,000 · OtherSegerstrom Center+8 more — $38,000 · Other+8 moreNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $5,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$247,572Other$151,863Education$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $28,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWhite Ash Broadcasting Inc — $21,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEARLY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCARMEL MUSIC SOCIETY — $15,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetSANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII — $10,072 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBOSTON BAROQUE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Symphony — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSICA ANGELICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Ann & Gordon Getty Fo…Ibm International Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ann & Gordon Getty FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 E Nakamichi 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chamber Music Northwest — 3% of income from government
  • Boston Baroque Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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