· Private foundation
Glenn H Kawasaki 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $740k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Woodland Park Zoo | $925,000 |
| Pacific Northwest Ballet | $700,000 |
| Oregon State University Fdn | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $170,000 |
| University Washington Dance | $100,000 |
| Velocity Dance Center | $85,000 |
| Base | $80,000 |
| Karin Stevens Dance | $55,000 |
| Pennsylvania State University | $50,000 |
| Spectrum DanceTheater | $26,500 |
| University of Texas San Antonio | $25,000 |
| PAWS | $20,000 |
| Fidalgo DanceWorks | $20,000 |
| Baja Animal Sanctuary | $10,000 |
| NW Youth Symphony Assn | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 11 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k 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
- WPWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +112%
PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $850k · revenue +18%- VDVelocity Dance Center5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -7%
- AARTSFUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +5%
- UOUniversity of Washington Danceone 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.
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Portland Ballet is dedicated to bringing dance to people of all ages and skill levels, while maintaining its focus on training young men and women for professional careers. Its Maines professional ballent company and leading classical…
To inform and shape both dancers and audiences by removing barriers of exclusivity in ballet and fostering an open-minded platform for dance. creating a space of honest inclusivity, dts believes that ballet can grow in tandem with all…
Olympic Ballet Theatre's mission is to develop, sustain, and provide professional dance to public and school audiences in the Puget Sound area, to promote dance as a creative performing art, and to engage the widest possible audience with…
Musical and other cultural performances and music education for youth
The Phffft Company's mission is to engage audiences through the exploration of contemporary issues, emotionally resonant performances, and an invested, generative process of dance creation by a diverse group of dancers. Through its…
Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.
Dandelion is situated at the crossroads of dance, theater, music, community activism, healing, and new performance forms. The company is committed to the individual and intersecting artistic visions of Kimiko Guthrie and Eric Kupers. Our…
Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup (SND) is a contemporary performance ensemble invested in using dance for healing, empowerment and joy.
Smuin Contemporary Ballet thrives on diverse views and dance styles to create art that is original, evocative, and entertaining. By creating a platform for artists to flourish, we foster innovation. By embracing bold ideals and ideas, we…
RAWdance champions the power of movement as an indispensable source of connection and a visceral medium to illuminate the issues of our time. We commit to creating adventurous, thoughtful, and welcoming programming that challenges what…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spectrum Dance Theater and the most unlike its peers is Baja Animal Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Velocity Dance Center ↗
- Who funds BASE ↗
- Who funds KARIN STEVENS DANCE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE DANCE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Dance Theater ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDALGO DANCEWORKS ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
- Who funds BAJA ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Zoe Juniper ↗
- Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
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: Artsfund · Seattle Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Glenn H Kawasaki 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.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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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