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Glenn H Kawasaki Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$925k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6MAnimals$1.2MEducation$228kScience & Tech$75k
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $740k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$26,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Old Dog Haven$10,000
NW Youth Symphony Assn$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Pennsylvania State University: $50k → 16%Baja Animal Sanctuary: $10k → 11%University of Texas San Antonio: $25k → 16%Oregon State University Fdn: $200k → 18%Old Dog Haven: $10k → 7%Spectrum DanceTheater: $27k → 9%PAWS: $20k → 9%NW Youth Symphony Assn: $10k → 11%Spectrum Dance Theater: $5k → 9%Fidalgo DanceWorks: $20k → 11%Shunpike: $2k → 9%Seattle Dance Collective: $25k → 9%Seattle Humane: $5k → 9%Seattle Dance Collec tive: $25k → 9%Woodland Park Zoo: $925k → 9%Woodland Park Zoo: $200k → 9%Velocity Dance Center: $85k → 9%woodland Park Zoo: $10k → 9%Velocity Dance Center: $10k → 9%Woodland Park Zoo: $10k → 9%Woodland Park Zoo: $10k → 9%Velocity Dance Center: $5k → 9%Zoe Juniper: $5k → 9%Velocity Dance Center: $5k → 9%Velocity Dance Center: $5k → 9%Karin Stevens Dance: $55k → 9%Karin Stevens Dance: $5k → 9%Karin Stevens Dance: $5k → 9%University Washington Dance: $100k → 9%University of Washington Foundation: $23k → 9%University of Washington Dance: $10k → 9%ArtsFund: $10k → 9%Khambatta Dance Company: $170k → 9%Khambatta Dance Company: $10k → 9%Base: $80k → 9%Khambatta Dance Company: $10k → 9%Base: $10k → 9%Khambatta Dance Company: $10k → 9%Base: $5k → 9%Khambatta Dance Company: $8k → 9%BASE: $3k → 9%Pacific Northwest Ballet: $700k → 9%Pacific Northwest Ballet: $40k → 9%Pacific Northwest Ballet: $40k → 9%Pacific Northwest Ballet: $35k → 9%Pacific Northwest Ballet: $35k → 9%Seattle Repertory Theater: $10k → 9%Seattle Repertory Theater: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 10 repeat orgs$485k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +111% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$2.6M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
+4%

Still filing today

70%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • WP
    WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +112%
  • PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $850k · revenue +18%
  • VD
    Velocity Dance Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -7%
  • A
    ARTSFUND
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • UO
    University of Washington Dance
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

1
On the Boards

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.

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2
Portland School of Ballet

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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4
Dance Theatre Seattle

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Olympic Ballet Theatre

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…

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6
Seattle Artists

Musical and other cultural performances and music education for youth

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7
The Phffft Company Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
San Diego Ballet

Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.

Unclassified
9
Dandelion Dancetheater

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Stefanie Nelson Dance Group

Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup (SND) is a contemporary performance ensemble invested in using dance for healing, empowerment and joy.

Arts & Culture
11
Smuin Ballet

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Rawdance

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spectrum Dance Theater; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $850,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATIONVelocity Dance Center: $110,000 · Arts & CultureVelocity Dance CenterBASE: $97,500 · Arts & CultureBASEKARIN STEVENS DANCE: $65,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $68,700 · Arts & Culture+5 moreWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,155,000 · AnimalsWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY+3 more: $25,000 · AnimalsIndividual grant recipient: $207,500 · OtherIndividual grant…University Washington Dance: $100,000 · OtherUniversity Washi…PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STA…University of Texas San Antonio: $25,000 · OtherUniversity of Te…Seattle Repertory Theater: $20,000 · OtherPAWS: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $25,000 · Other+3 moreOregon State University Foundation: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,241,200Animals$1,180,000Other$447,500Education$223,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $1,155,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $850,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVelocity Dance Center: $110,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetBASE: $97,500 over 4y, 47% of budgetSEATTLE DANCE COLLECTIVE: $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSpectrum Dance Theater: $31,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDALGO DANCEWORKS: $20,200 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTSFUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAJA ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZoe Juniper: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSHUNPIKE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

ArtsfundSeattle FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
ArtsfundWA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Glenn H Kawasaki Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Glenn H Kawasaki Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to Glenn H Kawasaki Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Glenn H Kawasaki Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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