· Private foundation
Ishiyama 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $580k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NPR | $789,926 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $565,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| HIGH COUNTRY NEWS | $250,000 |
| BUFFALO BILL CENTER FOR THE WEST | $200,000 |
| CALIFORNIA TROUT | $160,000 |
| HENRY'S FORK FOUNDATION | $151,000 |
| FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH | $150,000 |
| THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP | $150,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE | $140,000 |
| PALO ALTO WEEKLY HOLIDAY FUND | $100,000 |
| PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND | $50,000 |
| RESOURCES LEGACY FUND | $50,000 |
| EMBARCADERO MEDIA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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, $492k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +43% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 15 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +133%
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +51%- HCHIGH COUNTRY NEWS7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +3%
Funded once
- NFNATIONAL FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $500k
- BLBILL LANE CENTER FOR UNDERGRADUATE ENDOWMENTone grant, 2020 · $440k
- AAVENIDASone grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue -37%
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenlight Clinic. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 163 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 TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC FUND ↗
- Who funds AVENIDAS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMBARCADERO MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Snake River Waterkeeper Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Ishiyama 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.