· Private foundation
Joe Atsushi and Sue Shigeko Naritoku Charitable 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 $10k4 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUSIC ANGEL | $11,000 |
| HEADS UP YOUTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GO FOR BROKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SE JAPANESE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% 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 +105% since the first grant, against +82% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- THTHE HEADS UP YOUTH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +105%
- AFANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE VALLEYS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +21%
- GFGO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- LPLinks Players International Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +298%
- GPGARDENA PIONEER PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -122% · 30% of their budget
- VWVENICE WEST LOS ANGELES JACLone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Serve the needs of the local Japanese American community through educational, cultural, and social programs that share the Japanese and Japanese American cultural heritage.
The mission of the asian pacific islander small business program is to assist the development of small & micro businesses in los angeles with a particular focus on the chinese, cambonian, korean, japanese, thai, and filipino business…
Provide health care services to medically underserved population in los angeles, california.
Ground Game LA Connects LAs most vulnerable communities with resource, recourse, and organizing know-how. Ground Game LA is a horizontally-managed, grassroots group, building community & electoral power in Los Angeles.
Encourages the sharing of differences and appreciation of diversity across culture, language, generation and ethnicity, working to strengthen relations among asian pacific islander communities and between asians and non-asians.
Provide a cultural exchange program with japan for the youth of southern californians to better understand the heritage of japan.
Our mission is to cultivate philanthropists to invest in organizations that empower under-served asian and pacific islanders (api) to prosper by 1) building healthier communities, 2) developing api leaders, 3) creating a stronger api…
The japan america society of southern california works to (1) promote among the american people a more accurate knowledge of the people of japan, their aims, customs, ideals, arts and sciences, industries, economic conditions, and…
To support the positive development of personal character, leadership & citizenship of youth and adults in the sacramento community; advance & promote ideals of family, heritage, and culture to serve youth & community; promote better…
Keiro's mission is to enhance the quality of senior life in our community. (cont'd on schedule o).
To promote, sponsor, maintain, develop, improve and protect the annual event known as the honolulu festival and other similar celebrations of cultural understanding, economic cooperation and racial harmony between and among the people of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian American Drug Abuse Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Links Players International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 30 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 WEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEADS UP YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Links Players International Inc ↗
- Who funds GARDENA PIONEER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GO FOR BROKE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF VISTA ↗
- Who funds NISEI WEEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN DRUG ABUSE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SCPGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
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.
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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 Joe Atsushi and Sue Shigeko Naritoku Charitable 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.
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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