· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +105% since the first grant, against +82% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joe Atsushi and Sue Shigeko Naritoku Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe Atsushi and Sue Shigeko Naritoku Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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