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John y & Reiko E Sato Foundation Trust at a glance

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John y & Reiko E Sato Foundation Trust

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.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$187kEducation$75kCrime & Legal$38kHuman Services$9kHousing & Shelter$9kPhilanthropy$6kYouth Development$6kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$363k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OVERLAKE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$15,000
MARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$14,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$11,000
MULTICARE HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$5,000
KEIRO NORTHWEST$2,500
DENSHO$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
FRED HUTCH CANCER CENTER$1,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
WORLD VISION$1,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$1,000
TREEHOUSE$1,000
PROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KEIRO NORTHWEST: $9k → 9%KEIRO NORTHWEST: $5k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $1k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $1k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $525 → 9%KEIRO NORTHWEST: $3k → 9%KEIRO NORTHWEST: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
IA
CA
MO
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 25 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
23

Total granted

$311k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+5%

Still filing today

76%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MF
    MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +163%
  • OH
    OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +27%
  • D
    DENSHO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • EA
    EISENHOWER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • LR
    LIBERTY ROBOTICS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • Mercy Ships Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +87%
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
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
6
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
7
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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8
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
9
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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12
Multicare South King Health Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overlake Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. 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

33 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. 33 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $49,500 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONSOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONEisenhower Medical Center: $34,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical CenterNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $8,500 · HealthNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS+5 more: $5,050 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $68,720 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONMARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $14,000 · OtherMARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS HOSPITALOVERLAKE HOSPITAL: $10,000 · OtherOVERLAKE HOSPITALPROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Other+29 more: $35,019 · Other+29 moreDENSHO: $37,500 · Arts & CultureDENSHO+1 more: $300 · Arts & CultureKEIRO NORTHWEST: $18,700 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $3,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE: $2,525 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWORLD VISION INC: $2,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $1,030 · InternationalOneWorld Health: $1,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 · InternationalTHE RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$142,050Other$133,239Arts & Culture$37,800Human Services$26,225Philanthropy$5,500International$5,030Housing & Shelter$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $49,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDENSHO: $37,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKEIRO NORTHWEST: $18,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,970 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $2,525 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOneWorld Health: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $199 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DENSHO ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds KEIRO NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE MOUNT ST VINCENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds OneWorld Health ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationApex FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Seattle FoundationWA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Apex Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 John y & Reiko E Sato Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John y & Reiko E Sato Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 57 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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