California · Private foundation
Kaitai USA Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $201,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $380k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Kaitai USA Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $211k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $141k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $29k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $28k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $33k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $22k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $32k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groton School | $361,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Middlesex School | $82,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Fay School Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado Academy | $7,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Mark of Love Foundation | $7,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Be the Change Foundation Inc | $6,450 | 3 | 3% |
| Silicon Valley Young Scholars | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| U Channel Foundation | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc | $3,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Town of Groton | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groton School | $361,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Middlesex School | $82,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Fay School Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado Academy | $7,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Mark of Love Foundation | $7,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Be the Change Foundation Inc | $6,450 | 3 | 3% |
| Silicon Valley Young Scholars | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| U Channel Foundation | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc | $3,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Town of Groton | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nevus Outreach Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| River of Life Christian Church | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Silver Lining Missions | $2,736 | 3 | 0% |
| New England Conservatory of Music | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Galilee South Community Church | $650 | 1 | n/a |
| River of Life Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Littleton Youth Ballet | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Shin Shin Educational Foundation | $150 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kaitai USA Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kaitai USA Foundation
- How much does Kaitai USA Foundation give?
- Kaitai USA Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $256,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kaitai USA Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Science & Tech (3%), Religion (2%).
- Who are Kaitai USA Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Groton School ($361k), Middlesex School ($82k), The Fay School Inc ($14k).
- Does Kaitai USA Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kaitai USA Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kaitai USA Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Kaitai USA Foundation based?
- Kaitai USA Foundation is based in CA.
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