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Kaitai USA Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$201k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$544kScience & Tech$20kReligion$14kArts & Culture$12kHealth$9kPublic Benefit$3kInternational$3kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $201k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$380k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Groton School$201,000
Columbia University$25,000
Harvard$20,000
Mark Of Love Foundation$3,000
River of Life Christian Church in B$2,000
Be the Change Foundation$1,650
U Channel Foundation$1,000
River of Life Christian Church$1,000
Nevus Outreach$1,000
New England Conservatory$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%River of Life Christian Church in B: $2k → 8%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $25k → 11%New England Conservatory: $1k → 16%Be the Change Foundation: $4k → 8%FULL GOSPEL BUSINESS MEN'S FELLOWSHIP: $145 → 10%Unifcef USA: $300 → 17%Nevus Outreach: $2k → 17%COLORADO ACADEMY: $7k → 7%LITTLETON YOUTH BALLET: $500 → 8%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $20k → 8%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $12k → 11%New England Conservatory: $500 → 16%Be the Change Foundation: $2k → 8%Columbia University: $25k → 17%Nevus Outreach: $1k → 17%COLORADO ACADEMY: $500 → 7%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $20k → 8%THE FAY SCHOOL: $10k → 11%Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras: $2k → 16%SHIN SHIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $150 → 8%Columbia University: $25k → 17%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $5k → 8%THE FAY SCHOOL: $3k → 11%Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras: $1k → 16%SILICON VALLEY YOUNG SCHOLARS: $4k → 8%Columbia University: $15k → 17%Groton School: $201k → 8%THE FAY SCHOOL: $1k → 11%River of Life Christian Church: $2k → 8%Columbia University: $10k → 17%Groton School: $125k → 8%UChannel Foundation: $2k → 8%Columbia College: $350 → 17%Groton School: $25k → 8%U Channel Foundation: $1k → 8%Harvard: $20k → 8%UCHANNEL: $1k → 8%Groton School: $10k → 8%U Channel Foundation: $1k → 8%Harvard Museums of Science Culture: $2k → 8%River of Life Christian Church: $1k → 8%Town of Groton: $3k → 8%RIVER OF LIFE CHURCH: $500 → 8%Harvard Museums of Science Culture: $1k → 8%Silver Lining Mission: $912 → 8%SILVER LINING MISSION: $912 → 8%BE THE CHANGE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%SILVER LINING MISSION: $912 → 8%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$499k · 13 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$499k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+19%

Still filing today

77%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • GROTON SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $361k · revenue +8%
  • MIDDLESEX SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2022 · $82k · revenue +26%
  • TF
    THE FAY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $14k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY YOUNG SCHOLARS
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • TO
    Town of Groton
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • U
    UCHANNEL
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Foundation of America (Sjtufa)
Education
4
The Hotchkiss School

The hotchkiss school seeks to inspire a diverse range of students who are committed to the betterment of self and society, and to cultivate in them at the highest standards of excellence (imagination and intellect, openness and personal…

Education
5
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
9
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
10
United Nations International School

Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…

Education
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Academy; the most unlike its peers is Be the Change Foundation Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 26 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROTON SCHOOL: $361,000 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $82,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHOOLTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $75,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $22,800 · EducationMARK OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherSILICON VALLEY YOUNG SCHOLARS: $4,000 · OtherTown of Groton: $3,000 · OtherHarvard Museums of Science Culture: $3,000 · OtherRIVER OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherRiver of Life Christian Church in B: $2,000 · OtherUCHANNEL: $1,000 · Other+5 more: $1,945 · OtherBE THE CHANGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,450 · HealthNEVUS OUTREACH INC: $3,000 · HealthU Channel Foundation: $4,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $3,100 · Arts & CultureLITTLETON YOUTH BALLET: $500 · Arts & CultureSILVER LINING MISSIONS: $2,736 · PhilanthropySHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $150 · International
Education$560,800Other$25,445Health$9,450Arts & Culture$7,600Philanthropy$2,736International$150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $361,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $82,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $7,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBE THE CHANGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,450 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetU Channel Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEVUS OUTREACH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSILVER LINING MISSIONS: $2,736 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLETON YOUTH BALLET: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $150 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 GROTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE FAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BE THE CHANGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds U Channel Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEVUS OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds SILVER LINING MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLETON YOUTH BALLET ↗
  • Who funds SHIN SHIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Kaitai USA Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaitai USA Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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