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Karmagawa Foundation Inc

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.

$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$2.6MEducation$1.0MAnimals$458kFood & Nutrition$357kEnvironment$339kPublic Safety & Disaster$206kPhilanthropy$162kHuman Services$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$32k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALI'S CHILDREN PROJECT$60,327
MYRIAD USA$25,000
THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THINKING HUTS: $137k → 9%HEALTH ENRICHMENT NETWORK INC: $40k → 21%ISLA MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%IMAGINE LOS ANGELES INC: $10k → 14%WAVES FOR WATER INC: $45k → 14%WAVES FOR WATER INC: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 12 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
45

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+20%

Still filing today

92%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TB
    The Bali Children's Project
    6× · 2019–2024 · $646k · revenue +46% · 33% of their budget
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $400k · revenue +21%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    2× · 2017–2020 · $125k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • TH
    Thinking Huts
    one grant, 2021 · $137k · revenue -13% · 57% of their budget
  • The Ocean Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $130k · revenue -29%
  • T3
    THE 30 DAY FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -100%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
3
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
4
Born Free Foundation
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5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
9
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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10
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
11
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
12
Sweet Farm Foundation

Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charlies Acres. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…Equine Therapy ProgramsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/57
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,508

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 63 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/55
Grantees still filing
32/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $758,577 · InternationalPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATE…Save The Children Federation Inc — $400,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation I…TURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC — $100,000 · InternationalTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $80,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCCAMBODIAN VILLAGE FUND — $62,172 · International+2 more — $35,000 · InternationalPARTNERS RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT — $1,115,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERS RELIEF & DEVELOPM…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $81,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION A…Silicon Valley Community Foundation — $60,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $7,000 · PhilanthropyThe Bali Children's Project — $646,493 · EducationThe Bali Childre…THE STARFISH FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 · EducationTHE STARFISH FOU…GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $50,000 · EducationGREENWAVE ORGANI…Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc — $40,000 · EducationThe Houston Food Bank — $125,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Ba…THE 30 DAY FUND INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE 30 DAY FUND INCBALI'S CHILDREN PROJECT — $100,000 · OtherBALI'S CHILDREN PRO…RESCATE 2000 INC — $52,000 · OtherRESCATE 2000 INCDIRECT RELIEF — $50,000 · OtherDIRECT RELIEFLADYLIKE FOUNDATION — $85,000 · OtherLADYLIKE FOUNDATIONJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $50,000 · OtherJACOBS & CUSHMAN SA…SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherSYRIAN AMERICAN MED…+15 more — $267,190 · Other+15 moreRANCHO RELAXO INC — $75,000 · AnimalsRVR HORSE RESCUE INC — $50,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $50,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc — $50,000 · AnimalsFOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC — $45,000 · AnimalsHAPPY HEART-HAPPY HOME FARM AND RESCUE — $30,399 · AnimalsGoatlandia Farm Animal Sanctuary and Education Center — $20,000 · AnimalsRic OBarrys Dolphin Project — $20,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $20,000 · AnimalsSweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue Inc — $20,000 · AnimalsCharlies Acres — $20,000 · AnimalsFARM OF THE FREE ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $20,000 · Animals+2 more — $3,000 · AnimalsThe Ocean Foundation — $129,572 · EnvironmentMAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC — $109,288 · EnvironmentBarrel Bag — $15,000 · Environment+2 more — $4,500 · EnvironmentThinking Huts — $137,000 · Human ServicesWAVES FOR WATER INC — $50,409 · Human ServicesTHE HEALTH ENRICHMENT NETWORK INC % THOMAS DAVIS MD — $40,000 · Human ServicesIsla Medical Foundation — $20,000 · Human ServicesImagine Los Angeles Inc — $10,000 · Human Services
International$1,435,749Philanthropy$1,263,000Education$798,493Other$929,190Animals$423,399Environment$258,360Human Services$257,409

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPARTNERS RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT — $1,115,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $758,577 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetThe Bali Children's Project — $646,493 over 6y, 33% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThinking Huts — $137,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation — $129,572 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE A CHANGE WORLD INC — $109,288 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLADYLIKE FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $81,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO RELAXO INC — $75,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCAMBODIAN VILLAGE FUND — $62,172 over 1y, 45% of budgetTHE STARFISH FOUNDATION INC — $62,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAVES FOR WATER INC — $50,409 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetRVR HORSE RESCUE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE HEALTH ENRICHMENT NETWORK INC % THOMAS DAVIS MD — $40,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHAPPY HEART-HAPPY HOME FARM AND RESCUE — $30,399 over 1y, 30% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $26,190 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOSPEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGoatlandia Farm Animal Sanctuary and Education Center — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRic OBarrys Dolphin Project — $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIsla Medical Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSweet Olive Farm Animal Rescue Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlies Acres — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFARM OF THE FREE ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetVETPAW INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetImagine Los Angeles Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ATITLAN FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTrinas Kids Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Mightycause Charitabl…California Community …Network for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Raymond James Charita…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC12.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Karmagawa Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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