· Private foundation
Kawabe Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k64 grants · $259k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE | $10,000 |
| JAPANESE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| MAMA'S HANDS | $7,500 |
| AVTEC - ALASKA VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL CTR | $6,000 |
| GANNON UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| THE SOPHIA WAY | $5,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST SCHOOL FOR HEARING IMPAIRED | $5,000 |
| DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER | $5,000 |
| ELDERWISE | $5,000 |
| BACKPACK BRIGADE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $338k) 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KMKAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE7× · 2019–2025 · $139k · revenue +54%
West Seattle Food Bank4× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +11%- RVRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK3× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- NBNICHIREN BUDDHIST CHURCH OF SEATTLEone grant, 2021 · $15k
- SCSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +105%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cares of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Pomona College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
113 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. 113 of the 183 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
- Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds CIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hunger Intervention Program ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Seattle ↗
- Who funds East African Community Services ↗
- Who funds BABIES OF HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds WAY BACK INN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Helpline ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds LAHAI HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
- Who funds LITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Home ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds Elderwise ↗
- Who funds Denise Louie Education center ↗
- Who funds Braided Seeds ↗
- Who funds South Park Senior Citizens ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S HANDS DBA MAMMA'S HANDS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Wilkins Charitable Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Medina Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation 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 Kawabe Memorial Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
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.
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