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Kawabe Memorial Fund at a glance

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Kawabe Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$289k
Granted FY2025still arriving
67
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$331kHousing & Shelter$272kHuman Services$257kReligion$210kFood & Nutrition$174kYouth Development$91kHealth$73kEmployment$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k64 grants · $259k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
MT SI SENIOR CENTER$5,000
BREAD OF LIFE MISSION ASSOC INC$5,000
BELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
PICA-WA PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY ASSN$5,000
JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER$5,000
ANYTHING HELPS$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OFFICE MOMS & DADS: $5k → 9%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $5k → 9%WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%LIFE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $3k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $5k → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $5k → 9%BENEFITS LAW CENTER: $3k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $5k → 9%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $5k → 9%LAKE CITY PARTNERS ENDING HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $4k → 9%KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $31k → 9%KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $29k → 9%KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $10k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $8k → 9%KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $5k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $3k → 9%ANYTHING HELPS: $5k → 9%THE SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY SOCIETY: $5k → 9%ELDER WISE: $5k → 9%ELDERWISE: $5k → 9%ELDERWISE: $4k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $8k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%FULL LIFE CARE FKA ELDERHEALTH NW: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH HOME: $5k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 9%EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 9%FAMILY LAW CASA OF KING COUNTY: $4k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $3k → 9%THE SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $3k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $3k → 9%THE SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%NORTHSHORE SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 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

AK
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
MI
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
NM
SC
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 62 repeat orgs$549k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
92

Total granted

$1.1M
$431k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthEmploymentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • KM
    KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $139k · revenue +54%
  • West Seattle Food Bank
    4× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +11%
  • RV
    RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK
    3× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • NB
    NICHIREN BUDDHIST CHURCH OF SEATTLE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • SC
    STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +105%
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
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

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.

Human Services
2
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

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,…

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3
Building Changes

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…

Health
4
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
5
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

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 & Nutrition
6
Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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7
House Our Neighbors

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…

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8
Futurewise

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.

Environment
9
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
10
Port Angeles Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
12
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cares of Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

113 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. 113 of the 183 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/113
Grantees still filing
73/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEATTLE BETSUIN BUDDHIST TEMPLE: $55,100 · OtherSEATTLE BETSUIN BUDDHIST TEMPLEJAPANESE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherJAPANESE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSEATTLE KOYASAN BUDDHIST TEMPLE: $47,000 · Other+110 more: $766,050 · Other+110 moreKAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE: $139,100 · Human ServicesKAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSEASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $23,000 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING AND REFE…East African Community Services: $19,000 · Human ServicesElizabeth Home: $15,000 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABY: $15,000 · Human ServicesSOUND GENERATIONS: $14,500 · Human ServicesElderwise: $14,000 · Human Services+24 more: $117,600 · Human Services+24 moreLITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $15,000 · EducationDenise Louie Education center: $13,000 · EducationCreighton University: $12,000 · EducationBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EducationSawhorse Revolution: $9,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $7,000 · EducationGANNON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationLifetime Learning Center: $5,000 · EducationBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationCOTTEY COLLEGE: $4,000 · EducationSIMPSON UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC: $4,000 · Education+4 more: $12,000 · EducationWest Seattle Food Bank: $25,000 · Food & NutritionBACKPACK BRIGADE: $23,000 · Food & NutritionHunger Intervention Program: $19,000 · Food & NutritionCITY FRUIT: $8,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $5,000 · Food & NutritionDress for Success Seattle: $19,000 · EmploymentJUMA VENTURES INC: $10,000 · EmploymentSUMMER SEARCH: $10,000 · EmploymentCARES OF WASHINGTON: $5,000 · EmploymentFARESTART: $4,500 · EmploymentLAHAI HEALTH: $15,000 · HealthHOPECENTRAL: $7,500 · HealthVALLEY CITIES COUNSELING AND CONSULTATION: $5,000 · HealthRAINIER FOOTHILLS WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthHIGHLINE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $3,500 · HealthKIDS AND PAPER: $3,000 · HealthPERINATAL SUPPORT WASHINGTON: $2,500 · HealthCIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $22,800 · Community ImprovementWe Heart Seattle: $9,000 · Community ImprovementRefugee Artisan Initative: $5,000 · Community ImprovementChinatown International District Business Improvement Area: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$918,150Human Services$357,200Education$112,000Food & Nutrition$80,000Employment$48,500Health$46,500Community Improvement$41,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE: $139,100 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetWING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWest Seattle Food Bank: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $24,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE: $23,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $22,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDress for Success Seattle: $19,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHunger Intervention Program: $19,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEast African Community Services: $19,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBABIES OF HOMELESSNESS: $18,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWAY BACK INN FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetNorth Helpline: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE: $15,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLAHAI HEALTH: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetElizabeth Home: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElderwise: $14,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDenise Louie Education center: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBraided Seeds: $12,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCreighton University: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Park Senior Citizens: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK: $10,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAMA'S HANDS DBA MAMMA'S HANDS: $10,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHARVEST AGAINST HUNGER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUMA VENTURES INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWe Heart Seattle: $9,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSawhorse Revolution: $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMt Si Senior Center: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY FRUIT: $8,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $7,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN FEED: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPECENTRAL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLOTHES FOR KIDS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREET YOUTH MINITRIES: $6,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC: $6,100 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDVANTAGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 KAWABE MEMORIAL HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds West Seattle Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BACKPACK BRIGADE ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds CIS OF GREATER KING COUNTY DBA COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Seattle ↗
  • Who funds Hunger Intervention Program ↗
  • 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 Elizabeth Home ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE BABY ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Elderwise ↗
  • Who funds Denise Louie Education center ↗
  • Who funds Braided Seeds ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds South Park Senior Citizens ↗
  • Who funds BELLEVUE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MAMA'S HANDS DBA MAMMA'S HANDS ↗

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…United Way of King Co…Wilkins Charitable Fo…Fales Foundation TrustGarneau Nicon Family …Medina FoundationLucky Seven FoundationWashington Federal Fo…Liberty Mutual Founda…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA111.4× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kawabe Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kawabe Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
60report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kawabe Memorial Fund?

Find your warmest path to Kawabe Memorial Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 183 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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