· Private foundation
Kawasaki Good Times Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| JAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +45% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +58%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $220k · revenue +70%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2017–2019 · $105k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- NDNebraska Diplomats Incone grant, 2018 · $165k · revenue -61%
- HHHURRICANE HELENE RELIEF EFFORTSone grant, 2024 · $97k
- UMUS MORTORCYCLE COACHING ASSOCIATIone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Nebraska Defense Research Corporation (NDRC) provides a bridge of trust between government, industry, and academia to support and promote technology discovery, facilitate knowledge transfer, and accelerates the transfer of command,…
Promotion of tourism, business, industry and history in the community of nebraska city, ne
The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.
The nebraska council of school administrators is an organization of more than 2,000 school administrators who serve in nebraska schools. we consider ourselves a partner in developing excellence in educational leadership, providing the…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The north dakota petroleum council's mission is to promote and enhance the discovery, development, production, transportation, refining, conservation, and marketing of oil and gas in north dakota, south dakota, and the rocky mountain…
The northland regional chamber of commerce promotes growth and development in the kansas city, missouri northland area by monitoring important issues,educating members, assisting support activities, and providing a unified voice for…
Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members
The u.s. grains council is dedicated to developing markets, enabling trade, and improving lives by fostering an inclusive organization of grain producers, agribusiness organizations, and international customers, while promoting free, fair,…
Provide education and leadership to empower people to live safe and healthy.
Support the activities of the nebraska arts council and the nebraska humanities council doing business as humanities nebraska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Nebraska Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 40 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nebraska Diplomats Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds US- JAPAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds NFPA EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NODAWAY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds BOONSLICK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds J HIGDON POTTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA SPORTS COUNCIL ↗
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 Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Kawasaki Good Times Foundation 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.
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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