· Private foundation
Kawasaki Good Times Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kawasaki Good Times Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kawasaki Good Times Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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