· Private foundation
Kenichi & Takayo Nakase Family Fdn
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE TOKYO SVC CTR | $25,000 |
| JAPANESE CULTURAL NEWS ASSOC | $6,000 |
| KEIRO | $6,000 |
| ANAHEIM REVIVE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| JACCC | $5,000 |
| JAPANESE AMER NATL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| LITTLE TOKYO SVC CTR BUDOKAN | $4,000 |
| JAPANESE CULTURAL FAIR | $3,000 |
| DENSHO | $3,000 |
| RISING STARS | $3,000 |
| PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL | $2,000 |
| JAPANESE AMER MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +47%- PLPRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +33%
- JAJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE2× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- OCOCO CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +198%
- ARANAHEIM REVIVE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- 1L1979 LEGACY CORPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +42%
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.
The National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. (NJAHS) charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to the collection, preservation, authentic interpretation, and sharing of historical information of the Japanese American…
To provide historical and educational content about the Japanese American WWII incarceration as a public service and resource
To educate the public on japanese and japanese-american history and culture.
The mission of soka university of america is to foster a steady stream of global citizens committed to living a contributive life. continued on schedule o.
To promote goodwill between the united states and japan, cultural exchange, education, and to encourage appreciation of the cultural heritage of various japanese prefectures in the kansai region of japan.
Provide a cultural exchange program with japan for the youth of southern californians to better understand the heritage of japan.
To promote and foster the understanding and appreciation of japanese and japanese american art, history, and culture. to preserve and disseminate inforation about the japanese american way of life to promote the study of the japanesese…
To initiate and participate in activities that will promote the history, culture and social welfare of the japanese american community in southern california.this includes education about the world war ii incarceration of japanese american.
The japanese american citizens league is a national organization whose mission is to advocate and safeguard the civil and human rights of asian and pacific islander americans and all communities who are affected by injustice and bigotry.
Japan society is the premier organization connecting japanese arts, culture, business, and society with audiences in new york and around the world. in fy2024, attendance onsite was 36.9k with 3.3k participating in online programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Budokan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Precious Lamb Preschool Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 34 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 OCO CLUB ↗
- Who funds DENSHO ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds 1979 LEGACY CORP ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN JAPANESE GARDEN ASS0 ↗
- Who funds BUDOKAN INC ↗
- Who funds HOOPS FOR FRIENDS INC ↗
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.
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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 Kenichi & Takayo Nakase Family Fdn 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.