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Kinjiro and Eiko Moriguchi Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$312kReligion$85kEducation$57kHuman Services$50kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,306
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NICHI BEI FOUNDATION$50,000
PINE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$15,000
SAN JOSE BUDDHIST CHURCH BETSUIN$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,306
YU-AI KAI$10,000
NIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH$5,000
KIMOCHI INC$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%YU-AI KAI: $10k → 8%YU-AI KAI: $10k → 8%YU-AI KAI: $10k → 8%YU-AI KAI: $5k → 8%YU-AI KAI: $5k → 10%KIMOCHI: $10k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $5k → 10%KIMOCHI INC: $5k → 10%KIMOCHI: $5k → 10%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$599k · 11 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$599k
$20k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NB
    NICHI BEI FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $257k · revenue +95%
  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +47%
  • YK
    YU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • GV
    GARDENA VALLEY CULTURAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • JT
    JAPANTOWN TASK FORCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Japantown Cultural Society
Education
2
Us-Japan Research Institute Suite 801
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3
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation

APIAHIP is the only national organization dedicated to protecting historic places and cultural resources significant to Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Arts & Culture
4
Japan Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress

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.

Unclassified
6
Japanese American Museum of Oregon

To preserve and honor the history and culture of japanese americans in the pacific northwest, to educate the public about the japanese american experience during world war ii, and to advocate for the protection of civil rights for all…

Arts & Culture
7
The Asian-American Senior Citizen Association
Human Services
8
Nisei Week Foundation Inc

To educate the public on japanese and japanese-american history and culture.

Arts & Culture
9
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
10
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
11
Alliance for Perserving the Truth of Sino-Japan War

Public education

Arts & Culture
12
Japanese American Cultural Center of Vista

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kimochi Inc; the most unlike its peers is Honolulu 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NICHI BEI FOUNDATION: $257,000 · Arts & CultureNICHI BEI FOUNDATIONHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $45,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ARTJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUMPINE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherPINE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHSAN JOSE BUDDHIST CHURCH BETSUIN INC: $55,000 · OtherSAN JOSE BUDDHIST CHURCH BETSUIN INCIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $17,306 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNational Japanese American Historical Society Inc: $10,000 · OtherGARDENA VALLEY CULTURAL INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherJAPANTOWN TASK FORCE INC: $10,000 · OtherYU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesYU-AI KAI J…KIMOCHI INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesKIMOCHI INCORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$342,000Other$202,306Human Services$65,000Education$10,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNICHI BEI FOUNDATION: $257,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER: $40,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKIMOCHI INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Japanese American Historical Society Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 NICHI BEI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds YU-AI KAI JAPANTOWN COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KIMOCHI INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Japanese American Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds NIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH ↗

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.

Ja Community FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ja Community Foundation · The San Francisco Japantown Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Kinjiro and Eiko Moriguchi Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kinjiro and Eiko Moriguchi 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Kinjiro and Eiko Moriguchi 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 14 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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