· Private foundation
Kodama Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $540k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPARKSF PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $750,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $500,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $500,000 |
| OBAMA FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| DIA ART FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| 826 VALENCIA | $165,200 |
| UNDAUNTEDK12 | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
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Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
We help our partners in states and schools work together to align policy and practice, reimagining what education can do through personalized, competency-based learning - and what it must do to prepare students for a lifetime of learning.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
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To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
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How this is measured
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.
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kodama Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kodama Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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