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KT 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $625k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cornell University | $250,000 |
| National Japanese American Historic | $150,000 |
| J-Sei | $100,000 |
| Cornell University | $100,000 |
| Fuller Theological Seminary | $100,000 |
| Cornell University | $100,000 |
| Kimochi Inc | $75,000 |
| Japanese Cultural Community Ctr | $30,000 |
| Muttville | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800k 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
- MMUTTVILLE4× · 2019–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +109%
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +27%
- KIKIMOCHI INC3× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- OMOakland Museumone grant, 2021 · $500k
- RSRett Syndrome Research Trust Incone grant, 2020 · $200k
- ETEden Township Japanese Community Ceone grant, 2022 · $200k
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.
Founded in 1905, the japan society of northern california works to advance u.s. - japan collaboration and understanding in a global context. the society offers an array of programs and networking opportunities for people and organizations…
The japan america society of southern california works to (1) promote among the american people a more accurate knowledge of the people of japan, their aims, customs, ideals, arts and sciences, industries, economic conditions, and…
Keiro's mission is to enhance the quality of senior life in our community. (cont'd on schedule o).
Keiro's mission is to enhance the quality of senior life in our community. (cont'd on schedule o).
The mission of the jccc is to deepen mutual understanding and improve relations between japanese and u.s. businesses through a wide variety of cultural, educational, and charitable programs. to meet its mission, the jccc organizes a series…
To be a vibrant resource, strengthening our diverse community by educating present and future generations in the evolving japanese american experience in hawaii. we do this through relevant programming, meaningful community service and…
Mingei International Museum connects audiences with the creativity and cultural traditions of makers across time and the globe, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of our shared humanity through handmade objects, and the…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The jaccc weaves japanese and japanese american arts and culture into the fabric of our communities. the jaccc remains firmly rooted in little tokyo, providing a vital place to build connections between people and cultures, locally and…
Kin on honors and supports our elders and families by offering culturally asian and linguistically appropriate healthcare services in a healthy living community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Japanese Cultural and Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Poston Community Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds KIMOCHI INC ↗
- Who funds National Japanese American Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POSTON COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds J-SEI INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE COMMUNITY YOUTH 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 San Francisco Japantown Foundation · Ja Community Foundation · Asian Pacific Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 KT 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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Find your warmest path to KT Foundation 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.