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Kuraray Foundation of America Inc at a glance

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Kuraray Foundation of America Inc

$101k
Granted FY2020
25
Grants FY2020
13
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2020 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k22 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
$3,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Greater Lorain County$16,000
San Jacinto Community College$10,000
La Porte Education Foundation$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Galveston Bay Foundation$5,000
Japan Society of Houston$5,000
Eastern Analytical Symposium Inc$5,000
American National Red Cross$5,000
Crosby Independent School District$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Special Olympics Texas Inc$5,000
Houston Food Bank$3,000
Armand Bayou Nature Center$2,000
Second Harvest Food Bank$1,500
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Fort Mill Care Center Inc: $1k → 8%American National Red Cross: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
WV
DE
NC
SC
DC
LA
TX
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 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
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
2
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
3
Hays County Food Bank

To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.

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4
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
5
South Texas Food Bank

To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…

Community Improvement
6
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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7
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…

Food & Nutrition
8
Tarrant Area Food Bank

Tarrant Area Food Bank's (TAFB) mission is empowering our community to alleviate hunger and improve health. We value and embrace a culture of fairness and inclusion as fundamental to our vision of empowering communities where no one has to…

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9
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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10
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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11
Food Bank for New York City

Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…

Community Improvement
12
Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc

Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forgotten Harvest Inc; the most unlike its peers is River City Runners and Walkers Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

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 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $10,000 · OtherSAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJapan Society of Houston: $5,000 · OtherJapan Society of HoustonEastern Analytical Symposium Inc: $5,000 · OtherEastern Analytical Symposium IncCrosby Independent School District: $5,000 · OtherCrosby Independent School DistrictThe Houston Food Bank: $3,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank+6 more: $6,050 · Other+6 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC: $16,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GRE…La Porte Education Foundation: $10,000 · EducationLa Porte Ed…Galveston Bay Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentArmand Bayou Nature Center Inc: $2,000 · EnvironmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesFort Mill Care Center Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBRINGING HOPE HOME: $1,500 · HealthLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC: $250 · HealthFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$54,050Philanthropy$16,000Education$10,000Environment$7,000Human Services$6,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Health$1,750Food & Nutrition$1,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER LORAIN COUNTY INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLa Porte Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Analytical Symposium Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArmand Bayou Nature Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRINGING HOPE HOME: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAPANESE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFort Mill Care Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiver City Runners and Walkers Club: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH COMMUNITY CLINIC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Kuraray Foundation of America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kuraray Foundation of America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kuraray Foundation of America Inc?

Find your warmest path to Kuraray Foundation of America Inc 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 25 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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