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Makioka Foundation

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.

$440k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$371kReligion$363kCommunity Improvement$40kHuman Services$11kEducation$9kSocial Science$9kHealth$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $331,670 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $439,670 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $108,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
$3,200
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The First Church Of Christ$110,000
Japanese Children's Society$100,000
Japan Society, Inc$25,000
Japan Society, Inc$20,000
Japan Society$17,590
Citizens Committee For New York City Inc$10,000
Japan Society$7,560
Two East Sixty Second Street Foundation$6,320
Walk-Bike Nashville Inc.$5,000
Citizens Committee For New York City Inc$5,000
Student Sponsor Partnership, Inc$5,000
Tenth Church Of Christ Scientist$3,500
Tenth Church Of Christ Scientist$3,200
Brooklyn Art Song Society$3,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$2,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$659k · 15 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
21

Total granted

$659k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
0%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TF
    The First Church Of Christ
    4× · 2022–2025 · $330k
  • JS
    JAPAN SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $225k · revenue -14%
  • TC
    TENTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST
    4× · 2022–2025 · $31k

Funded once

  • LONGYEAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • CC
    Children's Community for New York City
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
8
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
9
New York Shakespeare Festival

As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…

Arts & Culture
10
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
11
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Harvard Square Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAsian American Civic & Cult…Local History MuseumsCharter and Independent Sch…Hospice and Palliative CareClassical Music OrchestrasGovernment Accountability &…Lgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…Senior Support ServicesCommunity Theater CompaniesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Childhood Cancer Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%56%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,729

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
6/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The First Church Of Christ — $330,000 · OtherThe First Church Of ChristTENTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST — $30,900 · OtherTENTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST+24 more — $35,750 · Other+24 moreJAPAN SOCIETY INC — $225,400 · Arts & CultureJAPAN SOCIETY INCJAPANESE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY INC+8 more — $38,670 · Arts & Culture+8 moreCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementZARIF DESIGN CORPORATION — $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $1,000 · Community ImprovementSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $5,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $2,000 · EducationGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $1,500 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $2,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS — $5,000 · PhilanthropyWALK BIKE NASHVILLE INC — $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$396,650Arts & Culture$364,070Community Improvement$41,000Education$8,500Health$7,000Philanthropy$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC — $225,400 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJAPANESE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetZARIF DESIGN CORPORATION — $15,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetLONGYEAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $7,570 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Harvard Square Inc — $6,500 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ART SONG SOCIETY INC — $5,600 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIona Senior Services — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElevator Repair Service Theater Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Select Equity Group F…Ibm International Fou…The Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Select Equity Group Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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