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Minami Tamaki Yamauchi Kwok & Lee 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.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Civil Rights$305kCrime & Legal$207kPublic Benefit$200kEducation$168kArts & Culture$93kCommunity Improvement$50kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$20kPhilanthropy$15kOther$240k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APIA VOTE$50,000
COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER$20,000
CHINESE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION$10,000
AZ AANHPI ONE ARIZONA$10,000
JACL OF HAWAII HONOLULU CHAPTER$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 8%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MI
NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
AZ
DC
HI

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.

03Your 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 16 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
20

Total granted

$1.0M
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+55%

Still filing today

94%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsArts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $200k · revenue +112%
  • AL
    Asian Law Caucus
    4× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +180%
  • WA
    WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2018–2020 · $90k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -83%
  • AV
    APIA VOTE - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • ONE ARIZONAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +57%

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

04Your 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
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
2
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
3
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California

Ajsocal is a social justice organization that protects and strengthens the rights and dignity of asian american and pacific islander (aapi) communities, especially those that are most disadvantaged.

Crime & Legal
4
Asian Pacific American Legal

To advance the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans through direct services, education and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
5
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
6
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc

AAPIP expands and mobilizes resources for AAPI communities to build a more just and equitable society.

Philanthropy
7
Asians for Collective Action

Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.

Public Benefit
8
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area

The Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA) has been the voice of the San Francisco Bay Areas Asian Pacific American (APA) legal community since 1976. AABA fosters professional development, community, and service. We…

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9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
Coalition of Asian American Leaders

The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.

Arts & Culture
11
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc

Coordinate pro bono legal aid for victims of anti-Asian violence.

Civil Rights
12
Association for Asian Studies Inc

A non-profit dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publication, research support and career development.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. 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 Advocacy & H…Government Accountability R…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,532

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote — $120,000 · Civil RightsAsian & Pacific Islander A…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES U…Chinese for Affirmative Action — $35,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Ac…Equal Justice Society — $30,000 · Civil RightsEqual Justice SocietyONE ARIZONA — $25,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONA+2 more — $15,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL — $60,000 · OtherAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUN…APIA VOTE - NATIONAL — $50,000 · OtherAPIA VOTE - NATIONALASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND — $35,000 · OtherASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFE…SEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $23,128 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $21,500 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONAZ AANHPI ONE ARIZONA — $10,000 · OtherCENTER FOR GENDER AND REFUGEE STUDIES UC HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW — $10,000 · OtherSANTA CLARA COUNTY ASIAN LAW ALLIANCE — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER — $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTERINSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT — $10,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 · OtherJONATHAN LOGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER — $15,000 · Other+2 more — $5,200 · OtherAsian Law Caucus — $95,000 · Crime & LegalAsian Law CaucusAABA Law Foundation — $70,000 · Crime & LegalAABA Law Foundati…Legal Aid at Work — $22,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid at WorkCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA — $10,000 · Crime & LegalNIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $200,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUC…WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $90,000 · EducationWORKING AMERIC…FRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE — $55,000 · EducationFRED T KOREMAT…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $13,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …North American South Asian Bar Assc Fnd — $10,000 · EducationNorth American…Coalition for Good Governance — $50,000 · Arts & CultureKUNHARDT FILM FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDENSHO — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$305,000Other$299,828Crime & Legal$207,000Public Benefit$200,000Education$168,000Arts & Culture$92,500Community Improvement$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $200,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote — $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAsian Law Caucus — $95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $90,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAABA Law Foundation — $70,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRED T KOREMATSU INSTITUTE — $55,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetCoalition for Good Governance — $50,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEqual Justice Society — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE ARIZONA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $23,128 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid at Work — $22,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKUNHARDT FILM FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSANTA CLARA COUNTY ASIAN LAW ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDENSHO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorth American South Asian Bar Assc Fnd — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE - MICHIGAN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO JAPANTOWN FOUNDATION — $200 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Wallace H Coulter Tru…Asian Pacific FundGofundmeorgThe San Francisco Fou…Wallace H Coulter Fou…Asian & Pacific Islan…The California Wellne…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Asian & Pacific Islan…NEO Philanthropy Inc
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Wallace H Coulter Trust · Asian Pacific Fund · Gofundmeorg · The San Francisco Foundation · Wallace H Coulter Foundation · Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum · The California Wellness Foundation · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote · NEO Philanthropy 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Minami Tamaki Yamauchi Kwok & Lee 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    10report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Minami Tamaki Yamauchi Kwok & Lee Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Minami Tamaki Yamauchi Kwok & Lee 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.

    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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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