Delaware · Private foundation
Nakajima 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.
- $180k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Nakajima Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $180k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $169k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $226k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $136k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $167k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc | $453,410 | 5 | 0% |
| Overlake Hospital Foundation | $160,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Overlake Service League | $75,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Seattle Opera | $53,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Classical 981 | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| B H Music Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Razom Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Claremont McKenna College | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc | $453,410 | 5 | 0% |
| Overlake Hospital Foundation | $160,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Overlake Service League | $75,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Seattle Opera | $53,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Classical 981 | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| B H Music Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Razom Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Claremont McKenna College | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kukio Hoomana Fund | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Suginoko Preschool | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kidvantage | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Farestart | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Seattle Art Museum | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Humane Society for Seattleking County | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Opencollective Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Asunaro | $2,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Cascade Public Media | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pasado's Safe Haven | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Washington Music | $2,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Braj Bhumi Group Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sacred Road Ministries | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kahaani at Uw | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rainier Scholars | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arboretum Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Seattle Aquarium Society | $350 | 1 | 0% |
| Woodland Park Zoological Society | $350 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nakajima Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Thurston Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Apex Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Nakajima Foundation
- How much does Nakajima Foundation give?
- Nakajima Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $180,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Nakajima Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Health (18%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Nakajima Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc ($453k), Overlake Hospital Foundation ($160k), Overlake Service League ($75k).
- Does Nakajima Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nakajima Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nakajima Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, United Way of King County, Puget Sound Energy Foundation.
- Where is Nakajima Foundation based?
- Nakajima Foundation is based in DE.
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