· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $50,000 |
| OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE OPERA | $12,000 |
| BELLEVUE LIFESPRING | $10,000 |
| B H MUSIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| KUKIO HOOMANA FUND | $3,500 |
| OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CLASSICAL 98 1 | $2,000 |
| CLAREMONT-MCKENNA COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| SEATTLE ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| KIDVANTAGE | $1,000 |
| FARESTART | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SSSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $453k · revenue +3%
- OHOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +61%
- OSOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +74%
Funded once
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
RAZOM INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -65%- SPSUGINOKO PRESCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +48%
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.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Washington Music. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 35 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 SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL 981 ↗
- Who funds B H MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds KUKIO HOOMANA FUND ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds SUGINOKO PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KIDVANTAGE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ASUNARO ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON MUSIC ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
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 Nakajima 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.