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Nakasone Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | $60,250 |
| V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $7,500 |
| SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAYFIELD JUNIOR SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MAYFIELD SENIOR SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| FORGETME NOT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC | $1,500 |
| BEN FRANKLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| BREBEUF JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $1,250 |
| UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,250 |
| ONE 805 INC PUBLIC CHARITY | $1,000 |
| CANCER CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA | $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 (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CMClaremont McKenna College8× · 2017–2024 · $362k · revenue +89%
- TVTHE V FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +111%
DIRECT RELIEF7× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- SBSANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCEone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -88%
- PIProject Insight Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +75%
- SBSANTA BARBARA ICE SKATING ASSOCone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
The sbcc foundation fuels the excellence of santa barbara city college by engaging the community, building relationships, and inviting the generosity of donors. the resources raised and managed by the foundation enrich college programs,…
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To operate a school for grades 6-9, delivering a holistic program of academics, arts & athletics, community service, and outdoor education that fosters passion for life and learning, self trust, strength and courage to succeed, and…
To educate women to develop their intellect and talents through active participation in a community of scholars, so that as graduates they may contribute to society through public and private lives of leadership, service, integrity and…
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Urban Compass. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 44 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 Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVELL HOME SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA FIREFIGHTERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Project Insight Inc ↗
- Who funds ASCENCIA ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE805 INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMPASS ↗
- Who funds PIERRE CLAEYSSENS VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Macdonald Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation · Rudi Schulte Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Nakasone Family 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.
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.
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