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Nippon Dynawave 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$28kHuman Services$24kHousing & Shelter$14kPhilanthropy$13kCivil Rights$9kCrime & Legal$8kFood & Nutrition$6kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FISH of Cowlitz County$5,000
The Salvation Army Longview Branch$3,000
Community House on Broadway$3,000
Lower Columbia Com Action Program$3,000
Lower Columbia School Gardens$3,000
Lower Columbia College$3,000
Emergency Support Shelter$3,000
Childrens Discovery Museum$2,000
University of Wyoming$1,500
University of Ottawa$1,000
Childrens Justice Advocacy Center$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FISH of Cowlitz County: $5k → 13%Emergency Support Shelter: $3k → 13%Community House on Broadway: $3k → 13%Community House on Broadway: $3k → 13%Community House on Broadway: $3k → 13%Community House on Broadway: $2k → 13%Emergency Support Shelter: $2k → 13%Community House on Broadway: $2k → 13%Community House on Broadway: $2k → 13%Emergency Support Shelter: $1k → 13%Emergency Support Shelter: $1k → 13%Emergency Support Shelter: $1k → 13%Emergency Support Shelter: $1k → 13%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.

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$61k · 11 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
27

Total granted

$61k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+14%

Still filing today

45%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +65%
  • ES
    EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +0%
  • LC
    LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Cowlitz and Wahkiakum
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -24%
  • UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +14%

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
Child Advocacy Center of Coos County

To protect children, support families, and bring hope and healing through compassionate, coordinated, and child-centered advocacy, through specialized programs and services, such as multi-disciplinary team coordination, forensic…

Crime & Legal
2
Cowlitz-Wahkiakum County Legal Aid Program Inc

Cowlitz Wahkiakum Legal Aid seeks to assure justice for low income people in the civil courts. We provide access to legal help for people whose livelihood, family and wellness are threatened.

Crime & Legal
3
Children's Law Center Inc

Children's law center believes every child should grow up with a strong foundation of family, health and education and live in a world free from poverty, trauma, racism, and other forms of oppression. our more than 100 staff together with…

Crime & Legal
4
Cowlitz County Child Advocates

Cowlitz and clark county child advocates is a powerful voice representing the best interest of children who are subject to child welfare and court intervention due to abandonment, abuse, or neglect. ccca strives to ensure each child has a…

Civil Rights
5
Children's Advocacy Centers of Washington

Children's advocacy centers of washington is a membership organization that provides support to communities that have formed or wish to form a children's advocacy center and promotes awareness of the incidence and impact of child abuse in…

Youth Development
6
Coshocton County Head Start Inc

Cchs is a comprehensive family and child development program committed to providing quality services that support and nurture the families we serve. our work connects through our community as we prepare our families and children for a…

7
Coastside Child Development Center

We provide comprehensive child care, education, and child deelopment services withthe framework of quality developmental standards for children between the ages of two months and five years. We do this through supportive a and healthy…

8
Cottesmore Childcare Centers

The mission of cottesmore christian child care is to provide quality childcare.

9
Child Advocacy Center of the 23rd Judicial District

The Child Advocacy Center serves as a facility where children who are victims of physical abuse and their non-offending members can go for evaluation, intervention, evidence gathering and counseling.

Crime & Legal
10
Columbia River Mental Health Services

Columbia river mental health services is a full service mental health agency offering a wide spectrum of behavioral health services to children and adults of clark county, washington.

Health
11
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.

Human Services
12
Children's Center

Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Justice& Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Discovery Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 41 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Salvation Army Longview Branch — $7,500 · OtherThe Salvation Army Longview BranchLower Columbia Com Action Program — $7,000 · OtherLower Columbia Com Action ProgramUnited Way of Cowlitz and Wahkiakum — $7,000 · OtherUnited Way of Cowlitz and WahkiakumChildrens Justice Advocacy Center — $5,000 · OtherChildrens Justice Advocacy CenterUNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY — $5,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTYLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE — $4,000 · OtherLOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGEWashington State University — $2,500 · Other+26 more — $29,656 · Other+26 moreCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY — $13,815 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAYEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER — $9,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTERFISH of Cowlitz County — $5,000 · Human ServicesFISH of Cowlitz CountyLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS — $5,000 · EnvironmentCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $3,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER — $3,000 · Crime & LegalUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $2,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · Education
Other$67,656Human Services$27,815Environment$5,000Arts & Culture$3,500Crime & Legal$3,000Education$3,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY — $13,815 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER — $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS — $5,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $3,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER — $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROGRESS CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE ON BROADWAY
  • Who funds EMERGENCY SUPPORT SHELTER
  • Who funds FISH of Cowlitz County
  • Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COWLITZ COUNTY
  • Who funds CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S JUSTICE& ADVOCACY CENTER
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
  • Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PROGRESS CENTER INC

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.

United Way of Cowlitz CountyWA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Cowlitz County · The Health Care Foundation · The Wollenberg Foundation · The Firstenburg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Evans-Kelly Family Foundation · The Kirchner Foundation · John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable 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 Nippon Dynawave 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • University of Hartford1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Nippon Dynawave Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nippon Dynawave 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 41 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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