How much does Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation give?

Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $6,082 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (27%), Arts & Culture (6%), Health (5%).

Who are Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals ($2k), Epithelioid Sarcoma Foundation ($2k), Humane Farming Association ($1k).

Does Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable 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 Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bradford Family Foundation, Give Lively Foundation Inc, Seckinger Foundation Corporation.

Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation

Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation

Q: Where is Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation based?

Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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.

$6k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2k

Largest

01What it funds

0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$12kArts & Culture$2kHealth$2kReligion$2kHousing & Shelter$675Human Services$525Environment$505Public Benefit$480Other$0

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100

Median grant

States reached

$234k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$1,853
Delta Rescue	$308
Pastoral Services Apeal	$300
PETA	$300
Best Friends	$250
Tunnel to Towers	$200
PCRM	$200
Alley Cat Allies	$200
Humane Farming Assoc	$200
Red Rover	$200
San Diego Opera	$200
Animal Legal Defense Fund	$150
Maui Humane Society	$137
Bowers Museum	$130
Grey 2K USA Worldwide	$114

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$38k · 47 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$38k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

Still filing today

60%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic BenefitHealthHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

DA
Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals
8× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +12%
HF
HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION
7× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +51%
AP
Animal Place
8× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +9%

Funded once

ES
EPITHELIOID SARCOMA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $2k
C
CCTDI
one grant, 2019 · $1k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $350

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…

Animals

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals

Last Chance for Animals

Dedicated to ending animal abuse and exploitation through education, public outreach and investigations.

Animals

Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Animal Nations Dba Redrover; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/42

Grantees still filing

29/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$29,322Animals$11,108Arts & Culture$2,254Public Benefit$435Education$235Human Services$200Environment$188

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Bradford Family FoundationMO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bradford Family Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rodney & Phyllis Kunishige Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home