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Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$8.9MEducation$5.1MPhilanthropy$4.1MInternational$1.9MYouth Development$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHealth$610kScience & Tech$507kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$22,421
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kyoto University$22,421
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Connected DMV: $100k → 7%Holiday Park Seniors: $13k → 8%Holiday Park Seniors: $12k → 8%Holiday Park Seniors Inc: $5k → 8%JAPANESE AMERICANS' CARE FUND: $10k → 6%JAPANESE AMERICANS' CARE FUND: $10k → 6%Japanese Americans Care Fund: $10k → 6%Japanese Americans Care Fund: $10k → 6%Japanese Americans' Care Fund: $10k → 6%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 79 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 78 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
50

Total granted

$19M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+33%

Still filing today

72%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SR
    S & R Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4.0M · revenue ×20 · 73% of their budget
  • HH
    HALCYON HOUSE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3.0M · revenue +65% · 32% of their budget
  • TS
    THE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • H
    HALCYON
    one grant, 2018 · $300k
  • ML
    MINETA LEGACY PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
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.

1
Institute for Experiential Learning Inc

The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…

Education
2
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
5
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
6
Institute of International Bankers

The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…

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7
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
8
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Association of Washington Cities

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…

—
11
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
12
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is S & R Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 131 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/84
Grantees still filing
64/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $1,125,000 · OtherTUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INCKYOTO UNIVERSITY: $1,022,356 · OtherKYOTO UNIVERSITYBoys and Girls Club of GW: $1,005,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of GWKyoto University (see note): $967,513 · OtherKyoto University (see note)JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYHALCYON: $300,000 · OtherEMPOWERMENT THROUGH INTEGRATION INC: $260,000 · Other+66 more: $2,606,486 · Other+66 moreHALCYON HOUSE: $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureHALCYON HOUSETHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,301,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION I…TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $1,010,000 · Arts & CultureTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALLNATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL: $660,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL+22 more: $1,204,660 · Arts & Culture+22 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,000,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…+11 more: $315,000 · Education+11 moreS & R Foundation: $4,011,000 · PhilanthropyS & R Foundation+2 more: $17,500 · PhilanthropyVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $185,250 · InternationalTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $180,000 · InternationalJAPAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $77,500 · InternationalKizuna Across Cultures: $70,000 · InternationalOKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $30,000 · International+7 more: $104,000 · InternationalGREATER WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIP: $500,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT PA: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports100REPORTERS: $200,000 · Public BenefitJAPAN INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $61,152 · Public Benefit
Other$7,786,355Arts & Culture$7,175,660Education$4,315,000Philanthropy$4,028,500International$696,750Recreation & Sports$525,000Public Benefit$261,152

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetS & R Foundation: $4,011,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHALCYON HOUSE: $3,000,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,301,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $1,125,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $1,010,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL: $660,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIP: $500,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetEMPOWERMENT THROUGH INTEGRATION INC: $260,000 over 4y, 27% of budget100REPORTERS: $200,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $185,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $180,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $176,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $136,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCONNECTED DMV: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL: $100,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $98,360 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERAL CITY COUNCIL: $95,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCULTURAL EXCHANGE FOR DIPLOMATS INC: $90,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLearnserve International: $80,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetJAPAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $77,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetGeorgetown Heritage: $76,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetThe Washington Chorus Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRANSFORMER INC: $55,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetNEW ORCHESTRA OF WASHINGTON INC: $52,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICANS CARE FUND: $50,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetOKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES: $45,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOrchestra of the Americas Group Inc: $40,800 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCitizens Association of Georgetown: $40,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $37,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWashington Japanese Language School: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOLIDAY PARK SENIORS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT PA: $25,000 over 1y, 42% of budget
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.

  • Who funds S & R Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HALCYON HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWERMENT THROUGH INTEGRATION INC ↗
  • Who funds 100REPORTERS ↗
  • Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTED DMV ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLEBURG FILM FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL EXCHANGE FOR DIPLOMATS INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Learnserve International ↗
  • Who funds JAPAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
  • Who funds Georgetown Heritage ↗
  • Who funds Kizuna Across Cultures ↗

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.

S & R FoundationThe Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Dimick Foundation Joh…Clark-Winchcole Found…Galena-Yorktown Found…Philip L Graham Fund …Dallas Morse Coors Fo…Sami & Annie Totah Fa…The Carl M Freeman Fo…Leo M Bernstein Famil…The Scott and Patrice…
S & R FoundationDC62.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: S & R Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Leo M Bernstein Family Foundation · The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation

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 Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Friends of Patients at the Nih Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 131 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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