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Sakiyama Family Foundation at a glance

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Sakiyama Family 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.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$243kEducation$30kYouth Development$9kFood & Nutrition$4kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$2kEnvironment$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$586k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stages St Louis$12,685
Repertory Theatre of St Louis$2,500
Saguaro City Music Theatre$2,000
Japanese American National Museum$1,050
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 23% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Saguaro City Music Theatre: $5k → 15%Japanese American National Museum: $1k → 14%National Tropical Botanical Garden: $1k → 9%Fractured Atlas: $10k → 17%STAGES ST LOUIS: $26k → 11%Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foun: $1k → 21%The Temple Theatre: $6k → 16%Suburban Unity Alliance: $1k → 14%Saguaro City Music Theatre: $5k → 15%Glendora High School: $10k → 14%STAGES ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%Metro Theater Company: $2k → 21%Saguaro City Music Theatre: $2k → 15%Glendora High School: $9k → 14%Fractured Atlas: $5k → 17%Stages St Louis: $24k → 11%Metro Theater Company: $1k → 21%Glendora High School: $8k → 14%Stages St Louis: $22k → 11%Cinema St Louis: $1k → 21%STAGES ST LOUIS: $21k → 11%Stages St Louis: $13k → 11%STAGES ST LOUIS: $11k → 11%Stages St Louis: $9k → 11%Stages St Louis: $9k → 11%Stages Performing Arts Academy: $4k → 11%Stages Performing Arts Academy: $2k → 11%Stages Performing Arts Academy: $1k → 11%Variety the Children's Charity of S: $4k → 11%Variety the Children's Charity of S: $2k → 11%Variety the Children's Charity of S: $1k → 11%Variety the Children's Charity of S: $1k → 11%Variety the Children's Charity of St Louis: $1k → 11%Variety the Children's Charity of S: $1k → 11%Variety the Children's Charity of S: $1k → 11%Repertory Theatre Of St Louis: $9k → 11%Repertory Theatre Of St Louis: $8k → 11%Repertory Theatre Of St Louis: $5k → 11%Repertory Theatre Of St Louis: $3k → 11%Repertory Theatre of St Louis: $3k → 11%R-S Theatrics: $2k → 11%Repertory Theatre of St Louis: $2k → 11%St Louis Area Food Bank: $4k → 11%Fontbonne University: $3k → 11%St Louis Community Foundation: $2k → 11%St Louis Community Foundation: $1k → 11%Tennessee Williams Festival St Loui: $1k → 11%Tennessee Williams Festival St Loui: $1k → 11%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

IL
MI
NY
CA
NE
MO
AZ
NC
HI
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 6% of Sakiyama Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 74%.

Sakiyama Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$274k · 14 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$274k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+61%

Still filing today

64%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SS
    STAGES ST LOUIS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +60%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +16%
  • SC
    Saguaro City Music Theatre
    3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • TT
    TEMPLE THEATRE COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +38%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -11%
  • RT
    R-S Theatrics
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
2
Latino Theater Company

The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…

Arts & Culture
3
Classical Theatre Company

Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…

Arts & Culture
4
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
5
Theatre B

Produced theatrical productions for public audiences. Educational opportunities for youth 14-18 years old. Mentoring opportunities for artists.

Arts & Culture
6
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
7
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Opera theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities through the power and beauty of the art form; to foster the next generation by empowering a diverse group of artists,…

Arts & Culture
8
Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture
9
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
10
Ten Thousand Things Theater

Ten Thousand Things awakens the creative spirit of audiences and artists by bringing essential and exceptional theater to people from all backgrounds and life experiences.

Arts & Culture
11
4 Community Theatre

Building bridges between communities and generations while providing an outlet for artistic expression and quality entertainment in western Hennepin and eastern Wright counties of Minnesota since 1998.

Arts & Culture
12
Classic Theatre of Maryland Inc

Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Repertory Theatre of St Louis; the most unlike its peers is Japanese American National Museum. 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

18 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. 18 of the 29 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAGES ST LOUIS: $161,704 · OtherSTAGES ST LOUISGlendora High School: $26,990 · OtherGlendora High SchoolVariety the Children's Charity of S: $9,500 · Other+11 more: $19,327 · Other+11 moreTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $28,100 · Arts & CultureTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF S…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCSaguaro City Music Theatre: $12,000 · Arts & CultureSaguaro City Music TheatreTEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY: $5,500 · Arts & CultureTEMPLE THEATRE COMPANYMETRO THEATER COMPANY: $3,200 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $5,450 · Arts & Culture+6 moreFONTBONNE UNIVERSITY: $3,400 · EducationNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,278 · EnvironmentGATEWAY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Public BenefitFOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$217,521Arts & Culture$69,250Education$3,400Environment$1,278Public Benefit$1,000Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetSTAGES ST LOUIS: $161,704 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $28,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaguaro City Music Theatre: $12,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTEMPLE THEATRE COMPANY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONTBONNE UNIVERSITY: $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO THEATER COMPANY: $3,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE WILLIAMS FESTIVAL ST LOUIS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,278 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCINEMA ST LOUIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpstream Theater: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Regional Cultural and…St Louis Community Fo…Leon and Mary Strauss…Trio Foundation of St…Edward Jones Foundati…The Greater St Louis …Employees Community F…The Kranzberg Family …Jewish Federation of …United Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…St Louis Community Fo…
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development CommissionMO24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sakiyama Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sakiyama Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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