· Private foundation
Sam I Kobata & Sons 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $247k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $88,500 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $56,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $36,000 |
| CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $32,000 |
| CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $28,000 |
| BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $28,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $23,500 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $18,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| CORBAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +42%- WUWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +15%
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UTUTAH TECH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $7k
Northwestern Universityone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +14%- SFSPOKANE FALLS COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Lehigh university strives to earn international prominence as a universty of special distinction and provide students with opportunities for success through its integration of teaching, research and service to society.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
A private institution of higher education, offering students undergraduate and graduate courses.
Dordt university was founded in 1955 and provides christ-centered education for students, alumni, and the broader community.
Provide education for undergraduate, graduate, and professional continuing education programs, and to engage in high quality research and scholarship.
Promote education, the development of skills, knowledge, and personal qualities.
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Wf & Blanche E West Educational & Coffman Jf
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sam I Kobata & Sons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam I Kobata & Sons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Corban University: 3% of income from government
- George Fox University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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