· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $28,000 |
| CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $28,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $23,500 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $18,000 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| CORBAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $8,000 |
| PERRY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
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
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
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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Pacific University and the most unlike its peers is Treasure Valley Community College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Wf & Blanche E West Educational & Coffman Jf
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 Sam I Kobata & Sons 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Corban University — 3% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
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.
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