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Shihara Family Foundation at a glance

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Shihara Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$535k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Community Improvement$675kEmployment$552kEducation$545kPhilanthropy$450kHuman Services$400kArts & Culture$335kReligion$50k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YEAR UP PUGET SOUND$135,000
RENTAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE$100,000
MERIT AMERICA$100,000
JOBS FOR NEVADA'S GRADUATES INC$50,000
'IOLANI SCHOOL$50,000
ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY$50,000
TECH IMPACT$50,000
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 (FY21–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MERIT AMERICA: $100k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $100k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $100k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $100k → 14%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
NY
MA
NV
OH
MD
DC
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.
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.
$2.4M · 8 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$2.4M
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
-6%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • 'S
    'IOLANI SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $445k · revenue +57%
  • MA
    MERIT AMERICA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +437%
  • RT
    RENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $197k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • YEAR UP INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -18%
  • A
    ANEW
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +420%
  • AA
    AMERICA ACHIEVES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -6%
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
Activate Work Inc

We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.

Human Services
2
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
3
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc

To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.

Civil Rights
4
Eleven Fifty Academy Inc

Eleven fifty academy exists to help close the nation's growing technology skills gap by creating an ecosystem of technology talent that benefits the individual, their employer, and their community. our vision is to allow all individuals…

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5
The Graduate Network Inc

The graduate network (tgn), a national nonprofit organization, was organized to catalyze movement toward educational equity for adults particularly those adults who are historically underrepresented in the college labor market. these are…

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6
Npower Inc

Npower is a national nonprofit that unlocks economic mobility by preparing young adults and military-connected individuals - especially those facing barriers to opportunity - for high-demand careers in the technology sector through…

Community Improvement
7
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
8
Techforce Foundation

To champion all students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians.

Philanthropy
9
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
10
Achieve Twin Cities

As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…

Youth Development
11
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
12
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Year Up Inc; the most unlike its peers is 'Iolani School. 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

'IOLANI SCHOOL: $445,000 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOLRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $197,000 · EducationRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATI…ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMYJOBS FOR NEVADAS GRADUATES INC: $50,000 · EducationJOBS FOR NEVADAS GRADUATES INCTECH IMPACT: $50,000 · EducationTECH IMPACTYEAR UP INC: $50,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC+1 more: $5,000 · EducationMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW (MLT): $525,000 · OtherMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORR…YEAR UP PUGET SOUND: $335,000 · OtherYEAR UP PUGET SOUNDFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $450,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS C…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLA…MERIT AMERICA: $400,000 · Human ServicesMERIT AMERICASkill Growth: $200,000 · EmploymentANEW: $50,000 · Religion
Education$897,000Other$860,000Community Improvement$600,000Human Services$400,000Employment$200,000Religion$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $445,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMERIT AMERICA: $400,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSkill Growth: $200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRENTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $197,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJOBS FOR NEVADAS GRADUATES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTECH IMPACT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA ACHIEVES INC: $5,000 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.

Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Tides FoundationCA12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shihara Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shihara Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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