California · Private foundation
Shirakiku 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.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Shirakiku Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $70k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $75k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $95k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $98k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $100k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $110k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korean American Special Education Center | $169,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc | $122,000 | 8 | 3% |
| FACES The National Craniofacial Association | $112,000 | 8 | 13% |
| 1979 Legacy Corp | $111,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Parents Helping Parents Inc | $67,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Koreisha Senior Care & Advocacy | $20,000 | 3 | 42% |
| Api Rise | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Japanese American Social Services Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 4% |
| House of Peace | $10,500 | 3 | 16% |
| Canavan Research Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Korean American Special Education Center | $169,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc | $122,000 | 8 | 3% |
| FACES The National Craniofacial Association | $112,000 | 8 | 13% |
| 1979 Legacy Corp | $111,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Parents Helping Parents Inc | $67,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Koreisha Senior Care & Advocacy | $20,000 | 3 | 42% |
| Api Rise | $18,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Japanese American Social Services Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 4% |
| House of Peace | $10,500 | 3 | 16% |
| Canavan Research Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parents Helping Parents - the Roundtable of Support Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep USA | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jb Line Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shirakiku Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Shirakiku Foundation
- How much does Shirakiku Foundation give?
- Shirakiku Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shirakiku Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (58%), Human Services (17%), Community Improvement (15%).
- Who are Shirakiku Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Korean American Special Education Center ($169k), Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc ($122k), FACES The National Craniofacial Association ($112k).
- Does Shirakiku Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shirakiku Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shirakiku Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Shirakiku Foundation based?
- Shirakiku Foundation is based in CA.
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