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Sugahara Foundation at a glance

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Sugahara 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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$16kPublic Benefit$15kEmployment$15kArts & Culture$10kHealth$9kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,285
Median grant
1
States reached
$281k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US ASIA INSTITUTE$12,285
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%EAT FOR EQUITY: $6k → 11%EAT FOR EQUITY: $2k → 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.
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 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.

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Explorer West an Independent Middle School

We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.

Education
2
Westside School

Westside students learn to think critically and act with compassion in a joyful, supportive community.

Education
3
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
6
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
7
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Voyageur Outward Bound School

We bring young people together for group learning adventures in wilderness and urban settings in minnesota. we invite teens and young adults to identify, practice and grow leadership skills through shared experiences. we also offer the…

Environment
10
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
11
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
12
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western States Center; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

US Asia Institute: $12,285 · OtherUS Asia InstituteCHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $9,150 · OtherCHILDREN'S MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONAIRWAY SCIENCE FOR KIDS INC: $6,000 · OtherAIRWAY SCIENCE FOR KIDS INCUSA CURLING NATIONAL OFFICE: $5,123 · OtherUSA CURLING NATIONAL OFFICECHAPPAQUA AMBULANCE CORP: $2,000 · OtherCHAPPAQUA AMBULANCE CORPOregon Tradeswomen Inc: $15,000 · EmploymentOregon Tradeswomen…COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $7,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OUTWAR…INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $5,125 · EnvironmentINDIAN RIVER LA…JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AME…EAT FOR EQUITY: $8,000 · Human ServicesEAT FOR EQ…ST PAUL SCHOOL OF NORTHERN LIGHTS: $7,000 · EducationWESTERN STATES CENTER: $3,000 · Public Benefit
Other$34,558Employment$15,000Environment$12,125Arts & Culture$10,000Human Services$8,000Education$7,000Public Benefit$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOregon Tradeswomen Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAT FOR EQUITY: $8,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetST PAUL SCHOOL OF NORTHERN LIGHTS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIRWAY SCIENCE FOR KIDS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $5,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN STATES CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sugahara Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sugahara Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Airway Science for Kids Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Oregon Tradeswomen Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 12 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home