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Tadashi and Elaine Yamagata Foundation at a glance

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Tadashi and Elaine Yamagata 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.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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.

Arts & Culture$359kCivil Rights$229kEducation$90kHealth$22kReligion$16kPhilanthropy$16kFood & Nutrition$2kYouth Development$1k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM$50,000
FORT WORTH JAPANESE SOCIETY$2,500
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$2,000
THE CLIBURN$2,000
MILESTONE CHURCH$1,600
THE ANGELA STANFORD FOUNDATION$1,000
SUSAN G KOMEN$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE FARM: $1k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$715k · 12 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$715k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+106%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
    7× · 2018–2024 · $354k · revenue +94%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +47%
  • GP
    GARY PATTERSON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +550%

Funded once

  • LF
    LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • HF
    HOPE FARM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +106%
  • TC
    TARRANT COUNTY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Nancy Seaberry Frost Arts Endowment
Arts & Culture
3
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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5
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
6
The Good Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
7
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
8
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
9
Girls Service League Inc
Philanthropy
10
Barbara Hill Moore and Bruce R Foote Foundation

The foundation's mission is to encourage and support students with backgrounds that have been historically under-represented in the advanced pursuit of classical vocal study. Beneficiaries are students admitted to study in the Division of…

Education
11
State Fair of Texas

The state fair of texas celebrates all things texan by promoting agriculture, education, and community involvement through quality entertainment in a family-friendly environment. the state fair of texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit…

Recreation & Sports
12
Tx Performing Chinese Arts
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Farm Inc; 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

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 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $354,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFORT WORTH JAPANESE SOCIETY: $228,750 · OtherFORT WORTH JAPANESE SOCIETYCOUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $11,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $9,500 · Other+6 more: $12,600 · OtherTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $69,500 · EducationTEXAS CHRI…ANGELA STANFORD FOUNDATION: $19,118 · PhilanthropyGIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGARY PATTERSON FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,000 · HealthHOPE FARM INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCUISINE FOR HEALING: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$359,000Other$261,850Education$69,500Philanthropy$40,118Health$2,000Human Services$1,000Food & Nutrition$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $354,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFORT WORTH JAPANESE SOCIETY: $228,750 over 7y, 34% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $69,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANGELA STANFORD FOUNDATION: $19,118 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetGIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY PATTERSON FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVan Cliburn Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTRY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FARM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUISINE FOR HEALING: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $500 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.

  • Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FORT WORTH JAPANESE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ANGELA STANFORD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY PATTERSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAKE COUNTRY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds CUISINE FOR HEALING ↗
  • Who funds Texas Women's Foundation ↗

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.

Yamagata FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Amon G Carter Foundat…Community Foundation …The Ayco Charitable F…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Yamagata FoundationTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yamagata Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Amon G Carter Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Tadashi and Elaine Yamagata Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tadashi and Elaine Yamagata Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 18 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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