· Private foundation
Tanaka Memorial Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The John F Kennedy Ctr for Performi | $100,000 |
| Pembroke College Oxford | $100,000 |
| Georgetown University | $50,000 |
| Harvard Kennedy School | $20,000 |
| Purchase College Foundation | $20,000 |
| Bates College | $10,000 |
| The Black Student Fund | $10,000 |
| Carleton College | $10,000 |
| Hobart William Smith College | $10,000 |
| Hope College | $10,000 |
| The Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc | $10,000 |
| McKendree University | $10,000 |
| The Episcopal School in the City of | $10,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University SAIS | $10,000 |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 74% of grant dollars ($2.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 26% that went abroad ($904k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 26% of all-years giving ($904k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 38% of Tanaka Memorial Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 14%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +35%- HCHOPE COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +25%
- MUMcKendree University7× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TDThe Duke of Edinburgh's Internatiioone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TKThe Kennedy Centerone grant, 2019 · $30k
- JIJAPAN ICU FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +42%
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.
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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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tanaka Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tanaka Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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