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Tanimura 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$1.2MHealth$950kReligion$570kFood & Nutrition$270kPhilanthropy$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$175kHuman Services$170kYouth Development$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $790k
  • $250k+1 grant · $310k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION$310,000
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY$150,000
BUDDHIST TEMPLE OF SALINAS$150,000
HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
BUDDHIST CHURCHES OF AMERICA$75,000
READ TO ME PROJECT$65,000
MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$50,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$50,000
CASA OF MONTEREY COUNTY$50,000
HARMONY AT HOME$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONTERAY COUNTY$25,000
CENTRAL COAST YMCA$20,000
CENTER FOR LAND-BASED LEARNING$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HARMONY AT HOME: $25k → 14%HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%HOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 12%ALLIANCE ON AGING: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 20 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
17

Total granted

$3.3M
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+23%

Still filing today

70%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • UC
    UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +94%
  • HC
    HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $285k · revenue +31%
  • RT
    READ TO ME PROJECT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $260k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -91%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF BUDDHIST STUDIESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue +88%
  • JH
    JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +85%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Community hospital of the monterey peninsula is dedicated to identifying and meeting the changing healthcare needs of the people of the monterey peninsula and surrounding communities.we are committed to providing high-quality services at a…

Health
2
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
3
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
4
Monterey Bay Economic Partnership Inc

To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.

Community Improvement
5
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
6
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
7
Monterey Bay United
Recreation & Sports
8
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
9
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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10
Marin Community Foundation

Mobilizing the power of community and the resources of philanthropy to advance equity for people, places and the planet.

Philanthropy
11
Community Food Bank of San Benito County

Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.

Education
12
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County and the most unlike its peers is Monterey County Interfaith Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr13%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%45%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
15%
9,614/65,317

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HARTNELL COLLEGE — $300,000 · OtherHARTNELL COLLEGEBUDDHIST TEMPLE OF SALINAS — $275,000 · OtherBUDDHIST TEMPLE OF SALINASFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $200,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTYBUDDHIST CHURCHES OF AMERICA — $200,000 · OtherBUDDHIST CHURCHES OF AMERICAAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $175,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $75,000 · Other+20 more — $343,000 · Other+20 moreUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY — $350,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MO…HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $285,000 · EducationHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONREAD TO ME PROJECT — $260,000 · EducationREAD TO ME PROJECTINSTITUTE OF BUDDHIST STUDIES — $70,000 · EducationINSTITUTE OF BUDDHIST STUDIE…NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $320,000 · HealthNATIVIDAD MEDICAL FO…American Heart Association Inc — $225,242 · HealthAmerican Heart Assoc…COASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $100,000 · HealthCOASTAL KIDS HOME CA…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $35,000 · HealthJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $175,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesHARMONY AT HOME — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc — $120,000 · Crime & LegalFOOD SHARE INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK — $20,000 · Food & NutritionYUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition5 LOAVES FOOD PANTRY — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,568,000Education$965,000Health$715,242Human Services$255,000Philanthropy$200,000Crime & Legal$120,000Food & Nutrition$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY — $350,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $320,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $285,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetREAD TO ME PROJECT — $260,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $225,242 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc — $120,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF BUDDHIST STUDIES — $70,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHOSPICE GIVING FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Land-Based Learning — $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $33,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARMONY AT HOME — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHO CIELO INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL COAST YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARIEL THEATRICAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget5 LOAVES FOOD PANTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL COAST VNA & HOSPICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL SISTEMA USASALINAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey County Interfaith Alliance — $5,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetALLIANCE ON AGING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Monterey Peninsula Fo…Nancy Buck Ransom Fou…Barnet Segal Charitab…Pebble Beach Company …Sally Hughes Church F…Dunspaugh Dalton Foun…Andrew & Phyllis D'Ar…Community Foundation …The David and Lucile …Community Hospital of…Nancy Eccles and Home…Hospice Giving Founda…
Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA48.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Sally Hughes Church Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Andrew & Phyllis D'Arrigo Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation · Hospice Giving Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Tanimura Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tanimura Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tanimura Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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