· Private foundation
Tella Sakamoto 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GiveDirectly Inc | $50,000 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $20,000 |
| Fdn for Liberty and Human Rights | $15,000 |
| Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation | $10,000 |
| Palo Alto Medical Foundation | $10,000 |
| Martha Graham Dance Company | $10,000 |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation | $5,000 |
| KQED | $5,000 |
| HaoExpression Dance Company | $5,000 |
| Childrens International | $2,100 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA | $1,000 |
| Osmania University | $1,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Consumer Reports | $420 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 11% of Tella Sakamoto Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCarnegie Mellon University4× · 2022–2025 · $81k · revenue +26%
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +41%- SBSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- CIChildrens Int'l Tablets Projectone grant, 2021 · $75k
- CIChildren Intl HOPE Fundone grant, 2020 · $40k
- MIMahatmaGandhi Inst forMental Healthone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 51 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.
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IITMAANA ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds No One Left Behind ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KILGORIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TELEVISIT INC ↗
- Who funds ZOHAR DANCE COMPANY ↗
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: The Intuit Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · United Way Worldwide · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tella Sakamoto Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tella Sakamoto Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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