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Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation

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.

$15k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,413
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,585
Organizations funded a year
3 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$66M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$15k0%
FY20233$266k33%
FY20224$595k25%
FY20213$829k67%
FY20203$3.7M0%
FY201913$7.6M62%
FY20188$336k50%
FY20175$373kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.3MCommunity Improvement$3.6MHealth$2.2MEducation$664kInternational$125kCrime & Legal$100kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MA
OH
PA
CA
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation$6,492,2764100%
1979 Legacy Corp$3,575,000217%
Japanese American National Museum$150,00031%
Duke University$136,09430%
Us- Japan Council$125,00031%
Densho$100,00015%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$67,6312n/a
Go for Broke National Educational Center$30,00031%
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inc$25,00010%
Poston Community Alliance Inc$15,0001n/a
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation$6,492,2764100%
1979 Legacy Corp$3,575,000217%
Japanese American National Museum$150,00031%
Duke University$136,09430%
Us- Japan Council$125,00031%
Densho$100,00015%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$67,6312n/a
Go for Broke National Educational Center$30,00031%
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inc$25,00010%
Poston Community Alliance Inc$15,0001n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$10,00010%
Los Angeles Jewish Symphony$10,00012%
Asian Pacific Alumni of Ucla$10,0001n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTerasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation: $6,492,276 over 4y, 100% of budget1979 Legacy Corp: $3,575,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetJapanese American National Museum: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDuke University: $136,094 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUs- Japan Council: $125,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDensho: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGo for Broke National Educational Center: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNational Inventors Hall of Fame Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Jewish Symphony: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

The Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Family FoundationCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Family Foundation · Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation

How much does Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation give?
Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation reported 3 grants totaling $14,736 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Community Improvement (26%), Health (16%).
Who are Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation ($6.5M), 1979 Legacy Corp ($3.6M), Japanese American National Museum ($150k).
Does Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Family Foundation, Terasaki Nibei Foundation Fka Nibei Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation based?
Terasaki Inst for Biomedical Innovation is based in CA.

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 23 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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